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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

The Hon. William H. Herndon, the
law-partner of President Lincoln, has
grown weary of the attacks upon his
veracity INDUCED in by DR.. Holland,
Mr.. Reed. and others, who have insisted
that Mr.. Lincoln became Christian in
the later years of his life, and has deliv-
cred a lecture in Springfield to estab-
lish the truth of his statement that the
President died as had lived, outside of
the Christian faith. He engages in the
discussion with the boldness and energy
characteristic of him, and certainly
goes far to invalidate much of the testi-
mony relied upon by the champions of
MIR. Lincoln's orthodoxy. The truth
probably is that Mr.. Lincoln was one of
the most reticent men who ever lived in
regard to his own spiritual exercises.
He had deep respect for religion and
for its outward symbols and forms. He
had alco profoundly religious sense,
sometimes approaching mysticism. But
it will be as impossible to prove that he
was Christian as to prove that he was
not, and historians and biographers will
divide upon this question, as they are
divided now, according to their own
personal beliefs or disbeliefs. -New
York Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
A "Reminiscences of Gov. Allen.

A friend informs us that when he was
a boy at college he had a roommate
from the State of Ohio. He was fond
of speaking of the celebrities Of his ma
tire State, and Senator Allen was one of
the chosen heroes. He related to our
friend the following incident, which
may prove interesting at this day. The
Senator was addressing large audience
in the native town of our informant.
When about half through his speech,
after making some positive assertion, a
stentorian voice cried OUT
That's a lie, sir -
The Senator paused moment, and
then asked
What is your name, sir !"
The answer was given,-
My name is Vass."
The Senator responded
CT move the V be stricken from that
mans name. ALI you in favor of it, say
ay."
And hundred voices cried out,
cay"
"Now." said the Senator, "you are
voted an ass"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
A PSALM FOR NEW YEARS EVE,

friend stands at the door:
In either tight-closed hand
Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and three-ssore:
Waiting TO strew-them daily DER the land
Even seed the sower.
Each drop, he treads it in and passes Ivy:
1t cannot be made fruitful till il die
o, good New Year, we clasp
This warm shut hand of thine,
Loosing forever, with half sigh, half grasp
That which from ours falls like dead fingers
Irvine;
Has been, or gentle, having been we know
That it was blessed let the Old Year CO.
o, New Year, teach us faith!
The road of life is hard;
When our feet bleed, and scourging winds us
soothe,
Point thou to Him whose visage was more marred
Make straight paths for your feet "-and to the
oppressed
"Come ye to me, and will give you rest"
Yet hang some lamp-like hope
Above this unknown way,
Kind Year, to give our spirits freer scope.
And our hands strength to work while it ia day.
But If that way must slope
Tombward, o, bring before our fading eyes
The lamp of life, the Hope that never dies
Comfort our souls with love-
Love of all human kind;
Love special close-in which, like sheltered dove,
Each weary heart its own safe nest may find;
And love that turns above
Adoringy: contented to resign
Anloves, if need be, for the Love Divine.
Friend come thou like friend
And whether bright thy face,
Or dim with clouds we cannot comprehend
Wen hold our patient hands, each In his place,
And trust thee to the end
Knowing thou leadest onward to those spheres
Where there are neither days, nor months
years.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
The Swedes and NOrwegians.

A correspondent of the Scientific
american writes that "never could
more dissinlilar nations be united under
one government than Norway and Swe-
den. Norway clings with the most alb
surd tenacity to old things and old ways
of doing them, while Sweden is ready
to advance with the rest of the world.
The difference appears strikingly on the
line of railroad between Christiana and
Stockholm. The road is about 400
miles long, of which, say, 100 are in
Norway and 800 in Sweden. The time
for express trains is about twenty hours.
Of this something like hours is taken
for the Norwegian 100 miles, leaving IL
hours-really only IL hours-for the
Swedish 300 miles, or IL miles against
25 miles per hour. But most of the
travel in Norway is by the very old
fashion of carioles and post-horses, the
principal reads-under Government
care-being in good order and the speed
averaging, with push, six or seven miles
per hour. The American Consul In
Christiana-which is the only active
part of Norway-is trying hard to get
our mowers and reapers into use there,
though thus far with Indifferent sue
cess. In Sweden these things are being
taken hold of with something like free
dom
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
The InfIuence of Newspapers.

The Boston Traveller states that a
school teacher who had enjoyed the
benefit of long practice of his profess
sion, and had watched closely the infu-
ence of newspaper upon the minds of
family of children, gives as result of
his observation that without exception
those scholars of both sexes and all ages
who have access to newspapers at home,
when compared with those who have
not, are: 1. Better readers, excelling
in pronunciation, and consequently
read more Understandings. 2. They
are better spoilers, and define words
with ease and accuracy. 8. They OBJ
tain partial knowledge of geography
in almost half the time it requires
others, as the newspaper has made
them familiar with the location of i'm
portant places and nations, their gov
ernments and doings. 4. They are bet
ter grammarians, for having become
familiar with every variety of style in
the newspaper, from commonplace adj
vertisements to the finished and CLASH
cal Grafton of the statesman, they more
readily comprehend the meaning of the
text. and consequently analyze its con-
tents with accuracy.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
Humorous.

THE best remedy for mercantile
troubles-A liberal use of printers ink.
WHY is poker like an angry word ?
Because it stirs up a smouldering fire.
WEAT is that which no one wishes to
have and no one wishes to lose? A bald
head.
WHEN is IN encampment most likely
to burn well !? When the tents are
pitched.
The most sentimental exercise yet
known is said to be woman's eyes swim
ming In tears.
INCREDIBLE as it may seem, many of
the richest planters in Jamaica live on
coffee grounds.
WHY is solar eclipse like woman
whipping her boy? Because it's hid
ing of the sun.
WHEN does modification ensue
When you pop the question and are
answered "No!"
WHY is blind-man' s-buff like sympa-
thy? Because it is a fellow feeling for
a fellow-creatnre.
What is your name, little girl ?"
Minnie" Minnie what ?" Min
ME Don't that's what mamma calls
me-"
Mrs. JENKINS complained in the even
ing that the turkey she had eaten didn't
sit well. Probably" said Jenkins,
cit was not hen turkey. "He got
glass of water in his face.
"WHo cut your clothes, Tommy ?"
asked visitor of a curiously ragged
boy. WELL" said he ingenuously,
"ma cuts my pants, and pa cuts my
jackets.
A FATHER, in conseling his daughter,
who had lost hef husband, said: +" /
don't wonder you grieve for him, my
child; you will never find his equal.
"I don't know as can" responded the
sobbing widow, "but I'll do my best %
The father felt comforted.
A PREACHER took up collection on
Sunday, and found, when his hat was
returned, that there wasn't penny in
it. CT thank my God," said he, turn
ing the hat upside down and tapping
the crown Of it with his hand, "that 1
have got my hat back from this congre-
cation"
"Do you go to school now, Charlie ?''
Yes, sir 1 had fight to-day, too"
You had? Which whipped % " Oh,
l got whipped" he replied with great
frankness. "Was the other boy bigger
than you ?" No, he was hitler. Well,
how came you to let hitler boy whip
you ooh, you see he was naaddcr nor
I ,cas."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
A Prophecy.

1t is not impossible that the present
troubles under which the Spanish Re-
public labors will eventuate III the wiping
out of that nationality. The event is
not at all a novelty. Poland once NEIL
aced and almost conquered Russia.
Prussia was once only one Of q coterie
of German States; Portugal was once
mistress of the seas; Holland once ruled
the ocean; Venice was once the greatest
power in the world. We need not go
back to the times of Egyptian, Judean,
Assyrian, Grecian or Roman power to
learn of the growth and decadence of
nations. The New Zealander on the
ruins of London is not an impossibility.
SPAN is more the ''sick man. in Europe
than ever Turkey was. Before this gen.
Grafton shall pass away this Government
will control the islands of Cuba and
Porto Rico, England will hold the Phil
lipine islands, Italy and Germany will
have the Spanish possessions in the
Mediterranean, and the territory of
Spain itself will be divided between
France, Italy and Portugal. This is no
prophecy, but simply statement of
fact that current events foreshadow.-
FIR
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
A Doubling Daughter.

There is a young lady in tiis city who
is having more than her share of trouble
perhaps, because she is having more
than her share of beaux. A day or two
ago one of her admirers called to spend
the evening. Shortly after the young
folks got nicely located, the girls mother
dropped into the parlor and soon fell to
telling long yarn. She sat directly in
front of the young couple, and the
dress was open in front, and imme-
diately inaugurated series of winks
and motions in hopes of attracting the
old lady's attention to the fact. But
the mother thought the daughter was
doubling her story, and said: "You
may wink as much as you please, but
every word is true" The daughter
/" lit out" and the old lady finished her
story. -Siour City Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
Tea.

The extent to which teas are adulter-
ated may be inferred from the fact that
out of twenty samples analysed in Lon
don, only one was found free from
frauds. The leaves of other plants are
largely used, and plumbago, iron filings
and sand were found in it to give weight
to the tea. Altogether, the investiga-
ton revealed condition of things by
no means calculated to "whet the appe-
tite" for tea. It is an old saying that
if people would relish meal, they must
keep away from the kitchen. So with
tea; if people would enjoy its flavor
and stimulating effects, they must not
too closely scru.inize the material which
it is comp osed of.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
ANOTHER YEAR.
By EUGENE J. HALL

Another year has gone to come no more;
It's scenes of Joy and hours of grief are done
'Tis gone where other years have gone before,
Where all must end that ever was begun;
Where ssant and gray oblivion loves to dwell,
Aud iufant time first lisped the hours farewell
Below the feecy folds of drifting snow,
Like beauty laid at rest, the verdure lies.
Beneath the ice, the silent rivers flow,
The ripping rills are hidden from our eyes,
While time glides by as swiftly as the wind,
And only leaves his memories behind.
The spring-time came, and, ere it passed away,
The world was robed in beauty everywhere;
The blooming roses and the new-mown hay
Perfumed the breezes of the summer air;
Then summer came, and with her flying gold,
The simple story Of year was told.
Farewell, Old Year, for thou art gone at last,
And time has borne thee ON his hoary wings
Into the silent ages of the past;
And now, another year he proudly brings
Thy funeral dirge is chanted by the breeze,
Through the bare branches of the leafiess trees.
The New Year comes with many frowning fears,
Yet, with a thousand promises of joy;
The somber shades Of maturer years
Our youthful fancies and fair dreams destroy
Yet, heavenly Hope looks down, with angel eyes,
From cleaning, golden gates of Paradise.
Ambition points US to the toilsome way
That leads to worldly honor and renown;
Yet all lifes feeting phantoms must decay,
Aud all our fading fancies totter down
While coming bards may sing immortal songs
OF our great faihngs and stupendous wrongs.
There is one dream that never fades nor dies
The dream of Heaven. How marvelousiy grand
Tho all LIES bowling tempests that arise,
Sweep DER the rock of ages where we stand;
We glance adown the pathway we have trod,
And leave our impe-fections all with God.
o, Time roll down thy ceaseless course of change
With all thy universal light and shade;
o, mystery before thy boundless range
All human understanding falls dismayed;
Thy veil, that puzzles every human brain,
By angels only can be rent in twain
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
Cleansing Casks.

The inquiry is often made of us by
farmers, brewers, beef and pork pack
ers, etc., regarding the best method of
deodorizing and cleansing old cider and
beer barrels, musty cans, bottles, etc.
Chemistry furnishes an agent in the
permanganate potassa which fully meets
this want. A pint of the permangs aate
turned into the most musty, filthy cider
or beer cask, and rinsed about few
moments, will entirely decompose all
fungoid growths and fermenting matter,
and render the cask as sweet as those
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
Tweed's Daughters Wedding-A Cor
geOus Event, and its SEQUEL.


Now that the statesman Tweed has
assumed his position in public institu-
ton in healthy locality in the vicinity
of New York, while some of his dis
ciples in craftsmanship have gone into
country quarters for the present, says
contemporary, it is rather interesting to
read over the story of his daughters
marriage, two years ago last June. The
ceremony took place in Trinity chapel,
and crowds assembled to gaze upon the
magnifcence of the affair At Tweed's
residence, the halls, stairways, parlors
and chambers were crowded with most
ingenious arrangements of the most ex-
pensive exotics. The presents filed an
entire room and were described as fol-
lows
"There were forty silver sets, any one
of which would have attracted crowd
if placed in a jewelers. window, and
one single one contained two hundred
and forty separate pieces. Mr.. James
Fisk, Jr., sent frosted silver con-
trivance representing an iceberg, evil
IDENTIFY intended to hold ice cream or
some other equally frigid substance.
The association was beautifully sus-
tanned by the presence of arctic bears
reposing on the icicle handles of the
bowl and climbing up the spoons. Sim
gularly enough, Mr.. Fisk displayed the
same taste as Superintendent Kelso,
and their offerings were exact duplicates.
Among the names on the silver were
Shandley, Norton, Williams, Carnochan,
Maginnis, and many others. There
were forty pieces of jewelry, of which
fifteen were diamond sets. A single one
of the latter is known to have cost
S45, 900. 1t contained diamonds as big
as flberts. A cross of eleven diamonds,
pea size, bore the name of Mr.. and Mrs.
81. w. Genet as donors. A pin of sixty
diamonds, representing a sickle and
sheaves of wheat, was the gift of J. Fl.
Ingersol. Peter b. Sweeny's name APP
peared on diamond bracelets of fabulous
magnifcence. Cornelius Corson gave a
ring with a tiny watch as the seal.
Bronzes, thread lace, cashmere shawls,
rare pictures, everything that could be
conceived of which is rich and costly,
filled the room with splendor.
The trousseau of the bride included
fourteen dresses varying in price from
$500 to So, 200 each, though her wedding
dress of white gros grain cost 81 900,
to which 81, 600 worth of point lace was
added. A black silk walking suit was
decorated with three hundred and
eighty-two bows, and others were elabo-
rated correspondingly. It was a grand
wedding even among the grand we'd
dings of the great city; but now this
Tweed is jailed, and there are none so
moor as to do him reverence
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

THE foreign dispatches have several
times of late conveyed intimations of an
impending famine in Bengal, but have
contained no details. The proceedings
of a recent meeting held in London to
supply this want. The population of
Bengal numbers go, 900, 900, and, &c
cording to the lowest estimate, 24,000,-
600 are suffering, and these fully one
fourth will have to be relieved by Gov
eminent aid. To keep life in this num-
Der of people for six months will require
6, 800, 900 tons of rice, requiring an out
lay Of $40, 900, 900 by the Government.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

THE steady increase in the number of
patents issued at Washington, year after
year, shows the inventive spirit which
is inherent in the breast of every genu-
inc Yankee. From 1886 to the present
time, no less than 10000 patents have
been granted by the United States. It
requires 100 examiners and 400 clerks
to perform the duties of the bureau, and
the fees collected for the past year
amounted to SOL, 1927, while the ex-
penses we're only 1898, $50. OF course,
but few of the patents ever make the
fortune of the inventor but it is esti-
mated that one-half are, to a certain ex-
tent, remunerative, and small proper
ton have proved of more profit than
mines of gold to their owners.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

that are new. The deodorizing, disin-
fecting power of the permanganate,
holding as it does five equivalents of oxy-
gen, is wonderful it will even deodor-
ize carbolic acid. The only way to re-
move Immediately the odor of carbolic
acid from the hands, is to immerse them
in the liquid permanganate.- = Boston
Journal of Chemistry.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08
ALI Sorts.

SoNG of the seeds-Put me in my little
bed.
THE rich mans blunders pass current
for wise maxims.
AMERICA imported ia lawyers and 23O
physicians last year.
PUNCH says the unfortunate mans
friends live long way off.
EVERY eight minutes, night and day,
one person dies, every five minutes one
is born, in the city of London.
STATISTICS show that of the foreigners
coming to this country last year 22O. OOO
were Catholics and 2O7, 900 Professionals.
7. Mrs. LAW, of Vermont, called her
husband liar eight years ago, and he
has not spoken to her since, though re-
naming in the house.
KAISER WILLIAM could sit his horse
under a shower of bullets, but when it
came to having an aching tooth drawn,
he took chloroform.
The standing army of the new Ger
man Empire is rather formidable ar
ray, comprising 625, 100 men, IS, $50
horses, and SIC field guns.
THE London Times says that life is
lived so quickly in the United States
that man who has been five years in
public life is almost veteran.
Mrs. SAM Colt, of Hartford, signs
every check and order for money used
by her revolver foundry, and takes a
walk through the establishment twice a
week.
THERE are in the full House 293 men,
bers, deducting nine vacancies. There
are now 283 members--190 straight-out
Republicans, 80 Democrats, and 4 Lib
erals.
Mr.. JTDFJsr does business in Cleve-
land. There is one advantage about
Mr.. Jtdfjst's name-you couldn't forge
it with anything short of a Photographic
camera.
A SUNDERLAND Mass farmer raises
thousand dollars worth of onions to
the acre, and doesn't belong to the
grange either. He thinks he is strong
enough without it.
FROM return just issued, it appears
that during the last twelve years En-
gland has expended sum equal to
$50, GAG, 989 upon coast Notifications,
distributed for the most part at Ports
mouth, Plymouth, Portland, Pembroke,
Sheerness, Dover, Gravesend, Chatham
and Cork.
A SOCIETY has been formed in Bel
gium for collecting all waste paper and
selling it for the benefit of the Pope.
The society has appealed to all the pos
SCISSORS of "bad books, such as the
works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot,
Volney, and other detestable authors, -
to hand them over as waste paper.
THE foreign trade of Great Britain
has not been satisfactory to her mer-
chants this year so far That nation
sold S32, 500, 900 less of cotton, linen,
silk and wooden fabrics, and had to buy
$50, 000,0 900 more of articles of food in
the first nine months of this year than
In the corresponding period last year.
THE Bingham Canon railroad in Utah
cost only S141 per mile. The Salt Lake
Tribune says that it is the cheapest rail-
road ever built in any country, anu
demonstrates the fact that the great
mineral resources of Utah can be de-
veloped in an extraordinarily short time
by reason of their ability to build rail
roads at cost but little above that of
an ordinary wagon road.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

A good deal has been said of late
about the decline of Methodism, par
ticularly in New York. The Northeast
ern Christian Advocate takes no stock
in these stories, and presents the fol-
lowing interesting table. The figures
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

An Indiana clearinghouse keeper
has a horse-pistol attachment to his
hash, and any man who don't Like it is
liar.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

ATHENS, Ga, has a paper named Cat,
with the motto, I" / can scratch"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-08

SoNG of the seeds-Put me in my little
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-11-25

schcnck's Pulmonic syrup, Schenck's
Sea- Weed Tonic, Schenck's Mandrake
Pills, are the only medicine, that win cure
Pulmonary Consumption.
Frequently medicines that will stop Il
cough will occasion tie death of the
patient; they lock up the liver, stop the
circulation OF the blood, hcmOrrhago fol.
lows, and in fact they clog the action OF
the very organs that caused the cough
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia are the
causes Of two-thirds Of the eases of Con-
sumption. Many persons complain of a
! duh pain IN the side, constipation, coated
| tongue, pain in the shoulder-blade, feelings
! u dr0wsincss and rcstles,ness. the food
! wing heavily on the stomach, accompanied
| with acidity and belchIng up of wind.
These symptoms usually originate from a
| disordered condition OF the stomach or q
torpid liver.
Persons so Affected, II they take one or
two heavy colds, and II the cough in these
eases be suddenly checked, will lind the
slomach and liver clogged, remaining tor.
pid and inactive, and almost before they
are aware the lungs are mass of sore-,
and liberated, the result of which is death
schenck's rulmonie syrup is an expec.
torSnt which does not contain opium or
anything calculated to check a cough sud.
denly.
schenck's sea Weed Tonic dissolyes the
food, mixes with the castle juices of the
stomach, aids digestion and creates rave.
nous appetite.
When the bowels are cosIiye, skin sallow
or the symptoms otherwise Of q bilious
tendency, schenck's Mandrake Pills are
required.
These medicines are prepared only by
j. II. SCHrSCK 4 Son,
Northeast corner Sixth and Arch streets,
Philadelphia, Pa. And are for sale by all
| druggists and dealers. ll.l.lmdSw