Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-16

Myers & Welch are both clever and
accommodating business men, and take
pleasure in showing one and all their i'm
merse stock of nice and very cheap turni-
ture. They are both competent work
men, consequently they can and aodt sell
furniture cheaper than any other house
in this city. We speak for them alargS
share OF patronage, and to convince sou
how cheap they are selling flrnitpe, We
refer you To their advertisement, which
can be found in another colupSn of this pa
per, regulating prices etc.. where dollars
can be saved. instead ofeents.
Jim Thompsoa was somewhat over
come by heat las Tuesday. The Mar
shall persuaded him, by use of considera-
BILE force. 20 go up to the Mayors office,
and settle the matter with the city. In
the sosence of the Mayor, ESQ. Kelley
thought he ought to pay ten dollars to
The city, and a reasonable compensation
TO the city officers for his little indise }
tion. The Esq. also required Mrs 7. to
pay So for contempt of authority
Thompson refused to pay or replevy; but
friend signed the docket and Jim be-
came free man.
The South Berd T,'iJune and the Mish-
awake Enterprise express their preference
for II. G. Thayer. of this city, as the Repub
lican candidate for joint representative
tor st. Joseph and Marshall counties
Mr.. Thayer came very near an election
for the position two years ago. when he
ran considerably ahead OF the Democratic
ticket in this county. Mr.. Henderson.
his Democratic competitor in st. Joseph
county, was supported by Republican
personal friends. If Mr. Tbayer can
secure the Republican strength of st
Joseph county, we can elect him.
Mr.. Ruge, the butcher, has a very
nice spring wagon, and he has hauled a
| great deal of meat in it at various times
but the largest, incest and heaviest load
we ever saw his wagon contain. was that
of last Sunday. IT was full and running
ever ofthe most delicious and choicest
going 10 the picnic, north of this city.
We have always thought and now we
know, that tie Germans (if anybody cam
enjoy themselves better than any other
class of the human race, at social gather
ings ofauy kind. So mote il be.
| Flying with wings, and flying with.
ont wings have both been tried within the
last week. An aeronant professor ascend
ed To great height, in balloon in Lon
don, last Thursday, put on pair OF
wings, was suspended by cord. and at
signal given tie cord was cut The pro-
lessor forgot 10 use his wings,and descend
cd to the earth so rapidly that he was in
family killed. On the same day a Gin
ci, matt boy.for $50, jumped from the sus-
peh lon bridge across the OHIO, to the
wafer. a distance of more than one hun
dre0 ! ct. He descended feet foremost,
and y b vat provided for the occasion con
veyed Lin to the shore.
Prof. futile is hunting NJ curiosities
Tor the lndi INA exposition. The .j0urnee
SAWS he has struck mine IN Washington
city. lie has been rendered The use oI all
the. rejected IN, dels lying about the patent
Office. Some q them are exceedingly
laughter provoking. Valpal also would
he good place fo = the professor 20 go.
lie might find anv quantity Of patent
churns and washing machines, lying in
the hotel yards, ana in the alleys and
streets adjacent. Dodge. of the Parker
House, in this city, could furnish scenery,
waTGrobes aud stage property, which
have been left with him by impecuniouS
showmen. who were in a hurry To get out
of town, TO fill large space in the Culi-
osity Hall.
-Forty-eght years ago Samuel A.
Griswold, editor of the Gazsttc, Lancas-
ter, Ohio. VIM. Mlllikan. editor OF the
Haald, Washington, Fayette county.
Ohio. and John MiIlikan, editor Of the
REPUBLICAN, Plymouth, Indiana, We're
printer boys in the office of the Delaware
Patron" The Patron was edited and
published by Ezra Griswold. Samuel A.
Griswold's father. A pair of balls made
of cardec wool, covered with Indian
dressed deer skin, and a Ramage press
with wooden platten and stone bed, serv-
ed TO print the sheets. The PAPER used
was made by hand, by ID. Grouse, near
Chillicothe; some OF the sheet were
very thick, Others thin Four CURES. in
every bundle of forty, we're made up of
sheets full of holes, and parts Of sheets,
which could be used only when Gu; in
small pieces-these were called quasia-
qulrs. Things have. changed some since
then.
Peter LiEthenbarger, farmer who
resides in Union township, this county,
started to California, about the middle of
May, and returned week or two ago.
His business there, was to hunt up a
brother who had been badly hurt by the
ciying in of one Of the pits, up in the