Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-15
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ALI Sorts.
A NOTED soliloquy-2 B or 2 B, is
the ?.
PIXIES PEAK is seen quite distinctly
from Los Animas, a distance of $50
miles.
MANY planters in the South are hold
ing back their cotton on account of low
prices.
NEBRASKA reports 132, 4S3 as the
number of head swine owned in the
State in 1872.
LADY CAROLINE GUEST has an annual
income of 81, 500, 900 from her coal
mines in Wales.
THE State of Iowa produced in 1872
$40, 169 bushels. of barley, and the
wool production aggregated 2,34S, 1884
pounds.
THE new iron-works of Ironton, Mo-.
are the largest and most complete in
the United States, and have a capital of
81 900, 900.
The, Methodist Episcopal Church,
during the past year, is said to have
gained in money S4,OOO,OOO, and in
membership 5000.
WHEN Boss Tweed took his seat in
the Senate in 1868, he weighed 3O4
pounds when weighed at Blackwell's
Island the figure was 263.
The State of Kentucky produced 49,
981, Sl9 pounds of hemp in 1872, against
IL, 81 ,534 pounds In 1871, and 344, 1877
bushels of barley in 1872, against 373,-
$40 bushels in 1871.
1T is said that nearly 900, 600, 900 of
letters, 1000, 900 of postal cards, 1OO,-
OOO, 600 OF newspapers, and loo, 200, 600
of book packets pass through the En-
glish postoffice annually. That's where
the paper goes.
AMONG the curiosities at Fort Yuma,
Arizona, is a gigantic "prairie-
schooner" of 10000 pounds capacity.
1t is drawn by fourteen mules, the
smallest of which is fifteen hands high,
and weighs $50 pounds.
/ The beautiful habit of opium-eating
is increasing in this country. From
three to five years of indulgence wrecks
the finest constitution, the eyes are
sunken, the frame is emaciated. and
death ends the wasted life.
CALIFORNIA has about 5000, 900 head
of sheep. The wool crop in two shear
ings, at an average of ten pounds per
head, would amount to $4,000, 900
pounds, or 100000 more than the
total product of the United States in
1871.
THE principal lines of transportation
from the West to the East include TO-
600 miles by railroad, 1000 miles by
river, 1000 miles by lake, and 1000 by
canal, and the total amount of through
freight carried over them in one year
QS71-72) was 1888. pa tons.
The Rev, E. E. Hale says: GA man
may send from Lands End, in England,
to Kirkwall, in Scotland, the longest
distance in Great Britain, from will
derness to the edge of the icebergs,
over distance of 700 miles, a tele-
graphic message at one cent word.
AS EVIDENCE of the Importance of the
produce interest the following figures
give the aggregate sales in New York
city last year: Butter, $50, 600, 900;
cheese, $4,000, 600; wheat, S24 ,OOO,-
0OG flour, S26, 900, OO0 corn, $780,
0OD; petroleum, so, 900, 900 cut meats,
81, 0OO,O 900.
TIE foreign trade of Great Britain
has not been satisfactory to her mer-
chants this year so far. That nation
sold $50, 500, 900 less of cotton, linen,
silk and wooden fabrics, and had to buy
800, DOC, 900 more of articles of food in
the first nine months of this year than
In the corresponding period last year.
THE official exhibit of the trade of the
United States with foreign countries
for the year anding June 80, 1873,
shows 8. balance of trade" against the
country of S14, 484, 5S4, the imports be-
ing based upon specie values, and the
exports based upon mixed values. The
foreign exports during the same period
amounted to S28, 140, 511.
The " Mates" in the United States
Navy, who are obliged to pay for their
own mess, purchase uniforms, and keep
up their position as becomes American
officers, out of a salary of 500 year,
have petitioned Congress for an Increase
to 81, 200. Gentlemen, it can't be done.
There are lot of fellows in Washing
ton, now furnishing on $4,000 year
and travelling expenses, who are ahead
of you. We must retrench. Pittsburgh
Commercial.
A LOCOMOTIVE WoNDER.-A singular
specimen of locomotive has just been
turned out of a machine-shop at Glou-
oosfor n / xrhioh bids fair. 70 craaf 70