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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
4 Woman Dies Under the Influence of
ChlOrOfOrm.

A widow woman named Bridget Glea-
son, residing at No. 162 University
street, died yesterday while under the
influence of chloroform in the office of
DIR. II. f. Biggar.. She went in the
morning to the clinic at the Homeo-
pathic College, on Prospect street, and
requested that needle which some
time since had, by some accident, pene-
trated her thigh, might be extracted, as
it caused her great pain. She was sent
to the Office of DIR. Biggar, who told her
that the operation was simple one,
and that it could be easily performed
without the use of chloroform. Her
daughter, however, who accompanied
her, insisted that chloroform should be
administered, and as the doctor, after
examining the patient, found her in a
good condition for taking it, he con-
scented to comply with her daughters
request. He was assisted by DIR. Frost,
who carefully felt the patients pulse as
the chloroform was being administered.
She had taken, however, but about
twenty-five drops, when she was sud-
denly seized with a spasm. Although
such spasms are frequent when the pa
tieAt is about to undergo a surgical OPP
Grafton, and seldom occasion alarm, DIR.
Biggar instantly desisted from giving
the choroform and applied the most
powerful restoratives. His labors were
vain, however, and after working over
the patient for nearly an hour without
producing any sign of consciousness, he
was convinced that further effort would
be of no avail, and that the unfortunate
woman was dead.
The Coroner was Immediately mott
fed, and DIR. Biggar, determined that
in justice to himself thorough investi-
CATION should be made, insisted upon a
post-mortenl examination. The inquest
will be held this morning at the Central
Station in the Office of Captain McMa-
hOn.-ClereLQnd Leader.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
The Heirs of AbbOtSfOrd.

The fact that a near heir to the Abb
botsford mansion and the other property
left by Sir Walter Scott is citizen of
the United States has probably been
forgotten by most persons, if it were
generally known. The Philadelphia
Press alludes to it in noticing the COM
ing marriage of Miss Hope Scott to
Mr.. Maxwell. It says: Miss Hope
Scott and her betrothed are members OF
the Church of Rome. II she had died
unmarried, or if she should die without
leaving a child, the Abbotsford estate
and mansion, to which she succeeded on
her mothers death, will Pass to the eld-
est son of the late Major Thomas Scott,
elder brother of Sir Walter, who had
finally settled In Canada, where he died
in 1923. His heir is understood to have
made home, years ago, eitherin Name
or Vermont, and must now be far ad-
vanced in years. It has been Legally
provided that the husband OF the Lady
of Abbotsford shall take his wlfe's
name. Therefore, she will be known
hereafter not as Mrs. Maxwell, but as
the Hon. Hope Scott.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
The Rich Men of Britain.

A million of British peasants are re-
ported i'll at ease, and the reader will
not wonder that it is so In the face of
surrounding facts. For example, the
English county of East Sussex has 800
square miles, and is almost exclusively
the property Of the Duke of Richmond
and the Baron of Lechfeld. The young
Marquis of Butte has an income of 93OO,
600 year, and not long ago his agent
spent nearly 60, 900, 900 in repairing and
altering his magnificent manor and
estate of Crichton Mount Stuart, the
Marquis residence near Cardiff Mr..
Bright once instanced the case of q no.
bleman with an income of Gl20, 900, who
annually spent e40,000 and laid down
the remaining 100000 in rounding
his property, by buying up every parcel
of ground contiguous to his estate which
he could induce the owners to sell. An
article in Harpsr'S gives about score
OF names with the following incomes
One quarter of Scotland is owned by
eight noblemen, of whom the chief are
the Dukes of Hamilton, Buccleuch, and
Switzerland, the Marquis of Butte, and
the Earl of Breadalbane. The Duke of
Westminster, besides Belgrave and
Eaton Squares, and large part of the
fashionable quarter of Westminster,
owns the magnificent manor of Eaton
Hall, near Chester, Halkin House in
Flntshire, and Motcombe House In
Dorsetshire, each surrounded by thou
sands of acres. The Duke of Bedford
owns TIE group of squares IN that CEN
trail part of London called Blooms
bury ;" also Covent Garden Theater and
Covent Garden Market, many streets
leading from the Strand on either side,
and blocks of houses at the West End,
and one OF the most splendid of En-
glish rural estates at Woburn Abbey.
The Earl of Derby owns almost square
miles of blocksin Liverpool and Knowls.
ley, his ancestral country-seat is larger
than most New England townships.
The Duke of Sutherland is able to ride
by rail from sunrise to shutdown on his
Scottish estates, and has five notable
castles, -Dunrobin House of Tongue,
Trentham, Lilleshall, and Chifden. The
Duke of Deyonshire is the lord of eight
castles, all of which are rural palaces
fit for royalty, among them peerless
Chatsworth and Hardwicke Hall. In
London he has a residence on Picadilly
where land can be worth scarcely less
than 91O square foot, surrounded by
gardens. The Earl of Dudley, Ear
Brownlow, the illiterafe Duke of Port
land, Baron Portman, the Duke OF
Northumberland, the Earl of Aberga
veny, the Marquis of Salisbury, the
Duke of Rutland, and Marquis Camden
have immense rural properties, only ex
ceeded in value by the quarters they
own in central parts. The Duke o.
Buccleuch has ten castles, in each o.
which liberal domestic establishment
is kept up all the year. The Scottish
Earls of Mansfield, Stair, and Glasgow
possess each five castles, vast and spa
cious edifces, the centers of splendid
estates, which are to a considerable
degree shut off from cultivation, ani
used as deer-parks and hunting-grounds
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
The Rafllesia Arnold.

In 1918, DIR. Joseph Arnold, a young
English naturalist, accompanied Sir
Stamford Raffies, the agent of the East
India Company at Sumatrs, upon a
tour of exploration into the interior of
the province. In a letter by DIR. Ar
mold, giving an account of his expedi-
ton, he writes ARRIVED at Pulo Leb-
bar, on the banks of the river Mamma.
l delighted in the anticipation of report.
ing that 1 had discovered what is. DOS
sibly, the most surprising prodigy that
exists in the vegetable world. had
gone aside for some little distance.
when one of my Malay servants ran up
to me with establishment marked on
his features, and exclaimed, Come
here, sir come and see a new flower
very large, magnificent, extraordinary 7
1 went to the place to which the Malay
directed me 70 The extract here breaks
abruptly but the sight that met the
eyes of the young botanist was the
Raffiesia Arnold, the largest flower
known. 1t was named after the two
who were associated in the discovery
but the promising savant, DIR. Arnold,
lived to make no further additions to
science. Sir Stamford Rallies had, soon
after the date of his letter, the sad duty
of reporting to the Linnean Society
the death of its youthful member.
The r. Arnold is a parasitic plant
growing upon the stem of species Of
the cissus,-vines nearly allied to the
lrlpe, and growing in hot countries.
The Raffiesia has neither stem mol
leaves-a few scales, surrounding the
base of the flower, performing the Office
of the latter. The bud is like 6
hard, purple, middle-sized cabbage
When expanded the blossom measures
three feet in diameter and nine feet in
circumference. 1t requires three months
for its full development. The flower
has five petals, from one-fourth tC
three-fourths of an inch in thickness
one foot in length and one foot in Width
at the base. The nectorine or honey
cup at the centre of the flower has
capacity of twelve pints. The weigh
of the whole is fifteen pounds. Tn,
petals are of brilliant orange-yellow
and are covered with protuberances o
a brick-red color. The huge pistil
rising from dark violet ground, look
like "blaze in bowl of punch" Tn
odor of the flower is strong and fetit
so much so that the instinct of flesh
flies is sometimes deceived by it, an,
they deposit their eggs upon the petals
and thus their progeny inevitable
perish,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
Crops In Europe.

The prospect for the crop of wheat is
good in England and Ireland, but their
harvest is yet some weeks hence, and
the dangers there are rains in harvest.
Their crop, if good, will not supply the
Kingdom by S0,0O0,0 900 bushels. From
France there are conflicting reports.
Harvest was in progress, and in some
departments was good, while in others
short. That the prices they are paying for
foreign wheat Ill the ports OF France
give better insight into what prudent
men consider the volume of their crops,
is shown by the fact that they are pay
ing $500 per bushel for wheat from
San Francisco, New York, Montreal,
Chill, and Toganzog. In Berlin wheat
is declining, showing a growing conf
dence in the German crop. From Aus
tria, Hungary, and Russia, the reports
are favorable for a medium crop
though at Odessa, the greatest Russian
wheat shipping port, and which more
directly comes In competition with
American wheat, the price is firm and
buOyant
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
How a King Was Punished.

Frederick IL, of Prussia, was one day
walking along the terrace at Sans SOuci,
and noticed that his beautiful large
grapes were suffering severely under
the appetites of the sparrows. Enraged
at the impudent thieves, he offered a
price for their heads, and in few weeks
there was not single sparrow in the
royal gardens. in the following year,
however, not single grape ripened,
and the Prussian monarch found that
as soon as the sparrows disappeared the
grubs, caterpillars and snails began to
commit their depredations unmolested,
and the King found out that, although
the sparrows were great thieves, their
useful qualities far more than counter
balanced their bad ones. He repealed
his former edict, and since that time
sparrows and grapes have prospered
abundantly at Sans Souci.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
Religious Liberty i'm Germany.

We hear a good deal of complaint
from our German citizens of the unjust
and illiberal striction of their wonted
and innocent amusements on Sunday
but, according to the Stuttgart CORE
spondence of the Boston advertiser,
Germany itself is not land of perfect
religious liberty. In illustration of this
fact, the writer alluded to relates an in
cident which recently occurred in his
experience. Thursday, the 14thof May,
was a church holiday +; therefore the
beer-shops and the streets were full, and
every man took his pastime as it suited
him. But it happened that three young
American lads, temporarily residing in
Stuttgart, were engaged in building
boat in which to journey down the
Rivers Neckar and Rhine. All uncon-
scious that the observance of this
church-bolding was obligatory upon
them, the boys pursued their work on
the boat with their usual diligence and
enthusiasm. While so occupied, a
Stuttgart workingman discovered them,
and Immediately ran for the police. On
being confronted by the official, and in
formed that their business was unlaw-
full on church-day, they Immediately
ceased work, pleading ignorance in ex-
tenuation of their fault. Their names
were taken, however, and the next day
they were summoned before the Police
Commissioner, and muicted in a fine.
The writer, whose son was one of these
boys, makes no fuss over the affair, but
simply remarks that the Germans should
"howl little less about the American
Sunday while they have such weekday
Sundays at home"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
kidnapping.

Certain crimes-infanticide, suicide,
homicide-show tendency at certain
times to multiply themselves. The re. 3.
porters notice it, and tell us of An
Epidemic " of this, that, or the other.
For thousand reasons it is to be hoped
that We are not to have an epidemic OF
child-stealing. In the first place. 1T is
a felony easy of accomplishment. I'm
less children are kept in burglar-proof
safes, they will wander away from their
guardians, and they will go off with
strangers who make them pretty prom
ises. We shall not attempt to depict
the agony of parent thus bereaved,
and feeling as the hope of recovery be-
death of the child would have been less
intolerable. Another painful feature OF
the matter is the necessity which it may
entail of making terms with the child
stealer. This may be the only resource,
though after all, it is compromising of
felony. But what is parent to do !?
Under such circumstances, he must
make the best bargain possible. How
can he be expected to wait patiently for
the necessarily slow processes of the
police? In nine cases out Of ten be will,
if able, buy back his lost child at any
price. The thief knows this--it is the
uncomfortable feeling upon which he
has been specializing from the very first.
There seems 70 be nc resource save the
prompt and severe punishment OF the
child-stealer whenever he can be appre-
hended. Imprisonmentfor life appears
to be the least penalty adequate to such
ahorrible crime. Thousands of wretches
have been hang ed for offenses infinitely
smaller.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13

should on the spot. She didn't, though.
Folks don't very often.
Miss Hit tried to soothe her, but it
was of no use she kept groaning
My teeth are gone, my teeth are
gone =
1t aOds too bad, declare. And then
Miss HIT explained to the boys that
they were only temporary, $50 / should
think y and had been growing loose,
and she had intended all along to get a
permanent set as soon as they reached
Boston so it wasn't so much matter,
after ali.
81 won't go to Niagara; I'll switch
off and leave you / won't be seen look
ing so p cried the toothless Miss Shot
well. knocking herself about at such q
rate that her hat collapsed, and her
hair came of, and she was the picture
of an Irish woman recovering from a
drunken fight. Five minutes ago she
had been "the mirror of virtue and
the rose of delight" No wonder Phil
stared.
As soon as she came to her
senses she borrowed Miss Hits
veil, and never took it up for the
rest of the. journey without clapping
her handkerchief to her mouth. She
didn't attempt any more of her be-
witching smiles or her operate songs,
can tell you. She lost her opinion of
the moon, and didn't take any more no.
tice of Niagara Falls than she would of
fulling- mill.
They were all ready to pity her, only
she was fractions, and mumbled and
grumbled like crazy old granny, and
made Miss Fannie take her meals up
stairs to her room, as she had been a
black slave.
Phil was cured completely. He
dropped from the clouds slap-dash, and
came down so hard that itstunned him a
little. / guess he had to coniugate
Latin some time before he felt natural.
1t was great fun for Ben, and 1 sup
pose he won't stop teasing that boy to
the end of time. 1 thought I'd have
my little fling, too; so 1 said to him to-
day, as innocent as Mary's lamb
By the way, Phil, who was it you
and Ben travelled with last summer?"
ga couple of Yankee school-ma ans, "
says Phil, and began to whistle.
so; 1 took it, from what Ben said,
that they were sharpshooters for un-
deIstand him one of them Shot rel,
but didn't HIT, because something
happened about that time to the-what
do you call the bullet-end of the gun
the mouth piece, / think"
SOPHIE MAY.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
ALPACA.

This useful material, so much in de-
mand at the present day, is manufact-
ured from the wooi of the alpaca goat,
a species of the llama, whose home is
in the mountain regions of Peru. II
lives on the coarsest fare, the scanty
heritage that springs up in the fastness OF
the rocks but it has beautiful, wavy
coat of light, chestnut brown wool,
which is nearly foot in length, very
soft and elastic, and nearly as fine as
the Cashmere goat. This is sheared of
every year or two. and sent in little
bales or ballots to England Or France,
or wherever it may be manufactured.
1t is then washed, dried, combed and
finally sorted, preparatory TO being
manufactured into the yarn from which
is made the cloth, the material under
going thirteen or fourteen different proc
esses In the course OF its preparation.
Ladies will admit that it is worth the
trouble, however. Half century ago,
this durable fabric was unknown to us.
But about that time some sacks of queer,
tibrous material, which looked like
"superannuatedho rse-hair, werelanded
on Liverpool docks. There they lay a
long time unsold, till one day a young
man of an inQuiring turn of mind, i'll
peering about, noticed some of their
contents sticking out of hole in one
of them. He looked curiously at it,
rubbed it in his fingers, and finally
pocketed it and walked off. The result
was-alpaca. He had discovered the
" horse-hair" to be the wool of the al
paca goat, and was ingenious enough to
conceive the idea of weaving it into
dress goods, and enterprising enough
to carry his idea out.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13

THE kidnappers of the Ross boy at
Philadelphia want 500, 900 for the re-
turn of the child to his parents. The
Mayor of that city very properly makes
move against the child-stealers, and
offers the same amount fur the persons
of the abductors. Now it is 500, 0O0 VS..
see, 900. Which will get it, whether
the thieves or the detectives, remains TO
be seen. If not the latter, they had
better disorganize and no longer follow
q profession which can be outwltted Dy
a couple of brutal rascals, who be
ready to negotiate. "-Chicago Jour- a.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
How Chicago Was Destroyed.

At least one class of the population
in Chicago profited by the fre-the
dead-beats up town. One would rush
into a saloon with his face smoky and
dusty, and cry "Gimme some whis-
ky, Dick. tell you, gentlemen, this is
a fire. I've been through good MANY
fires, but this is the boss scorcher. My
throat's like a lme-kiln." Timid or
lazy suburban resident, of simple and
generous disposition-"S So you've just
come up? Take something's" Dead
beat" Don't mind if 1 do. Gimme
some whisky, Dick. Yes, Stree, just
left it. When think of Fourth ave-
nue., the houses blowing up ON all sides,
people kiting up into the air, niger
babies roasting till the firemen had to
put handkerchiefs up their noses-I tell
you, gentlemen, it is awful" Barkeep-
er, his curiosity overcoming his habit
ual caution-"It must have been.
Whatn you have, Billy ?" "Gimme
some whisky, Dick Awful You bet
ter believe me. Whewl / see Lake
Shore depow take; says I, goodbye
Chicago But then the wind shifted,
and knew we was all right on this side. y
Another auditor-''The Pacific burned
Dear me ! Ask the gentlemen what they
will have" "Gimme some whisky,
Dick. Yes, sir, the Pacific caught just
as left, and Dave Gage was there,
crying like child" One barkeeper or
Madison street made audible resolves
to close up and go down and see it al
every yarn he heard, but business was
SO brisk he was 10th to do so, till about
half-past one Wednesday morning
when he heard that the Exposition
building had been burned, with larg,
and fashionable audience within. Will
the remark: "Six hundred of ZEN
Drilled Grazing Ncbuchadnezzar II
shut up and CO." He went.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
LOVE Is As A FLOWER.
By MILE W. CARPENTER.

I.
The turtle-dove folds her matronly wings,
Ny darling as hand in hand We wait
a. Lore * Fio,cer." the old song sings,
And out OF the covert calls her mate
On the apple-tree boughs the foliage springs,
Fresh leaves and green leaves Coy after day;
:. Lore is as FlO,cer," the old songs sings.
Love, thus shall our love bloom fresh Away!
Summer. the sweet time of roses, brings
Pink buds and pale buds hand in hand;
- Loce IL as q Fl0srer," the old song sings:
With June she scatters them over the land.
".
The ivy about the gnarled oak clings.
Hiding seam and scar with its drapery bright
% Lore is : q Fto,rer, ~ the old song sings,
And makes it q joy to the whole worlds sight.
v.
o love our love is flower that springs
IN my life deep-rooted and strong and fair;
Lore is as q Fl0rcT," the old song sings,
And ny pride is to nourish and tend There.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13

a TOUCHING APPEAL.-An assault in
which eggs were freely used calls forth
the following appeal from a Missouri
writer "Give us back the palmy days
of the inquisition, or the foul fires of
witchcrait lifting their black columns
to the sky, but let the low principle of
such midnight cliques, in whose breast
is lurking in embryo the feelings of
highwayman, like the putrid yeast of
death that often spreads throughout
the physicians frame and reduces it to
living skeleton. be banished from the
nation over whose domain the star of
empire now trefhbles in its last revolu-
ton in the historic heavens"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
NEAR.SIGHTED.

Phil and Ben have to do some queer
thing or other every vacation; and
they came so near drowning in that
canoe summer before last that they took
a great dislike to the water, and have
hardly gone near it since, except to
drink. So last summer they thought
they would make journey by land as
far as their money would go F.; and, to
exc it out, they took one of Beecher's
works and book of Dio Lewis tosell
on the way. Phil can talk and he told
the people in the little out-of-the-way
towns that Beecher was quite popular
writer, as good as Mrs. Southworth.
with rather moral tone. So he sold
off his books and sent for more, while
Ben was clearing the frog out of his
throat.
They had capital times. stopping to
see elephants and things, till by-and-by
they came to town in Iowa-it's so
large that don't dare to tell the name
of it-and there they stayed day or two
with friend of Ben's; and, as their
money was low, they decided to call
that the end of their journey. 1t seemed
to be very lucky that they should have
happened along just at that time, for
there were two young ladies In the
family, who had been teaching drawing
and music in an academy, and wanted
to 90 back to their homes In the East
and, "could they go in company with
the young men? o, how nice it would
be!''
Lets see; Phil was eighteen thai
June, not fresh any more, but almos,
cut and d, led into soph. o, Phil,
didn't put ct" to the end Of that
Bless your old heart you are dear
nice, gullible darling-so you are and
though you do get "sold" sometimes
we know your brains are sound-sount
for boy. Not that Phil can see int
things as we girls can near-sighted t.
begin with, and 'front.' wear spectacles
And that state of things does place
body at the mercy of an unfeelinl
world.
His objection to spectacles is, tina
they would make him lock like pro
lessor of Greek. You see he thinks b
looks as old as anybody, and feels olde
yet
Well, these young ladies were name
Ann Shotwell and Fanny HIT. Mis-
HIT was a nice, friendly little thing
Ben couldn't remember much abou
her: but as for the other one-Mis
Shotweli-he said she was a sumner
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-13
A Marrying MARQUIS.

THE Marquis of Waterford seem to
have ranged himself, as the French
say. Every one will remember bow he
eloped with the wife of Capt. Vivian,
then member of Parliament for Truro.
He did make what reparation he could
by marrying the lady after she was di-
vorced but few months ago she died,
and the Marquis is now free to enter
upon a marriage which offers better
prospect of happiness. His fancee
is the only daughter of the Duke of
Beaufort, and was born in 1856. The
Marquis is twelve years older.-Liuer-
pool Mercury.