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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
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On day fixed, order being previously
given, the police of Munich seize every
beggar of every kind in the streets, and
convey all, bodily, to large manufac-
tory, the character of which is, in fact,
that of a workhouse, with, however, the
valuable addition of military discipline.
Once secured within the new military
workhouse, the beggars are washed,
dressed, and fed /; given free permission
to stay or go, as they please but to eat
the excellent dinner provided at the
workhouse, they must do the work for
which alone that dinner is the recon-
pense. As proof of the success of the
system, it may be mentioned that in five
years time the institution was realizing
nearly 81 900 per annuIn. But what was
that The real glory lay in the fact that
vicious, idle race Of beings, who were
numbered by thousands, even in SO
small city as Munich, were gradually
converted into honest workmen; were
instructed in religion, and raised in
moral character; while the citizens were
relieved of what had been a tax on their
purses and tempers alike.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
HAD SEEN KINGS ENOUGH.

A gentleman at Washington was re-
quested by friend to join him on visit
to the depot to witness the arrival of the
King of the Sandwiches.
No, sir, not much," growled the
gentleman.
"Have You ever seen a king in your
travels." inquired the friend, maTveling
somewhat at his short answer.
eyes, sir, replied the gentleman. "I
was once guilty of seeing three kings"
Then, after moments pause, went on
to say "And they cost me $3.50. Those
were war times, however"
His friend suggested he must have
been in bad company.
"Well, I don't know" said the gen
tleman, 81 thought l was in pretty good
company at the time. 1 called to see
those kings in company with three
queens, another king and an ace-spot,
and have never had any desire to see one
of the royal family since"
His friend saw the point, said he
passed, and shuffied on.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

4 FRENCH naturalist has recently
grouped, for public convenience, num-
Der of his observations upon animals,
showing that many members of the brute
creation may be used as living barome-
tiers. Rain or wind, he says, may be
expected when the spiders shorten the
last thread by which their webs are sus
pended; fair weather when they
lengthen them, and the duration of
either by the degree of contraction or
expansion observable. When swallows
sweep near the ground, uttering plain
tive cries, rain is at hand !; when they
mount up, fly from side to side, and
play together, fine weather will follow.
When single magpie leaves its nest in
the spring it is a sign of rain, but the
reverse is the case when two parent
birds leave it in company. Rain is near
when the peacocks utter frequent cries,
and when geese are uneasy.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

manner in which most horses are shod
Lifts them up, as it were, ON short stills,
so that the frog cannot perform its ap-
propriate functions.
If we look carefully at the young horse
when he is trotting or running, it Will be
perceived that every foot is brought
down to the ground in such manner
that the frog receives the powerful blow.
By this means all injury to the animal is
prevented. Silence teaches us to permit
the frog to develop and expand down
ward. But most blacksmiths seem to
think that the All-wise Creator made a
great mistake when he formed the hoofs
of horses. Hence, they fall at the frog
with red-hot burning irons, with edge
tools, and with any other appliance that
will enable them to remove this extra
neous excrescence. Illustrious ninnies
Why not shave and burn away all the
tough callous skin and adipose tissue be-
meath their own heels, and allow the bare
bones to rest on plate of iron inside
of their own boots and shoes ~ T.
Herald
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
A WOMANS ADVENTURE WITH a
NOISE.

A Keokuk woman immortalized her
self and wants a crown of glory of which
very few of the sex are worthy. She is not
afraid of mouse. She proved she was
mistress of the situation in the very face
of the mouse himself The lady while
pursuing her domestic duties, cornered a
mouse in a hour-barrel. He had been
there before. The lady had been hank
ering after him. She slammed down the.
lid, plugged up hole with the butt-end
of q fiour-scoop, and the ravenous animal
was nicely caught in his own trap. Now
ninety-nine women in hundred would
have taken refuge in the garnet or cellar,
as most convenient, uttering piercing
shrieks that would have alarmed the.
whole vicinity, like cries of ''murder " or
fire." The Keokuk heroine In her adj
venture with mouse did no such thing
She stood her ground manfully. She
summoned the hired man. He came and
council of war was held in the store
room. The man, according to the set
tied plan of the campaign, gotta shotgun
and stationed big, clumsy bulldog in a
commanding position. Every thing be-
ing ready for the attack, the lid was lift
ed and the lady vigorously punched the
flour barrel with pole. Soon the mouse,
started across the floor-the dog in hot.
pursuit. The man fired the dog dropped
dead. The lady tainted and fell down.
stairs The frightened hired man, think
ing the woman was dead and he would
be arrested for murder, dropped the gun
ran away from the house and has not
been seen since. The mouse escaped
unhurt, but very much scared, and that
lady walks proudly over her victorious
field. There's nothing so noble as pluck
in women.-&. Louis Republican.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
4 CLIMBING COUNTESS.

A Paris correspondent says: An
other celebrity has just been buried, but
with all the rites of the church-the.
Comtesse Kisseloff, the wife of once:
Russian Ambassador TO Paris. She sep
arated from her husband soon after their
marriage, and since then found her only
distraction in gambling. Not gaming
table in Europe but hailed her as cher
ished guest. Her manners were as:
charming as she was elegant; in driving.
in her carriage or travelling by rail she.
passed her time playing piquet. In an
audience with the Pope, his Holiness.
mildly rebuked her for her passion for
play; she promised him she would try
and reform, and for year undertook
never to SIT at gambling table; she felt
she observed her promise, as during the
twelvemonth she always stood at the
table, and might have continued so had
not an accident broken both her legs
and confined her to bath-chair."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
HEROISM OF A MISSISSIPPI BOAT
NAN.

A Boatman" sends the following to
the ST. Louis Democrat: "John John
ston was only keel-boatman, born in
Giles county, Tenn. Poverty and inch-
nation drove him to keel-boating. Dur
ing the spring of 1873 he and the writer
of this sketch were engaged in keel
boating on the Big Black river. About
the last of May the boating season ended,
and We were preparing to start for Ten
nessee river, when the steamer Ben.
Sherrod came down and landed ct Grand
Gulf. We went ON her, as we knew all
hands, and she was to return to the Ten
nessee. While we were in New Orleans
we hired as deck-hands on her. We had
but one trunk in common, in which were
deposited our earnings, some $500, and
our clothing. The Ben. Sherrod left
New Orleans, with over 400 passengers,
and proceeded on her trip. Wooding in
Raccounsee bend, we took on forty cords
of dry willow wood. This was piled in
the usual way, alongside and close to the
boilers. Johnston and went off watch
at IL o'clock at night, and lay out Oh the
guard, as the inside of the boat was very
warm. About o'clock We were aroused
by the cry of fire, and found the smoke
suffocating. In few seconds the after
guards were crowded with deck passeil-
gers, and in few minutes the flames
burst through the roof, and we saw that
the pilot had lost all control of the boat
and she was circling around. Occasion.
ally as the boat swung round near the
shore, passengers would jump overheard
and very soon the lower guard was com
paratively empty. A passenger on the
upper guard swung two children, about
four and six years old, down by the arms
and begged for some one to take then
while he went back for his wife anG
youngest child. Johnston took them
The father went back, and never re
turned. / began to consider that it wa:
about time to get away, and said to John
ston, Let us get our trunk away and
save it. His answer was, Save the
devil. If we save anything, it must bt
the children 1 replied that did mo-
believe we could, but thought it might
be fatal to us. He said, with an oath
It will be glorious death to die AIRY
ing We did try, and succeeded. Sine,
then l have seen, heard, and read o
heroes, but never of any more genuin,
act of heroism than that performed by
John Johnston on the night of the burn
ing of the Ben. Sherrod. Over $50 live.
were lost.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
KEEPING TAVERN.

An equestrian, travelling over an old
turnpike, drew rein at midday before an
extensive but dilapidated public house,
heralded by a lofty sign, bearing, in
faded letters, the inscription, Enter
tainment for Man and Beast" To tow
headed urchin. swinging upon the front
gate, he addressed himself:
"Boy; will you take my horse and give
him half peck of oats?"
"Don't keep no grain.
"No grain Well, then, give my horse
some good hay"
"Don't keep no hay, nuther.
"No hay nor grain! On what do you
feed your horsess"
"Don't keep no horses.
81 would like some dinner. Can 1
have meat and potatoes without delay 2"
"Don't keep no meat-barrel, since we
don't keep no hog"
"Then / will take lunch of bread and
milk, or bread and butter"
"Don't keep no butter nor milk, since
we don't keep no cow"
Pray, my lad, what do you keep"
keep tarer7,."
A compulsory educational bill has been de
feated in the Minnesota Legislature.
The Indiana Legislature has passed bin e.
tsblishing a system of public warehousing and
inspection Of grain.
The tide of emigration to the West and
Southwest has commenced early this season
A recent dispatch from Sedalia, Mo-, says :
"Col. Thomas Dorwin. General Passenger
Agent Of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road, brought special train Of thirteen cars of
freight and eighty-five passengers from Han
nibal- No.. en- route to Southern Kansas, where
they will settle. They are from Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and other States, end were provided
with stock, farming implements, etc."
Live hogs are selling 80 per hundred pounds
In Chicago
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
ORIGIN OF GREAT MEN.

1t is not among the pampered chill
dren of luxury that we must oftenest
look for the seeds of intellect which
ripen in the manhood of greatness. The
grandest characters known in art, itera-
ture, and useful inventions have risen
from the humber walks of life, showing
that genius ignores all class and social
barriers. Let us glance in corrobOration
of this statement at such characters in
modern history as most readily present
themselves to the mind. In general
literature look at Defoe, the author of
Robinson Crusoe," one of the greatest
writer's of prose fiction that ever lived.
He began life as a simple hosier, and
was wholly self-taught. William Cob
bett, the great master of Saxon English,
was a common soldier 9nd farmers
boy Izaak Walton, the biographer, was
linen draper.
Thomas Simpson, the famous mathe-
matician, was journeyman weaver half
his life. Capt. Cook, one of the most
scientific of sailors and a pleasing writer,
was self-taught. His father and mother
could neither read nor write. Sir Rich
ard Arkwright, inventor of the cotton
spinning machine, was poor man, and
commenced life as barber. Herschel,
fba crraaf octroDop,ar xroc m, b,,p,bla
musician in military band. Chantry,
the sculptor, was milk and dairy boy,
his first efforts in art being nodded in
butter. Sir Thomas Lawrence was an
innkeeper's boy, and entirely self-taught.
John Opie was wood-sawyer. Hogarth
commenced in the humblest manner as
an engraver of cheap show bills. Gift
ford, afterward the famous editor of the
Quarterly, served an apprenticeship as
shoemaker; and Bloomfield, the charm
ing English poet, was also a cordwainer,
better known as the English Burns.
James Brindly, the great English en-
gincer, was an humble miller for years.
Ben JonsOn-" rare Ben Jonson -
was in early life bricklayer, and was
often seen with trowel in one hand and
book in the other. Shakespeare was a
poor mans son. Doctor Isaac Millers,
afterward Dean of Carlisle, well-known
also as an author, commenced life Us q
weaver. Doctor Prideaux, Bishop of
Worcester, got his education by entering
Oxford as kitchen boy. John Bunyan,
the great master of allegory, and who is
said to be the author of the second best
book ever written, was tinker. SO we
might go on scanning the history of the
past to illustrate our remark at the COM
mencement of this brief article.
Butt the history of the past is crowded
with evidence that mainly among the
million and not among the favored few
we are to look for such illustrious ex-
amples of those to whom the world ac-
cords the need of greatness, much more
do our own day and generation illustrate
the same fact. Let our readers pursue
this line of thought as connected with
the history of America during the last
century, and see to what remarkable re-
suits and interesting facts it will inevita-
bly, lead.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

CURIoUs.-Friction impedes the prog
ress of the railway train, and yet it is
only through friction that it makes any
progress. This apparent paradox is ex-
planned when we remember that by rea-
son of the fractional "bite "of the driv-
ers upon the track they draw the train.
The bearings of the wheels upon the
rails are mere line where they come in
contact, iron and iron, yet this slight
and almost imperceptible hold is suf-
fcient to move hundreds of tons of dead
weight with the speed of the wind.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
Il CLERGYM4N T1KEN IN.

A rather amusing incident occurred re-
Gently to reverend gentleman, who is
a popular preacher in a city not more
than twenty miles away. He went to
have his likeness taken at photograph
er's, and put ON a surplice in an ante
room. When ushered into the manipu-
lating room, he was not a little discon-
certed on seeing Circassian beauty, in
full costume, chained and on her knees,
her countenance expressing the pleadings
of broken-hearted girl on being dragged
before the Mussulman proprietor of a
happy harem family. The reverend
gentleman, as soon as he had recovered
from his surprise, took an interest in the
high proceeding, and yentured to sug-
gest that the veil fell too far across her
face. "Would you kindly show me what
you meanl" said the man of shades and
shadows. The reverend gentleman was
kind enough to do so. The fash of light
was wickedly employed; for, to his hor-
ror, it may be related, if he sees this
anecdote, that the popular preacher was
taken in dramatic attitude with Circas-
sian slave appealing to him to release her
from her thraldom. The feelings of the
reverend gentleman when he afterwards
saw the picture exposed at the entrance
to the photographers establishment as
81 high art" product may be better i'm
agined than described. Press.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

History is full of the accounts of the
fascination of women who were no long
er young. Thus Helen of Troy was forty
when she perpetrated the most famous
elopement on record, and as the siege of
Troy lasted a decade, she could not have
been very juvenile when the ill-fortune
of Paris restored her to her husband,
who us reported to have received her
with unquestioning love and gratitude.
Pericles welded the courtesan Aspasia
when she was thirty-six, and yet she af-
terward, for thirty or more, welded
an undiminished reputation for beauty.
Cleopatra was past thirty when Antony
fell under her spell, which never lessened
until her death, nearly ten years after;
and Livia was thirty-three when she won
the heart of Augustus, over whom she
maintained her ascendency to the last.
Turning to more modern history, where
it is possible to verify dates more accu-
rately, we have the extraordinary Diane
de Poitiers, who was thirty-six when
Henry III. (then Duke of Orleans, and
just half her age) became attached to her;
ands was held as the first lady and most
beautiful woman at court up to the pc
Rod of the monarchs death and
the accession to power of Cathe-
rine de Medicis. Anne of Aus
tria was thirty-eight when she was de-
scribed as the handsomest queen OF
Europe, and when Buckingham and
Richelieu were her jealous admirers,
Ninon de rEnclos, the most celebrated
wit and beauty of her day, was the idol
of three generations of the golden youth
of France, and she wasseventy-two when
the Able de Berais fell in love with her.
True is it that in the case of this lady 9
rare combination of culture, talents, and
personal attractions endowed their pos
SCISSOR seemingly with the gifts of eter
nal youth. Blanca Capello was thirty
eight when the Grand Duke Francisco
of Florence fell captive to her charms
and made her his wife, though he was
five years her Junior. Louis XIV. wed
ded Nine. de Maintenen when she was
forty-three years of age. Catherine III
of Russia was thirty-three when SHE
seized the empire of Russia and captiva
ted the dashing young General Orloff
Up to the time of her death Cat sixty
seven) she seemed to have retained the
same bewitching powers, for the lamen
tations were heartfelt among all those
who had ever known her personally.
Mile. Mars, the celebrated French ira
geuienne, only attained the zenith O.
her beauty and power between forty
and forty-five. At that period the love
illness of her hands and arms especially
was celebrated throughout Europe. The
famous Nine. Recamier was thirty.
eight when Barras was ousted from
power, and she was without dispute de
clared to be the most beautiful woman
in Europe, which rank she held for fifteeI
years.-PictOrial World.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

corpse was placed in chair, the head
Turned to one side in life-like position,
and the picture was perpetrated in pho
tograph. The circumstances of her max
ing such a request drew large number
of curiosity-seekers to the funeral in all
dition to the mourners.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

TRUE LovE.-Good fellowship, usually
occurring through similarity of pursuits.
is unfortunately seldom superadded to
love between the sexes, because men and
women associate, not in their labors, but
in their pleasures merely. Where, how
ever, happy circumstances permit its de-
velopment, the compounded feeling
proves itself to be the only love which is
strong as death-that love which many
waters cannot quench, nor the floods
drown; beside which the passion usually
called by the name isevanescent as steam.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

THE Superintendent of silver mine
in Nevada, who had absconded with a
large amount belonging to his employers,
was followed, and his remains were found
after three days pursuit. 1t was sup
posed he had fallen victim to a grizzly,
or some other wild animal. The remains
were identified by knife and revolver
lying near them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

EDITOR SOMEONE, of La Cdpitale, q
liberal journal of Rome, was stabbed to
death Feb. by person whose identity,
although he was instantly arrested. is not
yet known. The motive Of the crime is
not disclosed, and the assassin, though
caught in the act, absolutely denies the
deed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

TIE Albany Penitentiary cleared
$40, 600 last year, which shows that crime
can be made to pay if tits well managed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

WILLIAM CULLEN. BRYANT has made
more money than any poet that ever
lived. 1t has, however, not been alone
the product of his muse, but in conjunc-
ton with his newspaper. To this is to
be added the fact that he is of simple
habits, and cannot but be moderate In
general expenses. He is estimated to be
worth from $4O0, 900 to $500, 900.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18

KNIFE plated ruffles are still fashion
able.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-02-06

All Gun Il Co.-Mining Claim in
Five Cent Gulch, known as
the Mulligan Claim, 81, 800;
Improvements, $500 ; Total tax
and costs, So O5
All Faa 4 Co.-Mining Claim and
Improvements, $500 Total tax
and costs, 81
Boo Wing & Co.-Mining claim
$500; Imp. 500; Total tax
and costs, II "a
All Fonn - Mining Claim near
Taylor Flat, Mouth OF French
Creek $50; Imp. $50 Total
tax and costs, 3 SS
All Sock-Mining Claim on Dead
wood Creek, $3.50; Total tax
and costs, 4 20
China Charley-Mining claim on
Smith Ranch above Lewiston,
$50; Total tax and costs, l 92
Lock Kee-uouse in Wcaverville,
known rs the Lock kee Store,
500; Solvent Debts, 5000;
Mdsc. $1,000 Wagon, 500:
haA-breed Horse, $40;
Mule, Sl5 Is Hogs, SlS0;
Total tax ana costs, is 90
Finn 4 Co.-Miaing claim on East
Fork, known as the Ruch claim
500 Total tax and costs, 3 SO
Locks & Co.-Mining claim known
as the Ragan claim, Sl00 total
tax and costs, 5 SO
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
IN unless the taxes delinquent, togeth-
cr with the costs and percentage, are paid,
the real property upon which such taxes
are a lien will be sold at public auction
on the
in front of the Court House, in the town
Of Weavoryille, County of Trinity, State
of California.
j. w. PHILBROOK,
Sheriff & ex-ohicio Tax Col.
Weavcrville, Jan. -, 1873. td.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-02-06

Ordered That NJ. II. Yale be and here
bv Is appointed Road OVersecr OF District
No. s on filing his approved bond condi-
toned according to law.
Ordered, That j. A. Lytle be and here
by is appointed Road OVerseer Of District
No. y, on filing his approved bond CON
ditioned according to law.
Ordered, That David Gray be and here
by is appointed Justice of the Peace for
Now River Township, on filing his APP
proved bond cor dilioncd according to
law.
The petition of Eastman, Blag,ayes,
Van Matre and others for the formation
Of Il new School District to lie formed
from portions Of the Lewiston and Mines :
willie Districts-rje-ted
Ordered, That Il new School District TO
be known rs the Indian Creek School
District, be segregated from the Douglas
City District and that the following
boundaries be, and the same are hereby
established: Commencing one mile be-
low McIutyre's Ranch on Browns Greek
thence to the Indian Creek and Reading
Creek Divide, one mile below Wan.
Clements Ranch and all the country
drained by Browns and Reading Creeks
above said points, and all the country
drained by Indian Greek.
Report of j. II. Tourtcllotte, Road
Oyorsoer Of District No. ,, approved.
Ordered, That The Board do now adj
journ till Tuesday, Feb. 2nd, 1919, at 10
A. NJ.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-02-06
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

REV. r. GRAVES will preach as follows,
until further notice;
FIRST SUNDAY - Saturday evening at
Lowden's Ranch Sunday, Mt lo'2 n. n,, at the
Court House, Weayerville; at Douglas City
at 2 p. IN.
THIRD SUNDAY - Saturday evening at
Lewiston Sunday morning at the Court House
in Wearersilic, at 1917 o'clock; Junction City
at3p M; North Fork, at : u. IN.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-02-06

INCoRP0RATED.-The were fled in
the Office of the Secretary Of State Feb
ruary 1st, the Articles of Incorporation of
the Julia Quicksilver Mining Company.
To operate in Trinity county, Capital
Stock, sl,25O,O0O, divided into 12j, eco
shares at $40 each. Principal place of
business, Weavervillc; Directors, L. P.
Lovejoy, c. w. Craig, j. w. Philbrook,
7. Z. Jones, P. NJ. Paulson, j. G. Irwin.