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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
CURIosITIEs OF WoOIyG.

In olden times it was the fashion for a
sutton to go down on his knees to lady
when he asked her to become his wife,
which, with very stout gentlemen, was
an uncomfortable proceeding. The way
in which Daniel Webster proposed to
Miss Fletcher was more modern, being
at the same time neat and poetic. Like
many other lovers, he was caught hold
ing skein of thread or wool which the
lady had been unravelling. "Grace,"
said he, "we have been untying knots.
Let us see if we cannot tie one which
will not unite in a lifetime" With a
piece of tape he fashioned half true
lovers knot; Miss Fletcher perfected it,
and kiss put the seal to the symbolical
bargain. Most men when they "pop"
by writing are more straightforward and
matter-of-fact. Richard Steele wrote TO
the lady of his heart: "Dear Mrs.
Scurlock (there were no misses in those
days., I am tired of calling you by that
name, therefore say day when you will
take that of madam. Your devoted hum
BILE servant, Richard Steele" She fixed
the day, accordingly, and Steeled her
name instead of her heart to the suitOr.
The celebrated preacher, Whitefeld,
proposed marriage to a young lady in a
very cool manner, as though Whitefield
meant a field of ice. He addressed
letter to her parents without consulting
the maiden, in which he said they need
not be at all afraid of offending him by
refusal, as he thanked God he was
quite free from the passion called love.
OF course the lady did not conclude that
this field, however white, was the field
for her. The well-known brothers,
Jacob and William Grimm, were exceed
ipgly attached to each other, and had no
desire to be married. But it was thought
proper by their friends that one of them
should become a husband, and Jacob
being the elder, it was agreed that he
should be the one to enter the bonds of
matrimony. A suitable lady was found,
but Jacob declined to do the counting,
requesting William to act as his agent.
William consented, but soon found he
was in love, and wanted the lady for
himself He could not think, however,
of depriyings his brother of such q
treasure, and knew not how to act. An
aunt kindly relieved him in his difficulty
by telling Jacob, who willingly resigned
the damsel to his brother, and went out
of the way until she had been made Mrs.
William Grimm. A Scotch beadle was
the one who popped the question in the
grimmest manner. He took his sweet
heart into the graveyard, and, showing
her a dark corner, said, Mary, my folks
lie there. Would You like to lie there,
Mary" Mary was sensible lassie,
and expressing her willingness to obtain
the right to he buried near the beadle's
relations by uniting herself to him in
wedlock. A similar unromantic view of
the subject was taken by another Scotch
maiden. Upon her lover remarking, 81
think I'll marry thee, JEAN" she re-
piled, "Man Jock, / would be muckle
obleeged to We if We would. LIZ
change.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

A MAN in Belgium died recently who
in Russia had been employed as dia-
mond searcher in the mines. He man
aged to secrete brilliant he had found,
of great size and beauty, by cutting q
slit in his neck and inserting the stone.
When the skin had grown over the in
cision he applied to be allowed to return
home, escaped the searchers, ndreached
Belgium, where he sold the stone for
$4,000. Singularly enough the En-
peror of Russia Is now the owner of the
stone, which he prizes greatly. The for
tunate finder was very eccentric, and
always dressed in green-bright green,
of light color.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
CEMENT CoFFINs Versus WOOD.

The Prefecture of the Seine has at
present under consideration a new in
vention in connection with the burial Of
the dead-namely, the substitution of
cement collins for those made of wood.
The thickness of the shell would not ex-
ceed three-fourths of an inch, and they
would cost about the same as very COM
mon material, and far less than oak.
The corpses would, it is argued, be more
perfectly preserved, and for a longer
period, and all mephitic exhalations
would be prevented. NJ. Ferdinand
Duval, Project of the Seine, has refer
red this proposal for examination to the
Council of Health.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

other. She died exemplifying the prin-
ciple of the browning act of mans sal
vation-and while we mourn over the
loss of SO fine and noble spirit, there is
a mournful satisfaction in knowing that.
such heroic devotion still lives on earth.
Toronto Globe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

A FEW days ago, an ex-General of the
rebel army enlisted at New Orleans as
private soldier in the service of the
United States. Poverty was what brought
him to his new military position.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
@mshall County 8spuhlitau
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.
THE ORIGINAL OF COLONEL Sell
IERS


LERS.
The Evansville Qnd) Courier says {:
The Colonel Mulberry Sellers in the
play, although the same Sellers, is not
Mulberry in the novel. But when
Clemens Mark Twain) and Warner IS
sued their first edition of the 'Gilded
Age, they called him Eschol Sellers
Colonel Eschol Sellers. Now this name
Is, with many of our citizens, name of
familiar sound, as it belongs to an indi-
vidual actually in the flesh, who is well
known to many readers of the Courier.
The prototype of the renowned hero of
the book is proprietor OF large coal
mine and mineral lands ON the Lower
Ohio, below Shawneetown, H., in which
enterprise Philadelphia capitalists, among
whom ex-Secretary of the Navy Borie is
most prominent, are concerned with him.
1t is said that Mark Twain met this gen.
tleman In the East somewhere, and from
the pecularities of the man was induced
to appropriate his name. When the fact
became known to Mr.. Sellers, through
the distribution of the first edition, he
Immediately went East and protested
against the unauthorized use of his
name, and the authors. were compelled
to change the name so far as to substi-
tute Beriah for Eschol, and at cost to
them, it is said, of $4,000, as part of
the second edition was then under way,
and had TO be destroyed. No doubt the
observing eye of the novelist must have
detected much of that in the man Sellers
which the Colonel Sellers in the book
expresses SO forcibly and aptly in the
short and pithy sentence, There is
millions in it = Mr.. Sellers, OF Sellers's
Landing, is an inventor, and all the
world knows that inventors are, and
must be, idealists and enthusiasts. We,
of the everyday routine of life, can
hardly appreciate the inner feelings of
the inventor and poet; and their vaga-
ries, to our dull eyes, seem but too often
vain vaporings and bubbles, while to
them they are realities-the children of
their brains-of each one of which they
feel justified In declaring to everybody
seeking investment: There are mill
ions In it. A number of years ago Mr..
Sellers erected a paper-mill in the knobs
of Hardin county, ILL.,, overlooking the
Chic river, opposite the town of Casey
vile, KY, built a small town, and estab-
ished a postofice, and called the place
Sellers's Landing. The paper-min was
built at great expense, after an invention
of his own. The material out of which
paper was to be made was cane, such as
grows In the bottoms of the Mississippi
river and its tributaries; and the cane,
to make it fit for paper and to separate
its fibre, was to be shot, rs it were, out
of big iron guns In that mill, and there
was to have been millions in it. But,
alas. The mill has gone to decay, Ben
Bolt, and Sellers's Landing, like Stones
Landing in the book after failure of the
Salt Lick and Pacific railroad, is desert
ed, and grass grows in its mud-paved
streets. Mr.. Sellers, however, is q man
of culture and refinement. He is of old
Quaker stock, and the name stands well
In the city of Philadelphia.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

Pooh spoilers should not feel very bad
about it. Andrew jackson was a rery
poor speller. 1t was charged, among
other photographed peccadilloes, that
Old Hickory began the word congress
with K. "It is true, said Randolph,
" Jackson cannot spell. The reason is
that he was fighting the British while
Webster was making speling-books.
Jackson cannot write because he was not
taught. Nor can Adams either write
well. The reason is that he was not
teachable.. jackson is ignorant, but he
could have got over it, if he had only had
chance. Adams had chance, but he
was a natural born fool, and he never
could get over it. Randolph's reward
was being sent as Minister to st. Peters
burg.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
WHAT MIKES BLAD HEADS

A correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
Jaaae enters protest against the prac-
tice of shampooing. He says:
cit is well enough for the people of
this country to understand once for all,
that the reason why there is so many bald
headed young men nowadays is the uni
versal custom that prevails of shampooing
the head with stimulating washes. The
wonder is, that there are any men left
with full suits of hair. The custom
should be discontinued at once, and
young men should be warned in season
against this pernicious practice. Let
shampooing cease from this time for
wards"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

I've got fifteen live goldfish inside my
drawers fippin' around, and raspin' the
skin with their fins enough to set man
crazy. OUCH Oh, Moses Hurry
that shoe off, and grab that fish there at
my left knee, or I'll have to howl right
out ~
Then we undressed him and picked
the fish out of his clothes, and discov-
cred that he had had two dishes full of
water and covered with india-rubber tops
strapped inside his trousers behind. In
his struggles to get at them he had torn
the covers to rags. We fixed him up in
q pair of Magruder's trousers, which
were six inches too short for him, and
then he climbed over the back fence and
went home. He says, now, that the next
time he gives exhibitions in public he
intends to confine himself to ventrilo-
quism. Adeler.
THE BOY ON LIBROSSE STREET
When Lacrosse street boy is playing
"hop-scotch " on the walk and his mother
comes to the door and asks him to split
some wood, he replies that he will be
along in just one minute. At the end of
ten minutes she opens the door and says:
"Wilyum, want that woodl"
"I'm coming right now" he replies,
and then goes on hopping here and there
ON one leg.
Another ten minutes flies away, and
she opens the door and says:
"Wilyum, if you don't get that wood
you know what your father will do"
"Just ten seconds he calls back, and
he enters upon a new game.
The next time she calls she says:
"YouRg man, its almost noon and /
can't cook dinner without that wood"
81 know tim coming now," he re-
plies, and he stands on one foot and
holds long discussion with the Johnson
boy as to whether the game of shop
scotch " is as good game as base ball.
He has just started to hop when a boy
whispers:
eli, Bill. there's your old dad -
Great Snakes 20 whispers Bill, and
he goes over the fence like flash, grabs
the AK, and during the next two minutes
he strikes two hundred blows per minute.
He gets into the house ahead of his
father, and as he drops the wood he says:
"Mother, the boys were just a sayin'
that / had the handsomest and best and
coolest mother on Lacrosse street, and
I want to kiss YOU" -DctroHF Free Press.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30
GENER.4L FEiDS.

Speaker Kerr, who left Philadelphia
last week to visit brother lying seri.
ously i'll in Plttsburg, has returned to
that city, and Is himself quite unwell.
The Oil Greek and Allegheny pa.
railroad was sold under foreclosure of
mortgage of the Philadelphia Exchange
yesterday for 500, 600 to committee tor
the bondhclders. The mortgages on the
road amount to $2,5S0,O00.
Secretary Fish has addressed 3 cir
cular to all theEuropean Governments
asking an expression of views on the
subject ef intervention in Cuban
affairs. A copy of the circular has
been sent to Spain.
Two hundred American residents in
Berlin held meeting on Monday to
express their adherence of Bremerha-
ven cline, and TO protest against the
unjust comments of the German press
on American character, in connection
with Thomassen's crime.
The Tribune entertains very friend.
~ 1eeling for Secretary Fish, and re-
CARDS him as the Presidents body
guard against the rascally set of specu-
lators by whom he is surrould lded.
Grant cant very well fghtSpain while
FISH directs the course of our diplo-
macy.
The Orleans Princes have resolved,
at family council, to retire from par
iismentary life. The cable dispatch
which announces this gives no expla-
nation, but it is certainly to be regret
ted that such capable men aud born
statesmen should Withhold any services
to their country at a time like the
present.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30
NEWSPAPER FALSE PRETENcEs.

1t has long been a matter of no.
torie,y that certain newspapers
priding themselves On their moral
and religious tone have been selling
their opinions for the purpose of
leading the people into unsafe spec
ulations. On Friday the charges
against one of these journals were
proved in Philadelphia, Mr.. Edwin
NJ. Lewis, the asst gneo of Jay
Cooke 4 Co., testifying berore q
commissioner for this State that
Mr., Henry G. Bowen entered into
contract with that house to pub
lish editorial articles in his newspa,
per advising people to exchange
United States bonds for those of
the Northern Pacific Railroad. We
are glad that this exposure has
come in official form, Tor nothing
can be more dangerous than a cor
rupt and subsidized press, When
newspaper sells its opinions for
money i. becomes public enemy.
There will be no safety even in
matters of business, if q popular
journal is permitted to misrepr.-
sent the candition Of a corporation
like the one in question with impu-
nifty. From the beginning the
Northern Pacific Railroad was
chimera; it was based upon moth
ing and began and ended nowhere.
All this was known when Bowen
agreed to hold up its claims 10 pub
lie confidence as we'll as now that
the whole scheme has exploded
But for such assistance as it receiv-
ed from papers like the Mdcpend-
ent it would not have had any ex-
istence at all. Thousands of per-
sons lost the savings they could i'll
afford to lose in an enterprise which
had no foundation simply because
journal they trusted counselled
them to the course of folly they
pursued. No species Of false pre-
tences can be so bad as that of
newsp per which agrees to puff
doubtful enterprises, and there
ought to be a. remedy at law as in
other cases of obtaining money by
misrepresentation.-N Y. Herdld.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30
rhc School QuestIon-A Novel prono
SiltOn.

NEW York. December 29.-The jersey
city board of education last evening re =.
eeived novel proposition from the Re,
Father Tennesy, of st. Patrick's Church,
Jersey City Heights. In letter sub.
mltted to the board he says that for six
years be has taught in his schools nearl,
siI hundred children; that he fears he
will not be able to support the schools
longer, and that the public schools in
the neigh borhood are not capable of ac-
oommodating more scholars than they
now contain. He closes by proposing to
place his parish under the sole charge
OF the board free Of charge for use of the
school or furniture, and agreeing to him
self furnish two male teachers, one to
act as principal at salary Of $500, and
the other assistant at salary of $500,
and also competent female teachers.
The conditions imposed are that there
shall be no religious exercises in the
school save the reading of the Douay
Bible in the morning and the recitation
OF the Lords Prayer. He further saws
that If appointed head Of these schools,
ne will serve without pay and subject
himself to the authority of the school
superintendent and the board. The
communication WAS referred to a special
committee.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30
WILMINGTON. DEL. DEC. 70. 1879

"WoN'T VoTE THE TIcKKr." - When
old Zack Chandler commenced to reduce
the force in his Department month
ago, and to reduce the salaries, some of
the Republicans eontended that all the
Democrats should be discharged, and
asserted that il they were discharged or
their salaries reduced they would not
vote the ticket" This raised the anger
Of the old Michigander, and, as tt :
story goes he slashed around at terrible
rate and swore no man should hold Office
under him who would defy him in that
way and forthwith the Objectionable men
were discharged, and given an epportn-
nifty to carry out their threat not to vote
the ticket. Chandler is bear 10 be
sure, but we give him credit for this
act Let him go ahead. When a man
says he won't vote the ticket unless he
is paid for doing SO, he deserves to be
made to vacate his office whether the
pay ls small or great
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30
SH EhfFE".S S4y.p,

SHERlFF'S SALE
~ By virtue of writ OF F,.r.
IeSVei. WIN be exposed to prt, TO me l
.no premises, on the Willow ny Sale, 4
on the road from MiddIetoun1nr' nr'd 20 Far1
ilcasant IN st Georges UmnIn 10 houI
castle County, Delaware, on on''cd' In Ne
FRIDAY,
THE lNn Day JANI,p,
Atll clock. a. NJ.
perty, viz: 'eu ferrona pl
d Me mead OF good horses. co,r n.
, uonoie carriage with pole / NV. 3 sh0sa
,a na,h wagon, = market waso"asy SagOl
peaeh assorter, l cider pless soms, | Lond
.ruit dryer, hay fork, plows, cutting BOZ
,asS ,s1Sis, 'orks rekes and shoyeIs SoS., oS1, cpla
s"SSf sdSs, wagon, carriage and NOV, ,oe peal
Suann suniss and brides. 80 busbesIsso sso~ hsrnes
,vha Uhsneis OF potatoes lot OF bav 'c v' corn.
mmneat IN the ground. fodd",' 10 Ares
household furniture. aofss straw, 4,
pcds. bedsteads ana bedd,ns Sonalrs, tablN,
seized and taken in exern,isoVes, dc.
perty OF Richard G. knight sr4as 9h as the m,
and to be sold by ~ anu q. A. kngb
VIM. II. LAMBsoN 9,
Sherlhs Office. New Castle ehenG
a credit OF SO days will bc lecs) 2.
der. O"sh Tor AL snms ,4 y
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30
PROPOSALS.
UEOPOSALS


For lighting, eNtingrtshing ana clo1niny the
City Lamps for the year 1876.
Sealed proposals will be received at the
CLERKS Ohice until : o'c ock +. NJ Thur d.y,
Dec. 3oth, 1915, for lighting ex tin gushing and
cleaning the pub ic lamps of the City, for
the year ls16. The amps TO be lighted and
eAtinguised every night in the year The
time for lighting and cX inguisbng 10 be fur,
nisheh by 1hairm II Of the Committee The
lantern To be taken Off the post and washed
with soap and water at east once in each
week. Tlc Contractor to furnish all M at chcs
for light ng and materials for washig the
lamps.
Payments win be mado monthly with one
months pay ret ncI by the city for the
faithful performance of contract and the
work must be done 10 the satisfaction OF tue
Committee.
Bids will be received for the whole city,
or single Districts
The right 10 reject any or all bids s re-.
served by the the Committe".
\. BlCkTA
dec2'-it Chairman Lamp Com.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30
ID RUPOSAL>.
WATER DEPARTMENT., !
'lfiET ENGISEHR's OFFICE,
No. 1000 Mark ct street. J
MnhlNcToy DEF. Dec I7th ~

WILMINGTON, DEL Dec. 18th, ls'J.
PROPOSALS for laying water pipe under
the bed Of the Christians and Brandy inc
Creeks at WilmingtOn, Delaware. will be re-:
TelyTd TmI at thS wsi9Spsps}m.nt ofiee. until
O'Clock, =. NJ :, fot Lying cast iron water
pipes twenty COZ inches internal diane or,
weighing two funjrnd and twenty pounds
per hne8l foot OF good strong iron un Ter the
beds Of and acr, RS the Chrstiana and Brandy
wine Creeks, (navi vigable streams. Across the
Christians at point east Of and near Third
street bridge: across the D-andywino at a
point north of and ncsr Eleventh street
bridge, both points to bo desigpated by the
sufheient number OF wat tight flexible
Joints to avoid any undue strain ulon the
pipes. The Joint TO be approve by the Chief
Engineer and ater Committee: each pipe
II have two tugs cast nesr the Joint of sufl ci
ent strength TO adm T., the IN inkage OF Two
wrought iron links TO secure the Joints. The
top Of pipes when laid must be at least two
f. ct below the prsent be.Is of creeks, except
six feet below the beds of or. eks and covered
y ith the material taken from trench TO con-
form with pres Mt beds Of creeks. The pipes
70 he lad az such points at shore Is, may be
designated by Chief Engineer. Tho pipes
when laid to be suhiectet to l}ydrostatic
pr ssure Of. three hundred 800 pounds per
square inch and water tight under that pto,-
sure.
The distance across the Christisua is aboG.
thr.e e hundred and sevent, five CG75) feet,
and the distance across the Brandywine three
hu, dred and City (350j feet The contractor
will be required 10 furnish all the material.
labor. tools. implements and machinery
necessary 70 complete the work of s,ins said
pipe.
Proflee Of the bed of creeks will be fur
nished by the Chiet gineer. The contrse-
tor will state prIoe per ienial foot iaid Work
70 commence on or betC re the l4t day of May,
eih and the same 10 be competed by the
18th day Of July following Satisfactory So
CURRY will be required for the faithful per
form nee OF contract
The right To reieN auy q. all bios will be
res rved.
For iurther information arkly ut l0o0 Mar
ket street. Wilmington. Del.
ALLEN RUTH.
decl1toSD Chief Engineer
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30

NorlcTWi Wuxuoros. DEL. Dec. %. -,
The annual meeting of the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., OF the state of Delaware,
dor rer, y OF Mill creek HunGred), VIII be
held at the office OF the Company, No. s3S
Market street. Wilmington, Del i, On Monday
the 10Th day OF January, IS7G. at 10 o'c ock A
NJ. at which tune ,he election fer seventeen
Managers OF the company will be held, and
one " ar's interest on all deposit notes will
be layable. The Agents OF the Company are
authOiized TO receive the dues OF the mem.
bers- T. c STOTSENBURG, President.
W. A. LAMUTTE, Secretary. dec2S-tm
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30

OVER Wilmington will be over
ran with theatrical. now. Money ex-
pended on poor shows is thrown away
Mrs. John Drew, with company from
the Arch street theatre is the first to
come on. 1t is the custom of the Phila-
oeiphia theatre people TO come TO Will
nington with a curtailed and inferior
company. and cut short the pieces, and
thus try to impose upon our city. This
was done hy Davenport and one OF two
others lately, and it would be we'll if our
people would remember that so long as
they patronize inferior performances,
these impositions will be continued.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30

The Curse Of Excessive Taxation, is
the head of an article in another column,
which may lie read with profit by readers
generally. Theinorease ofta1ation here
has not been 80 great as in Boston, New
York, and Philadelphia. but it ha, been
excessive nevertheless.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30

Murat Halstead thinks the ringing in
etc, OF the New Year at Cincinnati a
ing mistake. and does not hesitate TO call
It "bummers festival" jimjambo-
re-" and general spree" His idea
q that everybody will be tipsy by mid
night, and that with an cnthused and
iawless crowd in the streets there will be
tie devil TO pay generally.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-30

The legal tenders" will have 10 be
absorbed before Government can resume
specie payments. They are an incum-
brance. There is now out about three
hundred and fifty millions of these notes.
They belong to the people, and repre-
sent debt due them from the Govern
nent. If it were not for the legal tend
ers the National Banks could resume
peeie payments in comparatively
very short time. Because they received
gold interest for their bonds, and their
bonds held by the government are pay
able in gold. But the Banks are now
compelled TO take legal tenders on de-
posts and would be responsible for their
payment in gold. We can see but ene
way to get these notes out of circulation
and that is to absorb them with bonds at
a low interest. 1t would operate very
hard TO repeal the legal tender law, as in
that case all who owe interest on mort.
gages might be required to pay it in
gold