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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-04-03
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"...~PENNSYLvANIA AyENUE-....IOIi
BETWEEN 10rH AND 11TH STREETS,
THE COUNTERS ARE FILLED WITH
NEW. CHOICE, STYLISH AND
CHEAP SPRING CLOTHING
FOR MEN AND BOYS,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
THE SOURCE OF SALT.

The sea depends on the disintegTation
of rocks ON land for salt Rains wash it
and hold it in solution as particles are
liberated by violence. decomposition and
gradual action of many natural forces.
All streamlets and rivers, therefore, are
constantly transporting salt 10 the sea.
If there is more than can be held III solu-
ton, then it accommodates in masses at
very deep points. Thus the salt mines
of Portland and the vast horizontal beds
of pure salt in Texas, rs well as that
mountain of rock salt in St. Domingo,
were collected at the bottom Of ancient
seas, which are now dry land remote
from water. There are places IN Africa
where the process OF disintegration of
salt from rock is regularly going ON, bat
there is not water power enough to force
it onward to the sea. Hence the part
cles are spread abroad and mixed with
the soil. The negroes of Northern
Africa having discovered its distribution
where there is no water TO dissolve in
the ground, leach Il, In that way they
separate the salt. Salt pervades the
earth. 1t exists in the grasses and most
vegetable products on which animals
feed. In that way they derive enough
in most countries to meet the demands
of their natures. They require as much
as civilized humanity. With them salt
is necessary, as with ourselves, for
keeping the organs of vision IN good
condition. Stop the supply ard blind
ness would ensue.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
Serenfy-ninth Day.
FOREIGN NEWS.

There has been brief but unsuccessful revo-
luton in Bolivia. 1t was suppressed by a half
battalion Of government troops, with loss to
the insurgents of tifty-eight killed and great
many wounded.
A London telegram announces the death of
Winwoo6 R4ade, TIE weli-known author of books
Of travel.
Spain has paid Uncle Sam $4,000 of the
$4,000 Yirginius indemnity.
Greece is putting her army on war footing.
The Gustav affair has finally been anicably
settled. Spain has agreed to salute the Ger
man flag by a volley of artillery. and German
vessel has gone to Guetaria TO receive the sa-
lutte.
Paul Boyton will make another attempt on
May "a, to swim across the English channel in
his life-saving armor.
Legal proceedings have been commenced by
the Prussian government for the removal of
the Prince Bishop of Breslau, for violation of
the Ecclesiastic laws.
Sir Gillery Pigott, Prime Baron of the Court
of the Exchequer, England. and Lord Hobart,
Governor of Madras, India, are dead
The Prince of Wales has been installed Grand
Master of the United Grand Lodge of Nlasons.
1t is stated that the carpet manufacturers
generally throughout the United Kingdom have
decided not to send their products to the Phila-
delphia centennial because of the prohibitory
tariff
North Staffordshire, England has been the
scene of another fearful colliery explosion, re-
inf no of vor1 Of
human lives.
A Paris telegram announces the death of
Count Waldeck, the famous painter and
traveller. at the extraordinary age of 10
years.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

An old newspaper says if the deaths of
$3.50 persons had occurred indiffer-
entity at any hour during the twenty
four, one hundred and twenty would
have occurred at each hour. But this
was by no means the case. There are
two hours in which the proportion was
remarkably below this two D,iaima, in
fact, namely, from midnight to o'clock,
when the deaths were fifty-three per
cent. below the average, and from noon
to o'clock, when they were twenty and
three-fourths per cent. below. From 3
to o'clock a. m, inclusive, and from 3
to 7 o'clock a. m. there is a general in
crease in the former of 81 per cent.
above the average, III the latter of 81 per
cent. The maximum OF deaths is from
5 to 6 o'clock q. m. wheR it is 40 per
cent. above the average the next, dur
ing the hour before midnight, when it is
% per cent. in excess third hour of
excess is that from to 10 o'clock in the
morning, being 27l per cent. above the
average. From 10 a. m. to D. m the
deaths are less numerous, being 162 per
cent. below the average, the hour before
noon being the most fatal. From 3
o'clock p. m. to a. IN. the deaths rise
to 81 per cent. above the average, and
then fall from that hour to IL .. m.,
averaging 81 per cent. below the mean.
During the hours from 9 TO II In the
evening there is a minimum of g. per
cent. below the average. Thus, the
least mortality is during the midday
hours, mainly, from 10 to o'clock
About one-third or the total deaths noted
were children under five years of age,
and they show the influence Of the latter
still more strikingly. At al the hours
from 10 in the morning until midnight
the deaths are at or below the mean !;
the hours from 10 to Ii a. m, TO and
6 to 10 p. m, being minima, but the
hour after midnight being the lowest
maximum at all the hours from to 10
q. M, the deaths are above the mean,
attaining their maximum ct from 5 to 6.
p. m, when it is 45I per cent. above.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
THE OLD-FISHIONED MOTHER.

Thank God, some of us have an old
fashioned mother, not a woman of the
period, enameled and painted, with her
great chignon, her curls, and hustle,
whose white jeweled hands never felt the
clasp of baby fingers but dear, old
fashioned, sweet-vOiced mother, with
eyes in whose clear depth the love light
shone, and brown hair just threaded with
silver lying smooth upon her faded cheek.
Those dear hands, worn with toll, gently
guided our tottering steps In childhood,
and smoothed our pillow in sickness, ever
reaching out to us in yearning tenderness.
Blessed is the memory of an old fashioned
mother. 1t floats to us now, like the
beautiful perfume from some wooded
blossoms. The music of other voices
may be lost, but the enhancing memory
of her will echo in our souls forever.
Other faces may fade away and be for
gotten, but hers viii shine ON. When
in the fitful pauses of busy life our feet
wander back to the old homestead, and,
crossing the well-worn threshold, stand
once more in the room so hallowed by
her presence, and dependence comes over
us, and we kneel down III the molten
streaming through the open
window-just where long years ago we
knelt by our mothers knee, isping,
" Our Father" How many times, when
the tempter lured us on, has the memory
of those hours, that mothers words, her
faith and prayers, saved us from plung
ing into the deep abyss of sin. Years
have filed great drifts between her and
us, but they have not hidden ffom our
sight the glory of her pure, unselfsh
love
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
An IxISH GHOST STORY.

A supernatural incident is said to have
occurred in the wilds of Kerry a short
time since. 1t seems that woman re-
siding in Glenfesk received call from
the spirit of her husband, man of the
farming class, dressed in shroud and
white stockings and gloves" The far
mer in white gloves stated that since his
death, some months back, although he
ought to be in heaven, he was detained
elsewhere ON account of owing e15 to
friends of his and begged of his wife to
give him the money. The woman in full
faith, handed him f1O, and promised to
give him the rest In few days if he
came for it. Meanwhile she went and
told the priest the circumstances of the
case, and this gentleman, seeing the
fraud, made proper arrangements for
dealing with the poacher of the eccle-
siastical manor. When the ghost, in
complete burial costume, arrived for the
banknote, he was at once received by
couple of police, and proved, as ghosts
do in our day, to be mere pretender.
He will now have to answer for his mis-
conduct before Magistrate.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
TILTON-BEECHER TRIAL.
Serenty-fJth Dan.

s. W. Partridge and Edward Wright cashier
in Stewards dry goods store, were called, but
their testimony was comparatively unimportant.
The next witness, Mrs. Palmer. practical free
lover and spiritualist, created quite a sensation
by her singular testimony. She testified that
spirits were constantly fitting about, and gliby
called the fanciful roll.Of the visionary adher-
ents of the parties to the trial. According to
her version, all the departed are not agreed, for
some favor Beecher and others Tlton. Gen.
b. +. Tracy occupied the witness stand at the
time Of adjournment.
Scsenfy-sirM DAY.
J. F. st. George was the only witness called
He swore that Tilton occupied the same car
rage with Woodruff and Clafiin in the Com
munistic procession of 1871.
Serenfy-serenh Day.
Lawyer Tracy detailed his history of the
case, and his consultations with Moulton and
Tilton. He volunteered the statement that he
might perhaps have said to Moulton and Til
ton, if there was any lie at all in denying the
Woodruff scandal story, essentially false as
they both told him it was, the lie was of such
a character that he would not hesitate to take
the responsibility of it, if it related to his own
family.
Serenty-eiOhth Day.
Gen. Tracys direct testimony was concluded
and his cross-examination commenced by Mr..
Beach. Sometimes Tracy was doubtful, an
Beach volunteered to wait while he was max
ing up his mind. He would not answer di-
rectly, But will tell you what occurred -
Beach would retort. "When 1 want that will
ask you. Now, answer my question" And
once counsel said, dropping the subject.
''Well. if you can't answer, We'll get some
body else that will: z" II is intimated that Gen.
Butler will be called t. rebut part of Tracys
evidence.
Serenfy-Rinth Day.
With the conclusion of Tracys testimony the
defense crested" and the prosecution began
their Jebutting evidence. Mr.. John Swinton,
formerly of the New York Times, testified that
Tlton walked with him ON foot in the Com
munist procession of 1872 and did not ride in
a carriage with Woodruff, or carry banner.
The plaintiffs lawyers expressed willingness
that Mrs. Triton should be sworn, but Mr..
Evarts declined to profit by the suggestion.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

passed through Omaha in two days recently,
and hundreds more are en- route East.
The Canadian Canal improvements are being
prshed forward vigorously by the government.
The spelling mania is raging in Canada.
The schooner Margaret Croker, from Tahiti
for San Francisco, was recently lost at sea, and
sixteen persons persisted.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

THE Washington Republican printas
fac smile of the signature of Mr.. New,
the recently appointed United States
Treasurer, and remarks that it looks like
a combination of tea chest hieroglyphic
struck by lightning and twisted into intera
mingling and confused circles, braided
together and twisted up like the ringlets
of a curly-headed school girl, who has
succeeded in accomplishing an incom-
parable friz-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

THE Louisiana and Missouri River
railroad, extending from Jefferson City
to Louisiana, Mo-, was recently sold I'M
der the Sheriff's hammer for $3.50.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

THE silver inkstanl which supplied
with ink the pens of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, will be
placed on exhibition in Independence
Hall, at the Centennial. 1t is now In
the possession of Gov. Hartranft, of
PENNSYLVANIA.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

EX-SENATOR James A. Nye, of Nevada,
Is hopelessly insane. He is now an in
mate of the Bloomingdale On. " Asy-
lum.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

The latest dodge of a San Francisco
chiropodist is to exhibit small boy and
announce that he has been successfully
removed from q corn.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

CIVILIZATION slowly but certainly ele-
Yates the mean duration of human life.
As many live now to seventy as lived to
forty-three 300 years ago.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
larshau County 8spublitau
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.
THE PAST WvEEK.

THE loss of life by the burning of the
three river steamers at New Orleans is
known to be over thirty.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06


OSHKOSH, Wis, is an unfortunate city.
Five times since it was founded has it
been visited by destructive conhagra-
tons, but the latest calamity is more
crushing to hope and prosperity than
were all the others combined. 1t has
been the custom heretofore, when a
heavy westerly wind was blowing, for
the numerous saw and planning mills to
stop work, to prevent stray sparks from
falling among the combustible material
about them and endangering the city.
A number of the mills shut down ON the
day of the last fire, but the proprietors
of one establishment persisted in run
ming, and it is generally believed that
the confagration originated from the
sparks thrown out by this mill.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

GREAT preparations are making by
the people of Boston and vicinity to
" celebrate the one hundredth ami
versary of the Battle of Bunker Hill on
the 18th of June next. The Boston
City Council has voted to appropriate
$50, 900 for the occasion.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

hopes OF the recovery of little Charley
Ross have been almost abandoned.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

to grant requisition from Smith, say
ing that when Smith recognizes his re-
QUESTION he viii recognize ore from
Smith.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

THE investigation of the management
of the Michigan State Penitentiary has
concluded. The committee reports that
the punishments have been oftentimes
unnecessarily severe, being often, also,
inflicted in anger, They apparently re-
gard some change necessary for the we'll
being of the convicts, but make no
recommendations, leaving the Legisla-
ture to act upon the facts presented with
out bias
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

THE Philadelphia Press states that all
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

OSHKOSH, Wis, has been singularly
unfortunate in regard to confagrations.
No longer ago than July, 1874, that city
suffered the destruction of 600 houses,
with loss of about SS00,0 and now
another fire has swept away nearly the
entire business part of the town, involv-
ing loss of some g, 100000
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

Mr.. HENRY G. Bowen has published
q card IN which he virtually defies either
Beecher or Tiiton to call him as a wit
ness. He says that he would, if called,
make some very serious statements af
fecting some of the parties interested in
the trial. He does not state who his
evidence would hit. He charges that
there has been a vast amount of perjury
and lying, but he is discreetly silent as
to the guilty parties.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

- Cows. SMITH, of Georgia, and Porter,
of Tennessee. are engaged in little
? gxhe of tit-for-tat that is scarcely worthy
of school-boys. Some time ago the
Georgia Governor refused to grant
requisition from his Tennessee neighbor
for criminal on some technical ground.
And now the latter retaliates by refusing
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

So-E portions of the middle and..north-
e-n section of Iowa are infested with
illicit distillers, some of whom do land
office business. One of them was re-
Gently arrested in Delaware county. He
had q pretty little still built In the shape
of kettle, which he kept upon the
stove. but which had the capacity of
turning oct red-eye at the rate of five
gallons day.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

THE appointment of Judge Pierrepont
to succeed Attorney-(ieneral Williams
gives New York two places IN the Cabi-
net, and may cause sorae of the politi-
clans to grumble. The example has a
precedent, however, in the present adj
ministration, when tie President had
judges Hoar and Boutwell, in his Cabi-
net. from Massachusetts.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
Political.

Both houses Of the Louisiana Legislature
have adjourned. In the Senate the resolution
suspending Auditor Clinton from Office was
postponed till 1876. But few if any of the re-
form measures were finally passed. A bill APP
propriatins; $4,000 for the expenses of an
extra session, etc., passed. Bills were passed
reducing the expenses of the Metropolitan po-
lice from 100000 to s499, 600 per annum re-
stricting the publication of laws to the official
journals of the State heretofore published in
several parish papers. This bill saves the State
s1oO, 600 per snnum.
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont has accepted the
appointment of Acknowledgement, and will
enter upon tie duties of the Office on the 18th
of May.
Miscellaneous.
1t is stated that another American Cardinal is
shortly to be created, and that Archbishop
Tascherean, Of Quebec, is to be the lucky man.
Seven hu bred returned California erniprants
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

MFSsRs. SHACK-NAsTY JIM, Scar Faced
Charley. and other distinguished Modoc
gentlemen have returned to their homes
at Baxter Springs, Fan, after an extern
sive tour of the country. They were at
tached TO the troupe of Col. Meacham
and Capt. Apologize, but as the show
proved financial failure, the troupe has
been disbanded and the savages relegated
to the obscllrity Of the Western wilds.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

PRoF. TAYLOR, of the Agricultural
Bureau, advises the Western farmers to
get rid of the grasshoppers by eating
them They are largely consumed IN
the East, and the Indians of our plains
fad them excellent eating. Gen. Sher-
man has tried them, and says they are by
no means to be despised. There is a
Scripture precedent for putting the pests
to this use. John the Baptist lived on
them, with the addition of a little honey.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

PRESIDENT GRANT, it is said, does not
anticipate any trouble with Mexico on
account of the border outrages, but
thinks that the matter can be arranged
satisfactorily by means of diplomatic
protest and the detail of troops to CO.
operate with the Texas authorities In
preventing the Greaser incursions.
THERE'S manifested in Washington dis
position to discourage ali expectation of
. war with Mexico.
The daily gazette., 1875-05-06
THE DEAD OF NAPLES.
Shocking Mode of BuriaI-The Rich
and the Poor.

A Acorrespondcnt writes from Naples:
The Camp Santo Becohio, the great
charnel house of Naples, it contains
three hundred and sixty-five pits under
a wide paved square. Every evening
the stone which covered one of those
pits is removed and the common dead
of the city are thrown into it without
even winding sheet to cover them.
The old man, the young child, the
rough lazzaroni and the tender maiden
are dropped in together in one indis-
criminate mass, quicll-lime is thrown
in to consume the bodies and the pit
is scaled for another year to be opened
at its close. We waited not to see the
revolving scene, although the city carts
were arriving with the dead but drove
to the Campo Santo Nuovo the ceme-
terry for the aristocratic dead, and here
/ was surprised to find a burial ground
laid out with such refined taste, shaded
with the cypress and other trees and
adorned with tombs of the most costly
description, many of them were in the
form of chapcls built of fine Italian
marble, ,elaborately finished. After
what l heard of the burial of the dead
at Naples and after what had seen at
the Campo Becchio, it was a relief to
enter one that indicated SO much re-
finement of feeling.
The daily gazette., 1875-05-06
PECULIAR PARALYSIS.

A French physician has reported to
the Academy des Sciences n form OF
paralysis peculiar to telegraph opera
tors. The affection is thus describ-
ed:
IAN employee who had been engag-
ed for nine years in telegraph office
found that he could not form clearly
the letter L, represented by two dots
aid a stroke; I, represented by two
dots; and S, by three dots. On trying
to trace the letters his hand became
stiff and cramped. He then endeavor-
ed to use his thumb alone, and this
succeeded for two years, when his
thumb was similarly attacked, and
subsequently he tried the first and sec
ond fingers, but in two months these
were also paralyzed. Finally he had
recourse to the wrist, which also short
ly became disabled. If he forced him.
self to use his hand his whole arm and
the side his body trembled violently,
and cercbal excitement ensued. This
disorder is reported to be common
among telegraph clerks, and to arise
from the constant straining of the same
muscles in a never varying occupa-
tion." -El 49,. ,
The daily gazette., 1875-05-06
Gross outrage ist BROOKLYN.

On the 22d of April last an Irish girl
named Mary Mitchell, only two or
three months in the country, went to
Brooklyn to look for her brother, John
Mitchell, whom she had not seen since
she landed, but whom she heard was
employed on the Brooklyn police. At
about 1 o. clock on the night of the 22d
of April, she went in Madden's liquor
store, on the corner of Myrtle avenue
and Raymond street, to inquire of one
John Mitchell, watchman in Cum
bcrland street, who lives at IS Bolivar
street. She alleges that when she went
out three men followed her around the
corner into Bolivar street. Here they
seized her and all three assaulted her.
She finally escaped and said nothing
about the occurrence until ii came to
the ears of Rev. Father McElroy. of
DeDevoise Street Church. He advised
her to have the parties arrested. She
made complaint before the Board of
Police, alleging thai officer Thomas
Murray, formerly of the Second Pre-
cinct, and now of the Fourth, was in
the liquor store in citizens dress at
the time she entered, and that he was
one of the persons who followed her
out. Complaint was made before JUS
tice Riley, who issued warrants for
the arrest of ID. McFall, Jas. Carroll.
and man who formerly kept a saloon
on Myrtle avenue. Justice Riley took
the girls statement on Tuesday, and
finds that it is one of the most out
rageous cases that eyer came before
him. The charges against the police
man will be tried in a day or two,
and the case before Justice Riley will
be continued on "Wednesday morning.
There are three lawyers engaged for
the accused, and the District-Attorney
represents the people. Mary Mitchell
Is new in the feslale corridor of the
Kings County Jail. She is a fair-headed
girl IL little more than twenty years
OF age. bTcFall has turned States evil
dcnce, and will be used against the
others.