Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-21


sorrow. He is engaged to lady whose
papa is worth half million.
DURING the current year national
banks paid to the government over 49,,
900, 900 in taxes, and the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue estimates that at
the expiration of the year the amount
viii reach $4,000, OOO-S5OO, 900 more
than was collected during the preceding
year.
SENIOR CASTELAR, has resigned the
Presidency of the Spanish Commission
TO the Centennial Exhibition at Phila-
delphia, the CHARACTERISTIC of Public
instruction, and , is University Profess
sorship. He doesn't seem disposed to
affiliate with the government of Spain
in any way. He is a man of genius,
learning and philanthropy, and such
man can have nothing in common with
King Alfonso.
Mr.. WILLIAM A. POTTER, who sue
ceeds the celebrated Mullett as Super
vising Architect of the Treasury, is
younger son of the late Ri. Rev. Alonzo
Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Potter is widely and favorably known
as ali energetic, cultured and talented
member of his profession, and brings
so his new position fine natural ability,
disciplined by thorough training in the
best schools of the art
BEKCHER's Boston worshipers are cir
-culati1g this little story in behalf of
the good man GA lady on Beacon Hill
was the happy possessor of one of those
pretty parlor ornaments, globe full of
gold fish. She named one of the largest
of the fishes Henry Ward and another
'Tilton. In moment of evaporation,
the other day, Henry Ward ate Tilton
up. Luckily there was no mutual
friend in the case, else, perhaps, he
would have met the same fate"
The New York Tribune has compiled
some interesting statistics about the
hotels of that city. The amount of sup
plies consumed at fifteen of the leading
hotels are IS follows. The figures are
amazing: 1000 pounds of fresh meat
per week, including $4,000 of beef;
500. 900 pound of fish year, $1,000, 900
oysters G, 10000 eggs; 10000 barrels
of -four 150, 600, 900 pounds of coffee,
81, 900 pounds of tea and nearly 700, 900
of sugar; 100000 quarts of milk and
10000 of cream 100000 pounds of
butter; $4,000 lons of ice and O,O0O,-
900 cubic feet of gas.
The late James Fisk's friends declare
that his estate, at the time of his death,
was worth fully $1,000, 600; that it has
been stolen by false claimants, by un-
principled lawyers, and his many ene-
mics. who were determined to rob his
widow of every dollar of his property.
They say they can show where tens of
thousands OF dollars have been allowed
by courts, without justice. 1t is IS.
serted, on the other hand, that, though
Fisk had an annual income of S250,000
to $500, 600, he spent it all in wine,
women, rioting and various forms of
corruption
FROM an examination made by the
Congressional Postoffice Committee
into Deficiencies, and into the causes
thereof, in the postal service, the fact
has been ascertaiued that in the State
of New York there is received annually,
in excess of expenditures, 81, 121, 600 ;
in Massachusetts, $3.50 in Penn
sylvania, s431 600; in Connecticut,
S1S9, 900; in Rhode Island, Ill 900; in
New Jersey, S74, 900, and in New Hamp-
shire, 81, 600. In all the rest of the
States and Territories of the Union the
expenditures exceed the receipts, rang
ing in amounts from $4,000 to 1924
900. the latter deficiency being Texas,
while California comes next in order
with deficit amounting to 1904, 900.
Altegether it appears that the defcien-
-cy ago. nts to two and a half million
dollars, with an upward tendency every
year.
COOP news comes from the last part
of the world whence it could be expect.
ed. "Slavery is abolished among the
white subjects of the King of Siam. y
Like the Japanese, the Siamese are,
through their own and rulers aid, per.
sistently trying to raise themselves to q
higher standard of civilization, and to
stand before the world as an example to
other Asiatic nations. The first example
of this was when the young King OF