Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT IIEMS.
OSCAR GILMAN, of Bourbon county,
Ky, shipped, in 1874, $1,000 sheep to
Boston.
Miss LovEJoY, niece of the martyr, is
teacher of elocution at Knox College,
Galesburg, Ill.
The appropriation for the Maine State
College has been cut down to S1O,O
by the Legislature.
MISS BELLE RICHARDSON, daughter of
the ex-Secretary of the Treasury, is an
accomplished horsewoman
The Maine Legislature was in session
fifty days, passed 254 bills, and then adj
journed in sensible manner.
THE Rev. Leonard Bacon, of Center
Church, New Haven, preached his fifieth
anniversary sermon last Tuesday.
Miss FLORENCE MARRYAT, the novelist,
is giving a series of readings in Ireland,
and is meeting with great success.
WITHIN the last few days nearly all the
tobacco factories of Louisville have re-
sumed work, and some are operating at
night.
The st. Louis woman who recently
sued dentist, asking $4,000 damages
for breaking her jaw, has recovered
$500.
The three most beautiful women on
the lyceum stage are Louise Woodwork
Foss, Mrs. Scott Siddons, and Lillian
Edgarton.
A NATIONAL convention of representa-
tive men is to be called by the Anti
Monopoly Convention, to assemble about
the first of July.
Ow1NG to scarcity of water, it was
found necessary in Newton, N. H., the
other day, to put out fire with several
barrels of cider.
YOUNG man, go East. Good farms in
Aroostook county, Me-, may be bought
of the State at 80 cents an acre, payment
to be made in labor OH the public high
ways.
OK the plains of Texas is found a little
flower called the compass fower,''
which in all changes of wind and wealth
er points its leaves invariably to the
north.
THERE were in 1873, 1913 universities
and colleges in the United States, with
52,O53 students. Ohio has the largest
number of institutions New York the
next largest.
The crown jewels of France were val
ued during the reign of Louis XVIII.
at $4,000, and since that time precious
stones have risen In price, and addi-
tons have rendered them much more
valuable.
The report of the Department of Ag-
ricultrre for January, 1875, in an article
ON "Price of Corn Crops" says: "The
lowest average anywhere (State average)
in the price of corn in 1874 was in Iowa
-43 CENTS
THE Russian government is expert
menting ON the use of electrical head
lights for locomotives. A battery of
forty eight elements makes the track
perfectly clear for distance of thirteen
hundred feet.
SOME men employed in cutting ice at
Maynard, Mass, some days ago, let a
thirty pound crow-bar fall into the water,
and for 81 a man named Hogan took off
his clothing, dove to the bottom, ten
feet, and recovered the bar.
An ambitious Texan, having read some
where about the g Pope's bull," an
nounces in one of the papers published
in the interior of the State that he has a
three-year-old brindle steer, blind of one
eye, that he will match to whip any bull
the Pope can produce.
A CORRESPONDENT of London news
paper, writing from Penrith, states that
about three weeks ago an easterly wind
blew down a large fir tree. The last gale
from the west, however, blew it up again,
and it is "now standing quite stately and
majestic as if nothing had ever happened
to it.
TW house in which Washington was
born was destroyed before the American
revolution, but stone with suitable
inscription was placed on the spot, sew
eral years since, by George Washington
Parke Gusts, the grandson of Mrs.
Washington. Steps have been taken to
erect more lasting memorial, but moth
ing substantial has yet been done.
JUDGE Ito intelligent juryman):
"Would you convict man on circum-