Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-09-07
Northern Indiana News.

A Franklin county exchange tells
about rattlesnake biting alog chain,
causing the chain to swell to such
proportions that it could not be used
for whole week.
The Commissioners OF Clinton /
county have purchased twenty-five |
Canadian imported sheep for the !
county farm, which is the finest stock
farm in the county.
The barn of William Martin, two !
miles north of Middlebury, Elkhart
county, was struck by lightning last
Tuesday, and destroyed. Loss $4,000;
insurance, $1,000.
@. Adams Hossler, recently of the
Fort Wayne Gazette, threatens to
start Republican paper at Warsaw.
in opposition to the Indianian.
1t is estimated that at least 1000
acres Of land in Howard county have
been mortgaged to foreign insurance
companies.
The Michigan Central road wants
to abandon its repair shops at Michi-
gan City, but the people of the town,
who paid $4,000 to have them To-
Gated there, object, and have secured
temporary injunction restraining
the removal of machinery.
A stallion, shipped from England,
thirty-six years ago, died the other
day, in Kirklin township, Clinton
county, aged forty-four years. In his
palmy days he was valued at $1,000.
The largest tobacco factory in the
State is located at Richland, Spencer
county. 1t is one hundred and sixty
feetlong by eighty-six feet wide, and
five stories high, with a nine foot
basement under the whole.
Judge Purdue, Of Lafayette, has
sold to Hirsh & Joseph, of Attica, 100
head of tue finest and latest steers
that ever went out of the State. The
cattle are designed for the Liverpool,
England market, and will be shipped
alive across the ocean.
Tombstones for 700 soldiers buried
in Crown Hill cemetry, at Indianapo-
lis, arrived the other day at that
place. They were already engraved,
aud cost 1915 each. .e
Colonel Steele, Of Wabash, died
Wednesday of old age. He fell down
Tuesday morning, completely given
out, and had to be carried to his bed
He did notrally and passed peacefully
away at o'clock. His age was near
one hundred years.
George Sleeper, who was killed at
Ash Grove, Illinois, by rival in an
unsuccessful love affair, lived in La
fayette, and will be buried there.
Prof. Ridpath's Grammar School
History OF the United States has been
adopted as a textbook in $500
schools.
The First German Methodist Epis-
copal church of Goshen, was dedica-
ted Sunday. 1t was a glorious and
happy day for the congregation, con-
sisting of about 100 members. The
church is one of the finest in North
ern Indiana, and cost $4,000, 5000
of which was contributed Sunday, and
the church dedicated free of debt. DIR.
Leibhart, of Cincinnati, preached the
dedicatory sermon.
A special invitation has been ex-
tended to Mr.. r. Hewschen, of La
Crosse, Indiana, to exhibit his steam
pillow in operation at the Indiana
State fair at indianapolis.
The Rev. j. J. Talbot, late Grand
Worthy Templar of the Grand Lodge
Of Indiana, died on Saturday at
South Bend.
The Indiana State University be-
gins its session on Thursday, Septem-
Der 7th, at Bloomington. The facul-
ty have been enlarged by the addi-
ton Of Professor William Ballantine
to the department of Greek, and the
return of Professor III. B. Boisen, to
the department of modern languages.
The camp meeting at the Battle
Ground" near Lafayette, on Sunday
was an immense outpouring OF the
Methodist hosts. The following
roads ran excursion trains into La
fayette: Toledo, Wabash & Western,
from Paxton, Danville and Logans-
port Gall three trains combined in one
at the junction, twenty coaches in alb
Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago, six
coaches; Lafayette, Muncie s. Bloom
ington, from the east, six coaches;
Louisville. New Albany & Chicago,
from Greencastle, ten coaches. and
from Michigan City seven coaches.