Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-10-05
CITY NEWS.
Plymouth and Vicinity.

Plymouth and Vicinity.
New corn is generally coming in
to market here.
The present cold weather brings
in the wood haulers-
The weather for the past week
has been very cold and wintry.
The new sidewalk on the west
side of Michigan street, north Of Ganc
is a much needed Improvement
The Hon. Dan. Mcdonald, who
has been confined to the house for
some FIVE weeks IL just able to come
out.
Mr.. Owen Babcock and family
have returned from the Centennial.
They spent three months visiting in
the east
Mr.. Thomas Tyner, Of Tyner City,
and Mark L. Smith. Of Argos, we're
present on Tuesday night to hear the
joint discussion.
Services at the Christian Chapel
next Sunday, at the usual hours,
morning and evening Preaching by
H. v. Reed. All are invited.
The Democrats have been talk
ing about another rally here on the
7th inst, but it don't seem to ~pan
out" well. All their veteran (Canada)
soldiers are going to Indianapolis.
The speech of Mr.. A. G. Capron
on Saturday night was not very fully
attended, the Democracy staying a
way on the pretext Of seeing the drill
ing of the Tilden and Hendricks
Club.
DIR. j. NJ Cummings, of North
township, left at our Office at the close
of the Fair fine basket Of premium
apples. The 40 ounce Pippins were
monsters, and we see by the premium
list that Mr.. G. got his share OF the
awards for superior fruit. Many
thanks.
The Plymouth delegation that
swelled our last grand rally was headed
by blowers known as the Plymouth
Cornet Band The boys were very
enthusiastic, good natured and gen.
tlemanly during their short stay here.
They are welcome visitors and we
hope they will come again.-Roches-
ter Sentinel
The old Jefferson street bridge
across Yellow river is being torn
down, and a new and substantial one
Is to be built in its stead. Already
twelve piles have been driven at the
west end and the same number is to
be driven at the east end. A firm
from Toledo, Ohio. has the contract
for building it, but we have been un-
able to learn at what figures.
We are sorry to say that Roches-
ter is infested with the wosrt lot of
gamblers known to any town Of its
size in Indiana. There are few pro-
fessionaI gamblers who reside here
that cannot very well be driven out,
but Rochester seems to be kind of
rendezvous for alot OF transient black
legs who defy the law and the author
ities.-Roches;er Spy.
The horribly mutilated remains OF
u mans body supposed, and identified
by several of his neighbors, to be that
of Robert Moore, a young man living
near Fairfield, was found on the 1. P.
& @. R. r. early this, Thursday, morn
ing. The man was run over by one
of the night trains, his body was lit
orally cut into mince- meat, and scat
tered along the railway track for sew
eral rods.-Kokomo Dispatch, Sept
28th.
DIR. T. A. Borton has our sincerest
thanks for large basketful OF speci-
men grapes left on our table. They
were of the Concord variety and were
large and luscious. We learn that the
Doctor las about four acres Of grapes
under cultivation and we should
think, judging from this sample, that
they would find ready sale. 1t is
needless to say that the editorial pal
ate has very pleasant remembrances
of that basket Of grapes.
Quite an accident occurred to
JOHNNY Hoham, on yesterday, while
driving John Palmer's delivery wagon
on street west of the L p. & G. r. r.
Depot. A team OF young horses be-
longing to Mr.. Charles Smith, and
driven by his son, became frightened
and ran of. running into the delive-
ny wagon, badly domoralizing it and
by some means ran over Johnny, in
juring him quite seriously. though
not dangerously. We learn that one
or both of Mr.. Smiths horses were
injured.