Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-03-29


Diphtheria is prevalent in Lafayette
There are 603 prisoners in the prisol
north
The total school fund in 1876 was 50,
s70,s72.
refuge.
There are 192 log school houses left il
the State.
The taxable polls in the State aInoun
to s0,0OO.
Large amount of stealing in Richmond
by burglars.
There are 81 1891 school children in In
dianapolis.
Pike county owes 10000 and is going
to issue bonds.
The vote of the State at the last cleo
tion was 430. 900.
The present tax duplicate of Indiana
polls, is $500, 900.
Toe school houses in Indiana are val
ued at al. .54s, 1893.
The Terre Hautc Express pointedly
asks who ever saw a sickly tramp
August Canada, notorious mulatto,
died, at Ft. Wayne, on the 20, of pleurisy
The Sentinel thinks the State fair will
.probabably be held in TT. Wayne this
fall.
ITO rent" notices are altogether too
numerous in indianapolis to suit property
owners. AN
The school furniture factory at Goshen
was partially destroyed by fire last Thurs
day night.
The State Board of Agriculture con-
template holding the next State fair at
Fort Wayne.
General Dan Mscauley is spoken Of as
probable candidate for the Mayoralty of
Indianapolis.
Six young women were locked in one OF
the cells Of the Tcrre Haute lookup the
other morning.
Lafayette wants a representative on
the State House ommission-thinks its
claims as good as Fort Wayne's.
There are n large number of coun-
tcrfeit silver half dollars in circulation
which only can. be detected by weigh
ing.
Reports from the Eastern part OF the
State indicate that the wheat crop has
been we'll preserved through the sev,re
winter.
During a recent revival at-the Centen
ary church. New Albany, one hundred
and sixty -one persons made profession OF
religion
The taxable property Of Indiana
amounts to nearly 5000, ,O00, 900 and the
property exempted amounts to about
$40, ,OO0, 900.
Lentz, Bonrie s. Co., importers and
wholesale dealers in wines and liquors, al
Fort Wayne, have failed; assets, 1881
liabilities, IS, ,965.
Ricmond Independent: Mr. Charles AL.
bert, the reported millionaire of this city,
says that il is all base fabrication and
be is being bored about Il.
Several of the heaviest" business men
Of Franklin are on the ragged edge,
says the Democra. of that place bidding
/ fair TO succumb 10 the financial pressure
The largest bridge on the line of the
Wabash railway is 1T Attica. The new
structure of iron has just been completed
consisting of twelve spans, AMI is / .SOi
feet long
@lssi 1.rf.t . In. N..la aela
over the river at Attica is now completed
and was tested last Wednesday. The
ron work weighs TIC tons, aud the length
of the bridge is l,728.
Fl. Wayne News: This is no glee
club said q policeman last night on Eas
Louis street, as he whacked a drunken
man over the head who was trying to sing
what shall the harvest be?
Here is a wonder, an honest tramp. In
Terre Haute, too. He found a key rims
with fat desk-lock key, and brass
office doorkey, and carried them to the
station house, where they may be found
Tally one for the tramps.
indianapolis: News: United States at
torney Trusler has brought suit against
the j., Nj. & /. railroad company to re-
! cover SIC, 900 internal revenue taxes a.
incurred on net earnings and profits fol
the years 1884 to 1871, inclusive.
An exchange ventures the opinion tina
Governor Williams will appoint Gen
Thomas A. Morris and Gen. Johz Low,
resident members of the state house com
mission; and that the other two member
L. IL fx<s... ho
and south parts of the state,
A circular from Manager A. L. Hop
kins announces that the business of tn
receivership of the Toledo, Wabash 4
Western Railroad (old company will b.
completed by j. ID. Cox, through tn
regular accounting and distributing of
fees of the Wabash company (new com
pany).
Lafayette Courier: Luther Benson i
in the city enroute for Frankfort wher
he lectures tomorrow evening. He say
that since his conversion at revival seve
weeks ago, he has had no desire whatey
er for liquor, and adds emr hatieally tina
Nothing but the Grace of God will cur
an inherited taste for drink"
The revival at Centenary church i
New Albany has resulted in greatly dc
pleting the ranks of the moderate an
immoderste bibulists of that city, and hs
made very serious inroads upon the dc
minion of Satan. Up to Saturday nigh
! one hundred and sixty-one persons ha
. made profession of religion.
/ A dispatch, in speaking of the tw
weeks revival just closed at Michiga