Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-08-09

The second session of the Fayette
county Normal Institute is attended
by eighty teachers.
Madison has SOS people who have
to sigh and say: "No, thanks. lem
onade or buttermilk for me-"
1t is alleged that gold has been
discovered between Wabash and La
Gro.
1t is estimated that one-h half OF the
cleared land in Decatur county is
planted in corn this year.
About $4,000 worth of agricultural
implements have been sold in Fulton
county this season.
Caroline Brown, OF Delphi, aged
104 years, died at Fort Wayne few
days ago.
A recent rain storm raised the Mis-
sissinewa flyer five feet and four
inches i'm one hour.
A Montgomery farmer recently
sold 200 bushels of two year old
wheat at 81, so per bushel.
The Battle Ground camp meeting
will commence on the 9th OF August
and continue over two Sundays.
The taxables of Greencastle, real
and personal, for 1887, are taxed mt
81, 1866, 4OS; for 1876 they were s1,621,
673.
Fort Wayne Gazette; > Governor
Villains will draw we'll at our county
fair. He is now more OF n monstrosi-
ty than heretofore.
The Harugari, a German secret
society, held its annual meeting in
Terre Haute Thursday. Some 400
guests and delegates were present.
The Kokomo Tribune says: The
side-show tent accompanying Coles
circus is only used to cover three
card monte game that could not be
exhibited publicly.
John Helm, while working with a
threshing machine near Marion,
Thursday, had his arm caught in the
shaft and horribly shattered, neces-
stating amputation.
Our Pine Lakers. will DO pleased to
know that on Tuesday Fred and
Lynn Allen took twenty-four large
bass out OF that lake. Ono weighed
six and one half pounds.
Il. B. Johns has bought several
hundred acres OF land liable to over
flow from the Wabash river about
ten milns above Terre Haute. and Is
building levee to make it tillable.
Henry Burner was married in jail,
at Vincennes, Tuesday, by Rev.
Father Gueghan. to young woman
of that city. The groom is In prison
on a charge of larceny.
Fort Wayne has Murphy saloon"
The strongest drinks are lemonade
and butterinills, and they are passed
around by lady walters. Oh, what
must>it be to be thcrel
There were sixty-one arrivals at
the port OF Michigan City in July
with tonnage OF 9,103. and bring
ing S,762,O0O feet OF lumber; and o.
100000 shingles; 10000 lath. The
custom house fees were S160.
The daughter OF Hon. G. l.. Dun
ham. of Bedford, is studying for the
stage. Her readings and acting, |
even now, arc said to give great |
hopes to her friends that she will be
a theatrical star OF the first magni-
tude.
Over one hundred stables and a
lot OF fencing on the Bartholomew
county playground were burned
Thursday evening. catching fire
from burning haystack in an ada
cent field. The loss will be about
81 900. but the fair will take place all
the same.
Lee Perry, living near Edinburg. /
has cow four years old and having
i've legs. The fifth has grown on
her left fore shoulder, and lays
across and hangs down on the left
side OF her neck, near the two front
shoulders. The leg is n perfect one,
about the size OF a young calls leg.
The Indiana Christian Sunday
School Association met in its four
zenith annual convention at Rush
Till, last Wednesday. Two hundred
md sixty delegates were enrolled the
irst day. Howard Cole of This city
8 corresponding secretary and
most energetic and efficient Sunday
school worker.
John Bayer. German aged forty
.wo years. whose residence was
sight miles below Evansville. per-
'ormed a grateful act to the neigh
Dorhood and his family abour one
o'clock Friday morning. by blowing
his brains out. Whisky was the
moving cause. He was brutal,
drunken husband and father while
alive.