Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-10-11
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State lettings.

Governor Williams has over SOC
acres of corn on his farm.
There are eleven bridges over
White river at indianapolis.
Commodore Foot's Shetland ponies
were shown at the Ft. Wayne fair.
Hog cholera continues it's destruc-
ton throughout the state.
A plum tree in New Castle was out
in full bloom on the 18th of Sep.
Montgomery county has fields OF
corn that will yield 100 bushels TO the
acre.
Vincennes has revolution pension
er in the person of Mrs. Clarissa
Lindsey.
A man died recently at Warsaw,
who had a chill every day for over
three years.
A five-week's old babe near Indian
Greek, Fulton county, weighs only
three pounds.
A Harrison county young lady put
out and tended" ten acres of corn,
this season.
Rochester has 5000 ready to invest
or sink in a hole in the ground,
called artesian.
Plymouth has three flowing wells,
one Of. which discharges 500 gallons
per minute.
The new military company at
Charlottesville has adopted the name
of the "Lane Guards"
Robert Hamilton, of Johnson coun-
ty, recently sold 20 hogs, less than
one year old, for $500.
Potatoes growing upon the vines in
the open air, were an Angola curios-
ity, few days ago.
Ex-Attorney General Speed, of
Louisville, KY, rusticated at Maxen-
kuckee this season.
The Elkhart knitting factory en-
ploys 40 women who have more work
than they can do.
A beer stand on the West Lebanon
Fair grounds, was the cause of sew
eral rows at the recent fair.
The Murphy society at Peru has
established gymnasium, and is pre-
pairing too add reading room.
The jail at Wabash was empty for
the space of six hours. the other day,
for the first time in two years.
1t Is recorded that in moment of
weakness a Noblesville tramp ac-
cepted a Job Of splitting wood.
Prof. Cox makes satisfactory re-
port on the Rochester mineral water,
and the people there are jubilant.
Arth Bubaker, of Wabash county,
reports he has threshed $4,000 bush
els OF wheat and oats this season.
A lady ninety-eight years OF age,
living In Morgan county, claims to
be the mother of Brigham Young.
A Lard oil factory is to be estab-
lished at Union City, that will con-
sumo $4,000 heads OF hogs per annum.
The recent soldiers reunion in Val
paraiso eclipsed any public gather
ing or celebration ever held in the
city.
The Tippecanoe county aims house
contains sixty-nine inmates, forty
two of whom are either insane or
idiotic.
The stallion General knox," and
eighteen out of twenty Of his colts,
took first premiums at the Wabash
county fair.
An engineer on the Lake Shore |
railroad had $4,000 deposited In the |
bursted State Savings Bank OF Chi
cago.
John 8. Mcdonald, the recently de-
ceased Terre Haute rough and spend
thrift, had an insurance of $4,000 on
his life.
Evansville settles a controversy,
temporarily at least, by establishish-
ing a separate high school, for colored
pupils.
The First National bank of Warsaw
received a thousand trade dollars q
few days ago. They weighed sixty
five pounds.
A woman died in Fulton county, a
few days ago, who had never walked
a step in her life, having been Grip
pied in her infancy by scarlet fever.
A train ran over a tramp near
Kokomo, the other day, and cut hi m |
in so many pieces that it became
necessary to gather the remains up |
in sheet.
A South Bend hat dealer uses the |
stuffed grizzly bear exhibited at the
Centennial, as a sign for his store.
The animal weighed 1900 pounds
when killed. M
1t is related that some one entered |
dozen little whine gourds. at the
Boone county fair, as egg plants, and
a committee of farmers awarded |
them the first premium.
At recent session of the Elkhart |
county Board Of education, a town.
ship trustee tried to get a resolution
passed prohibiting school teachers,
Of both sexes, from Sparkling" or be-
ing @sparked." in the county, during
the term Of their school.