Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-10-31
Items Of Interest.

1t is said Alexander H. Stephens
once made a fortune as a lawyer and
planter, and lost it in attempting to
run a newspaper.
Gold has been discovered in the
southern part OF Chill, aud arrange
ments have been made by English
capitalists OF Valparaiso for gathering
harvest.
The Glob- Democrat announces that
Samuel j. Tilden is engaged to be
married to st. Louis belle, and that
the wedding will take place within
three months.
The death roll from yellow fever
has reached 10000. but the welcome
frost has come at last, and the whole
nation rejoices with the afflicted peo-
pie of the South.
The ruling passion has not yet been
eliminated from Jesse Pomeroy, the
Boston hoy murderer" he indulg-
ed his murderous propensities lately
by killing kitten with his knife
and fork.
A dispatch from Alexandria says
the inundation from the Damietta
branch of the Nile is advancing. 1t
now covers 100 square miles. Twenty
villages have been submerged. aud
several hundred lives lost.
Thirteen new life-saving stations
on the coast of Virginia and North
Carolina will probably be completed
next month. Three new stations on
the Delaware and Maryland coasts
will also soon be finished.
Eben w. Keyes. of Denver, made
his wife the legal owner Of az his
property, 80 that it might be out of
the reach Of his creditors.I The wifs
separated from him after q quarrel.
and refused to surrender . dollar to
him.
Famine is desolating many coun-
tries. Recent accounts from Morocco
indicate terrible suffering among the
people. Crops have failed, and the
poor are utterly destitute The road
sides in some sections are strewn
with the dead and dying.
A Sunday school was founded in
Hamburg. Germany, as early as 1859.
but in 1862 in the states now CON-
posing the German empire there were
only thirty-two schools. At the pres
ent 1t Is estimated that there are fjf-
teen hundred. with a membership OF
more than one hundred thousand.
The Cheyenne and Black Hills
Stage Lire is having manufactured
at Cincinnati safe to be used to
convey treasure, and which is war
ranted to resist all efforts OF burglars
for ifty-six hours. The manufacture
ers agree to stand all losses II opened
within that time. 1t is to weigh not
over one ton. II it proves q success
others will be ordered.
Baron Rothschild, who is estimated
to be worth $500. 900. 600 or $500, ,0O0,-
600, has had a railway carriage built
for himself at the cost OF 100000
francs-almost as much some of the
Pullman palace cars OF this country
costs. He will not be allowed to ride
in il with an express train. but be is
rich enough to be never In a hurry.
1t is stated as a remarkable feature
in the worlds commerce at the pres
ent time that the United States is the
only country whose exports exceeds
its imports, with the exception OF
India. which has a small trade bal
ance in its favor. The increase In the
expectations to Europe is principally
in brcadstufrs, the United States be-
Ing the great source OF supply for
European deficiencies in that line.
1t has been recalled to the minds
of newspaper readers that fiat money
dates back at least 600 years. In 1865
Marco Polo made his famous trip
through Chinese Tartary, aud found
the great Prince Kublai Khan issuing
fiat money as he had need. 1t was
made from the bark OF the mulberry
tree. and IL any OF his subjects refus-
ed to take 1t he caused them TO be
behsaded.
An educated Chinaman is telling In
the California journals some new facts
in regaad to China. He alleges that
the population is only about one
hundred million instead OF four hun
dred and fifty million as generally es-
timated. He argues that from the
nature OF the case, the decreasing
population and increasing rate OF
wages, there can be no very great
emigration OF Cinnamon to the Unit
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An attendant in the New York City
Asylum for the Insane, on Wards
Island. was recently attacked by a
colored patient, and received such
severe injuries on the head that be
died in a few hours. The attendant
had dcne nothing TO provoke the
maniac, but wac attacked by him
without the slightest warning. 1t is
worthy OF remark that this lunatic,
whose case is considered hopeless,
was brought into his present terrible
condition wholly by the use of liquor.
He first entered the asylum in 1876,
but was discharged to the care OF his
family after some months treatment.
About year ago be again became in
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