Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-02-28
NEIGHBORING NOTES.

Scarlet fever at Waterloo.
Lake County pays s1,34O. dog tax.
Judge Anthony had $1,000 life in
surance.
They are to have mum socials a.
Rochester.
Columbia City claims $500 in
habitants.
Lebanon has an ameteur dramatic
association.
Circuit court opened in Dekalb
County last Monday
Over three thousand persons
donned the red ribbon at South
Bend.
A fire at Lima, last Wednesday,
Feb. 21st, destroyed s1S. 200 worth OF
property.
Revival meetings in the Baptist
and Methodist churches at Rochester.
Ann Eliza, Brigham Young's 10Th.
is lecturing in Northern Indiana.
Over 1000, valentines passed
through tn Ft. Wayne Post office this
year.
Theodore Tilton lectured at Au-
burn last Tuesday evening.
The Valparaiso Normal school will
soon add a commercial department.
Lake County will hold special
term Of circuit court In April.
Corn is worth 40 cents bushel at
Knox, Stark County.
LaPorte Is grooming over the num m
Der Of tramps that visit her.
A child was born in Rochester the
other day, that weighed but IL lbs.
1t was a boy, the son CT Benz. vaw-
tiers. 1t lived but two or three days.
Thirteen Mishawaka ladies visiting
at the residence of Jared Morse, in
Edwardsburg, last week, were
weighed before dinner, and averaged
145 pounds apiece. After the repast
they were again weighed, when the
average increased to 154 pounds.
Messrs. Loomis & Co., Of South
Bend, have cold their Touring mill to
Pennsylvania parties for $4,000.
Over forty persons have been
drowned in the st. Joseph river at
South Bend during the past twenty
five years.
Gen. George H. Sheridan is draw
ing large audiences throughout the
State to hear his Morton lecture.
Delinquent taxes are nCtin demand
in Noble County. Out OF 276 de-
scriptions offered for sale in that
county only ten were sold.
Gen. Orr. an old resident of La
Porte, and well known throughout
Northern Indiana is gradually grow
ing weaker and all hopes for his re-
covery have been given up.
We have family in Noble
county who have been SO destitute as to
be compelled to kill and eat litter OF pups
and then ess the mother, since which
time they have been eating ground hogs
They cannst ba prevailed upon to 60 &c
the poor house Does pride drive people
To such ends ?--At6iOn Nco Era
A breach Of promise case is to be tried
in our circuit court next week. The fail
plaintiff is resident of Cass county, while
the gay Lothario keeps a restaurant in
Rochester The details are said to be
mighty interesting, some of the letters
that passed between the pair being par
ticuarly rich and running over with love
and affection, expressed In badly spellec
prose and sickly poetry They may gel
into print Rochester Independent
We learn that on Wednesday evenins
about s o'clock fire was discovered in the
Milford school building, and had such .
start that the efforts to save the hous<
were Intellectual. The building was
large two story frame and was a credit Il
the enterprise of the citizens of the place
The fire is supposed 10 have been tn,
work of an inccndiary, as it seems to have
originated on the outside, in corner
where IL would not be likely to be noticed
in time to save the building II such /,
the case it Is to be hoped the guilty ont
will be speedily discovered and punished
to the full extent of the law. II is i'm
possible to punish such fierds as they
deserve. Rochester Republican
From Mr. Michael Smith we learn tn,
particulars of the capture of wolf neal
his residence. For some three years the
farmers in the vicinity of the north -eas
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suffered great loss from a wolf that com
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