Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-01

Lie SmOke that was Seeu issuing
from its side is only the dust raised
by the winds and moving mass OF
rocks.
1t is proposed in Chicago that col
leges and normal schools shall have a
professor of current history and bust
ness news, whose duty it shall be to
teach students to understand all the
news Of the day as given in the daily
papers. Each days news. it is pro-
posed, shall be read and discussed,
any points in it which are not thor
oughIy understood being explained
by the professor.
Under recent decisions by the Sec
retary Of the Treasury there will
necessarily soon be large quantity
OF gold and silver moving about.
For its transportation by express the
government would have to disburse
large sums OF money. The question
has been raised whether this coin
can not be sent in United States pos
tai cars, as through the mails. Under
such an arrangement the government
would have to pay about one-seven-
teenth Of what the express would be.
James Gordon Bennett is In COM
munication with the navy depart
ment regarding Artic explorations,
and purposes converting the yacht
Dauntless into screw steamer and
sending her to the north pole by way
Of Spitzbergen, asking only that the
navy department furnish officers,
men and provisions for the voyage.
The Jeanette, which Mr.. Bennett
has fitted out for the Artic seas by
way of Behring's straits, is now on
her way to San Francisco.
The postoffice department has de-
cided that it can undertake to trans
port gold as third-class matter, as
Secretary Sherman requested. 1t
will be carried in strong safes in pos
tai cars. and in charge of special mes
sengers. The postage OF four
pounds, or in round numbers 81, 1000
in gold. will be GA cents for any dis
tance. The announcement that the
postoffice was considering this mat
has brought new proposal from the
express companies, but it Is not be-
lisved they can bid enough to tnfn
the department from the proposed
experiment.
The Rev. DR.. Milburn, so well
known as ~the Blind Man Eloquent
returned from Europe by the Baltic
on Thursday last, ing been absent
two years and three months. During
that time DR.. Milburn travelled in
Great Britain and Ireland about
thirty thousand miles, preaching and
lecturing more than six hundred
times. He became acquainted dur
Ing his travels with perhaps larger
number of people and visited larger
number of homes than any other
American before him. Among the
particular friends whom he visited
and of whom he saw much was
Thomas Carlyle. e.-Nelc York Herald.
William Elliott is Milwaukee lad
about eleven years old. Recently he
became i'll, and since then has devel-
oped an abnormal condition that as
tounds and alarms his family. he is
confined to his bed, but seems to be
gifted with omniscient power. He
knows all that is transpring in the
families Of their neighbors. Recent
ly his mother told one OF the children
to go and inquire the health OF lit
tie girl who was seriously i'll. The
lad told her not to seEd, as she was
dead-he had seen her go to heaven.
Inquiry revealed the fact that the
child was indeed dead. William de-
clares that he, too, will go to heaven:
but that he will be translated, like
Elijah of old, in chariot OF fire.
A great many persons. especially
in Ohio and Indiana, will remember
Miss Jennie Smith, the pale young
| girl-preacher, who had for sixteen
years been cripple, totally unable to
move her body or help herself. She
was drawn to the different meetings,
where she exhorted In little wagon
propped up with pillows. On the
18th Of July "she walked into .ae
the tabernacle at Ocean Grove, up
right and without assistance, and
testified, with a voice choked with
tears, Of her remarkable cure in an
swer to prayer"
In one OF the lists of passengers for
the Paris exposition is recorded the
name of man almost unknown to
the public, who, in war times.
brought to the north sad yet welcome
tidings, that set at rest many anxious
hearts. This man is Dorance Atwa-
ter, who brought away the dead list
from Andersonville prison, a record
by which the fate of thousands OF
missing soldiers was made known,
Mr.. Atwater was appointed consul at
Tahiti, in the Society Islands, where
he married wealthy princess, and
engaged in the lucrative pearl fisher
ies.-NelC York Times.
Mrs. Hannah Forester, mother in
law Of Mr.. Fred West died very sud-
denly Friday evening while sitting at
the supper table. She was engaged
, in conversation when her head fell