Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-30
NEIGHB0RING NOTES.

the embryotlc state.
Our exchanges report grapes "dead
as a door NALL
Albion has but one saloon-one
too many.
Kendallville is already preparing
for a 4th Of July celebration.
The b. s. o. r. R., run reclining
chair coaches on their road.
The Greenbackers have organized
party in Noble County.
The Tippecanoe County Fair Asso-
citation offers premiums to the
amount of $1,000.
The wheat crop Of Stark County
has been seriously injured by heavy
rains and frosts.
Charlottesville decorates % SOL
diers graves in the cemeteries adj
joining that city.
1t is said that Ed. Russell, the pub
Usher of the Semi Weekly Kokomo
Press, is a fifteen year old boy.
The Germans CT Crown Point have
organized an anti-temperance society.
The Northern Indiana Editorial
Association will hold its next meet
ing at Rome City, June Is.
The South Bend Hook and Ladder
company went on an excursion to
Chicago last Thursday.
The temperance people have a
grand picnic and parade at Logans-
port, tomorrow, May 3lst.
After twenty five years of married
life couple in LaPorte were di-
vorced last week. 1t is said the hus-
band gave the wife $4,000, to ''go it
alone"
The LaPorte Chronicle is much
improved both in an editorial and
typographical way since Messrs. Tay
lor & King took possession.
Howard County has 6,S2s school
children between the ages OF 6 and
81. Only "a are unable to read and
write.
The second Indiana State camp
meeting will be held at the fair
grounds in Warsaw, August 18th, and
| oont;pra fov tap Io>-1
The contract for planking the
business streets of LaPorte has been
awarded to South Chicago gentle
man at $1.62 per foot.
The new Rochester Opera House
will be completed about Sept. 1st
Bob Ingersoll is expected to lecture
at the opening.
The Valparaiso Normal School is
said to be the largest in the West
No wonder they advertise to the ex-
tent of hundreds of dollars year.
The Peru Driving Park Association
have made arrangements for series
of races, commencing June 18th
; Already from fifty to seventy-five
horses have entered.
The first meeting OF the newly
elected council at Warsaw, passed
resolutions reducing the salary oil
councilmen from $50. to $25. Raising
that of city clerk from 500 to $50
Reducing the marshars from 5000, tc
$500.
A man claiming to be q tramp
stepped into a bank at Lima last
week, to get some bills changed FOL
larger ones, so he could carry it more
conveniently. He had 81, 800 in his
possession.
Robert Childs, OF Lap orte, charged
with the shooting of Benjamin My.
ers last March, was tried and &C
Quilted last week. The jury basing
their verdict OF not guilty on the
ground Of self defense.
! State Geologist Cox has received
from DR.. +. Marc, OF Warsaw, two
trophies for the State Museum. The
first is a six prong elk horn, thirty
nine inches in length, found in /,
marsh southwest Of Warsaw. and i.
, a magnificent fossil. The other fos
sill is supposed to be bone from tn,
foot OF mastadon. This was foun(
!, thirty-six feet below the surface.
Bruce and Lilly Sherer, two chill
I. dren Of Wells Sherer, of Tippecanot
County. aged respectively II and
years, were riding on a large role
: in Mr.. Sherer's field, the little DO,
driving the horses. when by som,
unaccountable accident both fel
forward of the roller and were rul
' over. The children's heads wer
badly crushed, and they were boil
3 probably fatally injured.
At four o'clock Monday Afternoon
the east wall of Craig & James mer
chant tailoring establishment OIL
+: Market street, Logansport, fell
4 caused by an excavation on the 10
adjoining, preparatory to erecting
:. new block. The roof was barrel,
supported by a remaining wall, whicl
is badly sprung, and will have to b
rebuilt entire. Several persons VIII
4 were in the store and the laborer
outside barely escaped serious inju
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