Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-23
Items Of Interest.

Items of Interest.
Eighteen New York families hold
real estate worth $140,0O0,0O0.
Prince Charles who has been visit
ing the army Of the North. has gone
to Turn Severn.
The movements of the Russian
| troops and provisions towards the
Danube continue.
A special says that the Porte will
allow no further addition to the
British fleet at Ismid.
Gen. Shields Is lecturing in Illinois.
His recent national advertisement
has been godsend to him.
Queen Victoria will shortly review
the troops at Woolwich. for the first
time in twenty-five years.
Tattens, Field g. Co.. woolen manu-
factures, at Rodensthrope. England,
have failed. Liabilities 100000.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge. editor of
the 81. Nicholas is 40 years old,
short, stout, dark k-complexioned, and
jolly.
The Car Of Russia will not in any
case visit the Paris Exposition, but
some of the Grand Dukes will IL cir
cumstances permit.
A Nevada Chinaman who got into
a masquerade by mistake, won the
first prize, a gold watch, for natural
ness of makeup and action.
The sixth annual shooting exhibit
tion of the indianapolis hunting and
shooting club will be held at the ex-
position grounds June 4. 5, and 6.
The prizes offered amount to $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Peck. of Baltimore, says
that "the daily newspapers is the
university Of to-day. from which men
learn more in one morning than
their grandfathers learned in year. !"
Advices from japan say that Minis
ter Okubo was murdered in the
streets by five assassins, while on his
way to a cabinet council. ALI the
assassins were arrested.
The London Times says that the
recent advance In the price OF consols
is partly due to the purchases for
July dividend, in consequence Of the
declining discount rates and the
scarcity of commercial paper.
India is becoming a very serious
competitor with the United States in
the wheat market. The value Of
wheat she exported in 1875 was
ETA, ,141: in 1877, e223.47s and in 1878,
f5OO,733.
A right whale swan ashore at
Sandy Hook, last week. and was
killed by a fisherman with scythe.
1t measured forty feet in length, and
it was estimated that it would yield
sixteen hundred gallons Of oil.
David W. Sherwood, OF Bridgeport.
Conn.,. who owns or controls seventy
thousand acres OF land in Colorado,
is going into the camel-raising
business. He proposes to raise 800 a
year.
The late John Iliff, the Colorado
cattle king. left an estate which
yields his widow about $4,000 per
annum, besides 100000 worth OF
cattle. The widow was once poor
shop girl in Chicago.
Two thousand copies day for
sixty years, and distributing in eighty
different languages, one million
copies last year, Is not bad showing.
That Is what the American Bible
Society reports in regard to its work.
Russian agents tell q great deal
about what Russia will do on the
water. People are more interested
in knowing where Gourka, Skobe-
left Radetzky, and other generals of
that type are, and what they are do
ing.
The Servian corps Of observation,
hitherto consisting OF $4,000 men,
has been increased to $4,000. This
was caused by the fear Of Turkish
attack. The Turks have been con-
centrating under Haflz Pasha on the
Servian line OF demarkation.
In a recent murder case in the
Grand Duchy of Hesse OF Darmstadt,
two men were convicted OF the crime
of killing an old money lender to
whom they owed a considerable
sum. They were each sentenced to
undergo a term OF ten years at hard
labor, and at the expiration thereof,
to suffer death by hanging.
Commencing with Monday. last the
Baltimore g. Ohio Company will run
on their Chicago division elegant
palace chair cars, such as have been
successfully used for some time past
by the Chicago & Alton and other
Western roads. This will give those
who do not like to use the sleeping
cars an opportunity to travel just as
comfortably and with the same con-
veniences.