Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-15
Ne;ghb0ring Notes.

Rochester has three hOuring mills.
Ft. Wayne has thirty -one churches.
The county Jail of LaPorte has IA
inmates.
Cass county has twelve thousand
Murphyites.
The bloody flux prevails at Elkhart
to an alarming extent.
An interesting Methodist revival is
in progress at LAGRANGE.
The Catholic picnic at Walkerton,
the Sd, nextted over Sl30.
Between Rochester and Peru kiss
ing by telephone is INDUCED in.
There were fifty-five deaths in Fit.
Wayne during the month OF July.
There Is an unusual amount OF
sickness in the vicinity of Peru.
A whisky barrel exploded at Steu-
benville last week, killing boy.
1t is estimated that Barnum's show
took $1,000 out of LaPorte county.
The Lebanon postoffice cancelled
400 three cent stamps during July.
A twenty thousand dollar opera
house will be opened in Rochester
next week.
Hog cholera is reported prevailing
to considerable extent In the vicin-
ity Of Walkerton.
A drunken man was run over and
killed by the cars between TT. Wayne
and Waterloo recently.
The dry goods firm OF d. S. Gould
& Co., Rochester, has failed. Liabil-
tiles $4,000, assets $4,000.
A school house in Davis township,
Starke county, was entirely destroyed
by fire on Saturday night, the Sd.
Incendiarism.
Major Calkins and Morgan Weir,
both residents of Lap orte, and candi-
dates for Congress in the 10th dis
trict, have arranged for joint can
vass.
The South Bend Register says for
ty-three freight trains went east
through that city one day last week,
over the Lake Shore road. Each
train had fifty-three cars.
LaPorters boast of their skill as
checker players, but a negro from
Michigan City swooped down upon
them the other day and scooped them
in way they despised. Africa is on
the rise.
The Wood-pulp mandatory at
Elkhart have added paper making
machinery to their establishment and
will henceforth convert their pulp
into paper themselves. 1t will be
operated as stock company.
An eight year son of John
Brumbach, OF Jackson township, Elk
hart county, was fooling with re-
volver, Wednesday of last week,
when it was accidentally discharged,
the ball passing through the brain OF
an elder brother, killing him instant
ly.
Fort Wayne has had a sensation
A clerk at the Phillips House, d. w
Strain by name, hung himself on last
Thursday night, in his room at that
place. 1t Is said that the recent death
OF his mother, who resided in Sharon
Pa, and the loss OF his sweetheart
who went with a handsomer man,
rendered him so melancholy as to
turn his mind to suicidal intent.
The Republican primaries in st
Joseph county Saturday, resulted in
the selection of the following ticket
Representative, Judge T. s. Stanfleld
Auditor, 1. f. Spain; Clerk, Captain
e. Nicar; Sheriff, b. Hardy; Treasur.
er, @. FL. Sheerer; Recorder, j. Ham
mond Green; Coroner, 1. Underwood
Surveyor, William NJ. Written; Com
missioners, John @. Knoblock, Asa
White.
Two little boys. aged seven and
five years, sons of Fred. ID. Yost, oil
Mishawaka, while playing on Thurs
day, fell into the creek, and lay down
on the railroad to dry, and fell asleep.
The express train came dashing along
and struck them, throwing them as
high as the smoke stack and landing
them twelve feet away. One, it is
feared. is fatally hurt, but the other
will recover.