Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-04-04
Personal and Impersonal.


Personal and Impersonal.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has $500 red
ribbons.
Donald G.. Mitchell Is writing a his
tory of Venice.
Miss Braddon has finished her
thirty first novel.
Chicago has $500 drinking places,
and $4,000 red ribbons,
Georgia divorces have to pass
through three terms OF court.
There are now seventy-two post
mistresses in the United States.
Dean Stanley is dangerously i'll,
but of late has begun to recover.
Two colored women graduated as
doctors in Philadelphia last week.
Vice. President Wheeler rides to
and from the Capitol in the street
cars.
Mrs. Brooks, of Iolanthe fame has
secured a patent for modelling in
butter.
One-fifth of the $4,000 volumes in
the congressional library are piled on
the floor.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, $500 have
signed the pledge, including many
hard drinkers.
During the last five months Patti
cleared by singing in the various
cities of Italy $4,000.
Fifty saloons have been closed in
Chicago, caused by the decrease in
the demand for intoxicants.
Senator Voorhees, has been in
vited to address the literary societies
of the University of Georgia.
Arkansaw traveller: "Unless a man
can plat a bull whip he can't get a
situation as district school teacher
in Texas.
An Evansville clergyman thinks
that thereafter without a He'll"
would be worse than Home with
out a Mother"
John Morrisey's physicians regard
his late improvement as only tempo
rary, and do not speak encourage
ingly of the future.
"The greatest dyspeptic in Con-
gress, Mr.. Hewitt, gives the best din
ners." Misery loves company, and
he wants to make his guests as dys-
peptic as himself.
The Madison Courier says twenty
thousand men selling liquor by the
drink in Indiana, do more to make
times hard and close than all the
Shylocks put together.
IF. Goodrich, who led the singing
during several of Murphy's temper
ance revivals in the West, is under
arrest in Virginia for bigamy. He is
said TO have five living wives.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
the fuss in England over the call for
squad OF thirteen thousand men,
will very much amuse the Russians,
who deal in hundreds of thousands.
"AIrs. Key, the wife of the post.
master general, is said to be the
most elegantly graceful woman II
Washington. And the same thing
is said about hundred other women
The Pennsylvania legislature ha:
reported a bill providing for the
adoption of the bell-punch. 1t IL
thought certain to pass. and il sc
takes effect on January 1, 1879, the
same day OF the resumption of specie
payments.
The venerable Peter Cooper passed
through Washington few days age
on his way south to make arrange.
ments for the establishment of fe.
male seminary intended to furnish
education free TO such young womeI
as will accept its conditions.
The annual lumber products of the
country is placed at 10,000,00O,000
feet, considerable portion of whicf
is intended to replace timber cut only
a few years previously, which has de-
cayed. 1t is said that the renewal u
telegraph poles alone requires 49,.
G20,00 feet, a quantity nearly equal to
the product OF Maine.
Mrs. Lansing. OF Portland, Maine, &
lady of 92 years, Is the owner OF I
copper button which was dug out o
the earth OF garden in KennebecE
and which was once on the overcoa
presented by Congress to Gen. Wash
> ington. On it Is the inscription
"Long live the President" and in the
center are the letters, sc. W."
The Cleaveland Leader pleads