Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-10-10
25 Gem Cards 10 cents. Charles
Lamson, Plymouth, Ind.
NeighborhoOd Notes.

Neighborhood Notes.
The Baptists at LaPorte have a new
church.
The Noble county Jail hasen't single
inmate.
Apples are scarce in the south part of
the State.
The Fort Wayne daily Sentinel has a
new dress.
The State fair at indianapolis last week
was grand success.
Kokomo has sign painter that spells
wagon, with two g's.
The Warsaw Ind;aaian issued daily
paper during the fair.
The money order business of the Wa
bash post Office averages $4,000 per
month.
The receipts of the Miami county fair
were less than the expenses of the Asso-
citation.
A colt raised by J. A. Cook, of Elk
hart, recently sold for $4,000 His rec
ord is 2:19.
The public reading room at Elkhart
has been closed, for want of public con-
tributions to support it,
Thomas Fargher's residence near La
Porte burned Thursday evening. Loss
$4,000, Insured for $500.
c. b. Blair has had over twenty-eight
hundred bushels of cranberries from his
marshes, near Michigan City.
Michigan City claims to have the incest
and most convenient post-ofiice in the
State, outside of Indianapolis.
Ripe strawberries, second CROP have
been picked in several gardens in tho vi
cinity of Mishawaka recently.
The Warsaw Union says that for the
first time in many years the Kosciusko
county fair was success financially.
Wheat that was raised one year ago, on
Mr.. Jordan's farm on Door Prairie, took
the first premium at the Paris Internati-
onal Exposition, This is quite feather
in the cap of LaPorte county.
A terrible hurricane struck Lebanon,
Wednesday Sept. 25th doing damage to
the extent OF many thousand dollars. The
cupola of the Presbyterian church was
blown down and several business blocks
nnrooied, and otherwise injured.
A nephew of Chas. Shredder, Ger
man, who has worked eight years for
Thos Hughes for 500 per month and
saved $1,000, started for Nebraska on
Tuesday last, where he has already bought
farm.-Croon Point Register.
Albert Ward, brother of the sheriff,
died at his residence in this county We'd
nesday night. Deceased has long been a
resident of this vicinity, and was well and
favorably known. His disease was drop
sy. Age about 80 years.-Rochester Re
publican.
The Northern Prison is filling up with
recruits-the fall crop from Circuit Courts
The convicts had dwindled down to 59e
through vigorous exercise of the pardon.
ing power by Blue Jeans Williams and
expirations of sentences. Michigan City
Enterprise
There is great demand for laborers, in
this vicinity, but 1t is almost impossible
to get man to do days work for love
or money. We know this from personal
experience, and many of our farmers state
that they cannot hire men TO work.
Ke7addlloile Standard.
The joking carpenter can no longel
send his apprentice to buy an augur oil
bit TO bore square holes. The Singel
company have machine recently inven
ted which bores square holes. The bit il
triangular in shape and is held loosely II
a racket.-Tl6uns.
Adolph Fisher, workman at the Oil
yer pillow works, South Bend, Ind, me-
with terrible and fatal accident last Sat
urday. In attempting to adjust a belt I,
the trip hammer. bis sleeve was caught
and the unfortunate man dashed aroun,
the swiftly revolving shaft at the rate O
100 revolutions a minute. The machiner
was stopped as speedily as possible, bu