Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-09-12
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
In the United States there are over
1000 females practicing as doctors.
dentists, lawyers and preachers.
Dewitt county, Illinois, Is being
ravaged by hog cholera. Seven thou
sand hogs have died in the past forty
days.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
issued the SEVENTEEN call for the re-
demption OF five-twenty bonds-s5,-
600 900.
The New York Sun says Georgia
buys more banjos in proportion to
population than any other State in
the Union.
Sixteen business rooms and dwell
ings were entirely consumed by fire
at jamestown. Ind, last Thursday
morning. Loss estimated at $4,000.
No insurance.
The late. Samuel Miller. of Rich
mond, Va, who left an estate valued
at $1,500,O00, was go miserly in his
habits that his household furniture
and effects were worth not more than
$500.
The United States revenue from
the seventh district, under Gen.
Frank White, collected during the
month of July amounts to nearly
slo3, 900, exceeding any other district
by over $4,000.
The Grand Central hotel at Omaha,
the finest west OF the Mississippi riv-
er, outside of SanFrancisco. was
burned last Wednesday night. 1t
was a five story brick, 1872 feet square,
and cost 100000.
Orville Grant. brother OF the ex-
President, has been sent to an insane
asylum at Morristown, New Jersey
His utterances for some time past
have indicated that there was screw
loose somewhere.
Butler said to Secretary Sherman,
recently, that he did not believe
word of the testimony of either An
derson OF jerks. nor did he believe
that the Secretary ever wrote tie So
called Sherman letter."
Washington has a population OF
131 900, of whom $4,000 are colored.
There were found twenty-five colored
persons over 100 years old, one being
reported as old as 10. Seventy per-
sons were between 80 and 100.
Queen Victoria has her carriage
seat arranged in such manner that
the motion of the vehicle sets 1t rock
ing. 1t this way she can keep up a
perpetual bowing to the populace
without exerting her royal spine.
The cattle trade between south
Florida and Cuban ports is steadily
increasing. There are five American
and two Spanish schooners, one
American and one Spanish steamship
constantly engaged in the transporta-
ti0n.
Within the last seventy years New
Orleans has had twenty severe vista
ton Of yellow fever. The most dead
ly of the number was in 1858. when
the death roll reached 1882, the
greatest mortality on any one day be-
ing 2S3.
Miss Fannie Washington Finch, the
great -grandniece Of Washington, and
supposed to be his nearest living rel
ative, is keeping boarding house In
Washington. and has recently had
her furniture attached by her land
lord for rent.
DIR. J. s. Myer, of Virginia City,
New, has rediscovered lost Egyptian
art. He tempers copper tools to
more lasting cutting edge than steel
tools will hold, similar to that OF the
copper implements with which the
stone for the pyramids was cut.
The hair Of the deer, it has been
discovered, is five times lighter than
cork. and a government commission
reports that one pound Of hair will
support weight of ten pounds for
three days. Within the last years,
deers' hair has been extensively used
In the construction Of life- -preservers,
cushions, etc.
An official report received at the
Department of State from the Amer
lean Consul at Demerara, dated July
Goth, states that the sugar crop in
British Guiana for the present year
will fall short 10000 hogheads on ac-
count OF the drought. The total
yield OF British Guiana has generally
been 10000 hogsheads yearly.
William G. Rogers and J. Jarvis
Jones, stationers Of New York, have
been arrested in suits begun by the
city to recover nearly 81 100000 paid
during the reign Of the old Tammany
ring upon alleged fraudulent war
rants. Bail has been fixed at $780,
600. The defendants have claims
against the city which have been au-
dited for about s2,OOO,O0O.
On Saturday last 6S.500 boxes OF