Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-29
NeighbOring Notes.

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Dan Voorhees, is to speak at Peru
Sept. Sd. u
The Boone county fair opens at
Lebanon, Sep. 9th.
Diptheria in an epidemic form is
prevailing at Fort Wayne.
1t cost s222 to fresco the new Bap-
fist church6f LaPorte.
Haverly's Ministries were at Valpa-
raise last Saturday night.
The receipts of the Warsaw camp
meeting were about 900.
A band Of gypsies are in camp
near the city limits at LaPorte,
The st. Joseph river is reported
lower than it has been for years.
Gen. Ben. Harrison will speak at
North Manchester, Saturday.
Down in Fulton county blackberry
patches are cultivated in cemeteries.
School teachers in Allen county
will receive this winter $40 per
month.
President Hayes will pass through
LaPorte on trip to Chicago next
Tuesday.
The Germans of LaPorte county
hold an old settlers meeting at La
Porte to-day.
Lightning rod agents swindled the
people OF Fulton county out OF 3d.
900, last week.
The old settlers Of DeKalb county
will hold a reunion at Auburn, Sep
TENDER 18th.
Knox boasts OF her pretty girls.
They are real nice pretty little ducks
-web-footed, too.
1t costs a man about twenty dol
lars to indulge in the exhilerating
sport Of choking his wife in Starke.
The report that Mayor Skinner, OF
Valparaiso, will withdraw from the
congressional race, in the 10th dis
trict is denied.
A young man named Wilson had
his foot torn completely off by horse
power while threshing in Fulton
county last week.
Mrs. Emma Molloy, well known
worker in the temperance field. has
gone East, with the intention OF sail
ing for Europe, in September.
The Singer Sewing Machine works,
at South Bend, caughr fire last Fri
day afternoon, but the flames were
extinguished after loss of about
$500.
The bridge at Osceola, Elkhart
county, fell Monday a, u team and
three mon were crossing. One man
is probably fatally hurt by horse
falling On him.
Things that every Michi gan City
man brags on. Harhor. fl,h, pretty
girls, sulphur water. prison. school
building, trailing arbutus. planked
streets, potatoes. hoosier slide and
sand.
About o'clock Saturday morning
the Lakeside House at Rome City
was burned to the ground. Only the
furniture of the first floor was saved
The fire caught in the southwest
corner room on the second story, and
is supposed to have been the work Of
an incendiary.
The material OF the Democratic
Union Office at Elkhart was sold or
Monday on an execution in favor o.
james Warner, OF White Pigeon
Mr.. Schutt, of the Bristol Banner
was the purchaser, bidding 1925 ovel
and above the liens, one a mortgage
of 1856. and the county taxes amount
ing TO $4S.
The green eyed monster. or some
other evil spirit, took possession OF
Cooker, the barber, on Monday night
and he attempted TO razor the throat
of his better and much larger half
Not intending to submit to this. the
better half fioored Coker by striking
him over the head with glass pitch
er. After slightly recovering from
the effects of the blow, the barbe
, departed for the depot, and "wendet
his way to other lands." by the frs
, rain.-WdterlOO Press.
At o'clock Monday morning, a de
structive fire, believed to be the worl
OF an incendiary, broke out at tn,
Palmer House block, Pierceton, on
. OF the largest in town. Several per
sons were more or less injured by
powder exploding in the grocer,
store of II. ". Hays. The restauran
OF w. G. Matchette, drug store o
VIM. Graves, grocery of H. w. Hays
the residence of f. f. Oldney, denta
parlors, and Odd Fellows Hall, pos
;. office and Palmer House, large un
I occupied frame building, were all
g total loss. Nothing saved except tn
q mail and postage stamps in the pos
r office. Loss $4,000. No insurance