Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-10-24
Items OF Interest.

proved TO be valuable claim In the
mining regions for paper of
tobacco.
The total number of newspapers
printed in the United States at the
close of 1877 was S,l19. Aggregate
annual circulation estimated at s1,-
5OO,OOO,OOO.
DR.. Strousberg. the man once
known as "the Railway King" is
about to appear before the world in
Vienna as the proprietor and conduc-
tor OF a newspaper.
The grounds aud outbuildings at
Henry Clay's old home-Ashiand-.
are unchanged since the days when
he used to walk in the old locust ave.
nue. and ponder his speeches.
Count Won Bismarck. nephew of
the German chancellor, committed
suicide at Venice, Tuesday, by shoot
ing himself with revolver. The act
was caused by physical suffering.
William Lloyd Garrison celebrated
the sixtieth anniversary of his ap-
premiership in the Newburyport Her.
aid office, by going to the Office and
setting one of his own poems from
memory.
The failures for the third quarter Of
1873 were 1858 as compared with
1850 for same quarter 10 1873. and
the liabilities Sc. 0.0O0, 900, as compared
with 81, 100000 for the correspond
ing quarter last year.
Gladstone's article in the North
American Reuieao. prophesying the
commercial triumph Of America over
England, has brought hornets nest
about his ears. All the English pa
pers are scolding him for it.
DR.. Eli Giddings. the oldest and
most eminent physician and surgeon
OF Charleston, s. c., died in that city
on Wednesday of last week, aged
eighty years. He had, when a young
man, held professorships in Baltimore
and New York.
The Beaufort, s. c., Tribune OF a
recent date contains an extract from
a private letter written In New York,
in which the writer says that a few
days before ex- Governor Moses came
to him. begging for money to buy
food, and that he felt pity for the
''poor devil" and "eave him enough
to carry him through the day."
Blanton Duncan is playing star
season as a campaigner in Kentucky.
He travels around the country in a
wagon, in which is placed a table. q
small cannon, and two locomotive
head lights. When he reaches q
town in which he desires to speak,
he stops his horses, fires his cannon.
lights his lights, and proceeds to
make his address.
Eugene Davis, of Clinton, Illinois.
has invented an arrangement for un-
loading grain, coal or ore from ordi-
nary box-cars expeditiously. The ar
rangement consists OF what may be
called a tilting frame, on which the
car is placed, and then elevated into
position 80 that the contents OF the
car will run out OF end doors into
suitable chutes or receptacles, from
which it is conveyed to other cars.
vessels or bins.
In France the aggregate extent OF
railways in operation at the close OF
March. 1878. was 1870 miles. In the
United States five thousand more
miles than the entire extent of the
French railway, have been construct
ed since 1872. The number of miles
OF railroad now in operation In this
country is about 10000. This Is, ap-
proximately, equal to the combined
systems Of Germany. Great Britain
and Ireland, France. Russia, Austria,
Hungary and Asia.
Ii is now officially known that the
awards to the American exhibitors at
the French Exposition number $50.
namely: Ten grand prizes, thirty di-
plomas OF honor, 134 gold medals,
200 silver medals. 800 bronze medals,
and 156 honorable mentions. The
aggregate is larger than the whole
number of American exhibitors at
the Paris Exposition Of 1875 or at the
Viena Exposition Of 1873. and is a
larger proportion awarded to exhibit
tors than to any other nation repre-
sented at this exhibition.
October returns to the Department
of Agriculture indicate the average
condition OF the cotton crop at 80 per
cent. the same as September. Com
pared with October, 1877, the grow
ing crop shows an improvement Of IL
per centum. The October condition
equals that of the splendid crop Of
1870, and excels any intervening year.
Tneect iniuriea ara upfmportapt With
the increased acreage planted. the
crop now promises to produce more
than 100000 bales.
The Constantinople correspondent
VI the London Daily Ne,cs writes that
anarchy prevails throughout the