Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-02
Items of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
Our exchanges speak of terrific rain
and thunder storms, all over the
country last week.
More deaths from lightning have
occurred during the last two weeks
than were ever before chronicled in
the same length OF time at the season
of the year.
New Jersey makes three-fourths OF
the licorice manufactured in the
United States. The licorice root is
imported from Spain and Asia Minor.
The supreme court of Alabama has
decided that doctor may be sum-
moned as a witness, and be made to
give a medical opinion without CON-
pensation.
The number Of stamps ut work in
the gold fields Of Georgia year ago
was no; now they number 273, pro-
ducing about $4,000 in gold per
month.
Andrew Jackson, OF Anderson, Ind :,
one of the oldest settlers ofthat place.
and a man who has figured much
in County and State politics, died
Monday, OF old age.
An eastern paper makes the sug-
gestion that as we now have the dol
lar Of our fathers, public officers
should be compelled to look for the
wages Of the fathers.
Rev. DR.. Pentecost, the evangelist,
preached so effective a sermon at
Middletown, Conn.,, the other evening,
that one OF his hearers went out and
restored 5000 to a man from whom
he had dishonesty obtained it, years
ago.
Public attention In China Is still
mainly occupied with :he famine,
which continues to devastate the
Northern provinces. As this is the
beginning of winter in China, its raw
ages must continue to be fearful.
Lydia II. Fair, the adventures, who
shot Mr.. Crittenden for presuming to
embrace his wife, lives in fine man.
sion in San Francisco, wears the name
Of a well-satisfied person, and amuses
herself by speculating In mining
stocks.
Baron Rothschild--whod dimes with
Lord Beaconsfleld every Sundays
reported as saying the other day: Il
do not know anything more about it
than this mustard-pot, but I believe
there is going to be war"
Jeremiah Fl. Steadwell, late Presi-
dent of the New Jersey mutual life
insurance company, has returned
from Europe and surrendered to the
Newark authorities. He will be used
as q witness in a criminal suit against
Noyes, and in several suits against
stockholders.
The $1,000 left by Benjamin Frank
lin to the city Of Boston in 1892, to be
loaned to young married mechanics,
has increased at rate that promises
to make the principal $525,0OO in
1892. This is only $4,000 less than
DIR. Franklin calculated upon.
Walker Rodman, the man who was
arrested in Missouri a short time
since for the murder of Abner Wright
at Salem, Ind, about IL years ago,
was tried at Salem and. sentenced to
the penitentiary for term Of 81
years.
Three distinct shocks OF an earth
quake occurred at Glendove, on the
Yellowstone, on the 18th. They oc-
Cured at intervals OF half an hour.
The ground opened for distance OF
500 yards, with sitting smell OF
sulphur. The crevice has revealed a
coal vein five feet thick.
Mr.. J. J. B. Kingsbury OF, Chicago,
died in 1856, leaving an unencumber-
ed estate Of 81, 175,0 1000. There Is but
one heir, but lawyers have wrecked
the estate, and 1t now yields hardly
enough to pay the heirs boarding
school bills. In seven years o dozen
lawyers have absorbed 100000.
A Wheeling dispatch to the Gin
cinnati Gazette. says that a cow own
ed by Robert Hall OF Taylorsville,
Washington county, Pa, one day last
week gave birth to fifty calves. rang
ing in size from rats to opossums.
The cow died shortly after giving
birth to the calves.
Statistics go to show that man may
gamble as profession, right along
for ten years, when it will be found
that, beside making thief Of him
and putting him on the road to the
Penitentiary, he will have earned
less money than any quiet working
mechanic.
Miss Francis E. Willard, the we'll