Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-04-11
Items Of Interest.

ltelnS Oh INTEREST,"
Joseph Schonder, saloon keeper
in Cincinnati, was beaten to death
Thursday.
d. r. Locke, CNasby) has resigned
the editorship of the New York Eue.
ming Mail.
Over 1900 models. injured during
the fire in the patent office. last sum-
mer, have been restored.
There Is only one mandatory OF
artificial eyes In this country, and
only three workmen are employed in
that.
The present wheat crop Of Ten
nessee will yield one-third more in
average than that OF any previous
year since the war.
The city of Flint, Mich. does not
owe dollar, nor can it be run in
debt hereafter, unless by direct vote
of the citizens.
A terrible hail storm prevailed
throughout north Mississippi Thurs
day. 1t is feared serious damage
was done to the corn.
The children OF the Royal family OF
Russia are strongly built and soldier
ly in person, but with no indication
Of capacity, and none of refinement
The Chicago Journal says the
wholesale trade of that city this
spring is far ahead Of anything that
the city has had for five years.
While the results OF the local elec-
tions in Ohio and Indiana are not
especially significant, it is noticeable
that the Republicans have made
gains.
A young man Of 26 employed as 9
farm hand on the poor farm ol
Union county, Indiana, has just LED
to the altar an inmate OF the poor
house aged 20.
The Second Assistant Postmaster.
General Is acting as Postmaster.
General during the absence Of Post.
master General Key and First Assist
ant-Tyner.
Nine million young white fish have
been planted in the rivers of Michi.
gan this season, and several million
more are In the hands OF the fish
commissioners.
The Manitoba sections OF the Cana.
da Pacific Railway are being rapidly
constructed. Several thousand work
men are engaged at two dollars 8
day and more are needed.
Mrs. Cady Stanton, recently re-
fusing to be deferred by a severe
storm, rode twenty-four miles tc
lecture in st. Charles, MINI. We
have always counseled small cities
like st. Charles to be careful about
offending Mrs. Stanton.-Ptlck.
The French government will not
exhibit itself. nor allow to be dis
played at the coming exposition, any
war material or inventions which Il
has lately adopted, or which it think,
Of adopting for the army or navy.
At the close of the year 1876, the
total length Of all the railways In the
world was 184,002 miles, OF which
Europe possessed S3,43O miles, and
America 83,420 miles. The United
States had 74,025 miles, Germany
17,1S1 miles, Great Britain 1874
miles, and Russia II, ,555 miles.
A young lady singer Of German
American birth has produced an ex.
traordinory impression in Europe
Her name Is Julia Rosewald. She
has sung both in Frankfort on the
Main and in Nuremberg. and has
been equally successful In both
places. The Frankfort Zeit,tns
speaks of her as an artist by the
grace OF God.
For several days the exchanges a.
the treasury OF silver dollars, new
coinage, have not averaged beyond
one hundred dollars a day. Exclu'
sive OF applications for banks, only
two shipments have thus far beer
made from the mint to the treasury
aggregating $4,000. There are $12,.
900 OF this in the cash-room vaults.
Rear Admiral Rodgers, superinten.
dent of the Naval Observatory, has
made arrangements for observing
the transit OF Mercury on the 9th ol
May, and the Western Union Tele.
graph Company will transmit Wash
ington time signals throughout the
country from the 1st to the 10th ol
May, for astronomers and others OBJ.
serving the transit.
Colonel Hector II. Follett, OF Bos-
ton, not knowing that his revolver
was loaded. gave it to his little g.
| vear-old bOy to play with. and the