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

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Schuyler Colfax has made $40,-
600 during the past four years lectur-
ing.
The Michigan City car works en-
ploy nearly 300 men. Business is
brisk.
The Crown Point Register COM
pleted its twenty first birth day last
Thursday.
Hunters say there will be an i'm
mense quantity Of ducks in Starke
county this season.
The Kokomo Dispatch wants the
young ladies OF that city to organize
swimming school.
The South Bend Bill Poster is said
to have rival in indecency in the
Lafayette Greenbacker.
Parties are negotiating for the pur-
chase OF a steam yatch to be launched
on Lake Manitau, Rochester.
School teachers will get $50 per
month for teaching country schools
In Lake country this winter.
Elkhart is exercised over a mon
strous snake or "sea-serpent' that
has made its appearance in the river
at that point.
Some one with more money than
discretion has started a daily paper
at Lafayette, called the National
Greerabacker.
A young man named Thompson, o:
South Bend, plumber, eloped with
another mans wife last week, leaving
numerous creditors.
A barn belonging to Phil Philabaun,
located four miles north of Fit. Wayne,
was entirely destroyed by fire Satur-
day. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
There are 600 prisoners now con.
fined in the penitentiary at Michigan
City. 20 Of this number are colored
There are 35 in for life, three Of whom
are negroes.
Hog cholera Is prevailing to an
alarming extent in the northern par,
Of Elkhart county. Many hogs are
dying, the farmers being unable to
check the ravages OF the disease.
Kokomo has an interesting dwarf
Miss Nellie Keller, who is three years
and four months old. weighs fourteen
pounds and two ounces, and 1t Il
thought has nearly attained her full
size.
The Good Templars of the distric
composed of Elkhart, st. Joseph anC
LaPorte counties, will hold their reg
ular quarterly convention at LaPort,
August 9Th and 9th. An invitation II
extended to all members of the order
Miss Eunice Perkins, daughter o
Rev. A. T. Perkins, OF South Bend
was seriously injured on Tuesda,
evening by falling backward dow
the front steps Of her fathers resi-
dence. She Is lying in a critical con
dition.
The residence of ALI. b. Miller, edi
tor OF the South Bend Tribune, wa
entered by burglars on the evening o
Barnum's show, and the closets AM
drawers all examined, but not man,
articles taken, as the thieves wer
supposed to be looking principall
for money, which Is not unusuall
very plenty in the house OF news
paper man.
Mr.. William Miller, Of Harriso
township, Kosciusko county, ha
threshed out the wheat from on
field in which there was six acre:
and the yield was GAG bushels, ma
chine measure, or an average OF 4
bushels to the acre. The seed wa
the @Fultz" wheat. and the land wa
clay barrens, with white clover SOC
Such yield might satisfy any rea
sonable man.
During a heavy storm at Mort
Manchester Sunday, lightning struc
a telegraph pole On the Eel Rive
line, and followed tile wire into tn
depot building, burning off the wir
and shaking things up promiscuousl.
The building was also fired. but "A
, Beauchamp, the operator. CHANGED t
= be In the room and extinguished th
, flames before much damage wa
done.
: A few days since it became Deces
} sary to refine the cupolas at th
, Oliver Chilled Plow works, whic
! necessitated a suspension OF opera
{ tons for about a week In the mould
ing department, and to make the r.
pairs the married employees at tn
{ works were selected. The situatio
. was accepted with becoming resigns
4 ton by all but one OF the bachelor
: who had no desire to be idle, but o
|, the contrary was determined to worl
? Finding that his remonstrances di
not e~act the rule he disappeare
! and two days later returrsd, arraye
In his sunday clothes. and presentin
: a marriage certificate to the foreffia!
n. Thompson: demanded the priv