Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-04-25
Items OF Interest.

Items Of Interest.
Texas is cotton king. She claims
to have raised over 10000 bales more
than any other State last year.
The painting of ~Paris by Night
covering 10000 square feet Of canvas,
was sold at auction in Philadelphia on
Wednesday for $3.50.
Pomeroy has no hope OF success of
the National party with the talisma-
mic word @greenback" blotted from
its banner.
1t is with some diffldence we state
that Ohio has the oldest man. Mr..
Homer Griffin, of Medina County, is
49, Cincinnati Commercial.
The missing congressman, J. l..
Vance, of Cincinnati, has made his
in San Francisco, and is
insane.
James Walsh, formerly local
agent on the Baltimore and Ohio
road, has been appointed assistant
general freight agent Of the road.
A Chinaman about to die lies with
his feet toward the door, IN order that
his soul on leaving the body may
have free exit ON its way to Elysium.
Almonte, the famous clown OF Bar
NUNS circus, died on Wednesday
night, just after taking Off his mask
and costume-slmost dying in the
harness.
In Arizona there are four men to
one woman. Servant girls get S25
and upwards a month, and there is a
large and constantly increasing de-
mand for them. a -
An encouraging sign in Tennessee
is the fact that the average school at
tendance throughout the state last
year was IL per cent, greater than
the year before.
A Quebec judge has decided a case
begun three years ago between two
farmers who had quarreled about a
barrel Of apples valued at $3.50, and
have thus far spent 81 800 in lawyers
fees and costa. isoH s
Louise Pomeroy has taken a new
husband, and bis name, like that of
his predecessor. is Mark. Whereup-
on the Worcester Press remarks that
il she perseveres she will perhaps
succeed in marrying Mark, the per-
feet man." tiasa
Several leading manufacturing es-
Establishments in the east. paid OF
their hands in gold last week, and
will continue to do so. The men OF
course pay the gold out, and it is
added to the circulating medium Of
the country.
Norway is very liberal in politics,
but quite the reverse in religion.
With the exception Of about 5000 all
the people are Lutherans. Those of
all other creeds, Jesuits excepted.
have been tolerated but not admitted
to public offices.
A petrified crocodile, forty six feet
In length, has been exhumed near
Como Station, OF the Union Pacific
Railroad, aed shipped to Yale college.
The discoverers-Mr Carlin, the sta
tion agent, and Reed, a section boss
get 81. 200 for their find. and a month
ly salary Of $3.50 to hunt for the mate
of the monster.
DIR. Mary Walker, whose disordered
intellect and unwomanly dress have
made her name notorious, Is danger
onsly i'll in one OF the hospitals at
Washington, and as she declines to
take the medicines prescribed for her
the hospitalpeople have little hope OF
her recovery.
A correspondent of the American
architect found that the reason some
cesspools near his house were no an.
noyance, although not emptied 70:
four years, was that large tulip sree
and two very fourishing naples had
stuck their roots into them and were
deriving all the benefit,
Henrietta Wood, who was born Q
slave, manumitted and afterward kid.
napedand sold into slavery, and final.
ly liberased by the war, has just re.
covered in the United States court at
Cincinnati, $500 damages against
Seeh werd, who was one OF the three
who ki ini.ped her. ea go
The largest obelisk in this country
is to be placed over the grave Of Gen
Wool. in Oakwood cemetry. Troy
New York. 1t will weigh $50 tons
and be GO feet in hight. 1t will bt
carried to Troy from Maine in {
barge, and be moved by means ol
rollers and capstans from the river t.
the cemetry, a distance of about {