Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-03-28
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Schurz is 40 years old.
Postage stamp gum is potato
starch.
The spring cattle drive in Texas
will number $4,000.
There were only 1900 Cuban patri-
OTIS left to surrender.
Forty trades are concerned in the
building of first-class ship.
There were sS.5OO,OOO spent in
Kansas last year for whisky and to-
bacco.
Lumber has accumulated in Mil
waukee to the amount II forty mil
lion feet.
II Europe can't get a congress to
settle her difficulties we could spare
her ours.
The machinery for three large iron
manufactures is now enroute for the
Black Hills.
The death of the Pope caused over
a million pairs OF black gloves to be
sold in Paris.
Strong doses of advertising should
be administered to business that
looks bilious about this time OF the
year.-Boston Globe.
Republican Iowa and Democratic
Maryland have simultaneously re-
moved the political disabilities of
negro residents of those States.
Henry W. Raymond, son of H. J.
Raymond, founder OF the New York
Times, has lost $4,000 in the book
publishing business in Chicago.
Postmaster Tyler, of Baltimore,
paid off all the carriers and street
collectors of the Office in gold Satur-
day, $1,000 being thus distributed.
Douglass, of Virginia, is Con-
gresham to whom belongs the trip
pie degree OF I'D. d. d." standing
for Drunken Douglass Democrat"
The Mobile Register believes that
the South, through Democracy, is
again controlling the destinies Of the
country. God save the country"
Sunday ends in San Francisco at
II M The law permits all amuse-
ments there Sunday afternoons, and
the Frisco people call Sunday eve-
ming sermons lectures.
Bret Harte, is handsome and queer.
Personally he is frank and charming.
But he Is Impractical. As an editor
he was in former days too much OF
genius and too little of politician.
In China, girls are considered OF
so little consequence that their pa
rents do not name them, but desig-
nate them by number, thus: First
daughter, second daughter, and so
on.
There was a frost every month in
the year 1916, and it was known as
@the year without a summer" The
New England farmers called it
eighteen hundred and starved to
DEATH"
Chicago's mayor will recommend
the city council to adopt the bell
punch. The Inter Ocean was the pa
per TO start the movement in Chica-
go, and its employee are expected to
do their best to make it success.
The aborigines OF Victoria, Aus
tralia, who, when the colony was
formed, some forty-fve years since,
numbered 5000, have dwindled down
to 1000, and are decreasing at the
rate OF thirty-fiye per cent. year.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company has discharged its ticket
collectors and sleeping-car conduc-
tors, and 800 first-class mechanics.
All the mechanics and laborers kept
in the service of the road are to have
their pay cut down Is per cent.
Ex-Governor, John M. Palmer, the
leading Democrat, of Illinois, pro-
nounces himself, an @old-fashioned
hard money man." opposing the fur
Their Issue of paper currency. and ex-
pressing the opinion that the sche-
ming politicians in Congress cannot
safely be trusted with the power to
regulate the currency.
A drug clerk, who has had four
teen years experience at the bust
ness, and is now only receiving four
teen dollars week, though he works
eighteen hours, out of twenty four,
writes to the New York Times to
suggest that il clerks were better
paid, druggists would have no diff
fculty in seeking competent ones.