Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-04-18
YEIGHBORISG NOTES.

their Sundays playing base ball.
The cigar manufactures of Fort
Wayne sell 10000 cigars per month.
The Kokomo Dispatch reports crop
prospects as splendid in Howard
County.
1t cost LAGRANGE County $4,000 to
send jerks, murderer, to peniten-
tiary for life.
Two Auburn gentlemen, assisted
by terriers, recently killed 60 rats in
twenty minutes.
Two women in Valparaiso had a
fight the other day. There was a
man "at the bottom of it,"
For the year ending April LIST, it
cost s2S2.2l2.71, to carry on the Fort
Wayne city government.
Both papers at Valparaiso COM
plain of young ladies who edo moro
counting than their fellows"
Schuyler Colfax and wife, expect
soon to take trip to Utah and
Colorado, remaining until July.
A son of Isaac W. Snyder, in Gosh
en-, was kicked in the face, Thursday
evening, by horse and fatally in
jured.
A tramp at South Bend recently
left with a Tribune reporter a COM
plete set OF molds for manufacturing
nickels.
The six weeks session of the Elk
hart County Court just adjourned,
cost the County $3.50, 5000 of which
goes to the jurors.
The tow and bagging factory of
Torrey & Coyle, at Peru, was partial
ly destroyed by fire Friday morning.
Loss about $4,000.
A fire at Albion, Noble County,
Sunday the 7th inst, destroyed ten
business houses and one dwelling.
Loss $4,000. No insurance.
Arrangements have been made by
which a steamer is run daily be-
tween Michigan City and Chicago,
leaving the former place in the
morning and returning at night.
Mrs. Eliza Smith, an old lady of
Mishawaka, eighty years Of age, and
well known throughout st. Joseph
County, dropped dead from heart
disease, last Wednesday morning.
Two counterfeiters, John LaDgdon,
and Charles Baden, were captured at
Rochester, Saturday night, by Sher-
III Ward. Eight hundred counter
felt trade dollars were found in their
possession.
Benns, the Howard County wife
murderer, received sentence for the
fourth time, Saturday morning. This
time the judge sentenced him for
life. His attorneys have appealed to
the Supreme Court for n re-opening
of the case.
A five year old son OF Scott Eng
land, living at Middlebury, Elkhart
County, placed parlor match be-
tween his teeth, on Tuesday, in such
a manner as to ignite, causing the
little fellow to inhale the sulphur
which killed him.
The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and
Chicago Railroad Company is re-
ceiving proposals from all the car
builders in the country for the con-
struction of 1000 new box cars, to be
finished at as early a date as posi-
BILE. The company is now building
500 freight cars at the Fort Wayne
shops.
An unknown man committed sui
cided on the eastward bound pas
senger train on the Wabash road
just below Waverly, about IL o'clock
Friday. He had in his possession q
ticket from Danville, Illinois, to
York. Pennsylvania, a gold watch
$40 in money, a small valise and
some letters, which indicated his
name to be George s. Chaplin.
Abou. one o'clock, Thursday, John
Irvine, at Mier, three miles east Of
Xenia, in Miami County, discovered
three men in his store drilling his
safe open. He gave the alarm, and
they shot at him and fled, leaving G
kit OF burglars tools behind them
but took with them a gold watch
and some other small articles OF val.
ue which they found in the store.
Says the Walkerton Visitor: Or
Sunday last a tramp entered the
residence OF s. ID. Tingley, farmer
residing one mile from this place
and took from bureau a wallet con
tanning note Of hand, for 500, ant
steel engraved check duplicated o.
5000. drawn on Barring Bros, of st
Louis. The fellow threw away the
note after going a short dis
lance. There may have been othel
papers Of value in the wallet, but Mr.
Tingley does not remember them.
Speaking OF tramps, the LaPort,
Herald says: "One OF our citizens
OF muscular proclivities having one
day seen tramp throw some bread
and butter, given by his wife, in ;
ditch. on his turning to leave, in
formed him that he couldn't do sc
until he had eaten his lunch, at risl
of his physical health. The tramp
took the measure of his benefactor
and concluded he had better do SO
under the circumstances.
| A tobacco peddler named Free