Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-06-27
NEIGHBORING NOTES.

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The Michigan City car Factory is
enlarging its capacity.
Ripe peaches are in market at La
Porte.
Pierceton will have an old fashion
ed 4th Of July celebration.
South Bend is making great prep
arations for the 4th.
The city debt of Charlottesville has
been reduced S., 400 in the last year.
LaPorte and Valparaiso hold ont
door temperance meetings on Sunday
afternoons.
Hon. John w. Kern of Kokomo
crates at Valparaiso July 4th.
The Murphy Temperance Society
OF Peru, has reorganized for the sum.
mer campaign.
Wheat harvest has commenced in
the southern and central parts of the
State. The yield promises we'll.
The Whitley county Commercial
says a great deal OF wheat will be
harvested in that county before the
4th Of July.
The LaPorte Argus says Dwight
Merrill has a CotswoId sheep that
weighed 800 pounds after it was
sheared.
An immence Temperance camp
meeting is to be held on DR.. Collins
beautiful grounds at LaPorte, the
first week in August.
A new company, has been formed
to rebuild the Muzzy g. Sage starch
factory at Elkhart, recently destroyed
by fire. The capital stock is sos, 900.
Burglars entered the store of G.. W.
Lawrence, at North Manchester, last
week, and carried Off about 800
worth OF goods.
The Republicans, that the Green
hackers nominated at Huntington, for
Treasurer and Surveyor informed
the committee that they did not train
in that crowd.
The schooner G.. G. Cooper. with a
cargo of oak lumber has left Michi-
gan City.for Liverpool, England. 1t
10 the intention to ship direct without
reloading.
Michigan City is rejoicing over the
passage of the harbor bill, giving the
city twenty-five thousand dollars for
inside work and fifty thousand dol
lars for outside work.
James Mcdonald, Coroner of Clay
county, beat his wife so badly Mon
day morning that she died shortly
afterward. He fed and has not been
captured.
The Stark County Ledger is In &C.
stacies over the Methodist preacher
at Walkerton, because he does not
wear black gloves and Is not too
proud to work.
The Lebanon Patriot says an ex-
cursion will leave Lafayette Saturday
night for Cincinnati, via Lebanon. and
return Sunday night. Tickets from
Lebanon only $500 round trip.
The Goshen Methodists have built
a new church, with seating capacity
Of 800, at cost Of $4,000. 1t was
dedicated free from debt, Sunday,
June 16. 1873, by Bishop Merrill.
Greenback meetings in Pulaski
County are said to be a failure for
the want of speakers and audiences,
two essentials for successful political
meetings.
The Winamac Democrat boasts
Of one field of corn In that vi
cinity which was knee high and had
been plowed three times, but says
this field Is an exception, and that
most OF the corn looks anything but
promising.
The Warsaw Republican says base
ball has broken out in violent form in
that city, the legal fraternity being
the principal sufferers. The lawyers
OF Warsaw were to play a match game
with the members of the Whitley
county bar, last Friday.
The Wall;erton Visitor of last week,
says the saloon of john Wolfenberger
was entered by some person or per-
sons. and about 1000 cigars taken. A
pair Of new boots were also taken
from the shop Of Mr.. U. T. Townsend
The Albion Ne,u Era Is responsible
for the statement that o. p. Barnum,
OF Albion, has cow four years old,
that gives Sc pounds Of milk per day,
and that William Story OF the same
vicinity has a horse 10 hands. high,
that weighs 1856 pounds.
The Stark County Ledger warns the
teachers Of that county to be careful
and not overstep the law In admins
tering corporal punishment, because
il they do they will be prosecuted by
parents who never govern their chill
dred at home and do not want them
governed at school.
Mrs. Emma Malloy delivered q
temperance address at Valparaiso,
Sunday, June 16, to an immence au-
dience. She spoke two hours and
ten minutes and the Messenger says
the address was the ablest, most ear
nest and convincing ever delivered
In Valparaiso in the interest OF re-
form.
| In the eleventh Indiana District.