Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-09
NEIGHBORING NOTES.

NEIGHBORING NOTES.
DeKalb County has 6.S1S schoo
children.
Elkhart County boasts of "a
pound baby.
There are 3O7 pupils enrolled in the
public schools of Albion.
Rochester has aboard Of trade
SO says the Independent.
A new Catholic Church will be
dedicated at Avilla, May 10Th.
The Warsaw Union reports fruit
prospect very flattering in that vi
entity.
There is talk Of erecting a new
Methodist Church at Rochester this
summer.
The Steuben County Agricultural
Society will hold series of races at
Angola in June.
The NJ. s. r. R., company are set.
ting out trees at every mile post
along that road.
The Odd Fellows Reunion and
celebration at Mishawaka last Friday
week. was a grand success.
The Kendallville Standard comes
to us this week in a bran new dress
looking as neat and pretty as can be.
While playing with a toy cannon
on Thursday. Elmer Ellinger, of
Elkhart, had one eye blown out, and
was otherwise seriously injured.
1t is estimated that there is annu-
ally expended in Rochester a little
over nine thousand dollars for to-
bacco. and thirty thousand for liquor.
The planking of the business
streets of LaPorte is meeting with
considerable opposition among prop
erty owners along the thorough
fares to be planked.
An unknown tramp was run over
by train west OF Mishawaka, Tues
day week and killed. He had proba-
bly, been stealing ride between two
freight cars, got drowsy, fell off, and
thus lost his life.
A German named William Meink,
an employee Of the LaPorte gas fac
tory, committed suicide'in that city,
Tuesday week ago, while laboring
under temporary insanity.
A masonic temple and opera house
is soon to be built at Fort Wayne, to
cost $4,000. 1t will be four stories
high, the hall being in the Sd and 4th
stories.
Thomas A. Starr has severed his
connection with the Albion Ne,o Era
having purchased a paper in Ohio.
The Nelo Era will be continued by
Mr.. Prickett, the senior partner of the
late firm.
James II. Robinson, owner and
proprietor of the Robinson House,
Fort Wayne, dropped dead Thursday
evening, with heart disease. He was
rs years old and well known as a
hotel man.
The LAGRANGE Standard says that
the people Of LAGRANGE and Elkhart
canuties will probably unanimously
re-elect Judge Woods to the circuit
judgeships in those counties. His
election would be made without re-
gard to party.
A farmer hailing from the vicinity
or Etna Green, came to town on last
Saturday, and while here imbibed
too freely of the ardent and in that
condition snapped very good look
ing mule said to be worth from eighty
five to hundred dollars for a very
inferior bay horse; not satisfied with
the bad bargain he had made he ira
ded again with worse result than the
first time. He was pretty full OF
whisky when he left town for home
but at least fifty dollars poorer in the
value OF horse flesh. Too much
whisky makes a fool of a man.
WdrsdtC Union.
The first National Bank Of this city
now has on exhibition, in one OF its
large show windows, quite a natural
curiosity, attracting much attention,
in the way OF an elm knot, which very
much resembles young bullock's
head, showing the shape of the neck,
head, face, nose and ears quite plain
ly. so much so, that every one seeing
it is forcibly reminded, without any
imagination, of its striking likeness
to an animals head. This natural
curiosity, we learn, was procured by
Enoch Edwards at considerable ex-
pense from an old Indian chief, of the
Pottawattamie tribe, by whom 1t was
owned and kept for nearly forty
years, and was worshipped by him
self and tribe as heather idol, sup
posed to possess great curative pow
ers by simply looking upon it. 1t
certainly Is quite curiosity, and we'll
worth a visit to see.-Valparaiso
Messenger.