Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-07-18
Items Of Interest.

And the bark that has waited long,
Shall wait for the wind no more
Items Of Interest.
The United States pays annually
to other countries $100,000,000 for
sugar and molasses.
In his Fourth of July speech, Hugh
McCulloch said there must be no
sympathy with the doctrine advanced
by some clergymen that starvation is
a means OF grace.
A new kind of steeple-ch chase has
been gotten up in Cohoes, N. Y. In
the latter part of this month couple
of men will climb steeple 800 feet
high for a wager Of $50.
Laura Bridgman, who is blind, deaf
and dumb. is now over forty.eight
years old, but does not look over
thirty. She is still as busy as ever,
learning, working and teaching, and
is said to be well contented.
The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon takes Col
onel Bob Ingersoll down the bank
thus: II should do nothing to con-
vert such a man as Colonel Ingersoll.
He is a green watermelon. The more
he abounds the sooner the public will
turn from him."
Present indications are that the
car-builders are now to have their
harvest. Quite a number of Western
roads have already given orders for
box-cars adapted to carrying grain or
merchandise, most OF which will be
used in increasing their quotas with
the fast freight lines.
Wilbur F. Story of the Chicago
Times, has not profited by his trip to
Europe. On the contrary, while trav.
cling in Switzerland he suffered a Sc
we're paralytic stroke, and is now in
Paris, undergoing treatment. He has
only partial control of his lower
limbs. He will return home about
the 1st of August.
The railroads of the United States
have in use 3,50O,0O0 car-wheels.
Those on fast passenger trains are re-
newed every ten months; but freight
cars use the same wheels sometimes
ten years. The average life OF a
wheel is $4,000 miles, and at that rate
it takes 100000 year, at cost, less
the old wheels. Of $6,0OO.000.
The recent extremely warm wealth
er has greatly improved the prospect
for a good corn crop, and farmers who
were holding on to their last years
crop until they knew to some extent
what this years crop would be, are
now beginning to ship quite largely.
and the through lines are beginning
to feel it, the increase in business be-
ing quite perceptible.
The old story of the existence Of
immense coal beds underlying the
Minnesota prairies has again been re-
vived. A number Of spectators have
bought land and propose to COM
menee operations In Union county;
but the Pioneer Press, OF st. Paul,
has no faith In the reliability Of the
reports.
Indians are killing the settlers In
the Tigh valley. about forty miles
from the Dalles, Oregon. Part OF the
Warm Spring Indians are on the war
path, and many whites were saved
from them by the rapid riding OF the
friendly half-breeds, who warned
them Of the uprising.
Horrible details OF the famine in
northern China accumulate from all
sources. Chinese authorities esti-
mate that 100000 people haye died
OF starvation, and the most revolving
crimes have become habitual in or
der that the stronger may live upon
the weaker.
A broom factory nearly completed.
was demolished by>a hurricane which
swept through Amsterdam. New York,
Wednesday afternoon. Nine work.
men were buried in the ruins. Rob-
ert Bergen, Frank Hart and Patrick
Eagan were fatally, and the rest Sc
verelv injured. Several other build
ings were damaged.
Stanley takes no exercise, drinks
nothing but tea, writes from morning
until night upon little African stool
about eight inches high at a table
less than two feet in height, and has
tremendous litter of books. papers
and maps in his apartment, which he
will not allow to be moved even to be
busted.
The indications at the treasury con-
tinue to show that the government Is
making every possible effort to pre-.
pare for resumption. Treasurer Gil.
filIan has gone to join Secretary Sher'
man at New York. to confer upon the
subject. Gilfllan himself, before
leaving, expressed the opinion thai
the treasury is in good condition fol
resumption.
The convention in Washington ter
ritory, assembled to frame constitu
ton on which to ask admission as |
state, have reached two questions
One OF these is in regard to giving
suffrage to women as well as men
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