Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-03-14
NEIGHBORING NOTES.

uibOu OOuuJy mas eleVcn post
offices.
Rochester schools had a vacation
last week.
LAGRANGE has a new school house
costing over $4,000.
Valparaiso has three brass bands.
Happy Valparaiso.
Columbia City is to have a new
Methodist church.
Michael Cline, prominent citizen
Of Steuben County, died last week.
st. Joseph County is having plenty
Of sensations, murders, suicides, etc.
Michigan City acted the fool last
week by having a genuine Mardi
Gras.
Joseph Phillips we'll to do farmer
residing near Mishawaka suicided
last Friday by hanging himself.
Business troubles.
Will the Porter County Vidette
please interpret the last five or six
items in their neighboring news of
last week?
Henry Watterson, editor of the
Coitrier-Jo,trndl, Louisville, lectured
at Logansport last Monday evening.
The p. Fl. s. G. R. R. shops at Fit.
Wayne are doing large amount Of
business and new hands are being
employed every day.
Indianapolis has a new gas COM
pany upon whose head she can
shower curses loud and deep.
A Goshen lady, Mrs. Carrie Lor-
ing Baues, has made her debut on
the lecture platform. Her subject is
woman on Life's Battle Field"
A Fort Wayne man has invented
a mud wagon, on which it is said five
or ten tons can be pulled by single
team over the worst roads.
A new paper, the Eel Riuer Talley
Ne,cs, comes to our table this week
and wants to exchange" 1t is six
column, four page sheet, neatly
printed, and is published by W. T.
Cutshall at North Manchester.
William Dillon, freight brakeman,
was fatally injured at Valparaiso ear
ly Friday morning. When his train
arrived there he went between the
cars to couple them together and
was very seriously crushed in the alb
domen, causing internal injuries.
He was young man and unmarried.
An extensive wheat grower, with
whom we were in conversation a few
days since, informed US that he had
not seen wheat more promising du-
ring the past twenty years than it is
at present. He gives it as his opin-
ion that no damage will occur to the
crop this season.-Valpdrdiso Vidette
A woman left her baby on the car
seat and stepped off the train to get
some breakfast, at the eating house,
last Friday morning. The train went
off and left her and she was nearly
insane for time, but q telegram
stopped the baby at Otis and it was
returned to her.-LaPorte Argus.
The body of Henry F. Porter. for
merly superintendent OF the carriage
department OF Studebaker Bros,
Manufacturing company at South
Bend was found last Friday in the
river by some fisherman. 1t is sup
posed Porter committed suicide.
His disappearance took place Feb.
9th.
A church was struck by lightning
at Leitefs ford, ten miles west OF
Rochester. during services last
Thursday night. Two men named
Beddinger and King were present,
making loud and scoffing remarks.
Beddinger was instantly killed by the
shock, and the soles of Kings feet
were burned to blisters. When King
recovered consciousness, he professed
repentance then and there.
Leve J. Law, of South Bend scduced
respectable girl named Hamlin, under
promise of marriage, but put off the day
from time TO time until she became des-
perate and attempted suicide, but he pre-
vented it. He then went to Michigan and
married lady who was engaged to be
married next day to a man in Warsaw.
When he returned to South Bend with
his bride, he was arrested and placed un-
der bonds. Miss Hamliu then went to
the hotel where he was stopping, and shot
twice at him with no other effect than
burning his hands and face. lie tried to
have her arrested. but could find no officer
who would serve the warrant, and so the
matter stands.
In an alteration a; Kokomo, Saturday
night, over some lewd women, a tramp
stabbed a man named Dillon twice in the
side, infiicting ugly wounds.
Saturday afternoon VIM McGraw and
Charles Spurgeon, while out hunting, two
miles south of Santa Fe, Miami county.
began shooting at mark. Sturgeon
shot, then reloaded the gun for McGraw,
and when he shot the brecch-pin blew
out, entering his head above the right eye,
killing him instantly.
Mr.. David F. Nicholson, living east of
Charlestown, Clark county, raised two
ears of corn last year which contained an
aggregate of 1900 grains. All the corn
on his farm was nearly as fine as this.
These two ears Of corn would make a
pint OF whisky or enough corn bread to
supply small family two days We
might go on to enumerate. but this will
suffice to show the world the kind of com