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

1 Inc pOpulatl0n OF Manitoba is In
creasing at the rate of about ], 900 pei
week.
Greece contains 100000 people
an increase of million since her in
dependence.
The question is settled. George L.
Smith has been confirmed as collec-
tor Of customs at New Orleans.
Asix-year old child at St.Stephens
n. B., was Instantly killed the other
day by falling upon pair of scissors
which penetrated her heart.
Decoration day will be observed al
Gettysburg. General Butler deliv-
ering the grafton and the President
and Postmaster Key being present.
The st. Louis papers announce
that the sub treasury there has com
menced paying out silver dollars
The supply on hand was far less than
the demand.
The st. Louis Journal thinks the
election Of a Republican House OF
Representatives next fall would in
sure the election of a Republican
President in 1880.
Sc. Cummings, who had furnished
the revenue officers with informa-
ton. was shot last Wednesday night,
by an known person at his house, in
Baldwin county, Georgia.
Miss Cameron, the elder daughter
OF the Senator, is a smart business
girl. She owns a farm in her own
right, and gives personal attention
and supervision to all the accounts
connected with it.
Communistic organizations are re-
ported simultaneously in Chicago,
Cincinnati, and St Louis, and pre-
cautionary measures are being taken
in each of these cities against appre-
hended trouble.
The Duchess de Chanloes, Madame
de Montebello and Madame de Fols-
ter are called the three graces Of Par
is. The latter is queen Of the trio.
She has head and face like those OF
marvellously beautiful boy.
One Of Anna E. Dickson's brothers,
Rev. Edwin Dickson, died last Satur-
day, at Pittston. He asked that
some one would sing to him just be-
fore he died, and Miss Abbott, who
was ins.town, came and cheered his
last hours with her exquisite singing.
An Englishman Is about to bring
out an article by which he will prove
to the satisfaction OF all that Thomas
Parr, who is said to have lived to the
age OF 152. really died at 112. he
will also show that many of the sto-
ries told Of him are pure inventions
On Tuesday last the First National
Bank Of Springfield. Illinois, sold &c.,
600 Of the four percent, government
bonds, mostly to farmers and trus-
tees of estates The reported daily
sales of the bonds indicate that the
dsmand for them is steadily increas-
ing.
Since the passage Of the act grant
ing pensions to survivors OF the war
Of 1912. the commissioner Of pensions
has received applications from 6,00O
persons who claim the benefit OF the
law. There are more long-lived
people in this country than any per-
son imagined.
There is plenty Of ugly gossip about
the Duke of Edinburg. Not only did
he become involved in an intrigue
with woman at Malta, but 1t Is as
serted that he gave away" the gov
ernment to the Russian officers, and
disclosed all he knew about the war
preparations, including the positions
Of torpedoes.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett has
sent a trained seaman to England to
bring to the United States the steam
yacht Pandora, which he purchased q
few months ago for Arctic exploring
purposes. Mr.. Bennett has decided to
fit the yacht out for the proposed ex-
pedition at New York, and dispatch
her from that port.
4 correspondent OF the New York
Evening Post. writing from Toxic
under date OF April 5th. says: The
famine in the north Of China RACES
with unceasing severity and the most
dreadful reports come from the af-
flicted regions. In one town a man
opened a shop for the sale OF human
flesh, and did a good business in
cannibalistic joints OF roast, till the
local mandarins had him arrested
and beheaded.
The first general bankrupt law in
this country was passed in 1900, and
repealedin 1903; the second was pass.
ed in 1641, and repealed in 1913; the
present one was passed in 1867, but
has been materially amended two oI
three times since its passage, and In
every instance amended for the
worse.
The question is. Is that mysteri.
Gus vessel Off the coast OF Maine
loaded with Russian marines, and, Il
SO. where do they expect to strike
first? Washington is excited over it
and thinks the men aboard the yes
sci certainly compose Russian ma.
| val force. to be used some way against