The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-01-23
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

OellDquenL Tax llSC.
Huntington has eight churches and
sixteen saloons.
Starke county paapers are to be
kept by j. W. Seagravss during the
present year, at s1.70 per week.
The starke county Ledger says
corn sells at from 30 to 80 cents q
bushel, or from five to eight cents
more than 1t sells for In Chicago.
Water was turned into the pipes of
the new city water works at Peru
last Saturday. The .engines worked
admirably, and Peru is delighted.
4 gang Of burglars seem to have
been working Grown Point last week.
An entrance into several stores was
effected and attempts made on
others.
The snow Is drifted on the north
and south roatas In some parts Of La
Porte county, to such an extent as
to render 1t necessary to resort to the
fields for passage.
Aaron Fisher, OF Miami county, was
at bis own reqest taken to the insane
asylum last week. His is one OF the
few cases OF insanity where the pa
tient understands his condition.
Rev. Evan Stevenson, we'll known
Methodist minister OF Northwest In
diana, died at Fowler, Benton county,
last Monday night. He was Chaplain
OF the Fifteenth Indiana Regiment
during the war.
Mrs. barrow, a lady SO years OF
age, living in Peru, is having her
third set OF teeth, the last set being
so far grown that she is able to use
them. This is certainly wonderful
freak of nature.
The Waterloo Press says: I'VE
give 1t up on Tom Mays. While We
supposed he was in Colorado print
ing Republican paper, we was cleo
&c House at Indianapolis.
Water in Valparaiso is becoming
scarce. Many families are compelled
| to hire it hauled. Another week or
two without rain, and chalk will find
a ready market. Already We imag-
inc signs out shirt fronts renewed.
Messenger.
Some OF Valparsiso's cruel papas
think the times too hard this winter
for stove in the parlor, and the anx
ious beaux can only look wishfully
into the pleasant sitting room, mon
tally consignins the bothersome par
ents to a warmer place. Videste.
A China mug was exhibited at the
Episcopal social at Kokomo last
week which is said to be three hun
dred years old. 1t belongs to the
Mitchell family, who have = number
OF other relics from eighty to ono
hundred and fifty years old.
The Winnamac Democrat was not
| issued last week. The wife OF DR.
Thomas. the editor, died Sunday,
Jan. 18th, after a short illness. She
was an estimable woman, and the
bereaved husband has the sympathy
Of the entire community,
The Baptist council at Warsaw has
Withdrawn ministerial fellowship
from Rev. A. A. Hopkins, and recon-
mended the church at Warsaw to ex.
clude him from membership. The char
ges against him were lying, impestuIe
and conduct unbeooming a minister
all OF which were sustained.
An old gentleman named DIR. Har-
per, a resident OF Middlebury town.
ship, Elkhart county, for forty years
recently made threats against his
newly married daughter and bel
husband. and was adiudged insane
and taken to the indianapolis Insane
Asylum on Wednesday night.
4 young lady from Michigan at
tracted a great deal OF curiosity on
the street last Saturday from her I'M.
usual size. She is said to be only IA
years old but weighs All pounds
She is visiting relatives in the city
and seems to be in good health, and
her movements denote the usual &C.
tivity.-LaPorte Argus.
Saturday afternoon, while ]. i
Reighard was walking on the slide Of
one Of his ice houses. behind some
Ice which was in the act Of being
stored, the jack slipped, letting foul
cakes OF ice, weighing $50 pounds
each, slide over him. He Was bruised
badly, but mono OF his bones were
broken. He is using crutches.-La
Porte Chronicle.
A widow Leach, living near South
Bend. was very angry the other day
because her son, who had supported
her for many years, wanted to MARI,
the daughter OF a neighbor. The
girls parents objected because Mrs
Leach objected. The couple raj
away to Niles, Michigan, and were
married. Now Mrs. Leach refuses Il
give them home with her.
Major Burger and wife, father ant
mother of Mrs. .Zack Williams, are
here on q visit from their home a
Ripley. Ohio. They are IS and 81