The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-05-29
Pen and Scissors.

Friday.
A young girl at Peoria. ILL.,, Is dea
and dumb from fright at some roughs
tematpting to outrage her.
Elk Congressman Rainey has been
appointed Internal Revenue Agent,
and sent to New York City.
The United States Senate adjourn.
ed last Wednesday until Friday so as
to attend horse race at Baltimore.
Gilmore's Garden, Now York, has
been bought by company Of brew
ers and will be run as beer garden.
1t Is reported that an entire change
of management Is to be made In the
Indianapolis. Bloomington & West
ern Railroad.
The will OF the late Asa Packer, OF
Uniontown. Pa, bequeaths 81. 1896. 900
TO charitable, educational, and re-
ligious institutions.
Texas owes 100000. The legis-
lature Is to meet in extra session
June 10th to wrsstle with the debt
and school question.
The London Times says the adop-
ton OF the California constitution is
a surprise to the world, and that 1t
will produce wide spread ruin.
A man in Wayne county Is deliber-
ately starving himself to death be-
cause he was dismissed from church
for marrying divorced woman.
Up to this time the extra session OF
Congress has cost the country about
four hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. A big price to pay for wind.
Miss NJ. E. Buddington and Mr.,
Lou W. Walker, Beaver Dam, Wis.
we're married by telegraph, Thursday
evening. the groom being absent in
Minnesota.
The urderberg Mine, at George
town, Cal, has been sold to New
York capitalists for 100000. II Is
| ono OF the best silver mines Ia the
world, and Is producing $1,000 week.
Every member OF Congress voting
against the appointment OF q com
mittee to investate the liquor traffic,
in response to the request OF the
temperance people OF the country,
was a Democrat.
The Peoria National Democrat ad-
vises its Democratic friends not to
worry about Grant. but to do their
growing, grumbling, and swearing
at Sherman, as he is sure to be the
Republican candidate for President.
The average salary OF Methodist
ministers In fourteen Southern con-
ferences is said TO be 1872 and the
average amount paid s43S. In North
ern conferences the average Is 500.
and the deficiency 10 payments about
IL pei cent.
1t Is important to remember that
the Democrats forced the extra ses-
sion, which costs the country ovcr
$4,000 per day, and that for more
than two months they have refused
to pass the appropriation bills with
out political riders.
The Senate amendments to the
general appropriation bill increased
the appropriations s94 500. and OF
this increase 81, 400 was in the sala-
ries Of Senate employees. This is an
outrage. The salaries OF all the Sen
ate employees are much too high al
ready.
A stone wall, a thousand feet high
all around the Indian territory,
wouldn't keep the land grabbers out
OF it a great while. The red man
must go, and. II he objects, why, call
him red devil" and massacre his
women and children. That Is the
way to promote Boston
Herald.
A comparison OF the receipts and
expenditures Of the postoflice depart
ment shows an excess OF the latter
over the former In every Southern
State, the total excess 10 eleven
States being $2.O29,Os4. In seven
Northern States there Is an excess Of
receipts over expenditures. the total
excess being $2,692,1l3.
A colored man named VIM. Nelson
has been sentenced by the Terre
Haute criminal court to the peniten-
tiary for one year and to pay a fine
ofsl 900 for marrying a white woman.
II he had lived with her without
marrying he cJuld have rem aimed In
peace. This thing called law Is a
queer animal.
The British Government has pur-
chased a number OF 100 ton guns
from Sir William Armstrong; they
are now being received at the Wool.
wich Arsenal. Two OF those received
when tested will be sent to Malta and
two to Gibralter. The Government
has also itself commenced the con-
struction Of IsO-ton gun, the pat
terms having been completed.
Secretary Sherman writes to a
friend. under date OF Nay TO- saying
that the movement to make him
Governor OF Ohio was merely SEN