The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-06
Items or Interest.


working classes all over Switzerland.
Forty houses were demolished at
Lockport, Texas, by a tornado on
Sunday.
1t is said that the new patent law
cannot be got through both houses
OF congress this session f.r want OF
time.
Seven thousand miners are Idle in
Durham County England. The dis
tress is unequaled since the great
strike iu 1874.
The Senate Finance Committee, by
vote, decided TO recommend the re-
duction OF the tobacco tax from 81 to
20 cents per pound.
The striking weayers Of Kensing-
ton. near Philadelphia, after stand
ing out" three months, and losing
$37. .O00. have now asked to be taken
back.
Prot n p. Hill, the Senator elect
from Colorado. was for several years
connected with Brown University, at
Providence, r. l., as professor Of
chemistry.
The entire sale OF public lands
government. railroad and state--dur-
ing the last year was ii .292 2i6 acres
This Is large excess over the sales
for 1872. the year preceding the
panic.
Justice Hunt Is improving. He is
now able to sit up In bed and hear
the newspapers read. Tnis Is regard
ed as unpleasant news for the appli-
cants who look forward to Hunts
place on the bench.
BY boiler explosions alone in 1878
one hundred and thirty nine persons
were killed and one hundred and
eighteen wounded. or the latter
there IL little doubt that several died
from the effects OF their injuries.
Margaret Cunningham, Of jackson
county, Ind, an old, whhered and
sin-stained woman, who has num-
ber Of illegitimate daughters. has
ust fallen heir to $4,000 by the death
Of her grandfather in Missouri.
Greene Clay Smith is about to open
an inn at Frankfort, Kentucky. A
temperance inn in a Kentucky town
seems like an absurdity. yet Greene
Clay was the last temperance candi-
date for President OF the Uuited
States.
The Chinease in California are TO.
ported to have contributed more for
the relief of the yellow fever sufferers
last summer than was contributed by
the whole United States for the relief
Of suffering from the great famine In
China.
The corn crop OF the United States
last year showed AN increase Of co.
900, 900 bushels, barley increased IT,
OOO. 900 bushels: of oats there was a
large increase; potatoes fell of from
l7O,OOO,0O0 bushels of the previous
year to l24, 4,OO0, 900 bushels.
The passage OF the back pension
act gives new prominence to the ar
guments 10 favor of a restoration OF
the income-tax. Secretary Sherman
thinks ten million dollars year can
be raised in this way with less burden
to the people than in any other.
At a Democratic caucus, OF Con.
gressmen, last week, resolutions
were adopted declaring for the re-.
striction OF Chinese immigration, foI
a modification OF the Burlingame
treaty. and urging the passage OF d
bill prohibitinga any vesse! frou
bringing more than fifteen Chinese al
one time.
The quantity of grain in store In
Chicago at present Is IL, 7S2. .SO2 bush.
els; same time last year, only 3.259, ,95t
bushels. There is also afioat In the
harbor, and not included in the above
statement OF grain at present In store
459,S30 bushels. The quantity II
store at Milwaukee at present Is 4,
1913 AL bushels.
Hon. George G.. Vest, who will rep
resent Missouri in the United States
Senate for six years from thu
4th OF next March. Is aKentuckian b,
birth, and was leader OF the Mis-
souri, secessiopists, a member OF tn,
Confederate Congress In 1861, and {
Confederate Senator In 1864.
The Indianapolis Ne,cs says tn,
students OF the Evansville medica
college got into q row during q lee
ture by Professor Stillson on th
brain. and pelted each other Wit
, portions of the brain OF the dwarf
, Jim Porter, running that anstomica
, specimen and putting an end to tn
Z lecture.
} The total revenue col eoted In In
: diana during the year 1878 was IS.
, 7l0O24, Of which distilled liquor
paid $5.l2S,025. fermented liquors
$lsl,1l tobacco. $sOa5S6. and bank
and bankers s69,565. From 1862 t
1878. inclusive, Indiana has paid in
ternal revenue taxes amounting t
$72, 6G4,55S.