The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-03-13

lfOOO Cninese were baptlssd into the
Methodist church.
Chinese immigration to the United
States in the last twenty Eve years
has not exceeded 100000.
A Boston leather firm. which two
years ago settled with its creditors at
fifty cents on the dollar, is paying up
the balance OF its indebtness. with In
terest to date.
A COW hide horse shoe has been In
rroduced which promises to prove
very useful. 1t Is composed Of three
thicknesscs Of COW hide, compressed
into q steel mold. and then subjected
to a chemical preparation.
The salary Of Congressman is S.
600 per annum, and they get no extra
pay foran extra session. Congress may
increase the regular pay OF members.
and has done so several times; but
may not vote itself pay for an extra
session.
Chemists tell US that a single grain
of the substance called iodine will
impart color to seven thousand times
its weight OF water. 1t is so in higher
thirgs-one companion, one book,
one habit may affect the whole life
and character.
1t is very hard to live In this world.
and keep the tenderness, the purity
and trust OF little chill. Happy are
those who do; but, If the petiffy Ing
waters OF deceit and hate aud malice
and ingraiitute harden scme hearts.
who shalllwonder?
After all these 2c3 years come next.
May, Pocahontas will have a mouu.-
ment erected TO her memory. Her
remains are In tomb at Gravesend.
marked simply: @l6l6. May FL, Re-
becca wrolfe wife OF Thoman Wrolfe.
gent, a Virginia lady borne, was bur-
ied;in tho chancel-"
The Scientific American says Mr.
Dana was dreamer. and his country
men reward him with fame. Samuel
Batchelder. it says. was doer, a.
pioneer in the cotton industry, q.
brain worker of singular power, a.
man OF science. an inventor, and yeti
his intensely praeticed countrymen'
have not properly regardet him, andi
his name is not even mentioned ini
the encyclopedias.
Slavery In the empire OF Brazil les
giving way slowly to the "free-birth,
act. OF. 1871. 1t is estimated that
$500 slaves and 10000 children,
have received their freedom since the.
passage OF the law; ;The emancipation
fund has contributed s3.240.0o0. aad'
there is yet remaining S5 G25, 900 Of
the fund to he expended. The law is'
very cumbersome. and many difiiculs-
ties al ise in administering 1t.
Poore's Railway Manual Cor 1875.
10 will show there are nearly S2.O0Oi
miles OF railroad in the United States.
We lead the world i'm the number of
miles OF railway to each inhabitant,.
the proportion being one mile to-
every SIS persons. while In Sweden.
-h;x.h 4. ,ho ,ox< hoof fharo ara l.
66O inhabitants per mile. There
were more miles OF railway laid Ia tho
United States 10 1875 than in any
year since 1872.
The Michigan Car Companys;
works, Detroit, cover twenty-five
acres OF ground. Eleven hundred
men are employed, by whose joint
labors a daily product OF thirty tons
OF car and locomotive castings, sew
enty-flve axles, twenty tons OF
wrought iron and fifteen new cars iss
secured. In addition to all these.
labors, a large number OF cars are re-
paired and all the requisite brassess
and bearings are manufactured.
On Saturday night, about To-
o'clock. a party OF six or eight mask
ed men called at the cabin OF an old
negro named Wooten. living in the
ninth district, eight miles from Man.
chester, Tenn, and demanded ac-s
mittance, which being refused, they
set fire to the house In two or more
places. Finding that he and his
family twife and four children) would
be burned IL they remained. the cid
man rushed out and was seized ~
the maskers, carried 100 yards or 60
and shot to death.
Eberhard Faber, the leadpenc u
manufactures. died at his residence
in New York on Sunday, aged fifty-
seven years. He was German by
birth. and his father before him was
a manufacturer OF lead-peneils in
Germany. The son established a
branch Of the German house In New
York, under the name OF A. w. Faber.
at first importing pencils from Ger
many, but in 1861 he commenced tho
manufacture OF them in New York.
As years passed he enlarged his bus
mess, and manufactured penholders,
rubber goods. and almost everything
connected with the stationary trade.
At the time OF bis death the entire
product OF rubber factory in New