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

sometime, was tried, Tuesday, in the
Circuit Court, and acquitted of every
charge brought against him; there
being no evidence, according to the
opinion of the jury. that he was guilty
of doing wrong.
There is one man in this city who
is not sorry that the forty fifth Con-
gress had an existence. that man is
Capt. J. NJ. Beeber. After sixteen
years he gets an appropriation Of
about two thousand dollars TO pay
him for his services as an officer in
the Union army, for which he had
not previously received anything.
Superintendent Bailey and Prof
Langenbaugh, coming home from in
stitute. Saturday night. lost their
road in North township and ran into
II marsh. After trying in vain TO get
around it, they "histed" their pants
and waded it. The marsh was prob
ably not over half mile wide, but
Bailey and Langenbaugh think that
they waded about three miles.
A little boy, son of Hiram Work.
who resides on Walnut street between
Adams and Washington, was drowned
Tuesday morning, by falling into a
rain water barrel, which was sunk in
the ground about one half its depth.
1t is supposed that be climbed on the
barrel and fell in head first. He had
been playing in the yard short time
before he was found.
The Indianapolis Journal says,
Senator Reeve no longer writes Dem
ocrat" opposite his name in albums.
Opposite the word politics lie now
writes the void Independent" The
Senator sees where his party is going
10, and while he may not be afraid OF
the Devil, he does not want to go there.
Yet lie has done as much to ruin his
party during the present session as
any other one man.
Mr.. Mayer Wolf, of the firm OF
Becker & Wolf, left for New York,
Monday. In conversation with him
previous to Lis departure, we learn
that he will purchase very complete
line of dry goods. This live firm is
always first to introduce all the new
and seasonable novelties, and having
the largest and best selected stock Of
goods in the city, their spring trade
will 10 doubt be immense.
The Colfax Chronicle tells about
man who got too poor to take the
county paper, bat as he smoked, lis
wife concluded that he was too poor
to buy tobacco, and informed him
that she thought it would be as Diff
cult for her TO do without the paper
as it would be for him to do without
tobacco; that il was luxury which,
considering their poverty and the
hard times, she thought ought 70 be
dispensed with. He renewed for the
paper the next day.
The next day after Nicholas
Vale was swindled, the same set OF
sharpers talked man In Pulaski
county into signing a note for 1850 90
Perhaps people will sometime learn
TO fight shy OK strangers who offer
them big bonauzas TO act us agents:
or at least they may Learn not TO but
their names to note in the hands Of
strangers. As we have said before,
never sign any pa err the contents OF
which you do not thoroughly under
stand.
L. G. Wright. many years ago a
resident OF Plymouth, and brother
OF Geo. w. Wright. whom almost
erybody in the city knows. was in
Plymouth short time since, and
called at our Office. He now resides
in Livingston county, Illinois, thinks
that is "a good country, but he Gays
many OF the best farmers having
gone in debt and mortgaged their
farms to eastern money lenders,
makes times hard, and money scarce
in that part OF the country.
The Democrat Of last week says
we have specie payments only on one
half acre OF all this broad land, and
that ia sums Of $50 at the Sub Treas
ury in New York, That may be the
case with the Democrat, but we have
specie payment right lere in Plym-
outh. Only Monday OF last week, A.
Badgley, OF Argos, came in and paid
for his paper in gold, and almost half
OF our subscribers pay in silver. We
asked subscriber the other day, il
he wanted two dollars and hall, in
gold, in change, when he handed us
five-dollar greenback, and he replied
that he would rather have greenbacks.
We have warned our readers
number OF times TO be on their guard
against swindlers and dead beats,
but We understand that a new swim
die was perpetrated on quite num-
Der OF our citizens in Chicago last
week, that was 81 transparent, that it
seems strange that any one should be
so verdant as not to see it. Brick
Pomeroy, who has swindled the Green
back clubs out Of more money than