The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-05-15
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NANONCQ luCl1 COuuClliitJ.
The Republicans made a clean
sweep at Mishawaka last week
Elkhart Republicans elected every
man on their ticket by good MAORI
ties.
Mrs. Emma Molloy is the assistant
editor of new temperance paper
started in New York.
The Citizens ticket was elected in
Winamac Last week with the excep-
ton OF Marshal.
The Southern Michigan and North
ern Indiana Trotting Circuit. will
hold spring meeting at Elkhart on
the IS h. 20 h and 30th of this month.
The corporation election in Knox
was failure last week through an
error OF the Ledger in publishing the
notice, and the old officers will hold
over.
0tOi &c ItilOtt, lOt tin tAlCh-
sive real estate dealer. committed
suicide at Elkhart last Friday morn
in. Financial embarrassment is
supposed TO be the cause.
The second annual anniversary of
the Murphy organization Of Logans-
port, will be celebrated May 3lst,
1879. The temperance people are
making preparations for an immense
gathering.
The trouble with our defeated
Democratic councilmen was that
they drank too much champagne and
talked too much dish water The
frank and file" couldn't stand it,
Valparaiso Messenger.
LaPorte county has recently lost
two OF her most esiimable citizens,
John S. JessuP and james Moore,
both well and widely known through
out the State. Mr. Moore was q
member OF the LaPorte bar, and for
eight years had filed the Office Of
County Clerk.
The Kokomo Dispatch favors a
union Of the Democratic and Green
back parties in 1880. 1t says the
South and West will have a majority
in the Democratic National Conven-
ton, and advises them to make a
platform that will be so pleasing 10
Greenbackers that they will ask for
nothing better.
The Huntington correspondent
OF the Indianapolis journal
mentions the arrival OF n family oil
white refugees from Kentucky, who
say they fled from that country TO es-
cape death by starvation. The
mother Of the family said sho had
lost three children within the last
five months, and that all died hungry
The Commissioners have contract
cd fora Seth Thomas clock, and a bell
for the new Courthouse, and Sc
cured, apparently, very favorable
bargain. The bell is to weigh 1900
pounds. When it peals forth the
people will hear. The bell will soon
bs here TO put up, and the clock is tc
be delivered in August. Lagrange
Standard.
John Best. prominent farmer Ten
miles north OF Valparaiso, committed
suicile last Saturday night by taking
strychnine. Cause domestic trouble
The LaPorto Chronicle says: "a
Michigan City council attended
a meeting of the board last Monday
night, SO drunk that the Mayor sent
him to jill. The councilman was
Obliged TO di)urn, the intoxicated
mans presence being necessary to
Laake quorum"
A marriage license was issued yes
eterday to Ninevah Russell and Ro-
sale Russell, both of Jackson town.
ship. Cupid sometimes delights T.
cut strange capers. but this throws
all others In the shade. The expec.
tant groom is sprightly boy ol
ninety-three, while the bride elect Is
a buxom lass who has watched the
shadows come and go for some
seventy. three seasons. The groom
walked to the city yesterday morn
ing, q distance OF some thirteen
miles, and did his shopping in time
to return to his duckey darling on the
2 p. m train. Major McFadin wrote
him out license for nothing, and the
old gentleman departed as happy as
a boy with a ticket to the Circus
Logdnspott Journal.