The Plymouth Republican., 1879-02-20
NelghbOrh00d Notes.

NelgnpOrnOOa NoteS.
Potatoes retail In Knox at 80 cents
per bushel.
The Porter County Vidette says
the western fever has secured a mum.
Der OF victims in that county.
Mrs. Emma Malloy delivered Iec-
ture at South Bend. Tuesday night,
on the Highways and Byways OF Lon
don.
Schuyler Colfax, who has been
dangerously i'll Of erysipelas, is now
able to sit up and read little aud is
considered out OF danger.
The Valparaiso Messenger seems to
exult over the Democratic editors
who failed to secure office at the
hands Of the legislature.
Jacob Hattel, a general merchant,
at New Paris, Elkhart county, has
made an assignment. Liabilities be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Assets not
stated.
r. j. Burdette, OF the Burlington
Ha,ckeye, lectures at the NJ. E. church
at New Carlisle, Wednesday evening,
February 26, upon "The pilgrimage
OF the funny man."
G. W. Gard, OF Warsaw, was last
week sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years for obtaining goods un-
der false pretences. A motion was
made for q new trial.
A frugal South Bend widower is
said to have requested the underta-
ker to remove the silver handles from
his late wife's coffin after it was low
cred into the grave, and make q suit.
able rebate on his bill.
The $4,000 libel suit OF 7. E. Bal.
lard against T. H. B. Mccain, of the
Charlottesville Journal, which was
set for trial Monday, has been taken
to Lafayette on change Of venue
The LaPorte Herald says LaPorte
county can beat the world on big ba-
bies, and in support Of this declars-
tion, says Mrs. VIM. Lumbard, ol
Coolspring township, last Saturday
night, gave birth to a sixteen pound
boy.
The Rochester Spy says: @Col.
Hurlburt, the big fraud who drew
pictures and harangued the Rochester
people at Opera Hall last week, un'
der the guise OF temperance, got Out
OF town between two days and "for'
got" to pay his hall rent. He is {
regular "dead beat"
A Fulton county farmer loaded W
load Of wheat one day last weel
and drove to Logansport. and And
ing everything quiet made inquiry a
to the cause and discovered it wa
Sunday. 1t makes US weep to Sc,
the moral and intellectual darkness
that broods over Fulton county
Peru Republican.
Edward Vandosen, the operator a
Washington Heights, formerly o
North Judson, while coupling tn,
cars on Friday last, got bis foot fas
in the rail and before he could extri
cate 1t, was run over and cut t,
pieces. The coupling OF cars was N
part OF the young mans business, an,
he was doing the work merely t
show how easily it was effected. II
leaves a wife and one child. He wa
buried at North Judson on Saturda
Winamdc Democrat.
An important change has beel
made in the old and well-know
clothing house OF Lauierty & Elsor
Mr.. Jos. Lauferty, who has been iiv
ing in New York City for some time
has retired from the firm. and is sue
ceeded by Louie and Simon Becker
the former OF whom has been
clerk in the establishment for a mum
ber OF years. The style of the ne'
firm is Elson s. Goshe
Times.
Jacob Reprogle, who lives on tn
Michigan City road near the Sunni
where he has resided for forty-thre
years, alighted from his horse on
day about forty years ago, pulled u
pine sprout. and, taking 1t HON,
set it out. Last week, althoug
more than eighty years OF age, b
cut It down, and 1t made a log TWEEN
ty one feet long and twenty four In
ches in diameter. After THROWN
away eight feet OF the butt. whic
was injured by lightning, l.. T. Hard
ing, to whose mill the log was haule
at Pine lake, obtained 500 feet G
lumber from it.--LdPOrte Chronicl
Moses Mckee, a citizen of Henr
township, has been sadly afflicted 70
some time with ock-jaw, and 1t
now said that a knife blade can scarce
ly be forced between his teeth. Fol-
tunately some six months ago b
suffered with a very severe toot
ache, but at that time he could nc
get his mouth open far enough I
have the offending molar pulled. bu
1t must come out, so 1t and an ad
joining tooth was knocked out, @
rather broken OF by some enterprii
ing doctor, and through this excava
ton sufficient food can now be force