The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-07-31
Pen and Scissors.

The first State election this year
will be held in Kentucky. Aua ust 4th.
The loss to Russia this year from
the cattle plague it is said will reach
s2i 900. 600.
The sword OF the great Napoleon Is
now carried by the Zilo negro that
killed the Prince Imperial.
JEFF Davis is busily engaged writ
ing a history OF the rebellion, in
which he figures as the principal
hero.
At the pacing race in Chicago last
week, Sleepy Tom made the fastest
pacing time in the world-a mile 10
2:12f.
The great trial between the two
fastest trotters in the world, Rarus
and Hopeful, took place at Chicago,
last Thursday. Rarus won.
P. E. Studebaker OF South Bend.
ha- started subscription to erect a
stone above the grave OF Lincoln's
mother, IL miles from njckport. He
gives $50.
Leading physicians 10 Memphis are
confident the yellow fever epidemic
this year will by no means equal that
OF last year in severity or continuance.
Time will show whether their hope Is
well-founded.
SLEEPY Ton" the pacing horse
that made the fastest time on record,
at Chic igo, Is stone blind. The fact
that he ca not see even the ground
he treads on adds TO the wonder Of
his perform nee.
1t Is conceded in Washington that
Secretary Sherman's Eastern trip has
been "ten strike" for himself as we'll
AS the Republican party. His friends
freely predict that he will be nomina
ted for President next year.
Cotton is no longer king, having
been dethroned by wheat. During
the eleven months ending May 30
1879, the exports OF wheat from The
United States amounted to 1892 900,
900. and those OF cotton to SI59,000,
900.
The K"ndallyille Standard thinks
Senator Voorhees, will spend his va
cation among the wheat shocks OF
Indiana, hunting for that terrible Fl.
nancial crash" that was to take place
IL the resumption act was not re
pealed.
An article in the Inter Ocean last
week claimed that the Republican
party had its birthplace 10 Illinois.
This l. an error. 1t was born in the
hearts of liberty. loving. upright. hon
est, loyal people. and there were a
good Llany OF them in this State
about that timc.--Northern Indian
ian.
The fate OF the striking spinners at
Fall River. as we'll as the futile strike
OF the Indianapolis printers. has In 1t
lesson often told but seldom needed
by trade organizations. A strike
means loss to one party or the other,
and in ninety nine cases out OF a hun
dred the loss falls ON the least able to
bear 1.-THE strikers.-Ldfayette Jour
nal.
In Akron. Ohio, few days ago. a
husband and wife agreed to commit
suicide together. and procured and
took poison In company. The man
died but the woman lived, Now here
Is nut for the lawyers to crack /:
As suicide is self murder, was not the
woman 10 the case accessory to the
murder OF her husband?
Hammil & Biddle, running a thresh-
ing machine, report to us great
yield OF wheat this season. Last
week they threshed out one hundred
and ten bushels for VIM. Hoke. OF
Green township, from two acres-fif
ty five bushels TO the acre: For VIM.
Oliver, same township. they threshed
one thousand bushels In one day
from twenty-four acres.-South Bend
Herald.
The story is told that Longfellow
and Fields were making a short ped
estrain tour some few years ago,
when to their surprise an angry bull
stood in their pathway. evidently in-
tending to demolish both poet and
publisher. Il Think" said Fields,
that it will be prudent to give this
reviewer wide margin" EYES," re-
piled the poet, 'it appears to be dis,
puted passage.
what is law for?" asks the amiable
Indianapolis NeUs. The fault find
ing Inter Ocean replies: The object
OF making laws seems two fold. One
is to make them so wise aud profound
that 1t takes multitude OF lawyers
and judges to explain what they
mean; and a second and more impor-
tant one is to make delays in settling
valuable estates so that lawyers can