The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-05-08
Items OF Interest.


this country from India. consigned to
Barpum.
One drinking saloon for every
twenty five male admits is said to be
the proportion in New York city.
A young lady in Hartford, CT, has
been badly POISONED by the anilne
dye in a new blue veil that she wore.
General Dix was a scholar as well
as politician. His metrical render
ing OF the famous Latin hymn. Dies
I.@. is Of remarkable merit.
Parole, ~the little brown geldiug,"
commenced his first race In England
with odds of 40 to against him, and
his last one with 10 in his favor.
New Orleans has got rid of a half
million OF its debt, by going quietly
into the market and buying up its
bonds in small Quantities at % cents
on the dollar.
A human goose, named ODonnell,
OF Madison, Ind, lately accom- lish.
ed the carnibalistic feat OF eating
twenty-four boiled goose eggs inside
OF thirty minutes.
Accounts from all parts OF Michigan
report the weather very dry. In the
lumber districts log driving has come
to dead stop in some streams on ac-
count OF lack Of water.
The Rev. ]. W. Cole has been shut
out OF his Methodist pulpit in Charlie
mont, Mass, because be disciplined
his wife with horsewhip when she
refused to heaI him preach.
Bob Ingersoll proposes to give ST.
600 down and half his income for the
next five years in aid Of the negro
emigrants to the west. Pretty good
for an "intidle"-Mishauaka Enter
prise.
America has now the fastest walk
ere. the fastest horses, the fastest
young men, the fastest bank cashiers,
and the fairest young womsa in the
universe. Aud yet we are not salts
| fed.
Cremation Is gaining ground in
Germany as well as in Italy. Ham
burg has followed the example of
Gotha, in authorizing its practice. at
the option Of the friends OF deceased
persons.
An elephant died recently 10 Calcut-
ia which is said to have been ridden
by Warren Hastings when Governor
general of India, a hundred years
ago. He may probably have been
afty years old at the time.
The first public school In Philadel-
phia for colored children, with colored
teachers. was dedicated last week.
The school Is called Cato, in honor
OF a young colored teacher murdered
10 Pbilaielphil on the day when ne
grots first exercised the right to
vote.
The New York Tribune gives the
opinion OF ex Gov. Palmer of Illinois
on the next campaign, as follows: NJ
organization In either party as yet in
Illinois Is looking to candidates ia
1880. Among republicans the talk is
mostly for Grant. general preference
Is for Sherman.
In the last report issued by the
Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
pital. the mortality cf the city OF
Washington Is larger than that Of any
city In the Union, being thrse pei
cent. greater than Memphis. aad
ten per cent. greater than the very
largest cities of the country.
The Greenbackers at Washington
are exerting themselves to bring
about coalition with the Ohio Dem
ocrats at their approaching State
convention, They are working in
the interest OF General Ewing, and
this Is also a movement IN hostility to
Thurman as the Ohio candidate for
the presidential nomination.
A traveller in the interior OF Peru
recently came upon settlement o
strange people with strange customs
whose history Is unknown. He says
Among them there are no sick or dc.
formed persons, thsir custom being
to send committee to each sick ol
old person, and those who are report
ed past recovery or past usefulness
are promptly strangled ty the pnbli,
executioneT."
The letter which Benedict Arnolt
wrote, begging the aid OF the British
Government for reason OF the sacrI
fees he had made for it. was sold 70
$50 at an autograph sale In Boston OF
Tuesday. At the same sale a lette
OF Bulwer brorght 1926; one OF Byron
s31: one of vi, tor Hugo. $7.12; one o
Samuel Johnson. $685. and one o
Charles Lamb. $3.50.
A resolution to amend the constitu
ton OF Missouri 80 as TO submit thu
: question Of removing the capital from
= jefferson City to SedalIa has passed
the lower house OF the Missouri Leg
islature, and. 1t is stated. will be re
> ceived with favor In the Senate. "Th'
3 proposition creates much excitemen