Year: 1874




selves on Maxinkuckee Lake, by drawing
in the five pound bass, which inhabit that
beautiful body of water.


There will be vigorous fight this
year between the potato-raisers and the
potato bugs, in which the people will be
interested spectators. The price of pota-
toes will depend upon the contest.


MIR. A. F. G. Saroris, a wealthy Eng
lishman, was married to- Miss Nellie
Grant, daughter of the President, at the
White House, last Thursday. AS we had
no invitation, and publish this notice as
ID. H., we make it short.


DR. G. r. Reynolds has the thanks of
Mrs. Chaplin, Mrs. Tut and Miss Spain,
of South Bend, for his very acceptable
services as their guide to the residence of
the editor of the REPUBLICAN, Wednes-
day night, 20th inst. de has also the
thanks of all the Millikans in this city,
for kindness to their friends.


An enterprising Snowman was in town
last week, with horse that had but two
legs Ii was not the kind Of horse need
ed in this market, so he left for Warsaw
-perhaps-or some other place. He en-
ployed the six brothers band last Satur-
day, and they gave us excellent music;
but that horse won't draw A one horse
show is not the sort for Plymouth.


The iSeutinel says that the failure of
the Rochester Bank will be quite disas-
trous to the building prospects of that
place, for the present year at least. Quite
a number of elegant business houses were
in contemplation, which will now neces-
sary not be built The Sentinel also says
that parties who now claim to have had
considerable sums of money on deposit in
the hank, never had any there when the
Assessor came around.


The South Bend Tribune saws "the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
have ordered a survey of branch line
from the main road south Of South Bend,
to that city to be made, some time this
well for that company to extend their
branch south to Plymouth, as we'll as
north to South Bend. Such a road
would give our city straight road TO
Niles, Michigan, and connect us with the
Baltimore II Ohio, the Lake Shore s.
Michigan Southern, and the Michigan
Central, and also with tho Chicago 81
Lake Huron roads.


-Gurncy-is trying to act--toe many
parts. He would make good preacher,
If he would let the law and journalism
alone He would make good editor, if
his law practice did not require him to
sell his principles for filthy lucre. He
would make good lawyer, if his theology
would not get into his law practice. AS
a preacher he has no right to show men
how to do wrong, even i'm legal way. As
an editor he should always be ready and
willing to assert his ideas of right, with
out requiring fee. He makes good
paper of the Vidette; but his best friends
can't afford TO vndicate him.


All financial men KNOW that the con.
slant export of specie to pay for imported
goods, and interest on our foreign indebt-
edness is the SOLE cause of our loss of
coin, and is the basis of all the difficulties
in the road to specie resumption. Yet
Wall Street and New England persist in
their demands for specie payments; but
studIously avoid discussing the real diff
Guilty, because any system that can lead to
specie resumption must involve high and
almost prohibitory duties on imports for a
period long enough to enable this country
to export a sufficient quantity of its own
products to pay the principal part of its
foreign Indebtedness, and to reverse,
through the regular course of trade, the
exchange, now against us, in favor of this
country. Neither ten, nor twenty, nor
forty years will bring specie resumption
to this country while the trade relations
between this country and Europe remain
as they are now, and Congress ard the
country may as well meet the necessity
now as in the future


THE GIFT OF THE NILE.-Did you
ever hear that rivers made presents to the
world? / never heard it till to-day. But
it seems that they do. The land of Egypt
was gift of the river Nile. 1t was in
this way: Once this conntry, now SO
fertile, was nothing but barren desert,
like that of the Great Sahara, which lies
near it. The river Nile had to flow
through this desolate country to get to the
sea, and every year brought down from
the rich land of Abyssinia as much fertile
soil as he could carry, and, overflowing
his banks, spread it all over the sandy
desert as far as he could reach. BY doing
this year after year, he turned the desert
into fruitful land Sometimes he would
bring down so much rich soil that he