Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-10-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.-This great work
will be completed during this year, and will be
opened in its whole extent for the earliest spring
trade.
The corporation of Cincinnati is expanding
S2OO,OOO on a work which is intended to i'm
prove the quality and increase the quantity Of the
water for the of the inhabitants.
The scarcity of women in California is taken ad-
vantage of by the unmarried females of the Mexican
States in that vicinity, who finding husbands 10
plenty among the gold dggers.
PRoesEss OF TELEGRAPH LrNss-The eastern
line will be opened to Halifax by the Is of Novem-
Der. The Morse line of wire extends, told by the
single line, over $4,000 miles.
POISONING HUsBANDs.-Mrs. Cook, the woman sup
posed have pc soned her second husband in Bristol
Conn.,, has been committed for trial, since which she
is suspected of having also poisoned her first husband
CANADIAN INTELLreENcE.-The Quebec Gazette, |
the official paper has been abolished Canada is re-
ported to be nsolvent: Mr.. Hincks has failed in his
attempt to raise money in London the credit of the
Province. Annexation continues to be topic of con-
versatlon.
The Treasurer of the United States gives the fol-
lowing the state of the Treasury on the LIST inst
Cash, 50, 1S6 $40 Is
Drafts unpaid, .........1 ,294 760 %
Amount subject to draft, e, S92 y249 %
The Canada Seat of Government has been removed
by Lord Egin from Montreal to Toronio-said to be
an act Of resentment inspired by his treatment OF
Montreal. Lord E. is also said have purchased
summer residence at Niagara Falls.
Rev Dr. MALcoIM--The late President Of George
llcge, Ky, has accepted the pastoral charge
of the Fifth Baptist Church. SAMSON street, Philadel-
pha. He is expected TO commence his pasor duties
about the 20h of November.
IMMIGRANTS AT BosToN-The number of vessels
that have brought passengers TO the port of Boston.
for the quarter ending October LIST. is three hundred
and fhirty-six. The number of passengers landed,
IL, S69; whole number which arrived in the same
months last year, 1895; showing an increase Of
6,574.
BosToN.-The receipts at the Custom House for
September. were 1904 $751; against $500, 494 in Sep
TENDER, 1913. The receipts for the quarter ending
Sept 81 this year 81 797, l67, against 81 444
OIL year ago. showing an increase from last year of
$3.50, l96.
6TThe Wisconsin Wing Convention has nominal
ted the following ticket:-For Governor, Gen. Rufus
King, editor of the ''Milwauke Sentinel - For
Lieut.. Governor, Timothy o. Howe; Secretary Of
State. Levi Alden; Attorney General, Moses B. But
terfeld, of Racine; State Treasurer, John b. Terry
FPRoF1Ts OF CoTToN MANUFACTURES AT THE
SoUTH.-The Graniteville Is. c. Manufacturing
Company commenced operation in May last and ac-
cordng to the Augusta Constituencies the profits Of
the business thus far the of Is per
the capital.
OcJ-Tbe French Courier. at New York, dcrides and
denoUnces the of hostile feeling the part of
France towards the United States, and laments that
the Courier and Enquirer should so assiduOus y give
life to them.
has been committed at Richmond, for selling slaves
three colored children, free by BIRTH whom he had
carried from Caroline county, Maryland, and disposed
of for $685. a citizen of Richmond. Parkhurst
arrested in Sussex county, Delaware, requsitlon
from the Governor OF Virginia.
GFAxoTHER MAIL RoBBER.-Edward Griffin, a
clerk in the Rochester Post Office, has been arrested
for rifing letters. Griffin who has made confession
his depredations amounting in the whole $4,000
lis only 20 years DID, and is the of respectable
mechanic in Rochester Most of the stolen money
he has invested in real estate.
~ The Pennsylvania notes that Mr.. Clayton's
closing letter NJ. de Tocqueville actually pub
lshed this country before it received in France
1; is dated Sept. 8. The structures of the Pennsyva-
nan upon the Secretary of State place him in diem
from which art or ingenuity extrcate
him.-BOst. Post
letter from Oregon City the Editors of the State
Sentinel, states that Governor Lane is very WE'LL and
is deserVedy very popular with the people of that
country. He is deservedly very popular with the
people everywhere-Salem Nelcs.
ROMANTIC MARR1AeEs-The following announce
mens from the Charleston (Va.) Free Press, Illus
trae how the Virginia lads ond lasses get the
disabilities put upon them by the VTginIa marriage
laws, when obdurate parents interfere IN the matter
On the Doth instant, the rocks, an The Potomac,
by the Rev. d. Wilson, Mr.. John W. Slower, of Har-
per's Ferry, Va, to Miss Margaret Ann Brooks, of
Trenton New Jersey.
On the 18th instant, on The bridge Harper's Fer
~, by Rev. w. F. Irsh Dir. j. G.. Weast, Of Angus
ia county to Miss Elizabeth F. POWELL Of Page coun-
ty, Va
LAWYERS IN CALIFoRNIA-Capt. Tobn. on his way
to California is writing letters for the N. o. Delta.
From dated Tobago, extract the following: OF
nearly two thousand passengers between Chagres
and Panama, there about six hundred lawyers,
and Of them four hundred go out with the expectation
of being returned to Congress, the Legislature at
least; seventeen electioneering for the guberna-
torial chair. and twenty embryo senators al
ready calculating the savings to be made the mile
age allowed by Uncle Sam from San Francisco to
Washington and back. blessed those who ex-
peet nothing, for they shall not be disappointed"
Gov. Chambers passed through St. Louis few
days slnce on his way TO Minnesota, where he is TO
join Gov. Ramsey in treaty arrangements with the
Sioux Indians for twenty millions of of lands
owned by the latter, north of the St. Peters.
The Winnsbago Indians, discontinued with the home
which had been assigned them by trea y, recently
le it, and attempted to make their way back to their
old hunting grounds. Captain Paige. in command al
Fort Smelling, the requsition Of Gov. Ramsey,
marched a company of men TO intercept them and
drive them back When the troops approached Wi h.
in mile 81 their encsmpment at Rice Lake the In
dams fed and they have probably returned to their
lands.
EMPLoYMENT.--One Of the greatest necessities Of
our physical and moral nature is employment 1t is
alike essential TO health, virtue and conen;ment. II