Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-03-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

holS'-OOne OF TIE members OF Congress attend
the sessions with revolvcrs in their packets. They
intend to dissolve the Union with a pocket pistol,
The opponents of Mr. Benton, in Missouri, are
about opening the campaign against him; but their
preparations, thus far. have according to the ST.
Louis Republican, been successful.
LonK TO YoUR PUNcrUAr1oN.-A toast drunk alta 4th
of July celebration was given as follows:
"Woman-without her, man would be savage"
The Boston Post thinks the punctuation erroneous,
and should be corrected thus
"Woman, rith6ut her man, would be savage"
young slave girl in Washington City. who had
been chastlsed by her mistress, being left in charge
OF infant three months DID, got the laudanum bot
tie and poured the poison into its mouth, from the
effects OF which u died in few hours.
The Newsboys Of New York bad mass meeting
in the Park, Wednesday Of last week, to express
their Indignation al The attempts made BY ofth
clergy TO check the selling of newspapers the Sab
bath.
GOLD MAcHINERY.-Thc Philadelphia Enquirer
says hat Commodore Stockton is shipping five
small engines with boilers, and three sets of porla-
bic apparatus for stamping. washing snd separating
gold from the rock in which it is usually found.
board the barque Sultan, bound TO San Francisco.
A COOP ToAsT.--At the anniversary celebration
OF the University of Pennsylvania. numerous senti-
ments were drunk. among which the following
"Woman "A Mistress of Arts, who robs the
Bachelor of his degree. and forces him study Phi
losopby BY means Of curtain lectures"
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says the girls wear so
much scarlet this winter that they clad in blush
es like modest worth or boiled lobster One we
saw yesterday even went far have vermillion
slippers and red hair No wonder the fire bells rang
Most of the London Journals contain obituary no.
tees of Lord Jeffrey, the celebrated and dreaded
editor of the Edinburgh Review. The Reverend Sid
ney Smith founded the Review in 1902. Mr.. Jeffrey
undertook il in 1903, and continued to preside until
1928 He died at the age of seventy-seven.
VERY NAUGHTY.-The Boston Herald heard an abo-
tiOnst say the other day '.that he wished the Lord
would rain down gun cotton prepar alton the
fields OF the South, let dry in and ther send down
shaft of lightning blow up the whole country to
glory!" Hold him!
"BLooD AND 'OuSs"-A correspondent, of the Co.
lumbrs (Miss) Democrat, writing from Jackson,
gravely says:
1 Governor Qulman is surrounding himself with
gallant staff, and says he is willing and ready do
whatever the peoples representa- may require at
his hands, or perish in the effdri.-Tr1s D,ltd.
! Gen. John Mcneil WHO recently died at Washing
ton, served in the last with Great Britain with
distinction. He in the brilliant battles of Chip
pewa and Bridgeweter, Lundy's Lane. in both of
which he commanded The eleventh regiment Of U. s.
Infantry, in which he distinguished himself by his
Prowess and herOism. He in the Goth year Of
i his Oge..
Tire jasnted lady editor of the Pittsburgh Visiter
4 has baby Presents of mugs, rattles mintsticks
and suehStiie matters pour IN upon her in great pro-
fusion. Mrs. S. says: "Our baby is a good baby
aid we hold her Que arm. and while she looks
at the candle, scribbe away with the other. faster
than twot typos can convert 1t into and type"
FuDeE.-A letter writer from Washington says
''Sume members of the Alabama delegation say that
they consider themselves instructed to leave their
seats, even in the event Of the passage of Mr. Roots
resolution" -
! Well, let them try it. The people would soon
send others there who would desert their posts.
Leave their seats indeed The Alabama members
are not so perdant. They labored too hard TO get
there to give 1t up so Mobile Advertiser.
) FUGITIVE SLAvEs-Mr Whiting. in his speech at
} the late Compromise meeting in New York, said he
had been frequently engaged counsel in behalf of
fugitive slaves who had escaped their masters, and
one occasion" defended big negro who stood six
feet in his stockings. He was claimed by man from
= North Carolina, named Wilson but it turned out
that the claimant was his faiher-that the negro
was his child by of his female slaves-the Jury
returned a verdict In favor of the negro"
PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-To the evening of the 18th
inst 1892 600 was the aggregate amount subscribed
in st. Louis to this great project The Republican
Of the next morning says: "The time for receiving
subscriptions has been extended throughout week
and the same committees, with two three cha nges
have been appointed to the duly. little exeriion
only. is wanted, to swell The subscription half a
. million Of dollars, and we confident that it will
be done next week."
INCORRECT STYLE-Mrs. Prewet, ediiress Of the
YazoO (Aliss.1 Wing, takes United States Senaur
to task for saying ION yesterday" and ION to-mur
D row." Mrs. p. says: 1--WE know the little BOYS
and girls at school have TO parse yesterday in The OBJ
ective case, governed by ON understood YET il is moi
8 necessary sickeniuO tn n Theodore Fla
7 once said that mau might furiify himself with
/ grammars and dictionaries. and still make bimse
ridiculous by his style of speaking and writing"
I, RIGmTs OF MARRIED WoMEN.-The Supreme Cour
of PENNSYLVANIA has decided recently that husbau,
has no claim TO the possession of any property owned
!. by his wife previous to marriage, which may &c
. to her afer marriage; and that The crsen
q of the wife that tcr husband should have possession
4 Of the properly is If avail while the wife mi
nor This decision is based the law Of 1913
which has wrought radical change in the condition
! Of married females.
) WINDFALL FOR A JERSEY BANK.-a letter from
young man OF this city now in SAT- Francisco states
! that S20,0Ou in bills Of the Trenton Banking Co
were destroyed by the late fire in gambling nous,
in that city. The individual who suffered the los
also had go, 900 in gold in the same place. whicl
was also destroyed. He, however, said tina he wou,
make il up som, and enough in four days he in
= formed the writer that lie we'll off as befor
II the fre.-Neirark 4dU
II Mr.. Sewer a member of the Massachusetts Legis
# aiure from Berlin the stage driver from that
&c to Acton. He leaves Berlin every morning with hi
stage, and reaches Acton in for the first trail
of cars from Fiichburg. which arrives in this cit
about o'clock. giving him two hours deliver hi
:, packages. (for be il known, he runs on express il
connection with his stage.) AT eleven he is AWAY
Re found in his ready attend the affairs of State
~ so far as Berlin is concerned. He is enerprsin
p Legislator.