Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-09
AR SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
-canaaA rstes 100000 bu,hels Of bArIe
this year

Two Pennsylvania banks ere paying their
dividends1n gold.
The Brooklyn horse railroads have increased
their rates TO seven cents.
1t ls4s there we're $50 people in San Fran
cisco. Now there are l2O. 900.
1t cost a rural gentleman just ss45 to see
the elephant in New York one day last week
Shares in the Guano companies that were
worth only 81 cents year ago, nov sell for 500
Here i a raise
Five thousand applications per month are
presented at Washington for pensions, and the
number Increases. Alas. war
The Quebec Mercury says that thirty able
bodied men left Quebec last week TO join Lees
army They will atiemp; to run the blockade
a, Wilmington
Coal in Boston is bsing delivered in bags
great improvement on the custom of dumping
il into the mud of the street
NEw ENGLAND MoRALITr "A man Is under
arrest in Providence for criminal intercourse with
his three daughters Boston Post.
Nine hundred men are constantly employed
on the Hoosac Tunnel. in Massachusetts, The
dam which Is being erected on the Deerfeld
river, in order TO furnish power to keep the tun
mel supplied with pure air, will cost one hundred
thousand dollars
"A Republican paper SAYS: Hon. James
Bayard, who resigned bis seat United States
Senator from Delaware rather than take an oath
to support the Government. is practicing law in
New York city. A slight mistake Mr. BaYard
did take the oath.
The French preserve grapes the year round
by coating the clusters with lime. The punches
picked just before they are ripe, and dipped
10 lime water OF the consistence OF cream They
are hung up 10 remain The lime coating keeps
out the air. and checks any tendency TO decay
When wanted for the table, the clusters are dipped
in hot water 10 remove the lime.
old Joshua swallow, a veteran minister.
the other day at Clio preaching against the
spiritual call to the ministry, and related an
anecdote Of Caleb Jones, who gave his expert
ence in this wise Il was.ene day blowing and
was called 10 preach by avoice saying, Caleb .
Caleb Who could have called me thus |? \
boy in the back part of the congregation. saws
Mr. Swallow. exclaimed. "Aoybe ii rar bsH
frog, Mr.. Jones -
--Slliman's Journal has an account OF the
conversion of portion Of the wooden steps OF
turbine water wheel into a very compact coal, re-
mineral coal The step of oak, and about
ten inches through; and when. taken out the
whole surface was covered with layer of coal
The weight of water under which it was formed
was about twenty tons. These facts exemplily,
saws the Journal. the formation OF coal under
pressure. combined with moderate heat and
very SLOW motion.
There is a company organized in Philade-
phia to manufacture fuel out of the dust u Coz
They have discovered process by which the
dust is formed and kept in a solid compact mass
and their experiments prove it TO be a very yau
able fuel Ii burns freely and thoroughly, and
| gives out much heat as solid anthracite The
coal dust, we understand, can be purchased AZ
the mines. where there are immense quantities
of il hitherto unused for the small price of forty
cents per ton, or one dollar per ton ii sifted, and
| IL is estimated by the very intelligent persons
engaged in the enterprise that ton of sOlidlfied
coal dust can can be sold a, four TO five dollars
a ton.
"A certain Sunday school teacher in New
York was in the habi, of taking collection in
his Juvenile class, for missionary objects. lie
was not a little surprised one day to 6nd coun
try note among the wei. lat OF coppers. He was
not long in finding il to be Of 9 broken bank, aud
on asking the class who put il there, the donor
was pointed by one who had hin: de
| posit it,
Didn't You know that the note was good for
nothng?" said the teacher.
Yes" answered the boy.
Then what did you put it 10 the box forgo
asked the teacher.
The boy coolly replied, II didn't suppose the
! little heathens would know the difference. and
thought it would be just good to them
Says the Chicago Times, in discussing The
| Florida affair:
Mr.. Webb, our Minister TO Brazil, in his note
| to the Brazilian minister of foreign affairs, IN
! equivocaly condemns the capture of the Florida,
and assures him of the kind feelings of our gov
eminent toward his own and that prompt reps-
ration will be made. This is very well but the
ntimation which the note conveys concerning the
weakness of Brazil and her inability to protect
her honor in case we were disposed 20 disregard
1t, were no. only unnecessary, but must have
been offensive to the just pride OF the Brazilian
! government
As a specimen, too, of national pride in boast.
ing of the power Of the United States TO deal
summary with foreign governments. when Il
has for four years been engaged in an endeavoi
| to subdue a rebellion Of It's own citizens, and il
now apparently as far as ever from the accom-
| pishmeut of the task. the note OF Mr.. W e5b must
be regarded as foolish gasconade
DR. Mary E. Walker has received the ap-
pointment of Acting Surpeon in the army, aud
! has assumed duty as Surgeon in the female mill
tary prison at Louisville.
The Louisville Press says: A lot of sabsti-
tutes passed through this city Saturday for
/ Nashville, from Columbus. Ohio. Out of the
300 who left Todd Barracks at that place. under
strong guard. nearly one hundred of them man
aged TO escape before they reached this city. IL
Is hard TO conceive how so large q proportion
could have deserted. except through the negli-
gence OF carelessness of the guari
The following is the las, recorded Joke of
Father Abraham
How DO YOU New York Democratic chaps
take nv eectionf' asked Mr. Lincoln few DAYS
ago Of a prominent New York McCellanite
with whom the executive is pleased 10 be on
good personal terms. "Oh, pretty we'll. on the
WHOLE" was the reply Some OF our bows com
plain, however. that you carried the State 10y
your pOsmasters steaming the envelops that
contained Mcclellan aud Seymour votes. thus
! loosening the gum, opening the envelops. and
substituting lincoln and Ferton for Mcclellan
and Seymour ballots" "Ha. la" laughed the
President. leaning forward and graspng his an
kles tightly $50 they say do they. that / came
the gum game on them to be re eiectedf Well
there's one comfort about il, old fellow: and
this you may tel. rem for me: that if tried u
cheat-which they also did-by gum! | was sue
cessful and they vern'tw The New York Nc
Clellanite had no more to say. though as gen
eral thing. he is msn Of gumptiou