Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-09


The Governor General of India is obliged
to exc out his existence on 5000 900 per annuml
They have a negro in Ponford, VI who is
! 100 years old
john Mitchell. the Irish rebel" and editor
of the Richmond Enquirer, is reported to be in
command OF the rebel fleet on the James river
AT their annual hunt on the 18th of Octo-
Der, the Sportsmen's Club of Rockville, Mass
shot ,, 500 squirrels. and an immense quantity of
miscellaneous game
"A grandson OF Henry Clay is confined in
the military prison AZ Knoxville, Tennessee
He was at time the rebel General Nor.
gans staff
"A private letter from New Orleans. rcceiv
I'd in Newport by the last steamer. states that
the immense quantities of cotton slowed in the
interior OF Texas. and which Banks failed to
reach last spring is being rapidly sent over the
border into Mexico. where it IL being bought up
by Mexican and European spectators at com
paratvely small figures
"A Michigan soldier who has Just reached
Gen. Sherman's lines from Andersonville, Ca, }
prison. says that during the month of June last
az prisoners died there: in the month OF July
3 ISL; and in August 340 When he escaped
they we're dying at the rate of one hundred n
day, and strange as il may seem, the mortality
was increasing rs tina weather become colder.
Eek
And all for the niger Great God can this
be the land of the brave and the home OF the
free
A lady residing in Berkshire, Ohio, present
ed her husband with their twenty first child
last week The babies are all living. but the
father is all but used up. He wants govern
ment contract.
A Chinese joss House or temple for heather
worship. was dedicated in San Francisco on the
22d of August. II cost eighty thousand dollars
A band Of tapestry, embroidered with feathers
and gold and silver thread, which adorns the
place. cost one hundred and fifty dollars per yard
and the whole building blazes With gold leaf and
tnsel. The priests shout, screech yell, gr0sn
spin around among tue racket of gongs, drums
and hddles, and smoke opium until they quite
drunk, when others relieve them. The finger
nails of the chief priest are longer than HE fiu
gers, and twisted like an anger
Dr. Paul Bret. the learned chemist, has pub
lshed work on the curious subject of Animal
gratis He succeeded in making Siamese
twins of couples of rats, rabbits, &c He SAWS:
" Ii is surprising spectacle 70 see pair cut
from one rat, live, grow, finish its assfcatiou,
and regenerate its nerves under the skin of an.
other; and when we plant plume of feathers
under the skin OF dog, what a miracle To see
the interrupted vital phenomena resume their
course and the frag nent of bird receive nour
ishment from the blood Of sn animal
AT the trottng park in Providence. r. L.,
last week, man weighing one hundred and
iorty pounds undertook to around the mile
track in sixteen minutes, dragging sulky
weighing ninety five pounds, in which was seated
a man weighing one hundred and seventy pounds
he accomplished the feat in eleven minutes and
thirty seconds
-Theb body of u Roman OF the centurian are
has Just been hshed up from the bottom of the
Mersey. It, together with the ashes of another
body-supposed 10 be that OF a female--a guam
tity OF medals, coins. &c., were enclosed in a
huge coffin shaped case and was found imbed-
ded in the sand at depth of several feet A
manuscript was also found in the box, which, II
ever deciphered. will probably develop sufficient
TO crafty the curiosity naturally excited by the
finding of this relic of the past
"A down east genius has invented ypeciacles
that will make lard look like butter. A dealer
in town il about to order few gross for board
ing house keepers.
Eleven million dOilors worth OF silks were
imported into toe United States from Paris during
the past year
The Smith family in England numbers
80 600 souls aud All equal number OF bodies.
Five thousand guns were sent last week
from the Springfield srmory 10 kentucky. and
10000 to IT. Louis.
"A Russian officer has been deprived OF his
title of nobility by the Car for fighting duel.
"A professor in Prussia spent ten years in
collecting materials for volume Of proverbs
and popular savings. He was prosecuted by the
government officials and his book seized as nj
ofense against public morals
"A large pumpkin was recently sold in Paris
for $50
There sire fifty thousand hei,hens in tho
United States -EI
And doubles. corresponding number OF
pnblicsns
A salt lake has been struck near Grand
Rapids. Michigan, at distance of one hundred
feet from the surface.
THE ARRlsr or DE-. YEAKrL-Dr Yeskel. OF
this city, was arrested on Saturday evening
about l. o'clock. while at supper at the Lshr
House by the United States officers, on the
charge, we suppose. Of being connected with the
Sons of Liberty. tie was Immediately taken 10
the Provost Marshsl's Office and there remained
until a special train prepared 10 take him 10
indianapolis He lefi the city about midnight
How Ear the evidence in the hands Of tire author
course, have 40 means OF knowing aud DO not
desire 30 prejudice his case There was no ex
element AZ All over the matter
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