Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-11
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. Fernando Wood is recorded as the best
dressed lady il Washington.
A new cathedral Is about to be erected in
Havana-built wholly of iron.
Coal mines $50 miles square have been dis
covered in Brazil The coal is as good as the
best English.
The total losses by fire in Philadelphia during
last ycur did not exceed Si0O,OOO, on which
there was s24O 600 insurance.
The receipts of the Pennsyvania Central
railroad for 1863 were $40 500 All 45; expenses,
800 206, 304 SO: profits. $1,000, no -.
in Manchester. land has been sold by the
square ward, and As much as GOO 600 per acre
has been given Tor sites in the best part Of the
town
The United States Life Insurance COmpan
les have risks only to the amount of 5000 900.
600: those Of England have an aggregate of
81 go 900 900
-Counterfeit greenbacks of the denomination
OF 81, - s20. aud Sl0ii, were found on the
persons OF the kidnappers recently arrested in
Louisville by the military authorities
1t is stated at the Navy Department that
there are now finished. or in process of construc
ton, 81 steamships that car approximate the
speed Of the Euraw
1t is stated that Mr. Dayton will shortly be
recalled from France aid General Fremont ap-
! pointed to succeed him. here are those who
assert that Fremont could not he tempted even
by daintier dish
"A committee Of clergvmen are in Washing
ton. headed by DR. McLine Of Princeton, who
seek measures for Amendment to the pream
Die of the Constitution more distinctly recogniZ-
Ing Gods sovereignty.
They have had a female major out in De-
/ troit. lately, whom they are glad TO get rid Of.
/ They consider her somewhat OF an impostor. and
/ have doubts about her being a major at all
though she cert ,niy WIS no private woman
Rev J. C Fletcher. the well known lee
turer on Brazil At the MasS,soit in Springfield,
detained by a very severe attack of rheumatism,
and is consequently unable to meet his numerous
/ appointments to lecture.
An abolition paper of Indiana cllls us a
/ rebel Certainly We are a rebel We are rebel
against great many ;fngs--a rebel against all
outrages on the constitution. a rebel against rad
icalism, a rebel agans, the Southern rebellion
! Louisville Journal
The Dayton (Ohio) Journal publishes a
two column communication Of why's and where
fores Mr. Lincoln IA 'uld not he re nominated.
The writer thinks salmon p Chase 1.-The wisest
statesm IN and mightest intellect of the age and
regards him as "ihe coming man"
At a womens' convention. a gentleman re-
! marked that woman was the wickeieSt thing in
| ere ton ST +" was the indignant reply Of one
of the ladic, woman made from man and
if one rio Is - wicket. what must the whole body
be?
The Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee
have s,ldres-ei a memorial to Congress. asking
for the construction If wagon road to ldahoe
and the protection of line of military post
The air line distance from the western boundary
of Minnesota to the eastern boundary of the new
territory is only five. hundred miles.
A Worcester contemporary tells of pug
nacious goat. who seeing his shadow in 4 hole
made in the .icc lowered his head, shook hi
caude appendAge SDasmoiicaliy, and NJ a ire
mendou- gait rushed upon the shadow. went into
the hole out of sight under the ice. and has not
since been seen Mor,l- never rush into any
thing without giving the subject due cOnsidera-
ton
The House Committee on Claims have re
por,ei a bill. after long delay. for liquid 'ting
the claim OF all those persons in the loyal States
whose property his beer destroyed or taken by
the Union armies Each State is to have ons
commissioner and one solicitor with a suitable
number of clerks Saves are not 10 be recog-
nzed as property in the settlement of any claims
nor will the claims of any be considered who
have in any way aided the rebellion.
At recent temperance meeting in Scotland
a convert got up to speak Sid be:
MY friends three months ago | signed thu
pledge. [Cheers In month afteward, had
sovereign in my p,cket-thing never had be
fore Loud cheers In another month. ny
friends ! had good coat on my back thing
never had before. Cheers much louder 4
fortnight after that my friends bought coffin
because | felt pretty certain that if | kept thl
pledge another fortnight | should want one -
No cheers.