Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-05
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPuS.

The prvates of the New FORK Fire Depart
ment are to be paid 800 per annum.
A little boy in Allegheny city set fire to
his mothers house because she would not let him
go to picnic.
Two little princes were recently married in
Indore, India The bridegroom is aged six, and
the bride three years.
A returned soldier in Philadelphia covhided
his former captain for tying him up by the thumbs
while in the army.
The radicals assert that their policy will GER
tainly be carried out. We can only hope that it
will be carried out-of the country Louis
vile Journal
In the New York correspondence of a ives
tern paper an improbable story is told OF Boston
merchant who visited of the Broadway a
looms, met pretty waiter girl, married her, and
paid s2500 70 induce her to return the certificate
In a Chicago street car, the other day, a
pale but pretty young woman gave up her seat to
a one legged soldier, and the gracious act led to
the recognition of the man as her husband, long
mourned as dead The scene closes with zach
in the others arms.
The Boston Courier states that in the town
of Taunton. Mass, in population OF 1905
-
who can neither read or write Such ignorance
among the adult population alone, is hardly con
sistent with the claims 10 superior intelligence
put forth BY the Massachusetts emissaries and
missionaries who rail against the Southern mag
ses as an unedueated people
-Govern6r Brownlow, Of Tennessee, has pre-
pared circular of Invitation. in which the agr-
cultural and mineral resources Of that State are
enumerated, and immigrants from all portions or
the Union are cordially invited. Tennessee pre-
sents, at this time, one Of the most attractive
fields 10 the laborer and capitalist The soil in
the middle aud western portions of the State is
very rich, aud susceptible OF toe highes. degree
OF cultivation. while the eastern part. though
possessing less fertile soil, abounds in all the
necessary advantages for great manufacturing
district
-Four hundred ladies of Holly Springs, Miss +,
have addressed petition TO the President for the
pardon Of JEFF Davis Their FIRST argument for
clemency IS that he formerly "held prominent
positions both il the State and Federal Govern
ments which were accorded him by reason o.
his undoub;ed ability and unQuestioaed devotion
10 his native South They next sliege that
''for wears past, sectional strife has been seem
ingly fostered oy extremists both North and
South which led 10 general conflict of arms
and the shedding OF the best blood Of the land
One party and section have been forced BY the
arbirameut OF the sword 10 succuno They
say that Davis was only the representative OF the
defeated party that blood enough has been shed,
and nope that the President, oy mildness snd
clemency, will win back the hearts of the South
ern people.
EE- Ii has been stated that Edward hstehum.
the gold forger. Was Democrat and pEominen,
friend Of General Mcclellan. There Is not one
word OF truth in this, however The elder
ketchum was a constan; and confidential adviser
OF Mr. Chase. while the latter was Secretary Of
the Treasury, and a warm advocate Of the legal
tender system Both father and son were pro
mneni Loyal Leaguers and active Republican
politicians. This statement is made because il