Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-04-29
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There were 739. los babies born in England
last year
The A,chisOn, Kansas, Press. saws the travel
TO the gold mines by the overland stage is i'm
mense.
The federal military authorities have drawn
black line around Savannah. Is i encircled
by five thousand negro troops.
A boy in Ashley Falls, Mass, the other
night sucked 80 eggs on wager, and offered to
take down another dozen Tor a dollar. with no
takers.
Numerous farms are being sold in Sullivan
county, Missouri, at the low price Of five to ten
dollars per acre. The purchasers sire from the
eastern states.
Ali the funds required TO paw General Sher
mans army in full, will be ready by the middle
OF next week. Ii will require eleven millions of
dollars for this purpose
1t is predicted that, in the course of time. il
will be possible to illuminate a street mile long
at the rate OF one cent an hour, by means Of the
newly discovered magnesium" light
A Mrs MCLEAN recently obtained judg
ment of s. 900 against the owners of a ST. Paul
ferry boat for the accidental drowning of her
husband at that place, about three years ago.
Mr.. John Bime. OF Schenectady, drove his
mare Lady Fisher" from Albany TO Schenec-
tady in the short space of fifty eight minute
distance sixteen miles-on a wager of 5000.
West Pawlet, Vermont. sends off more DO
tatoes in year than any railroad station in the
country, the amount some years reaching 100
QUO bushels. They are sent in lined freight car.
heated by stoves
-lnstead OF throwing away an old hoop skirt
suspend il ia your garden across a pole four feet
high. plant the seeds of the Madeira vine mOrI
ing glory, nasturtium. or the like, aud in a very
little while, over this rejected trelis creeps a
mass of living bloom. Nothing more suitable
for tue purpose could he made And it is much
better place TO put in than in the street
The statement going the rounds Of the press
that President Lincoln told somebody that he
was OF Jewish descent, had for lis origin simply
this. Mr Lincoln, taking with Rabbi. iocu-
larry remarked that be (Lincon) was probably
OF Hebrew stock. as his father had three sons
who were named Abraham, Isaac. and jacob
This Is all The foundation there is for the story
"A few days since Canadian gentleman
Who Il an ardent aDnexationist. exclaimed on
receiving the news OF the surrender of Lee.
army, Now, then, Csnsd |, will be annexed 20
suC csabcc, III the new glOTie-
OF the regenerated and disenihraled republic -
a refugee rebel officer standing by replied: "GO
SLOW, my friend; its very easy to get into the
union. but It's HI 10 get out.
"A Nashville correspondent writes MS fol.
lows: Il learn that the widow of former pres
ideht. James X Polk. who has been in sympathy
With the confederacy from the first. draped her
house aud gate on the day Of the funeral obse
quies of the hmented President Lincoln, with
the Grape that was used on the occasion of her
husbands death. and has been treasured up by
her ss 4 sacred thing ever since. AS she brought
/. out, with tears. she said "she felt that il was
due to the country. TO herself and to the mem
DRY of the president
1t IL stated as a circumstance made remark
able by what has since occurred, thai during the
late trip of President Lincoln to City Point he
relieved his mind OF wesrying by reading
Shakespeare, and that he read several times over.
and impressively, to bis companions, this mourn.
full apostrophe OF Macbeth over the being he had
murdered:
duncan i in his grave.
After LIES ttful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done its worst: ncr steel
Nor poison,
Malice domestic or foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further