Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-03-28


" -hve cents yard
The cotton plantations along the Mssissip-
pi are nearly all abandoned this spring. because
there are no troops to protect them against guer
rillas
An old red Indian, who had Witnessed the
effect of whisky for many years, said that bar
rel OF liquor contained 900 songs and fifty
fights
The cost of free FIRE department in New
York was las, year $500. 900 That of the
paid departments of London. Cincinnati. Bal
tim0re, Boston and ST. Louis together S4l6 900
The people of Morocco have not taken kind
~ to the telegraph, recently introduced into that
country. They cut the wires, and the emperor
returned the compliment BY cutting of the heads
OF two offenders. and ornsmenting the poles with
them
"A retired actor with londness for poultry
was asked why he uamed favorite hen I" Nc
duff" He replied that il was because be wanted
her 10 ''lay on"
Jones says be knows that Justice isn't sold
in our courts. but udng from biz own legal eI-
perience, he also knows that those who try TO
obtain it often are
1t is found that women make the very best
clerks for the electric telegraph The only diff
Guilty ia TO prevent each young lady at either end
OF the line from having the last word.
A Paris letter states that Alexander Dumas
has worked ten hour day during twenty years
He has written seven hundred volumes of novels
and thirty FIVE plays.
"A young man in Quincy Mass, hung him.
self last week just to "see how it seemed" but
got the rope stronger than he intended, and had
he not been found before ne was quite dead
would have been hung in ernest
George W Kendall, formerly of The New
Orleans PIcsynne. has been heard from de is
on his rancho in Texas. raising sheep aud cattle,
and shooting Wild turkeys, waiting for peace,
troubled somewhat by the Indians, and waxing
Oh three score years
The damage to the salt zelda on the low
lands bordering on the 0nondsga lake is i'm
meuse Tie waters of the lake augmented by
the three DAYS ireshetr, have set back into these
fields and have inundated and Il loded the watts
aud washed Oft the covers over large area
--Within few months extensive discoveries
OF petoleum-the gsnuii art cle-have been
made. not only in the valley OF Mexico, but al
most simultaneously In distant parts of the em
pire. lie has been found in the most northern
states and also rs far south as TehuaDtepec
The steamer Lady Sterling, captured while
+, ehdesyoTing to run The blockade, and valued at
! about $500 900, il being fitted up as pleas
ufe yacht for the ROYAL house OF Lincoln. Tax
payers will OF course be deli htei to support
this establishment for Lincoln's epioy ment.
/ "A grave writer on education says: 1" An ed
! ucated man ought to know three things" That's
I 80. and as mnch more possible. The three
things, however, we will say, are: He should
7 -, l.. =. :.
! going, and what he is going to do about it. With
! these three things acquired he Is supposed to be
pretty well charged.
+ Mrs Andrew Allison, residing in Beaver
county Pa. three miles from HookstowD, last
week gave birth to four healthy children. Some
twenty months ago. Mrs Allison gave birth TO
three daughters. whom she named Cora. Dora
and Nora These seven children. born within =
period of two years, were, at last accounts, do
ing well. as was also their mother.
A Cincinnati paper in speaking OF the over
throw OF the rebels at Atlanta, says that Just be
+ fore the FEDERAL troops entered the town aD 10
diana company. almost worn out with march.
were struggling along with very little regard to
order Hurrying up to his men the captain
shouted. CLOSE up. close up Ii the enemy
we're TO fire when you're struggling along that
wsv thew couldn't hit cussed one of YOU -
And the boys closed Up Immediately.
The army chsplains in the newly occupied
cities OF the union late of the confederacy) are
kept busy marrying the colored population. Since
Ap,il 10, 1861, at Vlksburg, ,456 of these mar
riages took place Que hsplain married 100
couples in one day. The marriage fees were
naturally small. A silver dime, paper dime. q
paper halt-dime were presented; and in ca sc
sweet potstoe. by bride who was more
~ -hsf. Il eka- be- III
married was - years of age. The greatest des-
parity of ages vas 46 years Three white men
married cOlored women
8. A letter written in Berlin, Prussia, says:
The CONSUMPTION Of horse flesh is increasing
every year in Berlin. Ii has been twice as great
in the year just psed as in the previous The
official returns show that. from October | 1853
10 October i, 1864, there were $50 horses killed
/ in the isht horse slaughter houses in Berlin
The meat is sold at prices varying from | to 2is
silver groschen a. to ID. per 10 } which is
only one bali the usual price of beef here Most
Of il i disposed Of 20 the keepers 81 public din
ing rooms. cafes, gardens, and beer houses. and
is consumed by the public under the impress
SION that it Is beef, which il much resembles in
taste.
There = nothing more offensive than the
self sdulat0n Of weak self made men. that
a.~pmes Fundamental distinction in society. Il
Ms this that made Vice President Johnson :
talk q TIE inauguration 80 disgusting Il would
have been objectionable II be bad been sober
he has ilGu gei in the same style OF talk re-
Dc ,iediy al home 10 Tennessee. but IL i 10 be
hrpei iba, he would have lad sufhcieu. sense &c
avoid Il 81 " ashing'on. IL be had not been thrown
oui OF poise by over indulgence. The Scope Of
ruosr Il hls public deliveries for the last OF
two hive been The same-"H Here IN |. And,
Johnson a plebeian BIZ birth. who have lifted
sns-elt 81 nv Own Wristbands til staud among
the Dtiricans--is this not great country which