The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-09
NOTES And NEWS.

The French bureau of agriculture has estl-
mated tina loss produced by the frost in the
first two weeks of May at S5O,OOO,OOO.
Father Druon, a Roman Catholic priest, at
st. Adams, Vermont, is a competitor for
the SI0O, coo prize for steam canal naviga-
tiou-
The First Congregational church of Lex
ington, Mass, is still using bible which
was preseni ed to the parish by John Han
cock in 1873.
A Vermonter has lately sold flock of 100
sheep to California parties for four times the
price he could get for them in his own
state.
Rochefort refuses to be lionized by the
New Workers. declining all invitations to
banquets and parties. He knows the
dangers of such trial.
Some wild Texas cattle lately got loose in
the streets of Cincinnati and horribly
gored man and trampled on his wife. A
child's life was also barely saved.
The Germsnia Lodge of Changers of Lin
coin, Nebraska, published series of resolu-
tions strongly condemning the ladies' cru
SADIE, accusing the ladies of neglecting the
duties of their families, refusing an invita-
tion to coalesee with them, and accuses them
of reviling God Almighty.
The president of Bowdoin College has re
ceiyed positive assurances from the president
of Dartmouth that the report that Dartmouth
would receive all the students that might be
expelled from BOwdoin for opposing the
drill is entirely without foundation.
The salaries the professors elected to the
new Cincinnati University will not be less
than $, $500 year. A professor of chemistry
and physics, and also an astronomer for the
observatory are yeS to be chosen. The insti-
tuition will probably be open for students in
September.
The figure of a man, 230 feet long, traced
on the side of Wilmington Hill. England,
near the South Coast line ofrailway leading
to Hastings, has its outline completely re-
stored. The figure is of great antiquity, but
its date, origin, or purpose cannot be traced.
According to a late census there are only
$4,000 cats in England. and at an estimate
OF one mouse and five rats to each acre there
are 81 lid, 600 900 of these animals, consum-
ing grain enough to support nearly three
million human beings.
Another fatal result from eating raw ham
has occurred at Saugatuck, Mich. A Mr..
and Mrs. Mcdowell, after partaking of ham
in this condition, were attacked by trichina
spiralis. and died. There should be statute
for this heathenish practice or it should be
classed among the acts Of confirmed idiocy.
James John. of Starksboro, Vermont, has
lately died. He issued a weekly newspaper
called the Autograph" printed with his
pen, and the work of which was nicely done.
He wssan eccentric genius, and his like we
may never see again.
Among Governor Moses little delinquin-
cies, as shown by his bankruptcy schedule,
are SIC, 900 due on a horse $4,000 due to Bal
timore furniture dealers, 81 500 due tailOrs,
g, 600 due to restaurant keepers and shoema-
kers g, 900 due butchers end 81 ,000 due to the
"Indian girl cigar store"
A Louisville man lately left his clothes on
the bank of the river, and near them this
letter was found: "I leave this Werld of
trouble and hard ships am posr laborer
but could not get no work so will end my
retched lite by drownding myself the one
that fluids this will know that the body of
John Robson has found Wattry grave
John Robson of new albany Ind good bye
TO this Wourld."
Edward Shipper has presented to the
National Museum at Philadelphia two cur
ious likenesses, one of General Washing
ton and one OF his wife. They were taken
from the actual shadows cast by the faces of
the two, when living, upon the wall, by
Eleanor Parke Custis, the person who
figures az the little girl in the well known
picture of the Washington family. They
were by her presented to the late Mrs. Cab
son, and photographs have been taken from
them.
Marie Dava, young French woman in
st. Louis, recently from New Orleans, threw
herselfout OF the fifth storywindowo of a build
ing,cor Elm street and the levee, and was
almost instantly killed. being horribly
crushed and mangled. She had been endeay-
oring to procure situation as goverHess,
but being disappointed in her efforts, became
much detected, and it is supposed committed
the act while laboring under temporary
alteration of mind.
Mr. Galloway, Of Manchester, England, is
in trouble. He is the present possessor of
the picture called "Roll Cal" painted by a
young lady artist, Miss Thompson. and
which is receiving so much friendly notice in
the royal academy. Mr.. Galloway has
lately declined to sell this picture to the
prince of Wales, who desired TO purchase IT,
and now the queen has sent him word that
she desires the coveted picture. Such re-
request is generally considered equivalent
to command, and as such, he VIII be con-
sidered disloyal and ungallant If he does not
yield up his treasure.
The London Echo says: "the rapid in
crease of railway enterprise in Russia is one
of the most gratifying proofs of the progress
of the country. The zeal with which this
noveltyis pursued by the Russian public
seems, according TO the journals of the En-
pire, to be untempered with discretion On
the 18th (25th) of April last, the day APP
pointed for the receipt of the subscriptions
10 the Ural railway, the government bank
was crowded to suffocation by would be in
yestorA Several ladies tainted away, and
one man had his arm broken by the crowd.
sum.actually demanded, the subscription a
mounted TO about 100000 roubles, or about