The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-16
GENERAL NOTES.

wool over the taclHc ralirOaQ during 1870 2.
Since 1864 the University Press at aCsn-
bridge have produced 400 tons OF Weoster's
dictionary. o-3fsh HA' 49,. f., ~.
Twsnty-nine hsndred pie res of real estate
havebeen eonfiscsted by the State of South
Carolina for delinquent taxes in a single
county.atI0 iflAA ,,,,
The ship channel which has been many
wears in process of construction between
Corpus Christi Bay and Arkansas Pass has
been examined and accepted by the Texas
engineer The channel is seven miles long;
average depth, 10 feet; width, l75 feet 1eiEt
Gentlemen interested in the matter have
agreed to build a tabernacle for the use of
Prot. Swings congregation, capable Of hold
iuQ 600 people. Funds will be secured for
shis purpose by subscription, and the taber-
nacIe will be owned by the stockholders. moi
The hopeless invalidism of the Rev. DIR.
Newhall. Of the Ohio Wesleyan University,
at Delaware, has made il necessary to- select
new president. Among the candidates
mentioned are the Rev. DR.. l. ID. McCsbe,
member OF the faculty, and the Rev. DR.
+. o. Haven, ex president OF Michigan
University. 'eSfso % Z =. - - -. beeia
As watertown, Wis. on Saturday, con-
ductor on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railroad, WAS tried for refusing to adj
cornplainant proved that be had rendered
the legal rate for ticket and was refused.
The conductor was found guilty and fined
500 bos'atla.f ~. -,.,, -, I'D ~
Mrs. Sarah Laid, who died recently at On
advanced age,in Augusta, Me-, was one ofthe
sixteen littlegirls who represented the states
OF the union in civic aud military pageant
given at that place, upon the occasion of the
hrst observance of the death of George
Wasbineton.u She was the last survivor but
one Of those sixteen little gtis.gEns 1 Il.l
Leander Stoors, of Tolland, Conn.,, one of
the Second Advent people who encamped
on Terry. Island to await the end of the
world, hast fall has just died, and his funeral
was attended by large number of the Sec
ond Advent people from all parts of the
state and even from places beyond. Mr..
StoOrs was one of those who remained on
the island till winter obliged them to sepa-
The churches throughout the North took
no part in the abolition agitation of years
ago while the Methodist conference at Gin
cinnati In 1896 .'disclaimed any right,
wish, or intention to Interfere in the civil
and political relation of master and slave,
and opposed modern abolitionism. The
Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Bap-
lists held the same views. I, r.rT eff rri
The construction of mountain roads in the
Himalayas requires skillful engineering,
and is extremely difficult. The roads are in
some cases at an elevation of p, 900 teet and
in some districts the annual rainfall has
reached 20 inches, of which 40 inches fell
in the two and a half months of the rainy
season, and Eve and one-haf inches in q
single hour. In seme places galleries are
built jutting out from the rock, and in Others
galleries are excayated in the rocks. r-
new line of steamers is ready to com
neneeits trips between New York and Yene-
zuels The vessels are American built, AMI
American manned. They will stop at St.
Thomas, Laguayra, Porto Cabello, Curacao,
and Marscaibo.5 Such communication has
long been needed. the trade of that rich sec
ton Of the world having been nearly monop-
olized by England. Except a monthly
steamer to Brazil, no other American steam
ers sail to South America upon either coast
Vicomte Henri de Trassac de Biernss
lately committed suicide in Paris He vas
IS years old, afflicted with opthalmis, and
very poor. About ten years ago he lost his
tort une, and then began to work under an
assumed plebian name. While preparing
for death, he wrote letter to the commis-
sary, declaring that he had kept his name
without stain, for, he said, Twenty battles
were required to enObie it." 'sNow," he
concluded, five sous worth of cha-coal will
suffice TO make il disappear forever"
Maiden, Mass, has queer character in the
person OF old man NAMED Sims f.
Twombly, known by the name of the her
NIT. He lives in little shansy ten by six
teen feet, with his horses and dogs. He has
no visible means of support. and it is known
that few weeks ago he killed and ate one of
his dogs. board of physicians have ex-
smined and pronounced him sane, aud
though the people in his vicinity are afraid
of him, they do not know how to get rid OF
him. z tai t~-
Jim Fisk has just been put into marble at
Brattleboro, vt. The monument is the
work of Iarkin G.. Mead, native artist,
and is OF marble. Atesch of the four cor
ners of the tablets is female figure, one
representing the drama, another commerce,
the third steamboats,, and the fourth rail-
roads,, In the Ia blet which faces toward the
road, Is medallion portrait of Colonel Fisk,
in the finest marble, said to be an excellent
likeness The other tablets are unmarked,
AZ present, aud the inscriptions which they
are TO bear are not vet decided upon.
John Bright took part in the discussion OF
thetemperance question at the annual meet
ing Of the Society of Friends in London.
recently, and expressed views entirely an
tagonistic TO those usually expressed by his
hearers He found that they were always
crying to parliament for the cure of this
great evil. and the propositions before them
showed that they adhered to that course.
They asked for things to be done which liz
the present state OF public opinion were inn
possible. The king for these things in
itself revealed an amount Of simplicity
which he could not understand. It is for the
parliament to maze such changes as are
necessary foE the public good, and for the
proper administration of police regulations.
But II the public houses were closed on Sun
days, II the hours of sale were shortened, II
the licenses were taken from the grocers, the
amount OF drinking is 50 absolutely appal-
ling that It would still be Iessened to but q
small degree. m