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


The population of Little Rock in 1870, was
put down at Il 900, and it is now about To-
900.
The monument to the mother of Wash
ingtoL, at Fredericksburg, is to be completed
at a cost OF So, coo.
} The Hon. Samuel +. Hunt, of Cincinnati,
will deliver the annual address before the
literary societies of Kenyon college on June
%.
The First Congregational church OF Lex
ington, Mass, is using Bible that was pre-
scented TO the parish by Governor John
Hancock in 1913.
The first packages Of goods for the Inter
national celebration of 1876 has been received
in Philadelphia. They came from Austria,
Norway and Sweden.
William Webb, of London, offers to put
every letter in the bible, the whole number
being 1866 lisa, upon n surface one-eight OF
an inch square.
The Boston Transcript says: "The new
law against allowing children to appear as
obats proposed by our legislature, meets
with universal public favor"
The New York authorities have ordered
the arrest of all street musicians under 10
years of age. This will scatter The little mu-
steal wanderers throughout the country.
Dispatches from Calcutta state that the
distress from the famine in India is increas-
ing. Nearly 100000 people are dependent
upon the government for food.
In Virginia the fine for killing hooking
bird or robbing its nest of young is $40. The
offendermay be arrested by any party with
out warrant. The fine goes To the public
school fund. Fss-s
A new suspension bridge is to be built
across the Monongshela river at Pittsburg,
which shall span the whole river. The
special plan recomFAended is that invented
by Mr.. LIE Blanek, chief engineer OF roads
and bridges in France.
Twenty-nine hundred pieces of real estate
have been confscated by the State of South
Carolina during May for delinquent taxes in
asingle county, whose taxpayers, according
TO the Charleston News. have not solitary
representative in the legislature of the state.
The paintings, water color drawings, and
engravings bequeathed to the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts by the late Senator
Sumner, will be exhibited at the Atheneum,
in that city, from the 18Th of May to the 1st
of September.
A Pit.sburg man has sued for So 600 dam
ages because after he had taken and paid for
birth in sleeping car, he was not permit
tcO " Ldho pOcScSSlO1l OF his D6rL1, ana n al
TO ride all night in an ordinary car, whereby
a severe attack of illness was brought about.
Toyama, the japanese student at Ann
Arbor, has addressed note to the faculty,
asking for a modification of his suspension,
and that instead of being suspended for |
"hazing," he desires it to be for acts Of self |
defense against and retaliation upon the |
''hazing scoundrels."
An international congress of the geograph-
ical sciences Will be held in Paris in the |
spring of the year 1875. The geographers
and travellers of all countries will be called |
to attend it. simultaneously with the con-
gress will take place an exhibition of maps
and geographical implements and instru- |
ments.
Mr.. Disraeli's lack of health is causing |
considerable anxiety to his personal and po- !
litical friends, and it is rumored that he may |
find il necessary to withdraw for a few
months from the duties OF premier, which,
in the meantime will be performed by Earl |
Derby.
The record of the contest for the base |
hall championship this season, thus far, is as
follows: