The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02
NEWS NOTES.

On sffs day which the immense briflsE over
the Mississippi st st. Louis was olensd to
publicGravel the number of people passing
overrVsas estimated at sixty thousand.
TheSaew dining room of the Grand yJnion
Hctelsat Saratoga will seat soc people. For
the present season rates for the months of
June Snd September will be 81, and SIS for
JelyeGnd August.
Mr.. G. E. 4. NicGeachy, formerly con-
New York, Ia conducting the lDanbury
NeVss, white Bailey is in Europe, and Max
Abler is ''doin2" the humorous.
TichbOrne n said to be confined in a dun
geoc hardly. igger than coal cellar, with
dressed in ss7retched prison garb, with no
one to talk &C ana has no writing materials
orsbooks.
Somebody Glas said 'the way ofthe trans
gressor is ka,d" but man recently died in
Ohio, leaving, $40, 900, turns ogt to have been
Elisha Case, formally of Canton, Mass, who,
having cOszr litted forgery in II $50, sud-
denly went West.
'On the complaint of the superintendent of
the'New' York, New Haven & Ks-tford rail-
road, Willis m Banker, a conductor who has
been empisye on that road for2C years. has
been arraigned on a charge of embezzling
$50,000 in that time. The prisoner was held
TO bail iirt 600.
The siggal Office has, for some time past,
been compelled to omit Mount Washington
reports from it's published tables An cleo
fr1c lash, <ghlch made everybody think of a
conflagratiOn .'burnt out" the telegraph
Offices on the summit and at the I6ase of the
mountsins and also at Littleton.
"A cheelzsor s60, 900 was recezaly handed
the inventor of metallic tips for rohildren's
shoes in nayment of his share in ssreissue of
the patent, which he had originally sold for
500; and 4clow with such announcement as
this, why can't he win the everlasting graft
tide of mothers by inyenting soGle kind of
brass knee plates for little boys trowsers.
BY sretCrn just issued, the area of Lon
den is 'k2s square miles. The riveC is crossed
by II bridges. The average daily supply of
wEteris 5Iz ,269 metric tons, and the annual
ratable vaue OF property is 10000, 900
sterling. Last year the number of births
was 12l.lOc in 5S weeks. or 2, 2S5 weekly; and
asIthe deaths were 1864, or 1,44s weekly, |
the excess of births over deaths was A, ,466.
or $50 weekly.
Professor Tobin has secured, and will |
exhibit, a newly-invented flying-maehine. |
the work .of. French engineer. The in |
ventor Is to start from the dome of the /
colosseum. end sail down Broadway, over |
the roofs of tbs city, to Union square, where he /
viii Eand. Ehe time assigned for this Eearian |
prodigy Is the, middle of June If successful |
the inSentoriis to receive, we are informed,
$4,000.
There Ssno acknowledged Unitarian church
in London now, where there can be beard
views 50 advanced as those one NAV hear
from Dean Stanley, Stafford Brook ,Septinars
Hensard- and indeed, four or five other
preachers OF tneIbpglish church. My belief is
that Unit&rianism in London is dyinp.
When Mr. Martineau left the pulpit the last
chapter Was reached. Four of its pulpits
In London are now.vacant, and it would ap-
pear that the eloquent young ministers of
the country districts and the provincial
towns cann0t be persuaded to.come to Lon-l
don M. ID. Conway.
The recent high tide in the Thames was so
predictedikg scientific men that
avery preparation was made for it. The
water rose to the top of the arches of Black
riar's bridge y Gloucester Eaper saws
hal the "b0re" proguosticated by Mr..
Frank Buckland made it's appearances in the
Seve-en at and below Gloucester at.0 O'Clock I
IN the morning aud at $50 O'Clock in the ,
,veuiog. The effect was remarkable. The ,,
liver, which was flowing gently toward the ,
YEA, was in a moment reversed in its course, =
md rushed up mass OF waters, sone feet I
n height, and throwing mud and water !
ilHa III bE6 ar. ne IkGe Only 11OWoQ flro6. 4
uarters Of an hour and rose less than SIX /
Get. .
The Swstara, which Is to carry the seien-
lfe party ia the South Pacihe ocean to Wit c
less the transit of Venus, on December 10,
3 in fall readiness. Twenty six scientists b
re expected from Washington, with their ID
nstTunsnts, in a few days. and the ship %
viii leave the nsyy-ysrd with 200 persons on G
oard. The company is to be divided into Id
I've parties, to be Landed at Crozet's Island, d
Aerguelan, or Desolation Island: Hobart o
'own, in Tasmania. formerly Van Diemen's te
and, New Zealand and Chatham Islands Ell
iere the Swatara is 10 remain until after I'll
ne observation. The vessel has stores for re
aae,s - e,gnaeeh months voyage. The instru- pl
-ones are Delng tested in Washington, and 81
70 mostly new and very elaborate. tt