The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-21
GENERAL NOTES.

President Mcmahon has only suppressed
120 periodicals, thus far.
Mr.. David Dudley Field was reported at
Bombay, by the latest advices.
The Scotch Episcopal church holds
Church Congress" at Edinburgh in May.
The ZeaIot is the first steamship which has
ever run regularly between New YORK
and Dublin.
Alameda county, California. has Portu-
guese population of 5000, and also large
Danish population.
The railroad connecting Parker City IL
Harms City, Butler county, Pa, opened
through, Wednesday.
Phillips, Gardner & Co.'S knitting mill at
Amsterdam, n. Y, was burned Thursday.
Loss, 500, 900; insured for $4,000.
J.H. Richardson, an old and well. known
citizen of San Francisco, shot and Killed
himself at PetOluma, Wednesday.
Philadelphia is getting anxious about her
finances. The city debt is now SOC ,OOO,
more than double that of the entire state.
The New York Legislature has passed
bill, compelling parents and guardians TO
send children to school IA weeks In each
year.
There are now hardly ten thousand Amer
, cans in Paris, smaller number than there
has been at this season, it is said in twenty
years.
The GAINESVILLE courier says 1uo WnOlo-
sale LIQUOR trade of Cleveland has fallen on
so per cent. under the influence of the cru
SaderS.
The great spectacle of "Paris by Night"
is drawing great crowds to witness this
UNIQUE illusion at the Colosseum in New
York.
The New York Freeman's Journal, speak
ing ex-cathedra, says that 1t Is emlnently
wrong for Catholics to join the order known
as grangers.
Among the curiosities of art to be exhib-
tied at the Portuguese international exposition
is collection of $1,000 different sorts OF
native wines.
Fox's Broadway theatre has Just been
thoroughly remodeled and renovated, and
'Humpty Dumpty," recast, greeted an i'm
mense audience.
The trustees for the Southern Railroad,
from Cincinnati, advertise for proposals to
make thirty miles of the road bed in Scott
county. Kentucky.
The Rev. DIR. Stone says that nine-tenths
of the persons whom he has married in San
Francisco were aged upward OF thirty-fou
years. Slow but sure.
Two fishing boats caPsized off Kenosha,
Wis. Wednesday afternoon. -Four men were
aboard each. One was seen dashed to the
boats. The others were all lost.
Mr.. Strakosch is already making his ar
rangements for next year, when he has posi-
lively determined to bring out Wagner's
s'Flying Dutchman" in New York.
Seven -tenths of the capital prize in the
Louisville lottery have been paid. all the
money going to parties who hae bought
parts of the lucky ticket in Memphis.
A fire at Jacksonville, Oregon, Tuesday,
DESTROYED a part of two blocks in the bust
the CITY. Los about SlXtV
thousand dollars with little insurance.
The prudential committee of the Rev. Mr..
Murray's church, in Boston, are holding
midnight sessions to decide whether their
pastor shall have a six months leave or
not.
George Merritt, who died recently at
Greenburg, N. Y. left property valued at
S7.372OOO, all of which goes to his heirs ex-
cept 500. 900 bequeathed to charitable insti-
buttons.
A Canadian of means named Towner has
purchased Ayers Lake, in Polk county, Illi-
nois. and will devote it to fish culture. The
water of the lake is remarkably pure, and is
about seventy acres in extent.
An immense audience, largely composed
of colored people, under whose auspices the
meeting was held, gathered in taneull han
Tuesday afternoon. to hear the Hon. X. Is.
Elliott on Charles Sumner.
The surgeons of the Confederate army and
navy are to hold a convention at Atlanta,
Ca, on May 20. for the purpose of embody-
ing in permanent form the Important medi-
cal and surgical facts brought out by their
war experience.
DIR. Cumming, the great dissenting clergy
man of England, has come out in a letter
thanking the Church of England for setting