The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-23
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AMI OOoolEs
Gen. Sherman's family will pass the sum-
mer at 81. Adams. Vt.
The Prussian railroads have beeu author
lied to raise their charges twenty per cent.
Twenty thousand tons OF peat are an
nually abstrscted from the marshes near
Montreal for use as fuel.
Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, is reported
to have lately said that "women had no
more right to vote than a horse"
Nearly thousand bills recorded on the
books of both houses of congress have been
introduced too late to even secure the action
of a committee.
The report OF the city registrar of Charles
ton. s. c., shows that the rate of mortality
among the cOlOred population is twice as
great as among the white inhabitants.
Rhode Island is said to be the only state
in the union in which the custom is pre-
served of having the high sheriff to cry the
election Ofthe governor from the balcony of
the state house on inauguration day.
For marrying Miss Rogers, who is Is
years old, Thomas Reedy, of Rowley, Mass,
has been sent to the state prison for four
years. Technically. it was case of abduc-
Qen, ana Reedy had already three wives
living.
The Senate claims committee have agreed
to report the House bill with amendments
appropriating 81. O0O, 600 to pay the awards of
the southern claims commissioners in favor
OF about one million unionIsts throughout
the South.
There will be work for county map malzers
when the Mississippi flood subsidies. The
old Fa'her of Waters has been remodeling
the country down there. without regard to
title deeds OF county records.
Mr. Weston now wants Boston to watch
him while he walks forty mine miles forward
and the same backward, all in ten hours.
lie will probably next try his ability at
walking on his head.
May " ColYin, of Chicago, has issued a
proclamation asking the citizens to observe
the 9Th inst. as holiday, and inviting
them to- participate in the ceremonies OF
laying the cornerstone of the new custom
house aud pOstOffice on that day.
Seven pripces of the, blood royal Of Eng.
land have been created peers Of Ireland. In
GLIDING the seven twelve have been created
peers with Irish titles. The new creation o
the dukedOm of COnnaught is the only in.
stance in which the chief title of an English
prince has cen an Irish one.
T. L. Woods, of Passumpsic, VT, has
written on postal card the Declaration o
Independence, the ten commandments, the
Lords prayer, the ed psalm, the SECOND
epstle of john, the 9th psalm and the frs
verse of Coronation besides the super
scrip;iOn to the Boston Journal, the whole
work including 2.272 words.
President j. Blanchard of Wheaton col
lege in paper on "The tall of American sla
very" gives an interesting bit of history
Excepting, perhaps, the little state of Yer
mont, there probably was not one county
\. 49, -
lecturer was free from personal danger
while, south of that line, to hold anti slavery
sentiments was Punishment; to propagate
them, death.
Go :ernor Dix has signed the New Yorl
aud Brooklyn bridge bill. Ii provides thai
the necessary amount to be raised for com
plotting the bridge shall be appropriated bS
the cities of New York and Brooklyn. in
sums of 100000 and 100000 respectively
as he board of constructors shall need it
1t remains with the common council of the
two cities 20 say whether the money shall b'
raised, and the sense of the community, II
Is supposed, will be expressed by the actor
of the municipal authorities in the matter.
Ifoue may judge from a curious Mass
chusetts will dated 1924, the young people o
that time and that commonwealth were mo-
renowned for the tender care they took o
their venerable fathers and mothers. The
old gentleman in making the will in The an
Gent town Of Lexington, bequeathed to hi:
wife, not only tho sum of fifteen dollars q
year. and enough wood to keep one fire
burning, but also three rooms in their farm
house, with liberty to pass and repass uT
the front stairs and Ous at the front door To
either OF the wells, and right to two seats
in pew No. So in Lexington meeting house
so long as she shall live"
The expense of the post-ofIice department
has run up from S5.2l2 952 in 1850, and SILL
Isl l67 in 1854 to $4,000 600 in 1874. The
figures show that in the 10 years, from 1856
to 1850, expenditures doubled. The deficit
also ran up to S37 600 in that time, in
GLIDING the grant of 1850. The revenues in
1860 were 5000 O0-there being no deficit
that year. In 1861 they reached So 5I3 O67
In 1865 the revenues reached Sl5, 0OO, 900. the
increase during the five ears from 1860 be-
ing twice as much As in the 10 years pre-
vious to the war. The time ought soon 70
come when there will be no deficit in the
postal service.