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

In Rochester. New York. so intense is the
Indignation against the gas monopoly that
kerosene is becoming the general illumina-
tor.
Miss Belle Finlayson, known as "Judy'
in newspaper circles, and a correspondent of
the st. Louis Times, was lately married to
Colonel George L. Burdett, OF Kentucky.
Two saloonists have recommended selling
LIQUOR in Van Vert, Ohio. This, as will be
remembered, was one of the first places
which yielded to the temperance movement.
A chair of education is to be founded in the
University of Edinburgh, and one has
already been established at st. Andrews.
Teaching is fast acquiring the dignity of a
profession
The Hoar men complain of the persistency
of the Dawes party in supporting their can
didate. 1t reminds us of the Juror who said
he never met eleven such obstinate fellows
before.-New York Graphic.
George Ripley says that Frcthinghsm's
"Lifer of Theodore Parker holds up a re-
markable specimen of robust manliness
whose form and hneaments can be studied
with equal advantage by friend and foe.
A newsboy was committed to trial in New
York, in default of $500 bail, by Judge Sher-
wood, for calling out: Extra! Great out
break in Europe! several lives LOST" when
everything was quiet on the European hori-
ION.
II is stated that the number of cans OF
peaches packed last year approximated
about l2,OO0,O00; tomatoes 100000, and
corn from 100000 to 100000. The head
quarters of peach-canning are in Maryland
and Delaware.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, of Washington
ID. c., applied lately for admission to prac
tice law in the Court of Claims, and was in
formed that the rule governing admission
OF applicants required that the "attorney be
a man Of good moral standing"
The selection of the Academy of Music,
New York, as the place.for holding the first
'inter collegiate literary contest" shows an
earnest desire on the part of the cOntestlps
cOllegians TO air themselves. Bunker Hill
Monument wouldn't have been an ;.-mpreye-
ment on the selection.-Bostop Post.
Rev Mrs. Phoebe A. Har, afford confess In
some nervousness Wien she first attended
Sorosis lest wire should be used at the
lunches, as tie naughty rumor went, but she
now sssu.es breath-suspended world that
notpsng stronger than tea and coffee and
iePionade is ever used at their dinners and
lunches" .,4 -. .fI..r
AZ ChbhuSidSt1C WTlIcE say > thdSOho WOAtCti
of New Orleans are like chiseied figures out
of marble, with the soft dash of Gnido's
brush, or of PetraTch's song in their faces,
and the ripe southern blood flushing up to
their temples under the pure surface oil
their veins. Is it possible. n..r
party Of Swiss immigrants have just
leased 20 acres of land from Col. Daniel. Of
Gunston, Fairfax county, Va, for the pur.
pose of starting vineyard and the manu-
facture of wine. Col. Daniel has been Guilt
waiting wine-making grapes on his estate
for several years past with success, and has
made wine which has been pronounced
equal to that of California productions.
Lester Seymour, an adventurer, who re-
Gently went to Pittsfield. Mass, and engaged
Mrs. Scott-Siddons to give a reading there,
paid that lady with worthless check for
$50, and pecketed the entire receipts about
six hundred doIlars) and fled, leaving other
bills to The amount Of several hunSred dol
lars. Mrs, Siddons being under enlightenment