The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-26
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP
Commodore Vanderbilt has given another
800 OOO to Vanderbilt university, making
$500, 900 in all.
A fourteen-year-old son of Battaloma
vagonier was bitten by vicious dog at
Lancaster, Ohio, and died in great agony.
Messrs John HoIms and Henry Fawcett,
liberals, have been elected TO the House of
Commons from Hackney, by 1000 majority
The total cost of civiliziug and christianiz-
ing the Sandwich Islands thus far, has been
about 81 $50. 900, and the commerce with the
island amounts to S7eS,ecO year.
Tue jubilee singers, who have been IN
Great Britain for a year or more, have fir
ished up their tour and will sail for home
next month. They have realized from con-
csrts given in Great Britain over s5O,O
Herr Hermann Linde processes the ex-
trsordinary requirement of being able to
recite all Shakspeare's plays from memory.
He commenced latelya series of recitals at
Cologne, with the midsummer Nights
Dream"
The cholera has rapidly spread in certain
provinces in Italy since February, and the
strictest sanitary measures have been taken
TO check it's ravsges. 1t is prevalent in the
vicinity of Geneva and is gradually APP
preaching central Italy.
The house comRittee. on war claims has
agreed to allow the claim of $4,000 to the
Louisville IL Bsrdstown Turnpike Com
pany for the destruction of two bridges. one
over Salt river and one over Floyd's Ford,
by order OF Major General Nelson, Septem-
Der %, 1852.
James T.. Field Gays that when Charles
Sumner visited SIDNEY Smith, at the age OF
fwenty-six that worthy presented him as
he left an ItaliaG work entitled, ga plea
for humanity, a word for the unfortunate,
an appeal for the destitute and downtrodden
everywhere"-a plea, in short, for righteous
government.
The New York Association for the Protec-
ton OF Game is now engaged in an at
tempt to secure a reasonable harmony be-
tween the laws of the different states IN re-
gard to the protection OF game, especially
that of migratory birds. A convention is
about to be held to consider these and kim
dred questions interesting to sportsmen.
The engineers sent out by the United
States government to explore the routes for
Daiien ship canal, give the weight of their
opinion in favor of tAeNicaragua route. The
objections to the Atroti -Nspipi route is the
frequency of locks and the necessity of a
tunnel twenty-eight miles long, cut under
the Cordilleras; while the only one brought
against the Nicaragua route is the necessity
of two terminal artifcisl harbors.
Under Tennessee statute of 1866, the
conductors of each passenger train are re-
quired to call out in a loud voice the name
of each station and also the stopping time,
the penalty for each neglect being 500. A
suit has lately been brought against the East
Tennessee, Virginia az Georgia railro ad by
Mr.. Shearer, In which his declarations IN
ciude 800 separate counts as violations OF
this law.
The Swators, as completed, is regar ded as
the prettiest vessel in the service. She Is
4 all rugged, and so arranged as to have the
galley on deck. She has ten high pressure
coolers. and has the first compound engines
which the government has allowed in any
war vessel. She is to sail June l for the
South Pacific to observe the transit OF
Venus, December and o. The list of the
scientific corps has not yet been furnished.
The national academy of science has elect
ed President Barnard, of Columbia college,
foreign secretary. vice professor Agassiz,
and the following new members. Professor
CT. Chandler, of New York, chemist !;
George Davidson, of San Francisco, mathe-
maticap and astronomer; Professor U. Z.
Marsh, of New Haven, Ct, geologist;
George w. Hill, of Nyack, n. Y, mathe-
matican; Professor Henry Morton, OF the
Stevens institute Hoboken, N. j., physicist.
The reports of the fruit prospects in South
ern Illinois and in Western Michigan are
very catering and all the smaller kinds of
fruits are to be abundant, judging from
present appearances. The strawberry crop
in Egypt is already being delivered at
stations on the Illinois Central railroad, and
an abundant yield is confidently looked for.
In Michigan the season is as yet not suffi-
GENTLY advanced to speak with certainty of
the fruit crop, but the trees have never
given a finer promise. fr s-s
The widow of Henry r. Schoolcraft has
memorialized the New York legislature in
favor of monument to that remarkable
man. He was pioneer il geology, dis
covered the source OF the Mississippi and
other things more useful, and, though hold
ing for many years the place of agent for
Indian affairs, he never profted pecuniarily
by that post, but, passing his whole lie in
scientific and antiquarian researches, he
died poor. His work on the customs and
traditions Of the Indians are invaluable.
Mrs. Schoolcraft lives in straitened circum-
stances at Washington. a..