The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-14
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For he's shortened the hours of work
And heightened the hours OF drink"


The Alabama & Chattanooga railroad
has been offered at auction by the
commissioners of Mobile Three million
dollars being the only offer, and that being
less than the minimum fixed by the court,
the sale was adjourned till the first Monday
in October.
The heat of the sun is not chiefly what
produces prostration and sunstroke. 1t has
been discovered that the injuryis caused prin-
cipally from the effect of the chemical rays.
Accordingly a hat lined with orange and
green paper in two separate layers is a sure
preventive of the injury of an excessive sun
heat.
The Chinese of San Francisco have built
themselves another theater and one of very
fine proportions. It opened a couple of
wees since, on Saturday evening, to an
audience of 1000. The play was, for the
Chinese, comparatively short-it lasted only
from eight O'Clock Saturday evening to three
o'clock Sunday morning.
Thus the saints and their virtues depart:
" DIR. Robert Laird Collier has been looking
over the original manuscript journals and
account books of John Wesley. He found
that when John Wesley was at college, at
the age of q, he spent about elOO year.
Among the items OF expenditure were
beef Tobacco and lost at cards.
Mrs. Bolton, of Cleveland, a leader in the
women's temperance movement, has written
to the Chicago Advance that twenty. five
thousand saloons have already been closed
by the female crusaders of Ohio. Mrs. Boil
ton is an enthusiastic, and, we do not doubt
high minded woman, but she certainly
does not figure well as newspaper CORES
pOndent.
A distinguished surgeon of the United
States Army, DR.. Ely Mcclellan, who was
detailed by resolution OF congress TO inyes-
tigate the cause of the cholera in 1873, and
who has travelled belt of country on both
sides OF the Mississippi, in the Southwestern
States from Tennessee to Louisiana, has ar.
rived at the conclusion that there has been
no cholera in the country this season, and
the probabilities are that VIC will have none
during the present year.
The House bill No. 1,746. which was de.
signed to relieve savings banks from tax
upon their undistributed surplus earnings
aud which passed both houses of Congress
did not become law. 1t was neither APP
proved nor vetoed by the President. BY
their adjournment Congress prevented its
return by him under the provisions OF sec
ton of the constitution. As it failed to be
come a law the banks therefore remain liza
bic to the tax.
IT. Barnun has engaged Prof. Donald
son to make several experimental trips in
balloon to determine many moOted points
,Barnum says he hopes by these ascensions
to determine fully the question of the 'east
erly current" and decide whether il DE
fact or a myth. Its existence being estab
lished, the voyage to Europe in such a bal
loon as propose to build will be as easily
and safely accompli shed as a journey Their,
on one ofour best ocean steamers.
A writer, speaking of the Orloff diamond
says: 1--WE bsheld the scepter of ali tn
Russias, tipped by the Orloff diamond. q
course we were disappointed. The scepte
resembles gold poker, and the mountain
of light which we had pictured to ourselve
as big as a walnut, with a haze of glory sur
1, rounding it, was no bigger than hazel nut
The Orloff diamond weighs a little abov
eight carats more than the Koh-i-noor befor
1t was cut, but the Russian diamond has il
il a slight flaw, and the English brilliant
considered TO be the most valuable"
The following charges and specification
have been preferred against the Rev. w.