The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Clearfield friedrich works have con.
tracted 10 deliver 100000 bricks this season
Henry w. Longfellow spends the summer
in Canada; he is now stopping in Hamil
ton.
Reverdy johnson has just won his 5, 0Ot
fee case against the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road company.
The British expenditures to relieve the
famine in India up to the end OF February
amounted to 81, 100000.
Philadelphia is likely TO be out done, for
Geneva, Switzerland, proposes TO have an in
ternational exposition next year.
One hundred and twenty newspapers and
periodicals have been suppressed in France
since M&cMshon became president.
1t Is reported that the Turkish govern
ment has decided to renounce all its COM
mercisl treaties with foreign powers.
The advance sheets of Gould's rev direc-
tory Of st. Louis gives l14,4 26 names, and
estimates the city population to be 473,56O.
Now we pity the chickens, for a two dollar
and half gold coin has been found in the
gizzard OF chicken residing near Remove.
One Of the skeletons of Barnum's four
dromedaries has been presented to Yale
College, and the other three going to the
Smithsonian Institute.
Mrs. Jane G. SwissheIm thinks the direct
effect the women's war on liquor-selling
can only be transient, unless the right of
suffrage is conferred upon women.
Martin Decker, letter carrier in Detroit,
l;committed suicide. Dependency over
loss OF his wife, and financial troubles
aItassigned as causes of the act.
The executors of Edwin Forrest have
tad fxxyifh e
o the deceased by paying her S25, 900, she
agreeing to forego her claims for this sum.
The sum which would be annually saved
Iysllowing congressman only their actual
travelling expenses. in lieu of milage, would
amount to over one hundred thousand dol
lars.
They are about starting a swimming
sshOol in Washington. That is a good idea,
md now we propose that they build con-
OCCASIONAL bathing house for the use of men,
bers alone.
The greatest bell in the world, the ''Empe-
rer William BELL" destined for the Cologne
cathedral, has Just been finished. 1t weighs
ibout sixty thousand pounds, is Is feet high
and IA feet wide.
Geological collections are becoming quite
popular in our large cities. Philadelphia has
Just raised over $4,000 for such a garden in
Fairmount Park. They ought to he able to
sst up some pretty cheap ones in some parts
DCr country.
The ceremony of cremation was lately put
into practice in England, upon the body OF
Lomontinia Smith, gypsy oracle. or
course IL was Smith, and what blessed
thing il would be If cremation could only re-
dnce the living number.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been mentioned
.sthesuccessor of Disraeh as lord chancellor
sths university of Glasgow. 1t is, we be-
1eve, the first time an American has been
mentioned in connection with such posi-
ton.
The Academy of Music at Muskegon,
Michigan, burned on Sunday night. The
building was occupied by the board of trade
and the Western Union telegraph. The
peak family" playing there, lost nearly all
their bells.
The Baptists of Boston have voluntarily
decided to urge upon the legislature the
net;ce of taxing church property. Now let
AL the other denominations do the same and
khen we shall not hear so much about ex-
srbitsnt city taxes.
Speaking of the half-naked statue of
Washington, which cost $4,000, in the east
capitol park, Grace Greenwood wittily says
that his oatstretched arms point reproacn-
fully toward the glass cases in the patent
Office, where hang his much-desired habili-
ments. at4
A most remarkable occurrence was wit
messed on the Northwestern railway track
at Oshkosh, Wis, last week. The engine of
a freight train going north jumped the
track and alighted with all its wheels, on
another track six feet distant. The tender
was partly drawn across, but the cars re-
manned safe on the first track. 81
All the debris belonging to the intermina-
BILE Tichborne trial has just been removed
from the court. The most interesting docu-