The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-15
NEWS n GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
B. +. B.-"Am dat you, Massa Chusetts?"
-Danbury News.
There is considerable excitement in Cor
sica, Texas, over the discovery of a gold
mine.
A Beecher and Tilton social club has been
organized in Utica. Rather a dangerous
experiment.
The Wisconsin Norwegian synod recently
appropriated j 1000 for distribution to the
frontier ~grasshopper sufferers.
G. J. Hopkins, a Giles county farmer,
came to Nashville with 81 900 to invest in
hogs. He was roped into a gambling house
and lost it all.
For sharing a rabbit in a wood near Strau-
raer, Richard Crossan, a laborer, has been
sentenced to pay a fine of e1 and GO 9s. ex-
penses-a dear dinner to Richard.
Yoshida Kigonarl, the Japanese minister
to Washington, left San Francisco for the
East Wednesday, accompanied by his wife
and the secretary of legation.
The Aslor House IN. " is to be entirely
remodeled next spring. 1t is almost a pity
to disturb that solid old land mark. But
nothing over ten years old pleases the
American people,.
The State Poultry Association, at its sec
Ond annual exhibition, in Dubuque, com
mencing December 10, will confer 81 1850 in
premiums. There are also special awards to
the amount of $500 offered.
Tit Tor tat is thus put by the Graphic,
with an illustration: "And now tell me
why you left your last placer" 81 will tell
you that, ma'am, when you have told me
why you parted with your last cook"
A council of war in New Caledonia re-
Gently went through the formaliiy OF sem
fencing Count Rochefort and his compan-
ions, Pascal GrOusset and Pain, to two
years. imprisonment each for escaping from
that island.
The Duchess of Edinburgh was recently
presented with a splendidly bound copy of
the Holy Scriptures in imperial quarto, in
closed in a beautiful oaken casket. The
volume was the gift of more than 5000 sub
scribers, maidens of the united kingdom,
and was presented by a'deputation of Is
ladies.
Some OF our wealthiest people are feeling
the hard times keenly. A lady, yesterday,
declined to pay more than SITS for a velvet
many poor 1aboring people out of employ
ment ana n~eeding.the necessaries of liie."-
New York Mail.
Mrs. f. E. w. Harper, a lady colored ora
tor from Philadelphia, is addressing her peo-
pie in various parts of the West. She is
described as an intelligent, good-lookiug
woman, of decided color, and speaks i'm q
fluent, finished style that is evidence of
genuine culture.
Among other things against Arnim, the
inspired press in.Germany said that he util-
lied the knowledge obtained automatically
in operation, on the Bourse. Won Arnim
said, in answer, that he could eat on Holy
Friday without sin, all the meat that could
be bought with money gained by him in such
transactions.
Says the Figaro: 1.-THE carpet-weavers of
Kidderninister ares manly lot. They de-
mand the exclusion OF women from the
privilege of earning a living at the looms.
The struggle for existence must be pretty
severe in which the male animal rends his
female. Even a tiger will suffer a tigress to |
hunt in the same Jungle"
A new institution of benevolence, a home
for wido VS. and single women, has lately
been opened in Philadelphia, under the
auspices of Presbyterians, at an outlay of
0,OO0. This seems to meet a want in that
city. especially as one of the most spacious
and conspicuous buildings there has been
erected by the Methodists as a home for
aged men.
"I am come for my umbrella" said the
lender of it on a rainy day, to a friend.
"Can's help that" said the borrower; don't
you see / am going out with it7" swell,
yes" replied the lender, astonished at such
outrageous impudence; Eyes, but-but-I
what am / TO dO?', "DOF' said the other, as
he opened the umbrella and walked off; 'do
as L did-borrow one"
At the regular monthly meeting of the
board Of directors OF the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad Wednesday, John w. Gar
rett was unanimously reelected presi-
dent, being his seventeenth term.
general administration of the
road will be performed by the vice presi-
dent and Garrett will only aid
IN regard to the policy of the COM
pany and the management of its finances.
A French paper tells of a marriage which
occurred not long ago where the bride
groom, unable to write, signed his name
on the register with a cross. The bride,
though she had received a good education,
did the same, replying to a relative who
whispered a remonstrance. "Did you wish
me to humiliate my husband in this solemn