The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-10
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOIESo.
, Coal costs nine cents in Lexington, Mis- |
souri,.
Eight John Smiths in the Ohio Legisla-
ture.
The Cincinnati Orphan Asylum has lost
boy by theft.
IT is reported that the Count de Chsmbord
is seriously ill.
The snow is causing trouble on the Contra
Pacific railroad.
AT last accounts ex-President Fillmore
YVES little better.
The social evil law in st. Louis is being
made political lever.
The lunatics of Ohio have a new asylum, a
state institution at Athens.
Madame Tussauds collection of wax
works in London contains facsimile of the
would be Tchborne.
The Michigan legislature has Just assem-
bled in extra session to consider and act up
on the report of the constitutional commits
sion.
A conference of leading workingmen, rep
resenting sc, 900 of their class, IN the west of
England, was held at Bristol. Monday night.
. A resolution was adopted favoring settling
by arbitration all international disputes.
The Burger Zeitung, published in Berlin,
rPrussia, hopes that the American govern
ment will now direct its attention to inter
nal affairs for it has heard that dissensions
are beng fermented in the Episcopal church
in New York.
. A very large temperance meeting was held
at Louisville, Sunday evening, at which ac-
ton was taken looking toward the submis-
sion to the voters of the city OF a prohibitory
law, according to a general law recently
passed by the legislature.
When the Reverend Doctor Newman
makes a call, he sends up card bearing
this inscription: Rev. DIR Newman, chap
lain of the United States Senate, and special
friend of President Grant" And the dogs
do not bark at him either.
At an election held in Psducsh, Kentucky.
Monday, vote WAS taken to suppress the
drinking saloons in that city. There was
considerable excitement, and both parties
worked hard for victory. The whisky men
won by about fifty majority.
The tobacco consumers of Massachusetts,
consider the weed one of the necessaries OF
life, and thick its use great help to the
cause of temperance. They, therefore, send
ND protest to the great and general court
4. against any increase in the rate Of tax upon
tobacco.
The Courier-Journal, in reference to the
7 alleged anxiety of the people in England to
= know the effect of the prohibitory liquor
law in this country, advises them to go to
the Lebanon Junction, in Bullitt county,
and watch the effect upon train full Of
thirsty passengers when they are told that
the nearest attainable drink is thirty miles
of.
Sunday evening about four o'clock, Tom
Watts, coIored shot and killed Jack Nettles,
colOred, in front of the colored Methodist
church in Little Rock, Arkansas, just as the
congregation was dismissed. -Four shots were
fired. The streets were filled with people at
the time, but nobody was hit except Nettles.
Watts had caught the latter in bed with his
wife.
The banquet given Monday at Washing
ton by the Alumni of Yale college, in honor
1f( faf Uoft oft dn1 hrya
large party of distinguished gentlemen, in
GLIDING President Grant, the associate
judges of the supreme court President Bax-
ter, of Yale college, William Ri. Evarts, and
Juoge Pierrepont. The banquet was on a
grand scale and was in all respects success
full.
Salutts were fired Saturday in several
places in England, on the receipt of the
news of the rendition of the verdict in the
T1chborne case. At Wsrdour, in Wiltshire,
a cannon burst, and several persons were
killed and wounded. Some democratic
journals deplore the verdict, and denounce
\ Chief Justice Coekburn for unfairness in the
conduct of the trial. and quote against him
the criticisms of Caleb Cushing in his recent
book on the Geneva arbitration.
All the injured survivors of the burned
passenger car, now lying at London
and at Konolxa, Ontario, are pro-
crossing favorably. Among the burned
there is a face that is perfectly recognizable
dies. A locket which she wore was found
on her neck in good preservation. Sunday
night, eight collins left London for
Komoka station. In searching amid
the wreck number of gold mug
gets have been found, supposed
10 be melted jewelry, also two gold watches
which have been identified. After seven
bodies had been identified the remains OF
others were still left, and 1t is supposed that
more than were first reported were burned
with the cars. Two men of Petrola are still
missing and they were understood to be on
VI the train.
The body of the man found floating in the
Central railroad dock. Jersey city, s ,tur-
day, has been identified as that of Thomas
@. Chisholm, of Chicago. Chisholm had
been extensively engaged in the grain trade
throughout the west, but during the closing
months of es73, il Is said, sustained large
losses. His mislortunes, il is believed, at.
faeted his mind, and there seems to be no
doHbt but that he committed suicide. On
the 18th of December last he arrived in
New ork from Chicago, and put up at the
Stevens house. Having eaten his supper he
went away from the house for an
evenings stroll as was supposed. and since
that time no tidings of his whereabouts have
been received by his friends. When the
body was taken from the water there was
found npon 1t valuable gold watch and
chain, considerable quantity of money, a
gold draft for a large amount of passes upon
several of the western railroads. No marks
were found ON the body The remains lie at
the Inorgue, but the county physician will
probably grant a permit for their burial.
Fanny Kemble once telling some
Z clerical Fl lends story of Sir Harry Smith,
who commanded troop of horse at Water
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