The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-01
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND OOoSlE.
A. T. Stewards advertising bill aggregates
about $4,000 year.
A Danish paper. called the Hejindal, has
been started in Chicago.
Advice TO Moulton and the rest-tell it
not to Gath.-St. Louis Globe.
Bierstadt proposes to paint another large
picture of California scenery.
The Iowa woman suffragists are going to
hold convention September 9.
Bishop Joseph C. Talbot, of Indiana, is
residing at the ALTERNATE Hotel.-N. Y.
World.
Buford Wilson, Solicitor of the Treasury
department, has returned to Washington
from the West.
Fifty tons of blood dust are shipped out
OF New York every two weeks. 1t is used
as a fertilizer.
Mr.. Bancroft Davis, the newly appointed
minister to Germany has arrived in Paris on
his way to Berlin.
Boston Corbett, the sstimable patriot who
snapped his cap at Wilkes Booth, is now
dealing in hats in Philadelphia.
AS the law forbidding the shooting oil
prairie chickens expired last week. the wal
will now commence on tdem in earnest.
Assistant Bishop Cheney, of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, preached to large congre-
cations Sunday morning and evening at OF
tawa, Can.
E.A. Hoyt, of New York, has been APP
pointed member of the Board of Indian
Commissioners to fill one of the existing
vacancies.
The Rev. John Cotton Smith, D. D., rector
of the Church of the Ascension. New York
is already suggested as fit person to fill the
vacant bishopric of Illinois.
An ez-eOnfederate colonel has raised $50
bushels of peanuts this year, and this is
greater than Staying 10000 msn the way BeT
Hill does it.-Detroit Free Press.
A reward of 500 is offered for the captur,
of Frank A. Goodell, by the authorities o
the Michigan States Prison. Frank escaped
from that retreat last Friday. and left no in
formation in regard to his future move
nents.
The Brussels Nord says that the reason
why the United States was invited to tn,
congress on international war usages in Eur
ope held in that city is that our government
was the first to establish code for the regu
lation Of its armies during war. Lieber'
Code by the way, was translated by Blunt
schli, and now they call it Bluntschli's Cod
over there.
Things will get mixed in newspape
offices, as elsewhere. The New York Elk
press, few days ago, attempted to publish
an account of the Chataueua camp meetin,
Sunday school, but only succeeded in gettin,
six lines of it in. In spite of the headlines
giving notice of addresses by promineu
divines, the reader finds himself at tn
seventh line in the midst OF description
ofladies' dresses at Saratoga ball, the lette
closing with the announcement that tn
races were well attended.
"Now, then, jump right iR," exclaims tn
surly omnibus driver at Long Branch upol
the arrival of the evening train, "and be quicl
about it, too,'' "pd like to know who yo,
are addressing?" says young Smithkins, o
London, as he is about TO enter. Bang
goes the door, up jumps the driver, ant
Smithkins puts bit of plain glass in hi
right eve TO see how fast the republican
stage rolls away and leaves him standing or
the depot platform.
An extraordinary marriage took place a
lexington, England, the other day, the cere
mony being performed by the Very Rev
Archdeaeon Philpott, in the presence of
large congregation. The married coupl
both belong to the parish of Jevingtion, bu
the singular part is the fact that the brid
has no arms, and the ring had TO be placed
on the third toe of the left foot. At the con
cIusion of the marriage Gel emony she signe,
the marriage register, holding the pen witt
her toes, in a very decent "hana."
The duke of Sutherland would make
first-class granger. In Sutherlandshire, &C
cordlng to the Boston Post, the duke own
more than 1, POO, 900 acres, of which, until re
Gently, only 900 were under cultivation
For the last few years he has reclaimed
great deal of waste land, and he proposes I,
reclaim thousand acres annually. Thi
will necessitate an outlay OF $4,000 year
or total of 9l ,275 900, in order to bring
into an arabic condition the $4,000 acre
which can be converted into fruitful corr
fields
The Nevada Transcript says: AS one o
our citizens, who recently took unto himsel
a better half. was retiring the other night,
mean trick was played upon him nv som,
mischievous persons. The wife of the part,
referred to had already retired, snd her lorc
was just in the act of crawling over To tbs
back side of the bed, when some marty ont
r.3e of the house lee loose the water throuol
kas open window on the back of the half
Eezt husband. The shock was so great tha,
.icsused him to give a sudden lean for.
ward, and by so doing he drove his beaf
With terrific force against the wall, nearly
Breaking his neck. The bed, of course. was
thoroughly saturated, and the man, THROUGH
the fright and injury received by his con,
tact with the wall, has been unable to h,
out since. He will pay literally for the an
preheasion of the parties who perpetratet
the joke.