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

GENERAL NOTES.

tone IS the subject for its poetical prize to
beRnswsred IN 1875.
Coggia's comet is claimed by some one
else and thereis rrospec of a suit ia cours
TO establish the ownership.
The Paris Patrie believes that the abdica-
ton OF Victor Emmanuel is not distant.
Prince Humbert will succeed.
Some of thealumni Of Union College OBJ
iected to Governor HartranfC's delivering
the address bebre the literary societies of
the college, AMI the governor was Informed
that he need not come.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake is to deliver
the Grafton at the grand celebration at East
Orange, n. J., IN July 4, the first time in the
history of the country that a woman was
ever Fourth of July orator.
The marriage Of the Princess Louise, cid
est daughter of the king of the Belgiaus,
with the Duke Philip OF Saxony, will take
place ut Brussels toward the end of August
next. Great fetes will be given at Brussels
20 celebrate the event.
The chaplain wac was supposed to have
euIogf1sd Jim Fisk on decoration day. waen
his monunen wss dedicated, has published
q card denyiuS tha he had alluded to Fisk
at all. He was 81 eaking of Meade, the sculp-
tor, who designed he monuments
General Menabrea lately astonIshed the
Italian parliament by his clear and frank
declaration of the danger Of1tSly should
French army invade the Peninsula. Gen
eral Cialdini, in an admirable speech, APP
proved the conclusions of Nenabrea.
Nine. Ristori, with frsmatic company
of thirty persons, will pay in South Amer
lea during the summer or rather the antiPo-
dean winter. It is understood that she will
then 90 to Mexico and visit the United
States before finally returning to Italy.
Miss Lavinia Goodell, lately connected
with Harper's Bazaar, has been admitted
TO the bar as a practicing attorney
at GAINESVILLE, Wis, after passing very
creditable examination. Miss GOodell is the
first woman admitted to the bar in W lscon-
sin.
It is said that King Louis, OF Bavaria, has
been summoned to meet Prince Bismarck al
Kissingen on account of his separatist ten
dencv. and that council Of German royal
lists will probably be convened to obtain hi
abdication unless Re should become more
subservient.
The old Fall River line between New
York and Boston, which for several year
has been operated by the Narragsnse
Steamship Company, has been sold to tn
old Colony Steamboat Company, of MaSsa
cbTsetts and henceforward will be manages
Conformity with the Old Colony Railroad.
The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION will celebrate the Fourth of Jul
in Harmony Grove. South Fsrmingtor
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore will be the orato
Of +ba dav Poems will be read by Mrs
Unu n al
Brief address are expected from Lucy Ston
and others
PAPER Aour barrels ara being made i
Iowa. They are said to be air-tight an
water proof, to weigh much less than tn
ordinary wooden barrels, and to be sblet
stand more rough usage. One OF the manu-
factursrs predicts that in i've years ever
barrel of Western flour will be sent Ea'
in barrels made from the straw the wheS
grew on.
While Mr.. Bergh was sitting in his ofhC
the other day two ladies entered, and one
them handed him little box, which, upO
opening, he found to contain a $50 greenbac
and $40 in gold. After remarkiDg that
was Intended as mark of their apprec
alton of the work Mr.. Bergh was engage
in, the ladies retired, positively refusing
leave their names.
The Toronto Globes London correspond
ent enables the paper to announce that M
Cartwright. the Dominion minister of
nance. has successfully placed four million
sterling of his loan upon the London none
market at the low rate of four per cent
"This il the first time" SAYS the Globe
''that a Canadian unguarauteed loan la
been obtained at so low a rate of interest"
The export of wheat from New York fo
June, it is predicted, will exceed any mont
in the history of the trade. Then it will
large indeed, as the figures show that th
exports OF wheat from New York in Octobe
1873, reached 500, 200 bushels. The export
of wheat from New York to the Goth ms
were 4, 55l 800 bushels. A relative increas
would carry the aggregate of New York
6,s26, 900 bushels.
Eugene Hall, suggests the Boston TraI
script, will be the eighth person from Ne
England who has served as postmaster-eer
eral. The others were Samuel Osgood
Massachusetts,, 1889; Timothy Pickering
Massachusetts,, 1892; Gideon Granger
Connecticut. 1902 to 1914; Jacob Collamt
of Vermont, 1919; Samuel ID. Hubbard {
Connecticut, 1852; Horatio King, Mains
1861.
The owner of apology" who won Il
Oaks stakes on EPSON Downs. is cierg.
man of the Church of England, who reside
in the North OF England, and races und
the name OF "Mr. L4unde." He appears
think that the ownership of race horses
not quite in accordance with his sacred cal
ing, for IA sent round TO all the sporting %
pers, requesting the editors not 70 give h
real name.
The de!ay in getting "a the Japan exped
t;o-, aoai...s sns Formosa pirates is attrihI
I'D largely To the activity of the America
minister On the eve of its departure NJ
bingham issued manifesto, warming Anne
leans not to join or in any way TO participai
in the affair. He appears to have suddenl
charged his views, and the reasons that IL
fpenced niin are the subject of curious spe
alation.