The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-14

ClalmeQ IN consequence OF the d1l626Q NlO-
lation of a contract to deliver grain to said
Elevator company.
There are 800, 900 insurance policy-holders
in this country, and the amount they are
insured for is equal to the national debt.
Why don't the folders immortalize them
selves by dying out and leaving their insur-
ance to Uncle Sam?
About fifty pilgrims to Laurdes, in France
have secured state-rooms on a French
steamer sailing from New York on the 10th
of May. These pilgrims propose travelling
on their pious mission in style similar to
commercial runners"
The mayor of New York says there are at
the present time 1900 men employed on the
public works of New York city. he makes
this statement in defense of himself against
the accusation that he has practically sus-
pended all public work in the city.
SThe day is not far distant" says Raj
eigh paper, "when the world will begin to
look on death as journey to another coun-
try" The Louisville Courier-Journal as
senIs to this, and naively adds that the jour
ney will be one on which we can all go as
dead-heads.
William s. King, the great Minnesota
blooded stock fancier is about to abandon
stock farming, and will sell his entire herd
|
been postmaster of the House of Represen-
tatives, congressional agent of Jay Cook ~
company, and held other confidential rela-
| tions.
The subscriptions to the centennial from
private sources are reported by the chairman
of the Philadelphia citizens committee at
81, l50, 900, which with the 81, 900 900 from the
| city council, $500, 900 from the railroads, and
| 81 OO0, 900 from the state leaves but $3.50, 900
| of estimated rQOnir1mpnt to DA OBJ
| tanned.
| Mrs. Mary Ann Hall, of Cincinnati, o
widow OF Captain Chas. F. Hall, the Arctic
explorer. to-day petitioned the Senate,
| through Mr.. Sherman, for pension. Her
| petition is warmly commended by General
William I. Sherman, General Sheridan,
w. w. Corcoran and other eminent per-
sons.
Washington Irving's Life of Mohammed
has lately been the occasion of a riot in
Bombay. 1t was translated into Oriental
dialects, and it's perusal excited some of the
fanatical sects of MohamInedans to great
rage, and tumult followed which the police
were called in to quell. That is one OF the
unseen influences.
Robert Bonner has bought three full sis
tiers OF his famous "Dexter''-the eldest a
four-year old named astoria" and the
others q twO-year old and yearling. The
dam of "Dexter's" dam was an animal o.
great endurance, known in Orange county
New York, as the western mare, and dice
at the age of 30.
The writing on the Harais papyrl, pur
chased not long since by the British mu'
scum for $500 has been lately de-
ciphered by Mr.. Goodwin, who has discovered
in it a new example of the old Egyptian
egend of which there are but two others
extant The first Is the legend of the two
others, for which we are indebted to thu
investigations of the deceased of the Coun
de Rouge; the second is the enchanted
papyrus deciphered by the German schola
Brugsch. The new one is that concerning
the fate of the doomed prince. 1t was com
posed in the period of the nineteenth dynas
ty of Egyptian rulers, and is similar il
every respect to our own tales for children