The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-29
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Wisconsin is soon to have an immigration
of 900 Icelanders.
In England the mullen plant is cultivated
in the garden and is called the velvet plant.
Great Britain and Ireland collectively con-
sumed nearly &c. 600, 900 gallons of spirits last
year.
An English manufacturing company is
about erecting extensive copper mills in
South Carolina.
A census of the 1000 persons present at a
camp.meeting in Maine revealed the fact that
majority were under twenty years of
age. -
The Astors paid s25e,O57 SO taxes for the
year. At the rate of 81 20 this would rep
resent nearly Sc, o00, 900. The value of the
real estate owned by the Astors, in round
figures, is said to be at least S24,OOO.OOO
julius L. Mendelsshon, who claims to be
a son of the great composer, was convicted
of forgery in New York, and sentensed to the
State prison for five years. In the night he
took arsenic and died the next morning.
A board of mincs has been formed in Col.
orado, of which Brof. T. ii. B. Herr, of Dem
yer. is the consulting engineer and super
intendent. He is graduate of West Point,
and was for several years professor of engi-
neering at Lehigh University, Pennsylva-
mia.
"In for penny in for pound" "Now,
my boy" said an Englishman to his young
est, remember that if ever you steal a
penny you will be pretty sure to get pound
for it." els that so?" said the boy, ''then
I'll steal all The pennies L can lay my
hands on"
Another new coal shaft has just been
opened at Streator, Ills. Messrs. John Ston-
ham, & Sons, at depth of 100 feet, have
opened vein of coal, which is pronounced
TO be the best in the Vermillon mining
district. Its thickness is trife over six
feet and the new shaft will be Immediately
manned by q large force of miners.
ANashville Tenn paper gives this "gene-
illogical puzle:" There is family in this
county composed of four ladies, which con-
tains two widows, four orphans, two STEP
mothers, two stepdaughters, one grand step
mother, one grand sstepdaughter,, one half
stepaunt, one half stepniece, two halt sisters,
one mother, one daughter, two aunts, three
nleces, and four cousins.
We learn that DIR. Benjamin A. Gould, the
distinguished astronomer, who has been so
honorsbly identified for many years with
the educational development of the Argen-
tine Republic, and particularly with the
pursuit Of HIS science there, purposes TO re-
turn to South America in November, for an
indefinite but probably not very long pc
riod.-N. Y. Evening Post. .ss -
= The remains of Leonardo Da vinci have
been found at Amboise. While the work
men were engaged in making the repairs
ordered by the Comte de Paris they struck
upon a stone coffin, and on clearing away
the dirt found the great painters name cut
upon it. On being opened, some relics were
found, and the body was in most remark
able state Of preservation. etir
The joint committee of ways and means of
the Kansas Legislature have unanimously
agreed on the report of a bill issuing $780,
900 State bonds to be exchanged for the
bonds of the counties needing aid. The
counties authorized to issue subsistence
bonds will be named in the bill, as well as
the amount each county is authorized to is
sue. The whole subject is beset with legal
and other difficulties.
Two works bearing on Chinese literature,
viz, "a Handbook of Biographical, His
torical, Neurological, and. General Literary
Reference" by w. F. Mayer, Chinese secre-
tary to her Britannia majesty's legation at
Pekin, and a "Chinese Dictionary" by S.
Wells Williams, will shortly be published.
The object of Mr.. Mayors work is to eluci-
date the personal and historical illusions
repuently met with in Chinese literature.
The Baltimore American says: 'sHardly
any civil suits are being brought in our
courts. Some lawyers attribute this to a
growing preference of mercantile men to
compromise differences rather than engage
in litigation. Perhaps more potent cause
is the fact that suits brought now have, in
consequences of the long vacation, to wait so
long before Judgment can be obtained, that
a debtor may readily dispose of his property,
If he desires to do so.
The municipality of Vienna, says the
London Medical Record, has, by the advice
of the board of health of the city, decided
that the cremation of the dead should be
Immediately carried into operation on the
same plan which has been completely sue
cessful in Leipzig. As the annual mortality
sand, the public authorities reckon on MAX
ing a great saving as well as a considerable
benefit to the public health.
Horstio Seymour wrote as follows in a
letter explaining his absence from a recent
reunion of some New York regiments
"There Is no part of my official life 1 recall
with so much satisfaction and pride as my
relationship with our soldiers during the
being one of them, yet beyond others saw
and felt how brayeiy and patiently they