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

The trial of Jean Luie for perjury in the
Tchborne case has commenced.
The reported escape of Rochefort and his
o companions has been confirmed at Paris.
r. NJ. +. Hunter has been elected state
treasurer OF Virginia, in place of Mayo, re-
moved.
The United States Supreme Court will
cease to hear arguments after Friday, April
24 and will adjourn on Monday, the 4th of
May.
John Couch was married in Philadelphia,
the other day, to girl who had refused him
eighteen times. Probably the last appeal
was made in COUGHING terms.
The women of San Francisco are now
going to pray Gov. Booth out of the whisky
business in which his firm is engaged. Gov
ernor, one good reform deserves another.
New Workers are talking OF getting up an
aquarium for Central Park, to cost halfa mill
lion dollars. The Brighton aquarium, in
England cost $4,000 So Gotham is salts
fed.
GEL Libro Talonaria'' THE Check book, a
comedy by Senior Echegaray, SPANS pres
ent minister OF finance, is drawing crowded
houses at Madrid. The presentation of a
eheckbook is apt to draw.
A large number of prominent citizens of
Chicago are urging Prof. Swing to hold one
service each Sunday in some public hall, in
order that the masses of people may be BEN
Gifted by his preaching.
And this is the finale of the Longfellow-
Canada canard: Lord Dufferin, the gov
ernor general of the Dominion, has sent a
warm Invitation to the poet to visit Ottawa
and partake OF his hospitality.
Brooks, the late president of the Mer-
chants National Bank. Petersburg, Virginia,
has been indicted for embezzling and mis-
appropriating the credit monies of that in
stitutfon to the amount Of 100000.
OF the fund collected in England for the
sick and wounded during the Franco.Prus-
sian war, an unexpended balance remains OF
100000. This has been invested, and is to
be used in the event of another war.
Thomas c. Wardell, late manager of the
Wyoming Coal company, has sued the Union
Pacific Railroad and others for over s. ,OOO, 900
worth of mining lands seized by the COM
pany in view of its owing the largest share
OF stock.
Two Milesians were standing at the Fair
mount Water-works, watching the big wheels
splashing the water, when one of them re-
marked: mike, isn't this quare country,
where they have to grind their water before
they can use it?"
The surgeons of the Confederate Army
and Navy are to hold a convention at At
lanta, Georgia, on May 20, for the purpose
of embodyiDg in permanent form the i'm
portant medical and surgical facts brought
out by the war experiment.
The Chicago Post and Mail is response
BILE for the assertion that when reporter
called to see Mr.. Storey, of the Chicago
Times, to ask him if he had shot DR.. John
son, the old man replied: "Young man, dc
you think sn-fool enough to do it in time
for the evening papers,"
NJ. Olivier, it is said. intends to found BIZ
monthly review, Of high character, in
Paris, whenever the state of seige shall be
raised. This periodical is to be of the same
scope and Dimensions as the Revue des
Deux Mondes, and will be edited by M
Olivier himself
bill has been introduced into the New
Jersey Legislature, which provides for the
appointment of an inspector of liquors iu
every county of tie state, whose duty il
shall be to examine all alcoholic liquors of.
tered for sale in his district and visiting
with severe penalties any attempt to vend
impure or adulterated beverages.
Somebody has caught a glimpse o
Alexandrowna Mario and says tha
she is little of stature, neither tb(
darkest of brunettes nor the fair
est of blends. Her features are not Greeciar
nor anything descriptive, but she is judged
to be a " charming little creature" o.
course; only if she was plain Sally Brown
of Shadville, who would think of callinl
her charming?"
AS the most fashionable ladies of New
York are beginning to import their bonnet
direct from Paris, the treasury department
has been asked for aconstruction OF tn