The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-21
NEWS AND GOSSIP

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Salvini Will soon make another tour
through American cities.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, of England,
will publish his work on "Junius" next Sep
tember.
Senior CASTELAR, has written anOvel entitled
La Historic de An Corazon," or the Story
of Heart.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has re-
turned 10 the Senate from Florida with his
health greatly improved.
Mr. Ivory Chamberlain, of the New York
World, is writing history of political par
ties in the United States.
Dean Stanley has consented to the cree
ton ola memorial to the brothers Wesley
in Westminster Abbey.
Miss MILDLY Morgan, of the New York
Times has Just arrived in New York from
5000 mile "trip through Texas.
William Everett will deliver the poem be-
fore the Unitedi Library Society of Dart
mouth, next commencement.
Letters received from the Rev. James
Freeman Clarke, who is at Beaufort, s. c.,
say that his health is improving.
Miss Helen Dickens, daughter of the late
Charles Dickens, has won much praise by
novel entitled 1.-THE Mill-Wheel."
Mr.. Jay, United States Minister to Vienna
will return to the United States during the
present month, on leave of absence.
Alexander Dumas speaks of dead ac-
tress as that pretty little Partisan soul
born in peal of laughter, evaporated in
tear.
President Eliot, of Harvard College, is in
England, on three months visit, to investi-
gate the educational systems of Oxford and
Cambridge.
Franklin Simmons has received the CON
tract for the marble statue of William King,
the first governor of Maine, authorized by
the last legislature.
List made his first appearance in public
in 1920, in Dedenburg, Hungary; and few
weeks ago he gave concert in that place for
the benefit of the poor.
Wachtel's refusal to sing Wagner's music
was that. 'I have probably six years more
to sing, but if / undertake Wagner's operas
1 shall have six months.
Captain Brown and Jean Tuil, two per-
jured witnesses in the Tichborne case. have
lately been sentenced respectively to five
and seven years penal servitude.
Butler will be ffty-six years old next No
vember. The proposal to make the anniver-
prayer excites much enthusiasm.
At the Sumner memorial service at Boston
on the 10Th instant, Senator Schurz will be
introduced by Wendell Phillips, and Oliver
Wendell Holmes will recite poem.
Mrs. Sarah F. Ames, of Boston, has been
importuned to 60 upon the stage by lead
ing actor and play "Lady Macbeth" only.
Another instance of neglected genius.
John Ruskin is full of crochets. He ha
just organized band of Oxford students to
work with pick and shovel in identifying
the environs of the town of Hincksey Eng
land.
During the last twelve months five ocean
steamers, the Atlantic, City of Washington,
Ismalia, Vile du Havre and the Europe,
have been lost, with the sacrifice of nearly
800 lives.
Some of the poems signed H. H., and as
cribed TO Helen Hunt, are from the pen of
Henry Holt, the well-known publisher, who
has the literary good fortune to bear the
same initials.
Congressman Mitchell, of Wisconsin, is
said to be worth s2O, 900 900 and is said to be
the wealthiest man in the west. He is a
native of Scotland, and earned most of his
money by banking.
sir. Winwood Reade, who, as the special
correspondent of the London Times, had
opportunities of seeing the whole operations
of the Ashantee war, is writing a complete
account of the campaign.
Somebody says that Miss Stewart, daugh-
ter of the senator, "drives modest basket
phaeton with hvered tiger, and pale green
streamer floating from her whip, in admira- !
bic contrast to her piquant brunette face"
Rev. T, L. Cuyler, some time ago allowed
Miss Sarah Smiley to preach in his church.
The Presbytery cannot forget and forgive.
at least they refuse to rescind at his own
request, resolution of censnre on the sub-
ject.
The committee on public buildings and
grounds have reported adversely on the bill
of Mr.. Hawley, of Illinois, to establish
bureau of architecture. A bureau. for pub
lie fencing and fiogging would be more use
tul.
Washington society is rejoicing over the
announcement that mrs. General Williams
previously Mrs. Stephen A. Douglass) is
soon to return on a visit after quite an ex-
lie at some prairie post where her husband is
stationed.
There are over fourteen million children
of the school age in this country. We spend
annually for schools over ninety-six million
dollars, which is equal to one-third of one