The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-05
NOTES AND NEWS.

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Memphis claims to be the second cotton
market in the United States.
The population of New Orleans Is said to
have fallen off &c, 900 within two years.
The contest for the Omaha city treasurer
ship continues. Johnson holds the ONCE.
The governor OF Ohio has lately appointed
Andrew Ray inspector Of mines, under the
law passed by the late general assembly.
Russia, having recently adopted system
of general military duty, the army, when on
a peace footing will amount TO Ioe,OOO men.
A volume of the quaint sayings of Presi-
dent Lincoln has been privately published
by the "Society of Gentlemen" in London
The German republican newspaper, the
Cincinnati daily and weekly Courier, made
an assignment late Wednesday afternoon,
for the benefit of it's creditors.
Jeremiah Kiersted, superintendent ofthe
Cincinnati police, removed by the old
Board of Police Commissioners several
months ago was reinstated by the new
board.
A committee from the Women's Temper
ance League of Cincinnati called on the
commissioners and presented an address
requesting the enforcement of laws against
liquor selling, on Wednesday.
Providence, Rhode Island, seriously thinks
of lighting her street lamps by an electrical
system. 1t lights the lamps simultaneously
all over the city, and the expense Is less than
by the old method.
Mrs. Obrien died on the steamer Ben
Franklin and was buried at Memphis. She
was with her husband going to Cincinnati
and had been driven from her home above
Hickman by the high water.
A young man named cambridge Dean
from Fiskilwa, ILL.,, in jumping on train al
Spoon Lake, Nebraska, Tuesday night
somehow stabbed himself in the leg, sever
ing an artery, and died in few moments
The remains of Lorenzo Dow. the noted
revival preacher, who died in Georgetown
Va, in 1884, have just been unearthed by
reason of the sale of the land. The skeleton
was perfect, and on the breast bone lay the
long white beard.
During the year ending December 81, 1873
there was imported into Great Britain, food
to the value of s474, 1928 $50. OF this $257, 57s
$50 was in breadstuffs, and As per cent. was
from the United States. In manufacture:
Great Britain is losing while the United
States is gaining
tour to Western Europe. He leaves St
Petersburgh on the first of May, and will
proceed toStuttgsrd to attend the marriage
of the Grand Duchess Vera with the Duke
of Wurtemburg. Thence he proceeds tC
England to see how the 'young folks" gel
along housekeeping, and returns to Russif
by way of Ems.
II has been ruled in an English court thai
railway companies are liable for want o
punctuality in regard to the running of theil
trains, even though they may have passed
bylaws to the contrary. A Mr.. Courtenay
recently sued the Northwestern company
for damages caused by detention on the
train and falling to make an expected con
nection, and the court gave the plaintiff thu
amount of damages claimed with the costs.
A high-life scandal case is in suit in New
York. 1t will be remembered that a shor
time ago Duncan T. Templeton met his wifi
on the streets of New York and shot her il
the neck. The facts preceding this actor
are, that two years ago the sal,
Templeton married Maud, daughter o
Colonel Charles P. Babcock, Grants priyat
secretary. Templeton did not get his par
ents' consent to his marriages, and his famil,
became estranged from him on this account
He became Incorporate in his habits, an,
his wife became estranged from him on thi
account. She had been 70 lawyers OHIO
to make arrangements for legal separation
and, returning her husband met her and be
gan to plead with her to return to him. Sin
refused and Templeton drew his pistol an,
fired. The suit is for assault with intent Il
kill, and che line of defense Is Templeton'
insanity. r. Il
That thieves delegation from South Caro-
lima to whom the president was so polite. ant
whose defense of the Moses government b.
found so exhaustive and convincing, are
very nice lot-just the sort OF men to max
favorable impression at the White House
One OF them is an ex-preacher who was ex
PEELED from the House, a while ago, for sci
ling cadetships, another is the editor of
wretched little organ that subsists on tn
bones flung to it by the ring, and there ar
others who have found true loyalty profta
Die for the life that now is. If Justice hat
Its own, the majority of the distinguishe,
party would be playing checkers with thei
noses.-LSpringfeld Republican.
In relation to the distribution of the s15.
100000, which constitutes the Geneva award
and which has lead to such vexed discus
sion, the House judiciary. COMMITTEES hs,