The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-22
NEWS n GOSSIP.


NEWS AND GOSSIP.
A Bohemian religious paper will soon be
started in Iowa City, Iowa, by Dr. Fairhsll.
There were seven railroad accidents in
England in one day-the 22nd OF last month.
A three-penny edition of Scott's novels is
the latest development of cheap literature in
England.
Vermont has only two theaters. And yet
Talmage still will live in the polluted air
OF Brooklyn.
Large quantities of evergreens are being
shipped from Vermont to New York where
they sell for g so per barrel.
Massachusetts, representatives are circula-
ting the story that the defeated DR.. Aver
paid S25, 600 for his nomination and non
election.
Of mince pie a close observer has not in-
APPLY said: "'MoisE and indigestible at the
bottom, fiaky and indigestible on top 4,
With untold horrors between"
Henry s. Morgan, representative-elect
rom Wisconsin, intenGs to visit the South
and personally xamine the condition of
affairs there before he takes his seat.
Emerson Wight, the newly elected mayor
Of Springfield, Mass, has two wooden legs,
having lost both of his natural ones by a
railroad accident several years ago.
Al5SSISs y. IsIiEpAlSObb w. VI Il hAAd
delphia, are soon to issue a book entitled
"Starting Out, a story ofthe Ohio Hills" by
Alexander Clark, formerly OF Springfield,
Ohio.
The long vacant Unitarian pulpit in New
YOrk-that which DIR. Osgood filled so long,
and Hepworth so short-has at last been &C
cepted by the Rev. William II. Alger OF
Boston.
Says. the Albany Journal: Wherever a
worthy life and a broad philanthropy aud
the great cause of liberal education are
honored, the death Of Ezra Cornell will be
lamented.
The wife of ex-Judge Pratt, of San Frau
cisco, has applied for a divorce on the
ground of desertion, and asks for a division
of their common property, which is valued
at y, 100000.
Only o~ne-fourth of the land suitable for
growing cotton in the United States is under
cultivation, and no land or climate in the
world is so suitable as ours for the produc-
ton of the plant.
Hon. T. w. Bicknell, commissioner of
public schools of Rhode Island, will assume
the editorial management of the New Eng
land Journal of Education, to be issued in
Boston January 2.
The farmers store at Grand Rapids, Mich.
a cooperative trading establishment, which
has hitherto been considered sound, has
suspended. The liabilities are not far from
$4,000, with assets about $4,000.
On retiring from business a wise old man
said to his son and successor: "Now, my
boy, remember that common sense is the
best thing you can bring TO bear on every
affairof life except love-making."
Moses Mendelssohn, son of the great.
grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, the great
81 ~awastna 80 lWAT- 49,
married in Berlin to a daughter of the
Breslau banker, Mr.. Robert Warschauer.
A Chinaman, while gold digging near
Quesnelle, British Columbia, found a piece
Of gold weighing twenty-five ounces, said
by good judges to be the prettiest, best, and
one of the largest specimens ever found in
that province.
One of tho Paris theaters proposes to adopt
the rule OF closing the doors as soon as the
curtain rises and keeping them vigorously
closed while the curtain is up, so that late
corners may not Interfere with the comfort
of all who are seated betimes.
Prince Leopold has added his name to
she list of patrons of the recently formed
Oxford branch of the royal society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals, with the
duke of Marlborough, lord lieutenant of the
county, and the bishop of Oxford.
lu6N ndNb n peculiar 5ldLub6 III OdlliOIul&
which requires the coroners in the state "to
bury as a pauper every deceased person for
whose body no person, legally authorized TO
demand the same, presents himself" The
papers are denouncing his law as infamous,
a lady in Salt Lake City, Fla, has grow
ing in her garden a genuine cork tree 80 feet
high, the bark on which is sufficiently thick
TO make bottle corks. There is also in the
same garden a genuine black pepper bush
which yields regularly a full crop OF berries.
Prof. ID. G. Eaton, of the Yale school OF
fine arts, will give next term series oil
u lectures before that institution. on 1.-THE
History OF Italian Painting" the lectures to
be illustrated by the camera and followed 10y
informal conversation on subjects suggested
by them.
Prot. Young of Dartmouth College, who
was one of the observers of the transit OF
Venus, will return home by way of Egypt
and India. He and Prof. Watson of Michi-
gan University intend to make meteorOlog-
zeal and astronomical observations in those
countries.
Hon. John w. Garrett has been chosen
for the seventeenth time president OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. He
positively refused an increase of salary,
which has been fiXed heretofore at $4,000 per
annum. Thu action was cOmmendable Oa
Mr.. CARROTS part.
Mr.. VIM. Fl. Hunt, Of Boston, the very
eminent portrsit painter, IS in Albany. en-
gagged upon a pOrtait of Gen. Dix, which is
to hang in the council M OF that city.
The city requested a picture of theg governor,
and the governor consented, provided he
could choose his W artist.
A New Orleans correspondent, writing 10
a Memphis paper about Gen. Longstrest,