The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-05-19
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

..si .... NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Fifteen hundred now journals have been
registered in France during the last three
years. sa.a
Maryland, too, proposes to have eenten-
nial; the Annapolis tea destruction OF Oct.
19, 1774.
Archbishop Manning will proceed to
Rome in June on the occasion of receiving
the red hat of a cardinal. lt %
ie Theodore Thomas, at his recent New York
concert, received from Richard Grant White
and other friends a silver casket containing
d fS,9OV.5 els ~ dadt rIrN .itl.ii i.lly
sc < The mum Der Of periodicals printed In Lon
don, in February, 1874, was 76e. being de-
crease since the same period last year OF ten
periodicals.
ID Judge Alphonso Taft. of Cincinnati, has
accepted the invitation of the committee of
arrangements for the Taft family gathering,
to deliver the address in Uxbridge, Mass, on
the 18th of August.
VI. ID. Conway is the authority for saying
that Darwin is man of the most impressive
appearance. Large and noble in figure. he
has head and face more ike Michael An
gelo's bust of Moses in Rome than like any
supposed type of the missing link"
Tennyson is said to have become greatly
indignant lately at the ignorance of an
American who knew nothing about the
works of joaquin Miller, whom the poet
laureate termed "the greatest poet OF his
country; the greatest poet OF this or any
age"
c.. A. HAYNES, the colored mail agent,
charged with robbing the mail, has pleaded
guilty in the United States District Court,
and been sentenced to four years in the
penitentisry. He is brother of the late
secretary of state of South Carolina, who
was in the court room.
Sir Albert Grant, baronet Of Glsdstone's
make, is building palace at Kensingson.
, which bids fair to excel all the residences of
the neighboring nobility. For his galleries
pictures of enormous magnitude are SAID
already to have been purchased, one costing
$4,000.
DIR. Knealy, the counsel in the Tichborne
case, has issued the first number of a new
weekly called ''The Englishman." Its pros
pectus announces that it twill devote its
columns to politics, to religion, and to law,
and will also contain summary OF general
news, excluding everything of a nature
likely to lower or corrupt the dignity of the
mind"
On the o5th inst, one of the oldest news
papers in the world, the jena Zeitung, will
celebrate its two hundredth birthday. One
of the most remarkable facts connected with
this paper is that during its whole life it has
never gone out of the hands of the family
which originally started it. Mr.. Neuenhahn
is the name of the editor to-day and "two
hundred years ago." and the paper is one of
the handsomest dailies across the water.
General chsband- -Latour, who is investi-
eating the fortihcations around Paris,
thinks that the experience of 1870 proves
that the circle of forts is too narrow. AS
fortified at present it would, be thinks, be
an easy thing to throw shot and shell, by the
improved artillery of late years, into the
very heart of the city; and he thinks it
would take 60,000 600 francs to put Paris in a
proper state of defense.
While one j. L. Hardy was preaching in
Bethel church, in Bullitt county, KY :, he
was interrupted blythe misconduct ofa young
man which caused the insulted minister to
come out of the pulpit and assault and beat
the said party, thereby breaking up the con-
gregation in a general row. The civil
officers issued q writ for the spunky preacher
and bad him brought to trial and fined Sl5
and the cost. The minister was defended by
able counsel, but could not prevent him from
being found piece breaker.
Four of the six officers of the Turkish
army who have been living in Providence,
r. l., attending to the gun contracts with
the Providence Tool Company, have gone to
New Haven, where they have been appren-
ticed to large manufacturer to thoroughly
learn the business of making guns and other
mechanical work. The Turks are. young
men. wealthy and influential in their coun-
try, and very industrious and persevering in
their efforts to acquire the "United States
language" a'r- I.tlg
Attention has been called to a strange mis-
take of tie literary critic of the ''Ar-
cadian,' published in New York
Some one inquiring for the authorship of
"Bingen on the Rhine" the critic says:
s'The poem referred to is probably Long
fellows verses, in which occur the words,
'Bingen, fair Bingen on the Rhine" The
Chicago Tribune then remarks: eff any
other paper outside of New York city had
been uncertain about the authorship of Mrs.
Norton's poem, we should never have heard
the last about provincial ignorance,"