The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-14
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSlP.
The enlightened and liberal minded bust
ness men of Montpelier, VT, have success
fully petitioned for an ordinance prohibiting
the wicked game of billiards.
-Four of the most talented cadets of the
Military Academy of Mexico have been
sent to the navy yards of England to be
educated for the marine service.
The city of Saint Gall, in Switzerland, still
owns banners captured by its soldiers in l476,
and l477 at the battle of Nancy and Grand
son, and it is discussing the necessity of re.
pairing them.
A party of six consumptives, of whom
there are several ladies, are trying the beefs
blood ex-eriment at the slsughter-h houses of
Mayor JeweUt and l.. b. Hall, at Lowell,
Mass. The effects are decidedly beneficial.
During John Browns raid the Virginians
took extraordinary pains to exclude the re-
porters of the New York Tribune, but their
efforts were fruitless; for Charles A. Dana
says that at one time It. had five reporters
there, and at the final execution it had three
one of whom wore the uniform of the Rich
mond Grays, who guarded the scaffold, and
combined the military with the professional
duties of the occasion.
The occupant of pulpit in Wooster, o.,
In a sermon recently delivered he paints the
offense and offender in the blacklist hue
f'hog," william, - ''rascal," and "knave" are
freely used, and to cap the climax he
shouted: "NOw / want no more such dirt7
practices here If any man chews tobacco
in the house of the Lord next Sunday
shall cell him by name in open church"
The parson evidently means business.
Mr.. William w. Story is said to have just
completed, in Rome, statue of Alcestis, of
which connoisseurs speak in enthusiastic
terms. The sculptor chose the moment of
her return to earth from Hades, and has ex-
pressed, with great success, the mingling of
the emotions she must have felt in reaching
sunlight once more, putting into her face an
air OF half consciousness, and int the atti-
tude of the figure natural bewilderment
from the strange memories of her visit.
The New York State Museum of natural
history has lately added to its collection one
of the largest brook trout (salmo fontinaiis)
ever captured in that state. The museum
specimen measures 205s inches from tip of
snOut to the center Of caudal FIN, and about
twelve inches in circumference at anterior
portion of first dOrsal fin, and weighs four
anda quarter pounds. 1t was captured by
W. w. Hill, Esq, of Albany, on the 10th of
June, in pond in St.. Lawrence county
emptying into Bog River, near Graves
Mountain. He took it with an artificial fly.
and on cedar rod weighing but six ounces.
The Presbytery of Chesapeake lately met
in Baltimore to try the case of the Rev. h.
E. c. Baskerville, of Laurel, charged with
whipping his wife. The specifications are
that one Sunday short time since the rev.
erend gentleman, who is the provider for
the household, having failed to procureany-
thing for breakfast except bread and butter,
was surprised to find some eggs ON the ia
bic, and being informed by his wife, in re-
spouse TO an inquiry, that she had borrowed
them from a neigbbor, told her he would
"teach her how to break the Sabbath" and
did so by slapping her jaws-one of the
slaps striking heron the eve and "black-
ing'' that orb into which he had so often
fondly gazed.
The total taxable values of South Carolina
before the war or in 1860 were $500 OOO, OOO The
average annual amount raised upon this by
taxation for State and county purposes was
100000. The value of the slaves then in the
State was estimated at Sl74, 900, 900, which de-
duct and s3l6,OOO,OOO remain. So rapidly
has all wealth gone down since the war that
it is now not worth over SlS4, 900, 900. In his
testimony before Congressional committee
upon this point, Judge Carpenter said: "The
property of South Corolina is assessed and
taxed in round numbers at SlS0,000,000.
do not think it would sell in any market for
S1O0,000,0O0. think that property is asses
sed at twice its value"
The death of DR.. Francis Z. Andrews, the
conspicuous spiritualist, has occasioned liti-
CATION with reference to his property. Some
80 years ago he married a young woman in
Albany, and had by her very large family.
Twenty years later he became spirituslist,
and, by some fatality net yet explained. dis
covered that his companion of 20 years was
the wrong one, and must therefore be relin-
Quisbed. A short residence in Indiana pro-
cured hi;o a divorce, not only from his
wife, bus from lis children also. He pfo-
vided Tor them handsomely, and then utterly
ignored them. Later be travelled i'm Europe,
was one Of Mark Twain's "InDOcents
Abroad" and returned TO New York only to
marry second time, and resume the prac-
tice OF medicine. By his will he left all his
property to his second wife and her children.
His first wife claims that the divorce was
illegal, and contests the will.
- In Moline, ILL.,, 100000 by lib names has
been raised for the prosecution and sup
preston of the illegal sale of spirituous,
vinous and malt liquors in the city OF Mo-