The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-31
GENERAL NOTES.


GENERAL NOTES.
Dorothy Will ans, of Wyoming, started
to walk three miles to church the other Sun
dav. and they found her torn into about fifty
pieces, the result of meeting grizzly bear of
low moral character.
The temperance movement is spreading
with great rapidity and success In all the
towns and cities in Michigan. The ladies
are meeting with unexpected success, and
the greatest excitement prevails.
The following are the members of the
House who are expected to speak when the
death of Mr. Sumner is announced: Judge
Hoar and Messrs. Dawes, Butler, q. E. H0ar,
r iney (colored), Orth and Kelley.
California does things in strange man
ner The assembly of that state has Just
passed bill making 1t mlsdemeanor 10
invite any person to drink, or to accept an
invitation 10 drink liquor at any public
bar.
Colonel William s. King the largest stock
raiser in Minnesota is going to abandon
the business. These gatherings resign their
thrones with much greater ease than Is nat
ural to most kings.
John B. Cough is in favor of the present
temperance movement, but does not give it
a very cordial endorsement. He is afraid
that i5 will advance the cause of woman SUI
frage, which he dislikes, so he is really be-
tween two fires.
They have a town in Illinois which boasts
of having no liquor or beer saloons, and of
having had none in eight years. 1t rejoices
in ;he singular name OF Onarga, is said TO be
a lively place OF 800 inhabitants, and, won
derful 10 say, is rapidly growing.
While the French communists were cele-
brating, in New York, the return of the 18th
of March, S. Francis Wilson, an obscure
young man, has been placed under $500 bonds
III Cincinnati, for sending written matter IN
packages of papers through the mails.
The temperance movement is in rather
a disheartened condition in Columbus, while
in DAYTON and Cleveland it is meeting with
greater success. Lately, the young men OF
Columbus have formed a temperance league,
and over a hundred names have been SUBJ
scrIbed.
A gentleman from Philadelphia let loose
carrier pigeon at the depot in Elizabeth, at
1920 A. NJ on Thursday. Upon his arrival
in New York he ascertained by telegraph
that it had reached home at ii O'Clock A. NJ;
thus flying a distance of eighty-three miles
in forty minutes.
Acommittee of the Massachusetts, legisla-
ture is investigating the subject of taxation,
including that of taxing church property.
During the discussions it has been discov-
cred that real estate in Boston is more lightly
Paris.
Chicago has Just discovered that the ex
pense of each patient in the county hospital
was $3.50 per week in December, and s42S per
week in February with everything on a
low-pressure scale. The next thing will be
an Investigation, report, and somebody
sent into private life.
The restraining order in the louisiana
funding bill suit has been dismissed and the
Injunction prayed tor refused with costs.
Judge Woods intim3ted that the cases were
of such importance that they might properly
be taken at once to the supreme court of the
United States.
Arthur Bell, head book-keeper of r. q
Macdonald Il Co., patent medicine dealers
ofNew York city, has defrauded his employ
ers offs 900. The only curiosity about this
is, that the defalcation was brought out by
the discovery that another employe has rob
bed the firm of between 5000 and sl,OoO.
Seth Green says that New York has 64i
lakes in that state, to say nothing OF IL:
ponds and streams, which can be stocked
with fish. The fish commissioners have al
ready distributed in these waters severa
millions of salmon trout, and the stocking
of the whole state will bs completed thi:
spring.
Judge Noah Davis, of New York city, whc
obtained a somewhat enVlaDle nOtOrleIy III
the Stokes trial. has lately been shown t.
have willingly assented to the highwayman
ism of revenue officer Jayne in his attemp
to extort S26O,00O from Phelps. Dodge x Co
Some things besides riches take TO them
selves wings.
The duke and duchess of Edinburgh ar
to have $780, 900 a year, two magnificent re
sidences in England, two establishments il
st. Petersburg, besides the freedom %
several castles andpalaces. One or two ladie
and gentlemen of gentle birth will be at
tached to them sin waiting" and they ex
pect to be happy.
The experience of the last ten years in Con
necticut, in the raising of tobacco has no
been the most encouraging. Too much G
the inferior grade has been raised and 10
little attention has been paid TO the hne
qualities. Besides, the middlemen, tn
packers and the dealers seem to be swallow
ing up all the profits.
The little state of Rhode Island holds a
election on An-Fool's day. By disfranehis
ing all citizens of foreign birth who do no
own real estate, and by farming. out tn
voters to the two great republican houses Q
Sprague and Brown, Ives 81 Co., all troubl
u avoided, and the state returns regularly
handsome majority for the republican party
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