The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-09
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The House committee on appropriations
has agreed to appropriate 100000 for the
continuance of Hayden's surveys, and s5l,OoO
for those of Powell.
Byron's popularity appears to be stln
great in Italy. Two translstions OF "Chllde
Haroldn have appeared at Florencs within
the last few months.
The emperor OF China has commanded
collection of Chinese poems from the earliest
times to be made. The collection will be
pubIished in 200 volumes. The emperor pos
sesses library of more than 1000 volumes
Martin @. Walker, an eccentric old man
who lately died in Chicago, placed all his
property, valued at 81, OOO, OO9, in the hands
of four trustees, and they have absolute
power over its control.
Two promising additions to the stage are
Miss Daryon, who recently read In Ne"
York, and gained high praise for her tragic
power. and Miss Kate Field, authoress. lee
turer and traveller, who Is said to contein'
plate an early debut.
Mr.. WiIkie Collins made another appeal
for assistance for Mr.. Bellew. the elocution-
ist- whose illness continues, and whose de-
stitute condition is attributable TO the fact
that the proceeds of his readings have been
largely devoted TO charitable objects
Mary Waldron, of Dubuque, Iowa, had
long been afflicted with cancer in the
mouth. She obtained some wster lately
from the miraculous spring at Lourdes, in
France. and it is said that she has since been
recovering rapidly.
seth Green's gTsyling spawn at the Gale
donia trout ponds are Matching satisfactorily
and probably in a few years the graylina
will be- as we'll known in our cod waters as
the trout. II is believed that they Will In
crease twice as rapidly as the trout, being
much harder.
Miss Csrroll's claim for remuneration fol
planning the Tennessee campaign has sud
denly found an adversary in one Charles NJ
Scott, of st. Louis. who writes To the Fri
bune, that he himself was really the lnven-
tor of that brilliant vancouver. All the un
recognized and untitled strategists now ap
pear since the war is over.
Among the appointments this year a
West Point four were of African descent
One from Massachusetts being nearly white
another from South Carolina being con
spicuously black, while the other two wer'
conference.-the color. All OF the latter wer
rejected at the late examination. C4de
Smith, colored, is in the second years class
and is still socially Ostracized.
The Philadelphia Sun says that Carl Bene
detti lately appeard at the clinic of the JET
ferson Medical College, and gave some OF hi
feats before some OF the most eminent sur
yeons of the city. He swallowed asworC
blade twenty threeincheS long and followed
this by saber measuring twenty-nln
inches in length, both of which were run dow
the asophagus into the stomach and thenc
apparently three inches beyond to pOin
near the umbilIcus.
A strange accident occurred in Mont
gomery county, Virginia, lately. MI
Thomas Wilson loaded cigar with what b
thought small charge OF powder an
handed it 10 Mr.. s. p. Carr, with instrnC
tons to give it to an idiot negro, with Te'
of having some STUN" at his expense. MI
J. o. Long playfully snatched the cigar froI
Mr. Carr and lighted il, when /: instantl
exploded, tearing out three OF bis teeth, TEL
ribly mutilating his mouth, and putting on
the right eye of Mr.. Carr, who was standin
in front OF him. t
A Pittsburgh paper says that the ma
Bruce, who went insane and was sent
Dixmont hospital, on account OF the ieius'
of the Circassian girl who/traveled wit
Rarnum's circus last year, and who put /
tho vr;nter at Ruruell's museum, IN TIL
CITY. is out again, and cured of his insanity
He was not cured of his love for the CIR
however; for helearned OF her Whereabouts
few weeks ago, which was in the interior
New York state, and thitner ne went. 10
again proposed, and was this time accepted
From the report of Henry G. Crowell.
Boston, who visited New Orleans as a con
missioner relative to the disposition oil II
funds for the relief of the sufferers by tn
Intimidation in the Southwest, IL will
seen that the calamity lis one OF tho grea
est that has occurred from fire. storm, O
flood on this continent during the comm
century," Mr.. Crowell draws graphic pi'
ture OF the magnitude and destructive
ness" of the flood, and states that furtht
aid must be afforded, else there will be
terrible amount of suffering, Il not starv'
ton.
Louisiana is mining salt. The work b
gan on Avery's Island since the war, whei
80 62-lO0 per cent. of chloride OF sodium
proved by repeated analyses. The quantit