The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-02-17
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

New song-Wine, Women and Prayer.
The present session of congress will in all
probability run far into the summer.
Chicago Jurors will hereafter dispense JUS
tice Tor TWO dollars day and board.
Subsidy POmeroy says that newspapers
have fearful power, and he ought to know.
Smith & Wesson are keeping 600 men
busy. Pistols always make things lively
somehow.
The ligament between Morton and Car
penter has been severed. The former can
not survive.
How long is the pioneer family going to
last? An exchange chronicles the death OF
another one.
The New York legislature is considering
bill to prevent the sale of impure liquors.
1t ought TO pass.
If fEentucky doesn't have new constitu-
ton before long the fault will not be with
the democrats of the state.
A Chippewa Indian has skated twenty
four consecutive hours on wager in Duluth.
He was allowed TWO minutes each hour for
rest.
First Swell-'Let's see-to-morrow-
What's t'day, byth'by?" Second Swell
TUESDAY isn't--or Monday?-was yest'day
Sunday? Ne inind-(yawns)-my mani
be here neutrality-suspicious. shwewd fellow
tell us like a shct!"-Punch.
As resolution has been ordered printed in
the Iowa Legislature to the effect that the
general assembly should not adjourn until
laws have been passed regulating the rates
of freight and passenger fare OIL railroads,
and otherwise affecting railroad interests.
The question of fuel is becoming import
ant, even in Minnesota. Coal is scarce, and
wooo is dear, away from the forests. Peat
is considered IS the great resource. In some
counties where there - no wood, two DAYS
WORK with a good spade will oxcavate
enough iuei for a year.
China is offered an outlet for its surplus
population, and notwithstanding its teeming
millions, the supply is likely TO be exhausted
before the demsnd. It is proposed to
build the Caradisn Pacific railroad with
Chinese labor. Tae average bgsiow zero is,
about thirty. r
sIn q speech on the Louisiana question
the other DAY, Senator Morton called on the
senate to notice the prosecutions and trials
through which thc republican party passed
in that state during the last seven years"
Those prosecutions and trials are about OF a
character with those of some rascal that has
been shot at half dozen times while rob-
bing henroost.-Courier Journal.
w nt0 F1IS- II Ttcs VI ltRQldtitt, uldfrloU, she
" as under the impression that Mr.. Free was
In bad health aud had his life insured. but.
now she has found out that his health is first
rate and that bis life not insured. She ap-
plies for q divorce With such grounds for
the application and fifteen dollars in cash
she can get tive or three divorces, over there
1T she wants them.-Courier-J Journal.
The last anti-liquor bin in tho Kansas
legislature has been killed. One, of its
amendments provided that no fermented
liquors should be Manufactured or imported
into the state under penalty of not less
than $4,000 nor more than $4,000, or inn
prison meilt in the penitentiary at hard labor
of not less than twenty years nor more than
fifty year.. or both; and that no one should
touch any piriIuOus, vinOus. or fermented
liquors under ths same penalty.
The Hon. ID. w. Voorhees,, says the st.
Louis Republican, has consented, upon the
invitation of the literary societies Of the
State university at Columbia, 10 be their
orator at the next commencement in June. |
Mr.. VOORHEES, some years SINCE on much |
as the orator fo.- the Virginia univer |
sity. He was the last years orator for the /
Indiana university, and seems to be favo- |
rite of the college young men. lie is &C |
by several of Indiana's most dis |
tinguished sons, as Gov. Hendricks, *. M. i
Thompson, Judge Hammer and others, and /
we can assure them of a warm Missouri well
come at our state literary festival.