The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-14
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Brick Pomeroy, once said TO be million
aire, now only counts for $4,000.
Admiral Porter's disease is cancer of the
stomach. His death may occur at any mo-
ment.
The handwriting of Charles Sumner i;
said to have strongly resembled that o.
Dickens
And now Harriet Beecher Stowe has de-
cided not to put pen to paper again for sew
eral years
William M. Evarts is to deliver the eulOgy
on Secretary Chase at the next commence
ment at Dartmouth.
Bayard Taylor, James Russell Lowell an3
Mrs Whitney, author OF " Faith Gartney's
Girlhood," are in Rome
James Russell Lowell has sent from Italy
to the Atlantic Monthly for May, long
poem on the death of AgassiZ.
Charles Sumner swan across tho boiling
RAPIDS below Niagara falls when a youth, a
feat requiring crest nerve and muscle.
The wife OF Baron BarthoIdi, the successor
of the Marquis De NOailles as minister from
France. is a beautiful Italian lady, who is
destined to make stir in Washington
Kate Field writes of Isabella of Spain that
"she is great, stout, ungainly female, who
needs but dozen children and a wash tub
to be a counterfeit presentment of tho tyPi-
cal Biddy."
1t has been estimated that the daily run
ming expenses for salaries at Albany are
$4,000: and now several extra service bills
have been presented, which will tend to
swell this ''little BILL"
DIR. Carl Schenk is the newly elected presi-
dent of Switzerland. Until middle life he
was an obscure pastor, but now, besides be-
ing an eminent theologiau, he is an able
writer on political economy.
Monsure D. Conway has been spending
several weeks in Yorkshire in England,
among the old friends and neighbors OF
Robert COliyer, cleaning facts for biOgra-
ply of the celebrated orator.
The biographer of Edwin Forrest tells US
that every winter, orders were left with the
grocer with whom Mr.. Forrest dealt, 20 re-
fuse no poor person wanting credit, and send
the bills 10 him for settlement.
Professor Baseom, who leaves Williams
college at the close of the present term for
Wisconsin stateuniyersty, has received from
The senior Class now under his instruction a
present OF "a gold watch and chain.
Canon Kingsley suggests that..New Eng
land ought to bury one of her dis
tInguished dead in Westminster Abbey.
The ssPhIladelphia Press intimates that
Charles Sumner should have that honor.
The annual reportof the Iowa Baptist an
niversaries give the whole number of
churches of this denomination in the state at
$40, with an aggregate membership of
1852. There are l7S pastors, including 20
- missionaries.
The Rev. E. E. Hale's society at Boston,
had d dance the other evening, and, as he
was unable to DO present., no consoled the
party by sending little poem, wisah ap-
Peared on the back OF the programme oil
dances, all of whloh Is a hale and hearty
proceeding.
There has been placed in the art gallery at
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the model
of a monument to Washington, designed by
Monsieur Bartholdi, of Paris, and presented
by him to the Paramount Park art associa-
ton testimonial of esteem for the Ameri-
can people.
Captain James B. Eads, who has been the
engineer of the great st. Louis bridge across
the Mississippi, and given to that extrsor-
binary work of engineering all his time and
ability tor several years past, announces,
with justifable pride, that the bridge will
be completed within six weeks. 4Iru
DR.. Brown-Sequard, whose name has come
before the public in connection with the
last illness of Agassiz and Sumner, is not a
dS SuppOSou, DuL
the son of Captain Edward Brown, Phila-
delphia ship-master, and was born In Maur-
titus in 1917. His mother was French
woman.
Pere Hyacinthe and the Old Catholic
Bishop Reinkens, of Germany, are at vari-
ance. Pere Loyson repudiates the latters
jurisdiction, and the bishops official organ
replies that the prelate has never claimed a
connection with him since his marriage
L. e. d.. 80
Olicism.
An assembly Of about FIVE hundred con-
vened at Chris's church, Chicago, to organ
ize a Reformed Episcopal church in that
city. The organization was formed, and
Wardens and vestrymen educated, and pre-
Hminary arrangements made for the pur-
chase of church property for the use of the
congregation.
Ground was broken at Littleton, Colorado
February IL, for the foundation of the first
Reformed Episcopal church to be erected in