The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-09
GENERAL NOTES.

the State of Ohio.
renewed effort is being made in st
Louis to complete the proposed fund for a
monument to Nathaniel d. Lyon. A COM
mittee of the veteran officers of the Missouri
regiments have the matter under c0nsdera-
ton. Ef ea
New York paper says that within the
last ten years the screw has entirely re-
placed the paddle in Transatlantic naviga-
ton; the weight of marine engines has de-
creased one-balf, the steam pressure has
auadrupled, and the consumption of coal has
diminished two thirds.
At the great Derby races in England a few
DAYS ago, Parliament adjourned, by vote of
2IS to so, to witness the racing. What would
be thought should the American Congress
adjourn to witness the trotting in jerome
Park? Truly, our congressman are not
wholly depraved.
The returns of the several water compa-
MES of London show that the daily supply
to the entire metropolis during the past
month was l09, 544, ll6 gallons. The number
of houses supplied was ,6l8, and the
average daily supply per head to the entire
population was S219 gallons.
The Woman's Suffrage Association of
Michigan has organized for the approaching
campaign, and secured a number of speak
ers, who will make a regular canvass, Out
of ll9 papers in the state. SO have declared
in favor of the woman's suffrage amend
ment. while only 80 have opposed it.
Katsuki. oue of the Japanese students for
merly attending school in this country at
Troy, y. Y. has just been executed in Japan,
being one OF a party of twelve Instruction
lists. He is represented as young man of
unusual ability, and, while in his native dis
trict, was leader among his comrades. His
province being in a state Of Instruction he
Joined the rebels to save his life,only to fall
into the hands of the government.
A Methodist Episcopal convention, at
Jackson. Mich, lately took decided action
in favor Of woman suffrage. The late iegis-
lature having submitted TO the public a
proposition to amend the state constitution
80 as TO admit women to the elective fran
chise, the convention resolved that IL recog.
nized in this action of the legislature a step
toward higher and purer administration
of the government, and hoped the provision
would be adopted. This is probably the
first official action on this subject by any
religious body in the United States.
The executors of Edwin Forrest have
made an arrangement with Mrs. Forrest by
which the latter is to receive sos 900 in salts.
faction of her claim against the estate. 1t !
will be remembered that Mrs. Forrest was
divorced from her husband several years
ago, and an allmony was allowed her for |
support. Mr.. Forrest was held to be the |
guilty party and forbidden from marrying
again, while permission was given to Mrs. |
Forrest TO do so. Her counsel claimed for her |
the full amount due TO a widow, but the mat |
ter was compromised by her accepting the |
above amount.
And now we are to have a Rocky Noun
tain university. Colorado Springs, in Col
orado, is its proposed site. and It is to draw
students and support not only from Colorado,
but also from Wyoming, Utah, and New
Mexico. The village selected has popuIs-
ton of 5000. and is situated amidst the
grandest scenery of the Rocky Mountain
regions The people have given about one
hundred acres OF land, and subscribed SO, 900
toward the institution, and now are asking
for some outside aid. Professor Johnathan
Edwards, of Massachusetts, has already been
secured as one of the faculty, and is now at
work organizing prepaI story department.
The first annual meeting OF the board will
be held in June, when full corps of instruc.
tors will be elected, and the regular college
year provided for.
A correspondent of Philadelphia paoert
claims for Oliver Evans, an American, the
honor generally given to Robert Stephenson,
the English engineer, of having invented
the tubular system OF steam boilers He
claims that Oliver Evans engine is the only
one adapted to steam travelling, and that the
railway system of the present day is merely
the execution of Oliver Evans plan In
1880, the Mechanics Magazine, published in
London, acknowledged the claim OF Evans
In 1899. says the American Historical Record,
Evans constructed a steam carriage. and it
was the first steam engine constructed on
the high-steam pressure principle. He pro
posed TO run the steam carriage on level
railways. but not finding sufficient encour-
agement among his countrymen, he aban-
doned the idea of railway travelling by steam,
patented his engine, and applied it to mills.
A college president can issue general or
der as well as army officer. Here is
what president Chamberlain sent 20 the pa
rents of the suspended students of Bowdoin
College: "If your son will sign the inclosed
blank, renewing in good faith and Without
reservation, his matriculation pledge of |
obedience to the laws and regulations of ths |
college, and forward it to the president with
in ten days from date, he will be allowed to |
return and resume his place in the class |
and this he will be expected to do without |
further delay. If he does not do this, he |
must consider himself, by the act of re- |
fusal, as expelled from the college at the ex-
piration of ten days. If he concludes to re-
turn to his duty, and his objections to the
the term, but not before, receive an homo ra-
bic dismissal and go TO some other CO..
iege.
The annual report of the United States
Military Post Library Association, just pub
lished, gives some interesting facts connected
with its works. The following is partial,
summary of its work for the year 1878:
Number of books OF history, travel. fiction
etc forwarded to army posts, 3, 1856; religious
papers, 9l,0O0: secular papers, II 400;
secular magazines, 1920; temperance
lodges established, 5; literary and de-
batiag societies established, IA: reading clubs
formed, .; copies of Scriptures distributed,
1000: pages of tracts. leaflets, etc., distrib-
uted, 1000; number OF letters received re-
lating to the moral, religious and literary |