The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-08
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.
A Philadelphia mandatory turns out
about 5000 umbrellas a day-about half the
number that are stolen in the same time.
Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, was
insugurated in the Hall of Representatives
at Columbia Tuesday. There was a great
crowd present.
It is stated that there are at present 1G0
Chinese students in Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts. Each is allowed 500 per annum
by his emperor.
A resolution was introduced at the late
ladies temperance convention at Cleveland,
requesting state legislatures to defranchise
liquor sellers. IL excited discussion, out
was finally tabled.
Little Albert Alexander is rocked in a
cradle of silver fligree work lined with pink
silk, and draped with white lace. His aunt,
the Princess Beatrice, has contributed a
quilt of white satin embroidered with roses
tor this elegant crib.
The Cin%cincinnati Gazette's Huntington
West Virginia, special says hat sixty
six employees of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad struck Tuesday for wages earned
during the past tour months. No traina are
out from Huntington to-day except an en-
CINE with a mail car. The strikers de-
clare that no freight or passengers shall
move until their claims are liquidated.
Tennessee leads the South in the number
and standing of her educational institutions.
By we'll directed effort she may become, in
the great work of education, the Massa-
chusetts of the South. By reason of climate
and geographical position she is favored
with Two important advantages. The state
has now thirteen colleges and universities,
Alabama seven, Georgia eleven, Louisiana
seven, Mississippi five, and Virginia nine.
a dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from
Pittsburg the 26th says: Saturday the iron
manufacturers and puddlers again meet.
What their action will be is not known, but
il is a foregone conclusion that the manu-
facturers will shut down entirely all their
mills, and preparations are making accor-
dingly. The manufacturers have refused
orders for the past few days, the prices being
too low. One firm Tuesday refused an order
for 800 tons on the same account.
Six or seven years ago DIR. Marshall, of
Knoxville, was married to Miss Parsons, a
brilliant and beautiful young lady. They
lived unhappily together for several years,
when she made application for divorce, and
was separated from her liege lord. D He mar
ried again, and his second wife was divorced
from him in the same manner as the first,
and now he weds his first wifea second time,
He resides in Brunswick.-Ft. Valley (Ga.)
Mirror.
The Chicago Tribune having said that the
Rev. Florence Mccarthy proposed to quit
the ministry and go into politics. the gen.
tleman denies the assertion and adds:
''Fhere is only one thing that would induce
me to go into politics, and that would be the
--.TI
ton, for which work / b nave q decided taste.
But as there is more corruption among the
Chicago Baptists than there is i'm Congress. /
think that my duty will be in the pulpit for
at least twenty years to come"
On a Sunday, after the choir at Oberlin,
Ohio, had sung without distinctly pro-
nouncing the words, President Finney in
his prayer alluded to the choir in the follow
ing manner so Lord, we have sung an
anthem TO thy praise. Thou knowest the
words, but we do not. We d. pray Thee
that those who thus lead us may open their
mouths, that we may know what they say,
that we may join in Thy praise. May they
not sing TO be heard OF men, May they not
mock Thee and offend Thy people or the
house Of God by making a display of them.
selves"
Mr.. Y. l.. White, of the New York Trib-
une, who has been travelling in the South
for some time to investigate and report the
actual condition and prospects of the people.
speaks of the blacks in some sections as an
uncertain labor class, degenerating in phys
ical vigor and I'm morals, and scarcely i'm
proving in intellect. More separated from
the whites and from civilization than thew
were in a state of slavery, without recourse
in sickness to the skill and medical treatment
which every Planters wife dispensed on
grounds of economy, and with probably less
restraint in their sexua relations than for
merly, their hold on civilization is so far
weakened.
A very dirty, debased and ignorant look
ing man came in to vote in a township OF
Michigan. Said one of the ladies', Offering
him a ballot, "I wish you would oblige us
by voting this ticket" "Wha kind of a
ticket is that?" said he. "Why," said the
lady, "you can see yourself" "But / can't
read" nc answered. "Why, can't you read
the ballot you nave there in your hand.
which you are about to voter" the lady
asked. mo" said he, 81 can't read at all. y
"Well," said the lady, "this ballot means
that you are willing 20 let the women as
well as the men vote" els tina 10 ?" he re-
piled, "then / don't want IT.: the women
don't know enough to vote."-Grand Rap
ids Post.
The Augsburg Allemeine Zsituug of a late