The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-31
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Hon. VIM. orion, president of the
W. L. Telegraph company, sails for Eu-
rope on Saturday, under the advice OF his
physicians.
Miss Ada G. Sweet is the chief pension
agent in Chicago, having been appointed to
that Office upon the death of her father who
had filled it for some years.
John Lawrence Toole, England's greatest
comedian, is soon to visit America. We sin
cerely hope he will prove a good tool for
somebody to manipulate.
Michigan ought to be happy. A resolu-
ton has been offered in the Senate that in
view of the large balance in the state treas
ury no tax be levied for 1874.
Thomas Ansbro, private detective, who
attained an unenviable notoriety in the ia
NOUS g. Edith O'Gorman, the escaped nun"
case, died Monday night in San Francisco.
Two buildings were burned at Mott Haven,
New York, last Tuesday night, and in one of
them Mrs. Burns and her three children
were burned to death. Her husband and
two children escaped.
Another gain for the better half: The word
Gmsle'' has been stricken out of the cleo
tive franchise articles just passed by the
Michigan new constitution makers, by the
House.
Minnesota is generous; she appropriates
$4,000 to be expended in the purchase of
seed wheat-for settlers in the southwestern
counties whose crops were destroyed last
year by grasshoppers. -..
The gossips are whispering of the marriage
of Gen. Schenck, United States minister at
st. James, to a wealthy and fashionable
widow of New York city. There is no tell
ing what pretty widow won't do.
One of the editors Of the Advance having
lately lost three umbrellas, begins to have a
timely belief that the antiquity of man and
the apostolic succession are not the only
questions on which the world needs enlight-
eminent.
The Gulf OF st. Lawrence is::reported full of
ice and there is a small prospect of naviga-
ton being opened as soon as expected.
The weather Tuesday night and Wednesday.
was extremely cold for the season, being
five degrees below zero. .l4.
This is too cruel and yet it must be true,
SAYS DR.. Brown-Sequard: although we
have two brains, it is pretty much as if we
had one" and Hazard professor amends 1t
by saying that with some of his boys it is
very much as if they had none.
The officers of the Erie railroad company
say that work is again organized and going
on well, and that the force of private police
will be continued for few days to
guard the yards and property. The strikers
are to be paid off and discharged.
A fire in Newark avenue. Jersey City,
Tuesday morning. destroyed the stores of d.
r. Smith, hardware; Armstrong, boots and
shoes; Chrystie, bay and feed and several
horses; also, a brush store and beer saloon.
The total loss is estimated at about fifty
thousand dollars. rty
Now here is story that we don't believe,
but we give it for what it will bring: "They
tell about a man in Maine who refused to
: get up and light the fire, and as his wife said
sshe wouldn't, they remained in bed thirty
seven hours before the matter was settled.
I'VE suppose she then got up and built fire
under the bed. ~fti
Cincinnati is proud of the support given
to her newly organized orchestra. She be-
lieves that in supporting frst-class orches-
ira, public library, and things of that sort,
that in time she may escape the bad odor of
the pork reputation which has so constantly
chung to her in the years past.
The popular humorist who spells 'ov'
and writes Gin place of "to" are called
the Tom Fools of current literature, never
saying q word without q grimace, always
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