The Indiana State sentinel., 1875-07-29
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

NEWS AMI
"Lst us have peace and England may have
Shearman," says the Springfield Republi-
can.
Congressman Jones is the richest man in
New Hampshire, and pays tax three tunes
as large as that OF any other man in Ports
mouth.
The venerable Sir Montefore, the Hebrew
philanthrophist, is making the journey TO
10 visit the Jewish settlements al Jerusalem
by easy stages.
The centennial picnic of the passenger
agents association at Greenwood tomorrow
bids fair TO be the graldest affair OF the kind
that has taken place this season.
Elk Governor Jenkins, of Georgia adds his
vote in favor of hearty participation in the
centennial. "Sulking is not in keeping
with Southern character" he says.
Brooklyn wants more letter carriers. The
population is busily engaged in answering
congratulations that their little affairs were
not drawn into the great current of expos
Gre.-Chicago Tribune.
Jewell is consistency as we'll as consis-
tency jewel Having forbidden his clerks
to smoke during working hours, he himself
abstsins from indulgence for tho same time.
John Chinamah is loanlng the Missouri
farmers money and taking good mortgages,
through Yung Wing, the educational COM
missioner, who looks after the titles and col
lects the tithes for the benefit of the Orient.
James Fitzgerald. claiming to be a half
brother of Governor CASTOR, of Massachu-
setts died suddenly Saturday at the poor
house in Cass county, Michigan. He bad
been living oR the county for three months.
Colonel Valentine s. Baker wanted bis
case removed from the Surrey assizes, where
it will come on next month, to the Queens
Bench, where 1t might come on next year;
but Baron Pollock refused him this slight
favor.
A train of II heavy -ladened camels
started from Tripoli on the 2S ult., to cross
the desert of Sahara. They are Carrying a
complete library OF the Bsecher scandal into
the regions of Central ics.-Brooklyn
Argus.
Dio Lewis says that If a man will eat
blacl-berries and cat meal for year he will
be able to lift a horse. Friends and
brothers, will you loaf around like drones
and miss this golden oppertunity?-Ex-
change.
The bishop of Nismes and the clerical
newspapers Of France declare that the cause
of the floods in Toulouse was the refusal of
the municipal government of the city to
ereect a statue TO the GLORIOUS and mirscu-
lous shepherdess of Pibrac"
Tine Auburn Advertiser says that Presi.
dent White, of Cornell, was so excited by
the news of victory that he upset the dinner
table, broke open the belfry-doOrs. and
tugged so frantically at the ringing appara-
tus as to throw the whole thing out of gear.
sold Prob" has been communicating with
points down the road aud solemnly says
that there will be no rain tomorrow, at least
so says Burgess Brown. The BrookSide ele-
phant will be paraded through the streets
emOellished with advertisements of the pic
mic.
Capt. Cook, of the Yale University crew,
states tina. his crew made before the race, in
still water, twenty seconds better time than
the winning crew. They were rowing at the
time in the shell made In New Haven, with
which Capt. Cook expresses his entire salts
faction.
The Smiths will have it all their own way
with the directories in few years. There
is "Smith Manufacturing Company in
Connecticut. a "Smith Bleaching Com
pany" in Rhode Island, and they have
ipst dedicated a ." Smith College" in Msssa-
cnusetts.
Mr.. G. w. Beckwith, of Stafford Springs,
Conn, is the owner of a sword, which, it is
asserted. descended from William the
ConQueror. But it bears the date of 14I4,
and has an ancient coat-of-srms upon it.
Mr.. Beckwith refused an offer of s., 600 for it
several years ago.
The Hon. George P. Marsh, United States
Minister to Italy, has been made the agent
through whom the University of Vermont
has received a valuable collection of manu-
scripts Of the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. a part of the MSS. are
handsomely rubricated.
The Dublin papers speak in warm terms
the ability OF Miss Genevieve Ward, young
: American actress who has just filed an en-
gagement in that city. She appeared as Me-
dea and Julianna, for her benefit, and in both
made decided success. She Is pronounced
the coming American artist"