The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-05
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

In London IL infants are accidentally
sufocated" in week.
Two thousand dollars were recently paid
In London for a cup of coffee. 1t was
painting by Distinguished artist.
Gov Peck, of Vermont, has decided TO call
an extra session of the legislature to provide
means tor rebuilding the State Reform
School.
Dublin has established permanent classes
for drawing from the living model. Quail
lifted students will be permitted to study in
these without charge.
Another veteran of 1872 is Capt. John
Griffin, of Culpoper county, Va, who, at the
age of 81, "can jump and crack his heels
twice before touching the ground"
Here is another watch, quite a match for
Lafayette's. 1t was found in the street in
Partisan enormous gold watch. with this
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. watch belonged to King
Louis XVI, and was given by him to the
Able Edgeworth in the vehicle on the way
to the guillotine."
By a calculation Just made, writes Wash
ington correspondent, it is ascertained that
q, SOC, 900 gallons of Potomac water are used
every "a hours in the District of Columbia.
This is accounted for by the fact that con-
gressmen wash their dirty linen in the
waters of the Potomac.
The most successful tobacco raiser in
Grsyson county, KY, is woman. One day
last spring she dug six pounds of ginseng
worth III pound, killed two rsttlesnskes,
and then went home and gave birth to
twins. She is reputed to be the best squir
rel hunter in the county.
One Of the dressmaker's children had scar
let fever, and when she sent home the dress
she was mending two children In the fam
ily of the owner Of the dress were taken and
both died; and that is one of the thousand
WAYS in which scarlet fever, measles, small
pox, ETC., are constantly kept going.
The resolution in the House calling for
committee to take official notice of Kala-
kaua's presence at the capitol furnished
laughter. One of the clerks called the Illus
trious dsrkey liking Calico, of the High
wines;" and another denominated him
"King Kill Cow, of the Hsyweighs.
All the magnificent metaphors are not
manufactured In the West. Here is one
about "Lohengrin" from a Boston paper:
"No one can study the score of this work,
and hanging over the rugged cliffs of har-
mony peer down into the chasms of deep
thought which pervades the composition,
without being impressed with the i'm
mensity of the grandest of modern operate
structures"
Recent reports from Madrid announce that
the several parts of Murillo's painting of
st. Anthony of Psdus have been discovered
but unfortunately in an Injured condition,
the head of the saint b; ing detached from
the remainder of the body. and the picture
having been thus even more seriously dam
aged than was expected. Till this discovery
was made hope was entertained that the
known value of this beautiful work would
hova aart. rod IL from suph dQSnCrQtiOn-
A petition has been introduced in the Vir-
GINA legislature from o. Z. Cleveland and
others, asking the enactment of law to re-
strain Judge from allowing more than
legal fees without consent of the party inter-
ested. The petition was suggested, 1t Is
said. by case in Nelson county. where
lawyer bad agreed to attend to certain case
for stipulated sum. The money resulting
from the proceedings coming into the law
yer's hand, he put in a claim for ten times
the amount OF the agreement, and 1t was
allowed.
TIE Colorado Democrat tells of the good
luck of two Missouri miners thus: The
best find of the season thus far is reported
by Mr. s. w. Spesse, of Kansas City, and
Luther Maddox, of Mexico. Mo. These gen.
tlemen left Denver last October TO go to
Bakers Park. On the way they were in
duced to prospect near Rosita and In hye
DAYS Work struck silver IOuo Ol ltnInenso
richness. The vein on the lode struck by
Mr.. Spease is three feet eight inches in width,
and, as the shaft is sunk, the vein increases
in thickness and richness in the precious
metal.
A correspondent writing from Jackson.
Miss, thus gives a specimen of the legal
ability of colored justice Of the peace.
named Gurdy. The latter had seen the adj
vertisement referring to the lost mule above
mentioned, and went with Esquire Robert
andthe usual negro witness to Dnekworth's
to prege property in the animal and take it
hoSne. Joshua DObson had a ''haltered"
mule rUsning at large with DuckEorth's,
and GurdY seeing this animal drew paper,
pen and lax from his pocket. aud prepared
a writ of possession as follows:
The State ov Ass:
Kobome Cowntyl March
Gurdy Hopken 30, 1874.
Appurd befour the undersign justiss OF
the Peass and made 9th that is his visibil
property ann you Civ that Black mule what
be hay griv (driven) up with your hors
hotter March 80 l. .(3lst) lo14-durdy
Hopkin. Robert Green, j. Il.