The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-09
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Capital punishment has been temporarily
abolished in Paris, somebody having stolen
the guillOtine.
The man who first proposed tunneling
che English channel, is years ago, is living
in the greatest poverty in Paris.
Mrs. E. B. Kingsley, formerly school
teacher in South Bend, is lecturing in Kan
sas on Independence of Woven"
Experiments with petroleum as fuel for
locomotives have lately been made in
Canada, with results every way satisfactory.
The Iowa Episcopalisns win not attempt
to secure a bishop until next May. 1t is
quite probable that Western man viii be
elected.
A rifle costing 800, richly mounted and
stamped with the coat of arms of Hawaii,
has been completed by Providence firm
for King Kalskaua.
Mrs. E. D. L. n. Southworth says that a
good dish of baked beans and pork does not
In the least affect the plot of one of her love
stories.-Detroit Free Press.
The United States pension agent in Wash
ington has received information of the
death of pensioner in Georgia, aged 80
years, who left a son 16 years OF age.
Number of Indians killed by soldiers in
1878, 4O5; number of soldiers and citizens
killed by Indians in 1878, ninety-two. And
that's the way we are ciYiliZing poor Lo out
of existence.
Six Milwaukee women with babies met
the other day and agreed to vote which was
the handsomest infant. Each kid got one
vote. and you ought TO have seen how
those women looked az each other.
The Congregationalists began to labor in
Nebraska Is years ago, and in the period in.
tervenino So churches have been organized
Their present membership is 1,50O. The
ministers of the denomination in the state
number 80.
In the Myers-Newton case before the
court to-day the counsel for the defendant
asked little Eliza Newton if the dog that b
her was not one of those little bits of dogs
YES" she answered, promptly. zone y
those nasty little dogs. "-Toledo Democrat
E.P. Porter, statistical secretary of tn,
National Sunday School Association. is pre-
pairing a Sunday school map of the United
States and Canada, which will present :
bird'S-eye view of Sunday school orga MIA
tions, both union and UNCONVENTIONAL, as IA
as can be sscertained.
Said DIR. Bellows. Happiness is achieved
only by those who renounce it, and who de
vote themselves to procuring the good o
tier fellows. such people as do this, though
they have faults perceptible to everybody
are still welcomed everywhere. They dit
fuse good feelings on every side of Them"
Miss Kate Field is slowly but surely work
ing her way to position in the new profes
sion she has adopted. 1t is curious coin
cidence that Mr.. Ogden, who acts the par
of Mr.. Selby, of the confederate army, i
the Gilded Age, was an officer on the staff G
Gen. Robert K. Lee during the late civil wal
Were the happiness of the next world a
closely apprehended as the felicities OF thi.
it were msrtyrdom to live; and unto sue
as consider none hereafter, it must &c NOR
than death to die, which makes us amaze
at those audacities that burst be nothing an
ret1rn unto their chaos again.-Sir Thoms
Brown.
A lawyer in this city advertised for th
relatives of man who recently died j
Dublin, and two sisters responded, VIII
find themselves sole heirs TO an estate wort
about 100000 One is employed in famil
of Boston merchant residing in BrO0klin,
The other, married woman in poor circun
stances, lives at she South End.-Bosto
Globe.
1t Is said that the clergymen of Brookly