The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-06
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

XshmoUd Pasha, regular old fighting
Turk, has been recalled by the Sublime
Porte, and is TO be made Grand Vizier.
The murderer of Robbins, the Vandalis
bridge Waterman. last fall, who will be
hung on the 14th of May, at EffinghaD, ILL.,
exp esses great contritiOn for the deed, and
reads his Bible and prays assiduously.
A witty Englishman who answered at a
dinner at Concord, the other day, TO the
toast, "the Queen" said: "I wish to ex-
press my satisfaction in being with you
here to-day, aud my equal satisfaction in
having been absent hundred years ago."
Nj. Frederick r. Coudsrt lectured in New
York few days ago on "Lying as a Fine
Art" He ransacked history for fine exam
pies Of lying, but strangely omitted any
reference to the most notable illustrations
of his theme, the Tichborne case an the
B6ecker trial.
The Rev. John S. Glendenning preached
on Sunday in his church in Jersey City, for
the first time since his famous trial. A large
congregation greeted his temperance in
the pulpit, which was decorated lavishIy
with flowers. Mr.. Glendenning's church
has paid the charges of the lawyers who
conducted his defense, and his salary has
not been affected by the intermisSion in his
ministry.
memorial theater, in honor Of Shake
spesre, is proposed in his native town OF
Standardization. The amount required
is S25 GOO, and already $4,000 has been
raised. Two acres Of ground have been
presented for the site, and it is thought that
the work can be begun within year. it is
intended ultimately, ifthe funds will allow,
70 establish a dramatic training school and
college in connection with the thester.
the Davenport paper says of the girl re-
Gently tarred and teathered by the ladies of
Wilton, Iowa: The girl came to Daven-
port and had her head cleanssd in barber
shop, She had a wealth of hair, which fell
nearly ID her waist. It was SO matted with
tar-genuine North Carolina tar-that the
barber had TO cut iS close to her head. He
picked feathers from the hair that remained,
and spent over an hour in getting the tar
Out o. 1t.
At the Lexington celebration Maj. Wood
decorated his house with an English and
American flag blended. to show that the
countries were united now. A party of
rOuchs went TO the house in the evening to
tear down the English flag, when the major
took an old tower musket and walking out
of the-house said: Fellows, L am aware of
To1r mission. The first man Of you that
lays hand on that flag, or offers it The least
indignitv, is a dead mani" There was a
pause. Right about march! begoner"
added the grim old major, and the crowd
went.
the Michigan legislature recently
moved from the statute books of that state
the old "personal liberty law" which was
psssedin 1855, after much discussion, to pro-
tect negroes in the state from the effects of
the fugitive slave law by prohibiting state
officers from aiding arrests, fOrOidding t1e
use OF ialls for the detention of captured
slaves, giving the arrested parties the right
OF Jury trial, and the benefit of writ of
habess corpus. Prosecuting attorneys were
obliged, under the law, to defend the fugi-
tives il their counties.
The exact words addressed by the en-
peror OF Austria to King Victor Emmanuel
in a private conversation are said TO be the
following: ''I nave chosen Venice because
this city was the last given up by my gov
ernment, and L wish 10 show the
whole world that Austria has re-
rounced definitely and forever all idea of a
pre-ensioo to Italian soil. The astonishing
events which have taken place within the
space OF few years-events which have led
italy TO unity and independence-show the
action OF q superhuman power, before which
/ feel It my duty TO incline"
About eighteen years ago, when the
famous pianist Thalberg, now dead, was Civ
ing concerts in the United States, he had
with him poor singer, Mile. D'Angri,
daughter of the great contralto, Nine.
D'Angri. ThGlberg's vile, a daughter OF
3sAblache, was living IN London, but an in
tinaCy sprung up between him snd Nile.
DiAngri, and a daughter was born. That
young person was given her fathers name,
and was trained for the operate stage She
is called Mile. Zare Tbalberg, and made her
debut a. COvent Garden, London, on the
10Th as Zsrlina, in "Don GiOv2na," and
seems TO have been highly successful. She
was born in New York in 1858.
A HINT.-There are contemporaries OF
ours who seem determined TO kesp us per-
pe:ually hanging upon the ragged edge OF
biIlingsgats. Here, for instance, is the
Milwaukee Sentinel, which. without the
slightest provocation, declares that we
have IAN antipathy to waterv Which,
it ia hardly necessary to say, is
a miserable, low-browed. knock sd kneed
ano slab sided untru; Ia whitening burn
ing, blightiDg falsehood, instigated by the
white lvered minion of bowling iend
fresh from the reeking purlieus of de-
Imagination. and the man who dares TO hold
aloft even q spoonful of water-mixed with
tUmbler of bourbon-and declare that we
have the merest ghost of an antipathy to it,
is a sianderer, caluminator and q falsifier,
and the subsidized wretch who says he isn't
il a liar, pOltrOon and a coward. and we
can whip the scOundrel who says he isn't
pIefgiug ourselves at the same Time To