The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-08
NEWS AND GOSSIP

The first water works in Texas are being
established st Austin.
Galveston has Venetian floating board
ing house and beer garden.
A hundred pounds of flour cost twenty
eight dollars in the Black Hills.
California exported 5Ss, 900 tons of coal
last year, which brought from s. to Sl4
per ton.
Portland, Oregon, has shipped directly
to Liverpool in one cargo $4,000 bushels OF
wheat.
The grand jury of Columbus, Ca, have
indicted the chief Of police Tor grand
larceny.
George Smith expects TO start for Nine
veh in the middle OF the month to resume
excavations.
The museum of Bremen, founded by a
private society of merchants, is to be pre-.
sented to the city.
For several years Iowa was the banner
granger state, but it lost seventy-five local
oranges last year.
The recent dramatic permforance in
London for the benefit of the centennial
cleared over $500.
Sacramento is 30 well pleased with her
Holly water works that she proposes SELL
ing out her steam fire engines.
Miss Hobert, Massachusetts, girl, has
purchased twenty acres of land in West
minister, CAL, and is sevoting half OF 1t to
onions.
A seam of fine herd coal, nine feet four
inches in thickness, has been struck at a
depth of 500 feet at Nanaimo, British Co.
lumbia.
A sister-in-law OF Thomassen, the dy-
Mantle fiend, has been discharged from a
dry goods store IN st. Louis on account OF
the relationship.
Adirondack Murray has secured limb
of the "Old Elm" OF Boston Common, and
purposes having two pulpit chairs made of
1t for his new church.
There is one colored scholar in TIE pub
lie school in Santa Rosa, CALIFORNIA;, and he
is taught separately at recess, and is not
allowed seat in the building.
William College has decided to withdraw
from the Rowing Association, because of
the expense and the prospect of a poor
crsw, only two of last years men being
willing to pull again.
An Eastern paper makes the following
correction; "In our obituary notice of Mr.
- yesterday, for the phrase 'He was q
noble and pig-headed man. read He was
noble and big-hearted man."
The recent discoveries Of gold at Pixies
Peak were really marvellous. A man who
pounded up an old brown jug and carried
the powder to an ssssyist became delirious
when inf1r med that his specimens would
yield S1S to the ton. ~
The Rev. Mr.. Mann, an Oregon clergy
man OF the Presbyterian church, has met
with such success as a missionary among
the Indians at the Pugyallup reservation,
Washington territory, that he proposes to
settle there permanently.
Thirty-three mines In Colorado have
been opened to depth of from 100 to 900
feet since 1852 Five of them were idle
last year, but the rest produced ore valued
at nearly 81 100000. Since their discoy-
cry they have yielded $40, $50, 900. isai
In Nsugatuck valley, Conn.,, last week
the Ice accumulated so thickly on the
trees that the bending branches interfered
with the railroad trains. One train was
stopped number OF times while the
brakeman cut off the Ice laden branches.
There Is an ancient maiden Of so living
In Taunton, Mass, who has never seen q
train of cars. dresses In Centennial fashion.
burns tallow dips, and has not called upon
her ne1ghDor Tor i've years. II she does
not make the most OF che present year and
It's peculiar privileges, there Is fear that
she VIII die an old maid.