The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-20
BRIEF MENTION.

Hampton's legal majority in South Caro-
| lima is ,i34.
Short water supply was the trouble in the
| Little Rock fire.
Grants champagne is the cause of real pain
/ 10 the country.
South Carolina snakes are getting into
| Chambers boots.
Courier-Journal: Chamberlain, you can
/ 90 tO-Massachusetts.
| South Carolina seems to get along very
well with two governors.
The wife of 7. C. Phillips, Esq, of the
| Kokono Tribune, died last week.
Kellogg's returning board defies the au-
| thority of the house of representatives.
Hundreds Of families were rendered
houseless by the late floods at Aberdeen.
| Florida's fighting Cooke has crowed to
some purpose. The vote is to be recounte6.
New York Herald. The only sure cure for
| sneezing is to hold the patient upside down.
President orion, of the Western Union,
is good subject for congressional BULLDOG
ing.
The cable states as matter of news that
war is imminent between Turkey and Rus
STA.
Senator Chaffee has pretty daughter
and lots o. rocks, besides being widower
| himself
In the Cincinnati gas fight, the papers
| seem to lean on the side OF the grasping
| monopolists
The Louisiana Investigating committee
| from the house does not find its course
! pathway Of roses.
Mrs. S. 5. Cox is said to be as witty and
accomplished her husband, and good
| deal handsomer.
Vermont has sent good many carpet
baggers south, but there are still plenty OF
| the kind at home.
If Grant could succeed Logan in the SEN
ate Zach Chambers old place would be
full" if not filed.
The tables are turned. The congressional
/ COMMITTEES are boring the boards and can
| wasting the. canva-sers.
Now one of them, Henry Watterson, says,
| '-0f all horned cattle your average statesman
is, a rule, least informed"
| The republic existed a century before it
could find a president who don't care
damn for the supreme court"
Asa Morley and Mrs Joseph T. Morris of
Terre Haute, eloped to Canada last week,
J both leaving reputable families
Prepare you lecture, Mr.. Tilden," is the
admonition of the Rochester Chronicle.
Which will be message, of course.
Cincinnati Enquirer: DR.. Schliemann. who
4
non, should be arrested for "burking."
franklin Herald: A Franklin girl bet six
kisses oE the result of the election, and now
she is getting anxious for a "fair count
1t may console some aching heart to real
ize that not one in hundred of the plays
written are ever brought out on the stage.
Rarely were eulogies on dead congressman
| so well justified as those delivered in the
house on the late Speaker Kerr Saturday.
1t is so cold on the Red river at Lake Win
| nipeg that hens roost in the smokestacks of
the saw mills to keep from freezing to death.
Within the last ten years nine theaters
have been destroyed by fire in New York
alone This puts the average at about one
year.
Perhaps if Hayes be counted in he'll do
something FOR that member of the Sherman
family who was q triAe crooked on the
| bench.
Grant contempates foreign tour after his
term expires and the Cincinnati Enquirer
suggests that re go to Mexico and set up for
president
Hancock banished TO the Pacific states, Nc
| Dowell in Chicago aud Sheridan in New
York would be setting up the pins with a
vengeance.
Randalls voice is described as high metal
lie, but it has none of the golden ring of Abe
|
we suppose.
Thermometers are made in Nevada by fill
ing stoyepipe with whisky When the
whisky freezes solid a change in the weather
is predicted.
Even in New Hampshire civilization is
progressing. The constitutional convention
of that state has voted 10 abolish religious
tests for office.
Rochester Democrat: IL is understood
that field marshal Murat Halstead wants to
usurp something. Now why isn't he called
to Washington?
Grant complains of the ignorant foreign
vote in New York city. The negro electors
in the south are, we presume, all graduates
of a university.
Newcastle Mercury; Longfeliow has re-
Gently eomplimented two eastern Indiana
poets very highly and Enthusiastically, though
in private way
st. Louis Times: When Grant spoke Of
his late message as his last effort in that
line he meant tnat he would issue general
orders hereafter
emily and earnestly remarks that no true
patriot will try to make suit of clothes last
him over three months.
Courier-Journal: Some timorous mortals
of the republican faith falter and tremble on
the brink of the abyss over which Hold
Over Grant is leading them.
st. louis Times: Not even the democracy
can resist the tendency toward monarchical
principles and habits. Prince +. o. has just
been elected mayor of Boston.
Chicago Times: 1t il possible that if the
Illinois legislature will return him to the
senate, Logan will refund the back pay he
grabbed Why not dicker with him on that
point?
New York Graphic: A hundred promi-