The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-16
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Count ShodvaloH, OF Alex1s's suite, would
be very popular jus; now.
A Jewish Rabbi has been preaching in a
New Haven Methodist pulpit.
Maryland has 1,s46 public schools, which
are attended by 1890 children.
Moody, Whittle, Bliss and Earle, the
evangelists, all started out from Chicago in
their religious work.
Smallpox is "a ing so severely at La Psz,
Lower California, that the regular steamers
have ceased stopping there.
Norwich, Conn, has subsidized man to
the extent of SIS 900 to enable him to open a
sewing machine factory there.
The stringency with which the adultera-
ton OF food act is enforced In London has
caused a large number OF failures In the
milk trade.
Every member of the Kansas House of
Representatives is provided with twenty
daily newspapers during its session, at the
public expense.
The Parker Memorial Society of Boston
propose to invite Moncure d. Conway to be-
come pastor of the Tw cnty- eigth Congre-
gstional Church.
Snow, George Washington, you jes' cum
an put on your shoes dis mint. De idea of
YOU bein' out doors barefoot on the Lords
day. Why, folks will think you're Irish!"
Mrs. Mitchell and her daughter are con-
Quoting a revival in Montreal. The girl is
about twenty years old, and the newspa-
pers of that city say that many of the con-
verts are young men.
George L. Fox, the psntomimist, accom-
panied by DR.. j. N. Bates, of Worcester,
Mass, was registered at an Augusta (Ga.
hotel last week, en- route for Florida, where
his insanity may be more successfully
treated than at the North.
Maria" observed Mr.. Halcomb, al he
was putting on his clothes, "there amt no
patch on them breeches yet" "I can't fix
it now, no way; Pm too busy" "Well, give
me the patch then, an P1 carry it around
with me. / don't want people TO think /
can't afford the CLOTH"
During the past year there have been All
murders in France, besides 25 attempts at
murder. In connection with these crimes
% persons were condemned to death, OF
whom eight were paTdoned. Thus, for each
execution whicl has taken place, there have
been "a persons murdered.
Another mammoth cave has been discov-
cred near Columbia, KY, which rivals in
awful grandeur the original Mammoth. In
it were found three human skeletons of ex-
traordinary proportions. The cave has plenty
of galleries, and many varieties of stalsciltes
and stalagmites.-NewY York Sun.
At point about ninety miles southeast Of
Tuscon, near the Sonora line, in Arizona, q
silver mine has been discovered, which Is
supposed to be the famous Planchas La Plata
mentioned in Spanish history 200 years age
as yielding such immense blocks OF the pure
metal that the crown confscated it tor its
own enrichment.
Tall Yankee, just arrived: Guess your
loo,ol for ic incf 81 n,,hl
Shure. me lord, we take some chape jacks al
that, but wouldn't disgrace a gintlemar
av your lordship's quality be drivin' him al
name pace trough the public shtrests; Sc
/ tux upon meself to give your lordship
shiilin's worth both of stoyle and whipcord
M. Pierre, French landowner in the
Loiret, has been ordered by the Paris Cor
regional Tribunal to pay 1000 francs com
pensation to NJ. Tony Dury, an artist, and
formerly painter to Louis Philippe, for de-
famatory expressions written outside of let
ters addressed to him. The plaintiff received
letters directed: IN. Dury artistic peintrt
ct pickpockett, ct ignoble pick ockett."
Mr.. Beeler and Miss Beck, of Louisville
have eloped. Their ages are respectively Il
and ID. The parents, in tracing the pair
have learned of application to many justice
and ministers to marry them, but in ever,
instance their youthfulness was agains
them. They have not yet been overtaken
but at last accounts were going toward Mis-
souri,, and trying hard to get somebody I,
perform the ceremony.
Among the applicants for reli eff at the las
meeting of the Kingston-ol-T Thames eng
land) Board of Guardians was q man of su
perior education. who said that he wa
nephew of bishop, and had formerly bel,
captaincy in a cavalry regiment. He haC
run through a fortune OF 600 600 or EGO 600
and four years ago had made over what ther
remained to him, amounting to about 9l
week, to his wife and two children.
Mr.. s. r. Kidder, proprietor of valusbl
mining claims on Iowa Hill, California, EN-
ployed Waterman to guard the fumes a
night. Having an idea that the man wa
not vigilant and that he slept on his post
Mr.. Kidder determined to satisfy himself
and creeping down along hume at mid
might to make observations attracted th
attention of the Waterman, who prompt,
lodged q bullet in his brain, producing in
slant death. la4
Trustworthy persons ARRIVING in vienni
from Russia state that on the Orenburg rail
way into the interior and the lines from
Moscow in western direction, there are in
cessant preparations for large mi.itar,
transports In the spring. On the line from
Moscow to Polish Lithuania third line o
rails is being laid down. During the fros
the workmen encsmp on the spot, In quar-
tiers specially provided for them, to en-
able them to work by night as well as b,
day.
A New Bedford man and his wife wen
to neighboring town to get the body o
their dead daughter. They put the con
fined corpse in their wagon and started 70
home, where funeral was to be held, bu
stopped at the first tavern and drank
Their subsequent stops and drinks exactly
equslled the number OF other taverns OF
the route, and five miles from home the,
fall of the coffin from the wagon. Tn,
body YVES found lying face downward In tn,
r0ad.