The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-11
NEWS NOTES.

The extra session will be called in May.
A white buffalo was killed near Fort Con-
cho, Texas
General Fitz Hugh Lee is strong man for
governor of Virginia.
Georgia is to have constitutional conyen-
ton at cost of $4,000.
Emigration to the Arkansas valley is yery
large the present season.
Sixteen English families will settle in
Noble county, Mimi, this eason.
The Pittsburg glass blowers are on a strike.
Eight hundred men and boys are out of
work.
The vltrol fashion is spreading among
jealous husbands. The last case is in Berea,
Ohio.
The Democrat reports business at stand.
still in New Orleans, everybody awaiting the
decision
Fifteen thousand acres of land in Jeffer-
son county, Pennsylvania, is devoted TO oil
production.
The house of Judge Taft, in Cincinnati,
was damaged by fire to the extent of 5000
Monday night.
The present legislature of Virginia has
created the office of state commissioner of
The treasurer of a colored benevolent So
ciety at Milton, North Carolina, is missing;
so are the funds.
Mr.. Hudson, who failed to be chosen
mayor of st. Louis, wrote card on the eve
of the election.
Twenty captains of lake crafts signed the
temperance pledge at East Saginaw, Michl-
gan, on Saturday.
Joseph Miller, of Lebanon county, Penn
sylvania, was murdered for 5000 Tuesday.
He was 72 years old.
1t is proposed to fit up the Great Eastern
for the meat trade. She would carry hun
dred thousand beeves.
One of the items called for in the invita-
ton for proposals for Indian supplies is co.
600 pounds of tobacco.
The public school at Quincy, Mich, has
been closed on account of the prevalence of
smallpox in that vicinity.
The city of New York has recovered $500
$40 50 on account of the "ring suits" and
and expended $226,711 "a.
Robert Hoyden, colored prisoner in Gin
cinnati, was shot and killed Wednesday
while attempting to escape.
James B. Keene, the Californian, it is as
winter campaign in Wall street.
A Texas stockman recently sold to parties
in Southwestern Kansas 10000 head of cattle
and 1900 horses for $4,000 in silver.
Richard Caswell, the first governor of
North Carolina, has great granddaughter
in the Oxford orphan asylum, that state.
King, the republican candidate for alder
man from the First ward of Little Rock, is
under arrest for robbing, says the Gazette.
The Texas cotton trade with st. Louis.
SAYS the San Antonio Herald, is $4,000 an
nually, with constantly increasing tenden-'
| cy.
An enterprising Tennessee youth sold
seven pounds of bullets from the battle field
of Chicamauga. in Chattanooga recently, at
big price.
Judge A. B. Cochran, of the Virginia sem
ate. while arguing the constitutionality of
bill, fell stricken with paralysis, and is yet
unconscious.
The title to "Durant's Neck" North Caro-
lima, is the oldest land title in that state it
being granted to Durant by the king of the
Yeopin Indians, 1862.
Gen. Kautz, commanding in Arizona, re-
ports that the alarm about Indian depreda-
| tons comes in great measure from pros
pectors for army contracts
The Knoxville Chronicle tells of a rheu-
matte applicant to the county court for as
sistance who has lain fat of his back, unable
| to sit or stand, for 20 years.
A bill is pending in the Illinois legisla-
| ture for the purchase of statues of Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas worth
$4,000 each, 10 be placed in the state capital.
| Bartholdi's fountain, which was shown at
the Centennial exhibition, has been pur-
chased by the government and is to be
erected in the Botanic garden at Washing
| ton.
A crazy woman of Appleton, Wisconsin,
produces panics in the hotel kitchens there
| by emphasizing her demands for square
meals by displaying revolver and bowie
knife.
The More tract of pine lands, in Arcadia,
Michigan, was recently purchased by Mr..
Henry Stephens, of Fish Lake, for $4,000.
1t is estimated that there is 20 0O00 600 feet of
timber standing on this tract, which COM
| prises $50 acres.
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