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

IN
Mississippi.
The Ohio house has passed the Southern
railroad bill.
Coal in good quantity is discovered in Clay
county, Texas.
Democrats made gains in several Ohio
town elections.
1t is asserted that 100000 persons went to
Texas during 1876.
There is a small but steady flow Of emf
grants into Georgia.
California is shipping large quantities Of
honey to Great Britain.
Richmond, Va. shipped 3,6l7 barrels OF
flour 10 Brazil during March.
The first rife match of the season at Creed
moor will take place April IA.
The Indians at st. Augustine. Fla. will
probably be pardoned soon and sent west.
One pharmacy in New York made and
sold six tonsof homeopathic pills last year.
The city of Pittsburg has defaulted ION
the April interest on its bonded indebted
ness.
Mrs. DIR. Sarah B. Pettingill, of Philadel-
phia, was found dead in a street car last
week.
Grasshoppers are numerous in Colorado,
and threaten general destruction to the
crops.
The final result of the telegraph war prom
Uses TO be % cent tariff for 10 word mes
sages.
The discovery of vein of excellent coal
near London, Sumner county, Kan, is re-
ported
A white man has been sent to the peniten-
tiary from Monroe, Louisiana, for stealing
40 cents.
Charles Manly, Kansas horse thief was
hung by vigilance committee at Netawaka,
Saturday.
Owen Clarity, while robbing ship at
New Orleans, fell overheard and was
drowned.
The fruit crop in Mississippi sound coun-
ties promises to be particularly abundant
this season.
John A. Merritt, OF the Knox Merritt mar
riage notoriety, has been released from the
Jail at Carmel, New York.
Democratic legislation in Louisiana has
reduced the annual expenses of the state
and the city of New Orleans 100000.
Seven of the Mollie Mcguire crowd. in
Guiding the famous Jack Kehoe, were SEN
tence at Pottsyille, Pennsylvania, Monday.
Shelbyville, Tennessee, has in a short
time shipped $4,000 worth of mules and
ll,7S3 skins OF small animals, or s., 900 worth
of furs.
Railway freight rates west of Chicago will
not be cut any more. A meeting of officials
in New York on Saturday reached that con-
clusion.
The colored people in Nashville. Tennes-
see, have petitioned that the colored schools
be placed solely in charge of colored
teachers.
Joseph Rausch, of Philadelphia, was to
have been married last Thursday. An hour
after the time fixed for the nuptials he was
found drowned.
The manufactures of Georgia all pros
pered last year and declared dividends,
while those of the north and east, many of
them, lost money.
A Philadelphia paper expresses the opin-
ion that there ought TO be standing adver-
tisement in all the city papers for a new sup
ply of live merchants.
Harry Runge, an Illinois editor, commit.
ted suicide with poison in Joliet, Monday.
Depression of spirits, caused by prolonged
debauch, was the cause.
Senator Patterson threatens that the car
pet-baggers will vote TO admit the democrat
ic senators from the south in return for
Hayes's recognition of Hampton.
The thirteen-feet bronze statue of "Amer-
ica" which is to surmount the soldiers
monument on Boston Common, has been
successfully cast at Philadelphia.
The difference between the cost of Fro
duction of cotton fabrics north and south,
is from two to four cents on the pound Of
raw material in favor of the south.
Otis G.. Robinson, of Lawrence, Mass, a
prominent citizen, church member and ma
son, is involved in a difficulty with ser
want girl, who alleges that he seduced her.
A little black and tan terrier in Baltimore
became mad the other day and jumped from
counter to shelves in jewelers. shop, de-
stroying things like bull in china shop.
One hundred and thirty eight thousand,
two hundred and twenty-five people left
Great Britain last year, and 92,647 entered.
So the actual decrease in population was
1875.
James Lea has been appointed receiver Of
the Sandusky and Cleveland railroad, and
the citizens along the line are rejoicing be-
cause the former unpopular management
has been driven out.
Charles Mutt, who is totally deaf, lived
alone in a house in St. Johnsbury, Maine.
The other night the house caught fire and
Mutt would have persisted had not bis dog
awakened him by vigorous pulls and
scratches
The new jury law Of Florida provides that
when the nature of any case, civil or Grim
inal, requires that knowledge of reading,
writing and arithmetic. or either, is neces-
sary to enable juror to understand the evil
dence to be offered on the trial, il shall be a
cause OF challenge If he does not possess
such qualifications.