The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-02
ALL SORTS.


There is serious talk of draining 0kecho-
bee lake in Florida and retaining thou
sands of acres of land.
One of the big Philadelphia brewers is
having built large refrigerators to transport
beer all over the country.
The New York Journal of Commerce,
which lost all of its printing material by
fire, Sunday came out yesterday on the half
shell.
A New York stock operator is Complaining
because the spirit of Commodore Vanderbilt,
which controlled him, fooled and ruined
him.
Ernand Balfe, for 80 years a Moravian
missionary on the coast of Labrador, has
been massacred with his family by Esqui-
maux.
The king of Italy is suffering from finan-
cial embarrassment. He frequently has to
borrow little pocket money from his aides
de-cdmp.
Mayor Overstolz, of St Louis, says there
is not hall nor theater in that city that
might not, in case of a fire or panic, become
the scene of a great tragedy.
The first steel rails laid on the Lehigh
Valley and Susquehanna railroad cost $3.50 a
ton in gold. Rails of the same description
can now be purchased at $50 per ton.
Irving Perkins, the negro who was to have
been hung at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on Fri
day next, received communication of his
sentence, yesterday, to imprisonment for
life.
The Lotus club, OF New York, is the head
quarters of the moneyed journalists, while
the younger and poorer have the Press club
in small s2ite of rooms near Printing-house
square.
An amnesty is proclaimed by the Spanish
government to soldiers and officers of every
grade who participated in the Carlist or Can
tonalist instructions if they surrender with
in 80 dayT.
The little town of Salem, n. c., ships an
nually ], 0000 900 pounds of dried blackberries
to Chicago. 1t costs one cent per pound to
deliver them there, where they are sold at
10 cents pound.
Kasson, of Iowa, being appointed minis
ter to Spain, will at once begin to wrestle
with Ollendorf. Have you the old hat of
your neighbours wife or the new bonnet of
her grandmother
A Partisan candidate for matrlmony adj
vertises that he has slight mustache; for
tune 130 600 francs, and an uncle paralyzed
on one side whose doctor only gives him
three months to live"
The San Francisco Mail believes that
twenty-nine lashes(on the bare back will
tone an offender up much quicker than
three months in Jail. 1t is cheaper for the
city, whether better as a safeguard to society
or not.
The Countess Delphine Potocka, distin-
guished for her wit and musical talent,
has Just died in Paris 1t was she who
watched Chopin when he was dying, and
who sang hymns to him when he was breath
ing his last.
Persons having anything peculiar on hand
in the way of proverbs are earnestly invited
by NJ. G. Mayreder to send them to him at
his address, 'Heiligenkreuzerhoff Vienna"
He is making grand collection for some
unnamed purpose.
The affairs of DIR. E. t. Baird, for nine
years secretary of and manager of the Pres
byterian committee of publication of the
southern states whose Office is at Richmond,
Virginia, are complicated to the amount of
$4,000. He has resigned his position.
Squatter sovereignty has been revived in
Egypt A man whe insists that he owns the
ground in which Cleopatras Needle is i'm
bedded has built high fence around the
obelisk, and demands of the British govern
ment several thousand pounds as compensa-
ton.
The Hartford Post says that boy near
that city recently plunged a carving-knife
into the breast of his sister and killed her
for the 'crime" of splitting little tea upon
him at table, and the authorities have not
deemed the circumstance worthy of their
notice.
Bayard Taylor says: With all the symra-
thy which / still keep for the hope and to-
certainty of beginners have never vet
found that my frank criticism was of
avail, except to make me enemies when the
ardent young poet subsidies into the reporter
or paragraph writer.
Boston will hold national dolls fair early
next winter. Dolls, dolls dresses, furni-
ture, ETC., etc, are to be the principal arti-
cles exhibited, and the proceeds of the fair
are to be devoted to furnishing garments and
toys to the children in the hospitals all over
the United States.
Profane swearers in the streets OF Wash
ington City are arrested and fined. Five
cases OF this kind occurred in single day
last week.-Exchange. And now you can't
get a republican TO say six words unless he is
under schiller, and the grass is growing I'M
trodden in the streets.
George Eliot and her husband, Lewes, are
not used to churches and recently, while
they we're guests of Rev. Mr.. Jowett, the
Greek scholar, they went to his church and
they, not being familiar with the place,
found themselves sitting in the bishops
chairs beside the communion table.
South Africa sustains the privileges of the
press. The editor of newspaper published
in the gold fields was prosecuted for a libel
on the gold commissioner, and in default of
paying fine of f37 los, was committed to
prison for three months On this becoming
known body of diggers broke into the Jail
and carried the editor off in triumph
China fanciers may be interested TO learn
that in England Sevres is selling shockingly.
Mr.. Bohn's fetched about half what he gave
for 1t. Meanwhile the most famous dealer
in blue and white is politely asking his old
customers to be allowed TO offer them % per
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