The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-20
ALL SORTS.

A disease something like the cholera has
broken out among the troops at Ringgold
barracks in Texas. Thirty are in the hos
pital and six have died.
A cachman in New York who had his eve
blown out on last Fourth of July by a youth
full patriot who was celebrating the day with
a pistol, has just got verdict of 81 500 dam
ages against the boys parents.
The province of Quebec has offered bonus
of $40 900 in 10 annual installments of s., 900
each to the first beet sugar factory that may
be established in that province in accord
ance with the regulations published.
Send us from every town and county in
America poems; sad, sweet, dreamy poems
on summer" Write only on one side of
the paper, please. We want the other side
of the sheet to write editorials on.-Hawk-
eye.
Rhode Island is the only state in the
Union which requires its governor to preside
overthe senate. That body is now exercised
as to whether the presiding officer shall be
addressed as Mr.. President or in the old form
of "May it please your excellency."
]. G. Payne son of Bishop Payne, of the
Southern Methodist church, is announced
a candidate for sergeant lat arms of the
national house. He is a brother-in-law of
Senator Gordon and class-mate of Senator
Lamar and Representative Chalmers, of
Mississippi.
The title Liwa, which appears frequently
before the names of Turkish officers CORE
spends with major general and indicates the
commander of brigade; Fevik is lieuten-
ant general, a commander of division
Muschir is field marshal, and Serdar Ekrim
generalissimo.
We know the cold Greenlander eats can
dies with relish, the Chinaman INDUCES
in rats, the Frenchman in horsemeat and
frogs, but there is an enterprising dry goods
man In this city who evidently desires 10 get
up a new diet for Americans. He advertises
Ladies' shawls for dinner and breakfast"
The following shows the Indebtedness of
the different church denominations in
Brooklyn: Roman Catholics, $5l9,99S;
Methodist $474 456; Episcopal, $461 74s;
Presbyterian, S265, $50; Baptist, $2l7 600;
versalist, $4,000; Jewish, 24,5OO; miscel-
laneous, $SS, 100, Total, 81, 651, 442.
]. B. Syphay.A 'merly slave of the Ar
lington estate, anA more recently a member
of the Virginia legislature, advocates the re-
signation of the chairman of the republican
state committee, and hopes "all hands," of
whatever color and politics, will support
General w. H. f. Lee for governor.
The editor of the New York Times is John
Lord said to be the youngest editor in the
country, under 30 years of age, Scotchman
from Glasgow, and of equal accomplishment
in conversation and in direction He takes
the paper II hours in the day, from in
the afternoon to in the morning, and is I'M
derstood to be the political mentor of it.
Mckee Rankin, who recently played Mac
beth for the frs; time, made an original in
novation by representing the character in
the last act of the play as an old man. This
is in accord with Macbeth's description of
himself as fallen into the sere and yellow
leaf" and necessitates the supposition of a
lapse of many years between the death of
Duncan and his own.
The Grand Duke Nicholas furnishes cores
pondelts with passes on the system en-
ployed at Philadelphia, each mans photo
graph being put on the back of his commits
sion and duplicate of it being furnished at
headquarters. Each man will be held re-
sponsible for divulging any strategic plans or
confidential intelligence but full liberty to
'abuse Russia is guaranteed.
A newly invented fire escape consists sim.
ply OF piece of gill twlne, with two india
rubber pieces for grasping and saving the
hands in descending from window to the
ground. 1t can be tied to a bedstead in a
moment, and its inventor says life rope of
20 thread gill twine, more than hundred
feet in length. will bear more than 400
pounds, and not occupy so much space as
two pair of stockings.
In a Maine breach of promise suit the
counsel for the plaintiff seeks to introduce
proof that the defendant sent flowers to her.
using their recognized significance to express
his sentiments. Thus, according to her
theory, he told her with one flower that he
loved her, with another that he was jealous,
and with another that he desired to marry
her. She says that they both understood
this floral correspondence, but the judge has
not decided whether il is admissible as evil
dence.
The centennial of the adoption of the stars
and stripes as our flag will be observed at
Boston on the 18th, when Mr.. Nathan APP
pleton will deliver an address on the sub
ject Mrs. William Stuart Appleton, OF
Boston, has the star spangled banner of
Fort McHenry, celebrated by Francis s.
Key. Lieutenant Colonel George Armstead,
who defended the fort. had the flag made to
fling TO the breeze on the occasion OF Mrs
Appleton's This daughter's) birth, which
event took place only couple OF days be-