The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-14
NEWS NOTES.

The Pittsburg Post wants new trial of its
libel suit.
Rear Admiral Allen died lately at San
Francisco.
Alton, Illinois, Is holding big revival in
a billiard saloon.
United Kingdom.
California has been blessed with an unusu-
ally heavy rainfall
Young grasshoppers have made their APP
pearance in Texas.
A Missouri girl lately married her second
husband at the age of fourteen.
brother of jim Nye has just died in
Nevada of softening of the BRAIN
There is a proposition to erect the Black
Hills country into new territory
There is but one white man in the Pack
ard branch of the Louisiana senate
Memphis. Tennessee, is six months in ar
rears to it's police and fire department
Highwavmen relieved the treasurer of
Saginaw, Michigan, of $500 Saturday night
Pat Gleason fell 200 feet from bridge in
Nicholasville. Kentucky, and was crushed
beyond recognition.
Eph Hollond, the Cincinnati illegal voter,
has been captured in New York, and will be
brought back for trial.
The driver of the street car that killed two
children in St. Louis, Sunday, is to be in
dicted for manslaughter.
A New England deacon. supposed to be
dead of paralysis came 10 life during the
funeral sermon the other day.
Robert Mcbride, editor of the Eldora
Uowal Ledger, was lately cowhided by Mrs
Hart. wife of the publisher of rival paper.
New Jersey is to have a double execution,
too Thomas Ryan and Charles OschWald
will be hung at Newark for killing police
man.
George Knapp has just celebrated the 5Oth
anniversary of his connection with the 1T.
Louis Republican. He entered the office as
devil
Forty-seven sentimental young idiots in
Los Angeles, Call have paid 50 each to be
yaccinated with the virus from the arm OF
popular belle.
A Milwaukee school marin, while at the
Centennial, captured Swiss commissioner,
and has since lugged him home to Wiscon-
sin in triumph.
The senate refuses to concur in the house
money, thinking him entitled to the amount
in United States bonds.
A Californian has projected the longest
railroad in the world-tO run from San
Francisco to the edge of civilization in the
South American continent
The colored republicans of Philadelphia
have held a mass meeting to demand share
in the spoils heretofore withheld from them
by their white brethren.
Toledo has a New Magdelen' case. A
soft but wealthy youth of that place married
a soiled dove, and all the persuasions OF his
parents are Intellectual to separate them
George C. Hume. editor of the ST. Louis
Journal was arrested and confined in Jail
for about an hour, Friday, on charge OF
libel. He will come back with suit for
false imprisonment
st. Louis is in a state of modified anarchy
pending the decision of the scheme and
charter dispute. Just now the insane asylum
is the bone of contention, over which the
city and county are fighting.
The standard of aldermanie propriety APP
pears to be rather nicer in Canada than it is
in the states. A member Of the council of
Belleville, Ontario, has resigned his seat
owing to the insolvency OF the firm of which
he is a member.
Joseph Bailey farmer OF Grant county,
Wisconsin, whose postOtfice is at Lancaster,
says for the information of other farmers
that last year he sowed tiaxseed with his
wheat as protection against chinch-bugs
with perfect success.
The Paris Gaulois contains an interesting
account of the BennettMay duel. 1t APP
pears that an. James Gordon Bennett had
complained because his valuable presentswere
not returned to him-whence Mr. Mays as
sault and the combat.