The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-28
NEWS NOTES.

A great billiard tournament is in progress
at Utica, New York.
Maine had the heaviest snow storm IN FIVE
years last Saturday.
The permanent exhibition in Philadelphia
will be opened May l.
The coal interests of West Virginia have a
prosperous appearance.
The Oldest rose tree in st. Augustine, Fla
has just died, aged 200 years.
SAM P. stickney, the circus rider, was
buried in Cincinnati Thursday.
The latest shower from heaven was in Cal
fOrnia, and it consisted OF CLAIMS.
The bill for the collection of back taxes in
Illinois will probably become law
A tramp printer froze to death at Durham,
North Carolina, the night of the 18th.
IT. Parker. brakeman, was cut in two
by train at Carlisle, KY, the other day.
There are about eight hundred miles of
railroad in Utah. and others are in progress.
The Missouri legislature refused to pass
bill forbidding the marriage OF first cousins.
Within radius of 10 miles of Leesburg,
Florida, there are now $50, 600 bearing orange
rees-
Two families in Carrollton, Illinois, have
lost successfully eight children by diph-
liberia.
The Scranton penn. Times says that the
mines in that section are working on one
third time.
The number of vessels in Charleston har-
Dor is being reduced. There were only 80 in
on the 18th.
Mails will be dispatched daily to the Black
Hills as soon as arrangements now pending
can be perfected.
Six mOonshiners from the out counties
were brought to Louisville by United States
marshals Thursday.
Ten days ago wheat was a foot high in San
Joaquin county. California, with occasional
fields half higher.
The trial OF Rufus B. Stillman for the
murder Of James Frieny is attracting much
interest at Rochester.
The ST. Louis Times vigorously bolts the
nomination Of 0verstolz for mayor, while
the Republican supports him.
Mennonites who voted at the last presi-
Dental election are admonished by their
spiritual leaders to do so no more.
A calf born at Richford. Vermont last
week, has six legs, all of which it uses in
walking, and is thrifty and healthy.
Colonel Howell, the commercial editor of
the Kansas City Journal of Commerce, is the
latest case of mysterious disappearance.
The News. of Catahoula, Louisiana, notes
that two colOred men OF that place, while
out hunting the other day. killed each other.
There are 81 distilleries in the Eighth dis
trict of Pennsylvania, com prised of the
counties of Berks. Lebanon, Schuylkill and
Lehigh.
Infanticide is alarmingly prevalent in
Philadelphia Twenty-Five cases of dead in
fants found in the streets are reported by the
police in single month.
For the. week ending the 18th Charleston
shipped Is, 693 bales of upland cotton, 7,2l4
barrels rosin, 800 tons phosphate rock, and
35s casks spirits turpentine.
There are 1870 convicts in the Auburn.
New York, prison, more than half of whom
are unemployed, and therefore supported
entirely at the public expense.
A meeting of delegates from the various
red ribbon societies of Michigan will be held
at East Saginaw next month for the purpose
Of forming state association.
In the 500 match in New York between
out ahead. killing 100 rats In Is minutes and
80 seconds. Best time on record.
Henry Cooke. of Bridgeport Connecticut,
cotnmitted suicide at Spnyten Duyyil. New
York, Tuesday, by throwing himself down a
precipice 100 feet high.
A school ma'am at sheldahl. Iowa. en-,
forces discipline among her pupils by the
aid of cudg-l nearly four feet long and two
and 0ne-hslf inches in circumference.
The body of Gordineur C. Palmer the
Syracuse merchant who mysteriOusly dIsap
peared in New York last November, was re-
gently found hbating in East river.
of the coast of Virginia about five miles
from the mainland, is an island upon which
The number of deaths from scarlet fever
In Balumore since November Is about three