The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-21
STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, MORNING MARCH 2I, 1877



The spiritual,sts OF Michigan hold their
annual convention at Battle Greek on March
81 and April !.
About 20 per cent of the live stock in
western Texas has died OF starvation and /
cold the past winter.
Mrs. Bogert and Mrs. Chaplin were elected |
school directors OF New Columbus, LuEerne |
county. Pennsylvania, ut the late election.
The decennial anniversary of the Illinois |
industrial association was celebrated Mt
Champaign Saturday.
The tar turpen tine and rosin industry Is
growing in Alabama. These products are
Largely shipped direct to Louisville.
There are numberless aspirants for the
seat on the supreme bench OF Massac husetts
vacated by Attorney General DevensL
There will be no ruit against the bonds-
men OF Macarthur, the Chicago posi- Office de-
faulter, he having gone into bankruptcy.
New York newspaper snobs are trying to
connect the man in the white house With n
family OF Hayeses in Burke's English Peer
age
The crops In Los Angeles county, Califor.
MIA this year are divided rs follows: 5000
acres in barley, 10000 in corn, and about
10, 600 in wheat.
DR.. WIN. Gwinn, Of shelbyville. Tenn,
was tried on charge OF counterfeiting, on
the 10th, and held In 5000, In default OF
which he was jailed.
Early in May work Is 10 he resumed on
| the Roman Catholic cathedral, which has
been In course OF erection during the past
six years in New York.
An Oshkosh man, who was married by a
minister OF that city, slipped into the hands
| OF the latter an envelope, which, when open
| ed, was found TO contain twenty-five cents.
The authorities OF Mshony City. Pa, have
| brought suit against the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron company to prevent
| them from continuing mining operations
underneath the town.
Griggs. the marshal of Sparta. Georgia, and
man named Lovett, barkeeper, have been
| arrested and held over without bail for the
| murder OF Hiram K. Roster, at Atlanta, for
his money, q month ago.
/ A Michigan man, who invented process
| for granting giant powder so that IL could
| be handled like the common article, has
sold his patent to New York parties for $751;
Co., and has gone to Europe for holiday.
The examination of Mr.. Nat Dryden for
the shootingo of Colonel Meyer at warrenton.
Missouri, has been again postponed until the
10Th inst the colonel not being permitted
/
BY temporarily lighting its streets with
oil, the city of Atlanta, Georgia has been
enabled TO make terms with the gas compa-
nv whereby 50, 900 Is saved annually from
the cost of lighting by oil.
Four little children of the family of James
Carr, of Adrian. Michigan, died in rapid
succession of disease which baffied the ply
scians, but was finally pronounced the re-
suit of septic poison in the SYSTEM.
Over 1900 horses, 643 asses and 35 mules
were eaten in France last year. The first
horse butchery was established IN 1885, and
| the consumption of this savory meat has in
creased yearly. The healthy carcass Is
worth $40.
Three negro women tried to hang asourth
three miles from Nashville a few nights ago
The lynchers had slipped moose around the
woman's neck, and were about To swing hei
to a scantling. when they were frightened by
mans approach
An attempt at Jail delivery at the Mich
gan state prison at Jackson resulted Ia
some scattering pistol practice, and In the
wounding of several prisoners and guards.
Pistols had been passed in by outside friend
of the prisoners No one escsped.
The Thieves Own Association" Is Tn,
name OF n new society in New Orleans, which
is composed entirely of colored females. Th'
: object OF the society Is 20 hire out as servant
aud disappear suddenly with such ''uncon
, sidered trifes' as they conveniently can.
r A female teacher In one OF the publ
7 schools of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, In n fit o
. | passion at some misdemeanor Of one of he
boy pupils, seized him by the ears with sucl
force MS to rupture the skin and tissues Sh
was promptly discharged from the schools O
the city.
A man went into Photographic gallery a
Stock ton. Cal, to sit for his likeness. and boz
rowed the proprietor's watch and chain b
adorn his person while having his pictur
taken. and when the operator took the plat
into the dark room walked off with th
I, jswelry.
e Eight children belonging 10 miners fam
: lilies living at Stockton, Pennsylvania, wer
poisoned ON Monday last by eating roo
: which they dug up in "A swamp. Mile BE,
: ANS, aged 2; Gus>ie Jones. aged 6; and Mar
Davis, aged 2, died. Hopes are entertaine
y Ut the Others recovery.
z During a dramatic performance in Ee'
v York recently careless person in the la
"A cony dropped & programme into gas j.
i where IL caught fre aud blazei up brightly
}. An incipient panic took place, but was IL
e siantly quelled by the vigorous Kissing {
U the cooler portion OF the audience.
The Banker and Tradc,man gives II as
: opinion that il will he impossible tn rrsunl
= specie payments by January /. 1879 Cal n
= the pres,.ut stock at gold in the countr
! $3.50 UW,000, IL thinks there will he require
e further accumulation OF $25e, 900 900. 500
y OOO 000in all, before specie payments can
% resumed
IT Disconraging reports come from Tulare an
IT Kern counties, California. IL is said ther
fe has not been enough rain in some parts
1 hn f.arr n
a clrrying their weak, starving stock away
"A ,sr~iures new. One farmer has sown abot
4 200 acres Of wheat, and never expects
a reap "a bu~hei ther-from. Many others Al