The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-01
NOTES AND OPINIONS.


forming colonies 10 come west tf
Mr.. Ross has failed as lecturer. AT Bridge
port, Connecticut, he had less than twenty
auditors.
ANOTHER Boston woman a century old. The
fount of eternal youth must swell up in bean
pot.
a CHINESE gambling house was raideded in
New York Monday night and five "Ah's" ar
rested.
ANOTHER one of carl schurz's clerks has got
ID TO trouble in Washington. a pretty woman
in the case.
THE Latin and Italian poems OF Pope Leo
Kill. will soon be published. He revises
them himself
A NEW YORK doctress adj ertises that she VIII
amend ladies' hearts after they have under
gone a severe affiiction."
IT is said that the number of immigrants to
Kansas this year will reach 100000. Probably
100000 would be more correct.
FLORENCE and wife nave gone to Europe.
This is his forty-eighth trip across the Allan
tic ocean, and he has never been seasick.
A MAN committed suicide in New York be-
cause there swas no one to miss him" He
ought to have been behind with his board.
A SOUTHERN senator at Washington. asked
Edison if she could not invent simple ma
chine to pick cotton.n He replied he thought
he could and would.
BIJoU HERON is to be sent to a convent in
France for two years, to complete her educa-
ton. She will then become professional
actress "of the emotional school,"
THE Methodist preachers of Wilmington,
Pennsylvania, held meeting last Monday and
mentary ticKets to Barnum's show.
on Mrs. Tilton's last birthday she received
from her daughter Alice, who is quite an art
list, a'wreath:ot ''forget-me-nots." There were
forty three flowers, one for each year; quaint
idea OF the child.
GEORGE w. BLUNT, noted New Yorker who
died few days since, thus summed up his
creed recently: 81 believe in God, His infinite
power and mercies, the mission of Christ the
flag of the Union"
THE new beds for the new prison of Massa-
chusetts are of angle iron covered with can
vass Thus the cost of mattresses is saved.
The bed folds in the middle forming seat;
and so there is no need for stools and chairs.
THE police have found some clue to the muir
derers of Lord Leitrim. The prisoners now in
custody are implicated, and others suspected
are under surveillance. A reward of 81 go has
been offered by the Irish government and
$4,000 by the new lord.
BISHOP McCosKRY was educated at West
Point He is going back to Michigan to meet
the charges made against him. In referring to
them he said: "a miserable vagabond, who
has been in prison, processes to have some
letters written by me more than five years ago
to poor orphan girl. They have been pub
Z
The imitation of my handwriting is said to be
good. We go back TO Detroit, as 1 am too good
soldier to retreat while gun is firing If
am to be stricken down by the hand OF an
assassin,I shall fan with my whole armor on"
AN exposure of the treatment of the female
insane patients at Blackweu's Island. made
by the New York papers, is enough to make
every civilized man and woman indignant.
Women there are treated like brutes-little
better, often great deal worse. Their sense
ofmodesty is outraged by the attendants, and
Z their womanly attempts to defend themselves
meet brutal punishment. The nurses are
drunken and ignorant, and trust to weak
memories for directions as to the care of the
I patients. Too many of the insane asylums of
this country are, as an inmate of one Of them
/ said, ''ante rooms to hell"
| A PRESS club is to be organized at Paris for
the exhibition. A club house will be built,
/ the French commissioners having agreed 10
find an eligible space for the building, and
| give 81, 900 towards the erection of the -house.
| The club will be a rendezvous for all connect
ed with newspapers anywhere and every
where. There will be postal and telegraphic
/ offices, every facility for writing, messengers
taking in news, maps, books, all the prominent
newspapers in the world, and beside all this
lunch and dinner will be served at the con-
venience of the writers at merely nominal
I price. To correspondents this place will be a
I veritable news emporium, all that can be
cleaned VIII be here aggregated, and write .
will have little difficulty in framing readable
I letters to their various Journals when such
mass of information WILDE available. Besides
/ this, the views of other correspondents the
knowledge gained by writer's of different ma
tionalities, the acquaintances formed, will
make the Press club house the tongue. if not
the brains, OF the great exhibition.
IN reference to the death of Lord Leltrim
\ who was supposed to have been killed by a
J tenant on account of rental troubles, Dublin
! correspondent of the New York Herald says:
( sin England the belief is universal that the
murder was agrarlan. Not soin Ulster, where,
/ of course, the man and everything connected
i with him were Infinitely better known. There
/ it is set down to private vengeance. The earl
! was convinced that he was absolute lord of all
his tenants belongings, free to dispose of them
/ at his viii. No Turkish paSha was more
I profoundly self-satisfed of his right to do
what he pleased with the Giaur
rayahs of his pachalk; and, report does not
calumniate him very much, the visits OF
/ Turkish pasha were never more dreaded by
/ his subject Christian rayahs than were those
of Lord Leitrim by his terrified tenantry. Woe
/ for the household where his Keen eye detected
! eomeliness. He insisted ON his right to choose
/ out of his tenants families whomsoever he
I pleased for domestic service" The popular
opinion gave terrible interpre tation to the
phrase. should the chosen one prove coy and
troublesome, vengeance fell upon the family
which refused tominIster to the pleasures of
4 the lord, worse and more memorable than
/ upon mere defaulting tenant. 1t is openly
stated now in Ulster that Lord Leitrim met