The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-21

Ingersoll says he hopes the caitiff will be
sunstruck who reported that Kearney's
grandiloquent metaphors were stolen from
him.
Alexander H. Stephens has never mar
ried. He has always had all he could do to
keep from being blown away by an ordinary
breeze.
Congressman Kelly, of Philadelphia, is in
poor health, and after spending this month
at Minnequa springs he will take a six
weeks trip to London.
New York World: If Mr.. Charles Foster,
of Ohio, grocer and statesman, has no more
sand in his sugar than he has in his craw his
customers are to be congratulated.
Itseems to be now a matter of the gravest
doubt, even with his betters and hackers,
whether our only ex-president will stand any
chance of picking up the worm in 1880.
The great Washington played draw poker.
and being incapable of telling lie, he was
sometimes compelled TO acknowledge on
cashing his chips that he was slightly ahead.
General Butler says that cit was Wall
street that elected the electoral commission.
They meant to cheat somebody by it-either
Tilden or Hayes-and Tilden got cheated,
and Hayes cheated us"
Disraeli recently said, with more truth
than fiction: There is an irresistible law
OF our modern civilization which has decreed
that the system which can not bear discus
sion is doomed" That's fact, too.
The boldest man in the British parliament
is Plimsoll. He has set his face in dinty
warfare against the system of substituting
members of the royal family, and speaks out
his mind on the subject at every opportu-
nifty.
Boston correspondent of the New York
Times intimates that Butler would throw up
everything in the state LINE and run for con-
gress II anybody OF consequences would get
up and tell him he wouldn't be elected A
chance fer somebody.
Stanley Matthews and Senator Lamar have
just been made members of the London
Golden club, before which famous is gem
orally written, but whose modern achieve
ments appear to consist in giving dinners
and distributing molasses candy.
Philadelphia Times: Kearney TO the
heather Chinee: 'sBy the heavens above and
the stars that are in it; by the moon, that
pale empress of the night; by the sun that
shines by day; by the earth and its inhabit-
ants, and by the hell beneath us, the
Chinese must 60" Heather Chinee to
Kearney: "You no Mclean man; you dustee
you'selfeeI'
Senator Bruces friends deny that he IN
tends to transfer his residence to Cleveland
when he leaves the senate, as is reported in
the newspapers. They say he has invested
money there because property north Is more
productive than in the south, and that he
may spend some of his time In Cleveland on
the farm he has purchased, bat his intention
is to remain in Mississippi and do what he
can towards the elevation of his race.
The New York Graphic thus loosely al
Iudes to the course of training that will be
requisite to give the Kearneyite candidate
for governor the appearance even of ''son
of tcil'': Butler held his face in tan bark
thirteen minutes the other day without
breathing He sleeps with Hemlock poul-
tees on his hands, and there is wart on his
left thumb that he arroganuy passes off as q
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