The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-17
GENERALIEIES.

A Mr. Henry, of Manchester, Pa, has had
his leg broken IL times.
The Russian jurgoes have song, Fare
well, till we meet at the mouth Of the
Thames"
Mrs. Craig, of Columbus, Kan., recently
gave birth to four children, two boys and
two girls.
Hippophagy is becoming decidedly popu-
lar in Vienna, where 2,040 horses were
months of this year.
Jimmy blanchard, the smart boy VIII
made. such a sensation last year by pretend
ing 10 be Charlie Ross. has been arrested in
New Hampshire for burglary.
Mrs. Bagot, the wealthy and beautiful
Irish widow about whom all the terrible
scandal of the will case was raised, is to be
married again as soon as the legal proceed
ings have been settled.
At the university convocstion in Albany
yesterday the honorary degree of doctor of
laws was conferred on Mr.. Peter Cooper, in
consideration of his eminent benefactions TO
the cause of education.
The duke of Cumberland, as duke and
grandson of an English king, will walk after
all the dukes whose titles are more ancient
than his unless the queen exercises her pre-
rogative to alter the rule of precedence.
The late James Fisk's father is still living
at Brattleboro, Vermont, and in temper
ance address at Concord recently spoke of
the murder of his son by "a drunken assas-
SID, who escaped the gallows through a
drunken jury"
Pope Leo NH. sent his blessing and a
verekind letter TO Mr.. Rudolphe Lstamme,
the dominion minister of Justice, to the dis
gust OF the Canadian ultramontaaes, mas
much as Mr.. Latiamme is liberal of the lib
erals. ''eater of priests participant in
the Guibord affair, and so on.
Extract from the rules of a Kentucky fe-
male seminary: mo pupil shall eat slate
pencils. chalk, s0apstOne, COAL unripe fruits
or anything of the kind. Pupils must, un-
der all circumstances, decline the attention
of gallants, either directly or indirectly,
through the medium of agents, letters or
notes"
A Portuguese nobleman, Count Penama-
car, has been arrested for counterfeiting
notes on the bank of Portugal. Machinery
chemicals, and bundles of forged notes were
found in his Lisbon palace, and in that at
CiItra, where repose the bones of his great
ancestor, Don John de Castro, first viceroy of
the Indies.
The Paris correspondent of the Macon
(Ga. } Messenger has heard Patti, and says
Il enjoyed her splendid singing and fine
acting, but do not believe she excels very
greatly, if at all, the accomplished vocal
teacher of the Wesleyan female college or
several of her fair friends of the Macon har-
moHic society,"
Quakers are known to be an unusually
long lived folk. The average age OF the 30S
members of society of Friends who died in
Great Britain and Ireland last year was over
SO years and the average OF deaths TO popu
lation was about 151z per 900. The mum
Der OF deaths of children under one year was
only 10, and the highest number in any de-
cade of life was in that which included those
whose ages were between 20 and so. The
next highest number, 50, died between so
and 80.
England does not want to fight but, by
jingol if she does the special correspondents
will stand a poor chance of getting news.
A special commission has been considering
the question, and it invited the London cor
respondents to give their opinions, when
our own said promptly that ,.if he were
general commanding an army he would not
allow special correspondent to be within
fifty miles Of his troopsyp