The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-12-03
GENERAL NOTES.


paign bills. finds little item of "sls,oO0 for
printing
SECRETARY THOMSON, of the navy. goes to
bed at $3.50, and he is good taIker, especially
on theological subjects.
CONSIDERING that the Democratic party is
dead, the Republicans discharging deal
of superfiuous advice at the remains.
THE editor of the Cincinnati Gazette has
been interviewed in New York, and says
that he doubts whether Grant can be elected
If nominated.
HENRY LAVA SELwYN, full-blooded Sioux
Indian and a son of leading chief of the
Yankton Tribe, has been ordained pastor OF the
church at Yankton.
THE indianapolis Democrat says: This is
the question-whether Indiana shall be
Africanized, or whether white men will still
maintain it in statu quo?
Mrs. SANDY used to be a Roman Catholic,
but concludes 10 spend her remaining days as
a Baptist. She is 81 years old, and was i'm
mersed the other day at Sardis, W. Va.
PROFESSOR LEEDS has read paper before
the New York Academy of Sciences showing
that analyses of tafy candy discloses lamp
black, aniline, fusil oil and chromate of lead.
THE greatest taxpayer in the United States,
If not In the world, is Mr.. Blackwell, the North
Carolina tobacco manufacturer, who pays
tax of $4,000 year, $4,000 a week, or over
81, 42S per day.
SHIPBUILDING on the Clyde was never so
active as now, 20 vessels being on the stocks
in the IS building yards. Twenty three new
keels were laid last month. The French Trans
atlantic company is having eight aew steam
ers constructed there.
CALIFORNIA apples are not seen in the mar
kets of the Eastern States, and it is not gener-
ally known that good varieties of that fruit
are produced on the Pacific coast; but the fact
is that they are very fine and are monopliz-
ing the market of New Zealand.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer: Senator Bay
ard may organize his personal boom on a nom
sectional basis, but he Will find that the op
positi IN 10 him Will be sectional in the most
exasperating way. His fight against the
silver dollar will not be forgotten in the West"
AS kellogg was elected by trump" Leg
lature, and the evidence accommodating day by
day that his election was the result of rascal
ity and fraud, he should be ousted as soon as
the Senate gets down to serious work. The
demand Is for "boon' in the direction in
dictated by the foregoing.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is still ill. The
Bloomington (Ill.) Paragraph says that he
| loss of one who for over 40 years was all that
| loving and trusting wife could be, and who
| brought to his home that peace aud bliss that
wealth and honor could not give"
A FRIEND of Chief Justice Chase attributes
his death to the fact that he had not practiced
! law for % years when he became chief justice,
| and found himself SO deficient among the pro-
| found old judges associated with him, that he
| studied day and night 70 remedy his defects
| and bring himself up to the fit standard, and
| under this mental strain he broke down.
| THE Boston Post. "Even the Republican
| arithmetic man can not make out satisfac-
tory electoral vote for his side without in
Guiding New Jersey and indiana. By what
violent process does he propose to lift those
| States out of the Democratic ranks, where
they have always been, just to make his po-
| Iitical ledger balance?"
| JAY GoULDs check for s.. 100000, which was
given to Commodore Garrison ON the purchase
| of the securities of the Missouri Pacific rail
! road a few days ago, is said to be the largest
| check ever drawn by any private individ ua
! in this country. THAT amount said Gould
| to the commodore, when the little bit OF paper
passed between them, sis only portion of
I the money made in my operations in -"
naming certain stock now apparently on
! the down grade.
| A ROMANTIC young couple. living in Lisbon,
/ N. H, went out tor drive, and in returning
were carried by their runaway horse into the
| Ammonoosuc river. 1t was SO dark that they
| dared not turn around. The horse swan
across with them, but the water in the deepest
part encIrcled their necks, though they stood
| upon the buggy seat the opposite bank being
| too steep for the horse to climb, the couple got
| ashore over the shafts and rescued the horse
| by cutting him loose.
/ AT New Philadelphia, o., huge dog, in at
| tempting to scale high fence into yard,
/ missed his calculations and landed at the bot
tom of the well, 60 feet deep. The family
| thought the water rather riley" next morn
| ing, but could not account for it. About noon
the hired girl, upon looking into the well, dis
| covered pair of cleaning eyes staring al her
from the bottom. Help was obtained and the
dog drawn up. He vas in the well about 10
hours, and kept alive by swimming all the
/ time.
Mr.. SPURG EoN, 1t appears, smakes no bones
of taking what material he wants from the
| sermons of others. DR.. Armitage is quoted as
| saying that he heard Mr.. Spurgeon preach a
beautiful sermon one day, aud at its close the
famous Englishman announced to his congre-
| CATION that half of the discourse he had Just
| preached he had got from Jukes, an excellent
English d1vlne, tu01ng: Next SUNDAY we
| shall be indebted to him for two thirds of the
sermon which you will hear" And he fin-
ished with commentator OF the book 10 his
| people.
H.C LONG, OF Delaware, who recently mar
ried for fun, has done the thing again in q
serious way. In 1875 when he was only ID
i years old, he was walking in Philadelphia
with Miss Lucy Robinson. young miss OF 10
when he proposed that they should be mar
ried. She agreed, and In ten minutes the joke
was carried into effect. He took her to the
house at which she was visiting, aud they did
not meet ag ain for a year or more. They sub
sequentiy bee ameaware that the jocuiar mar
riage was binding, and. as both had formed
other attachments, divorce was applied Tor
and granted.
ONE of the ladies' of the harem OF his high
ness, the ex khedive, has eoped from Naples