The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-22


spoke ssain.
Iowa boasts of farmer who for 10 months
past has drank an average OF 10 gallons OF
water a day, and can not even then satisfy his
morbid appetite.
THE Chicago Times thinks it possible that
the president of the United States will make a
short visit TO Washing some time this year. A
great deal, however, depends upon the season.
THE ordinary marriage rate in England has
fallen of per cent. per annum since the hard
times. The number OF marriages goes up and
down with the good or ill-fortune of the peo-
pie.
GOVERNOR HOWARD, OF Dakota Territory
tells an interviewer that Deadwoot is rising
from its ashes likes young Chicago. Car
penters are pocketing IS a day and common
laborers 81.
MILWAUKEE has enrolled in her public
schools 1882 pupils; the average daily attend
ance is IL ,3s9. German is studied by 1875
pupils, s,2s2 bsing of German parentage, and
SIS of American.
THE New \ ork sun thinks the Ohio soldiers
who cast their ballots against those crippled
heroes of the war for the Union, General
Ewing and General Rice, Will have plenty of
| line now for reelection.
THE Hartford Times Democratic) gives re-
Turns which show that, in the recent town
elections in Connecticut, 20 towns went Re.
| publican, 81 Democratic, and that in 30 towns
the local offices were divided.
ANEW ENGLAND man wants to know how
long cider will keep sweet. He tried a barrel,
testing it every day by taste. His boys were
doing the same thing, and the old man got out
of cider before the change came.
JOHN Cox, a brother of Chastine Cox, the
coored man who is known to fame as the
murderer of Mrs. Hull, has been nominated by
the Readjusters, of Chesterfield, Va, as a can
didate for the House of Delegates.
In New York City $50 persons killed them
selves In 1873. In Paris the number was an
average of 6i6 suicides for every 1000 0G0 OF in
habItants. London, in the same time, had the
low average of Sc for every 100000.
| ooLoRED man was beaten nearly to death
| on Thursday night at Urbana, o., for voting
! the Democrat ticket. 1t is wonder they
didn't put keg of powder and blow him-the
| new Ohio "idee" for getting rid of Democrats
THERE is no longer auy doubt about 1t tina
| the Radicals look upon Grant as their candi
date. They are afraid to go into battle with
| the young Democracy under any other leader,
| and, therefore, their best general must head
the forlorn nope, willing or unwilling-Rich-
mond (Va) State.
| Irwe were all permitted to put our own
| valuation on ourselves there would not be a
low priced man in the world.-Cato. Beg
| pardon, old man, but guess you never fell
down on a street corner. If you he'd you
| would have felt like low.priced man for a
| full hour-Detroit Free Press.
In letter received from the poet Whittier
| in answer to an invitation to attend the recent
Boston meeting in sympathy with the tenant
farmers of Ireland, he ssys: 81 do not UNDER
stand fully the condition of the Irish tenant
farmers at the present time, but my sympa-
thies are with the laborfng poor"
a LADY travelling on the New York Central
| road, the othe day, lost her sachel near Lion.
1t contained s20,c0O A freight train came
| along shortly after the passenger train, and
the conductor picked up the sachel from the
side Of the track, and left 1t with the agent at
lion. It was restored TO the lady, who pre-
| sented the conductor with $50 for his honesty.
THE Philadelphia Times says: sherman and
Don Cameron! There ticket for ssthe boys /"
| II won't distract two families by the miseries
| of campaign, and there would be faith
among the Office brigade in the kangaroo
limbs of the hind rider. Neitoer OHIO or
| Pennsylvania is boiling over about it, but the
machine would relieve the people OF all re.
sponsibilfty. How Uncle John and Nephew
Don would rhyme in the songs of the cam
paign.
AMONG the 'slightiy injured" by the woful
railroad accident near jackson, Mich is II.
c. Long, a resident of Algona, Iowa. Yet the
surgeons say that there is not an inch of space
on his body that does not show a wound. De
was hurled horizontally for 80 feet, and while
In trapsit thought az am dead" the idea
| thrilling him, as he says, sin the thousandth
part OF a second He landed feet TO emost in
a window, and as the glass shattered ne cried
out: "l'm alive
THE president will have to get back to Wash
tngtop pretty soon, for hey are going TO have
tair there at which he is expected 70 be the
biggest attraction. The procession Is expected
to be about two miles long. and be headed by
Mr.. Hayes and his abinet, followed by The
district commissioners and the fire depart
ment. Mr.. Robert Bonner is also expected to
take part, with his horses Rarus and Edwin
Forrest, and Mr.. Hayes is to be invited 10 ride
behind the team.
THE quantity ~ home made spirits payin c
duty for consuns ptIon in the United Kingdom
as beverage oniy, was i,54i.0s7 gallons in the
first half of 1871, 4OC4 2ss gallons in the first
half OF 1875, and ls,sSO,OoJ gallons in the first
half of 1879. The quantity of foreign spirit.
imported into the United Kingdom and enter
ed for consumption was s. 100 proof gallons
in the first half of 1877, 5t377lI proof gallons In
the first half of 1878, and us 100 proof gallons
in the first half of 1879.
BENJAMIN 8. CLARK, q lawyer of New York
City, thought no heard q burglar down in the
hall, at his residence in New Rochelle, on
sunday morning early. His wife thought so
too, and SO Mr.. Clark crept down sisirs, re-
|, volver In hand, and CROPPED his way TOW a.d
the hall door, which was ajar. He found thai
I somo one--a burglar, of course-was holding
the door the outside. He gave warning
that he would shoot, and blazed away twice
His uncle, Joseph d. Barker, an old man Of
four score, fell dead.
SPEAKER RANDALL knew the condition OF
things In Ohio by the very smell OF 1t. He left
that State on Monday, and stopping In Wheel
ing was SO unsophIsticated AS to write MS
ma ne ON a hotet register. Naturally enough,
| had Ic Randall 81