The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-01-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

Conkling speaks of THAT man Hayes
Mr.. Eyarts is the father of eleven children
New York is busi1y engaged in extending
her elevated railways.
A Jewess, in Portsmouth, o., has re-
nounced her religion and married Chris
tan.
1t is estimated that 150, 900 barrels of cider
have been made in Western Massachusetts,
during the last season.
New York police captains have been re
ceiving salaries of $1,000 per annum and
sergeants 81 900 per annum.
The daughter of the Washington lawyer
ess, Mrs. Belva Lockwood, has appeared as
the writer of readable stories.
The Chicago Times wants to know how
many thousand feet of lumber it would take
to box Milwaukee mans ears.
The Cincinnati authorities have deoreed
that bakers must stamp the weight upon
every loaf of bread they offer for sale.
Two little Detroit boys built snow house
last week. 1t csved in upon them, and
one of them was dead before he could be
dug-out.
Augusta Dargon, the actress, complains
that more than half the papers refer TO her
ing to good houses.
Mrs. Harry Smith, of Kansas City. Mo-, at
one time fair Baltimore belle, was deserted
by her husband few weeks ago, and has
since died from broken heart.
A German female 'championist'' has ar
rived in this country, and will astonish the
folks by standing perfectly still for twenty
days. Now If some woman will "hold her
toDgue' for fifteen minutes the world will
really wonder.
Mr.. Lott, of Holidaysburg, Pa, has two
year old child that few would envy, for it
never sleeps more than f1ve minutes and
one Of the parents has to sit up all night
with the lively youngster while the other
sleeps The child, however, is always happy,
and seems as much refreshed by its cat maps
as if it had slept hours.
The winter scenery at Niagara Falls is ex-
ceptionally grand, and visitors are attracted
there from all quarters. Canadians usually
visit the falls in winter in large numbers,
and they have appealed to the managers OF
| the Great Western railway to issue excur-
sion tickets for the trip at reduced rates, the
same as they do in the summer time.
An Ottawa telegram printed in the Cana
dian papers says: 1.-The counsel fees in con-
nection with the Halifax fishery commission
left unpaid will, it is understood, receive the
attention CT the minister of justice, The
niggardly manner in which the late govern
ment dealt with the matter demands a more
reasonable consideration IN view of the sue
cessful result of the award
man in Amherst, Mass, Is finding life
hard. He put string of sausages into his
pocket when he thought the storekeeper
wasn't looking. But the storekeeper was
looking, and told of the theft, and when the
woman whom he 1.-THE man who is finding
life hardy was expecting to marry heard that
A no had str Ri of CHI ga
him what the local paper calls the grand
| bounce"
1t is rumored, mind, rumored--and we
won't be responsible for the truth of the
statement-that Louisville man, the father
of five grown, unmarried daughters. and a
bitter foe to the gas company, has invented
a coat sleeve for young men which generates
discover a method by which lovers can gem
crate parlor fire, and paternity will be
happy.-Louisyille Courier-Journal.
Miss Susie Jones, brave girl living at
Modesto Cal. shot q gigantic catamount the
other day. While engaged in her household
duties she heard his catship, who was in a
clump of woods near by, screech. She i'm
mediately went IN pursuit of him with her
gun on her shoulder. When she came to
the spot where he was ''treed" she raised
her gun, took deliberate aim and fired. The
cat made q spring, but fell to the ground
dead Swinging the monster over her
shoulders she carried him home in triumph,
as trophy of her proves.
A Toronto firm of cattle exporters has
agents at Buffalo, Chicago and other cities
to purchase stock for expectation to the
English markets. The expectation of live
stock has passed from being an experiment
into an established business, which will
prove remunerative in proportion to the
knowledge of the wants of the markets and
the facilities possessed for meeting them.
One of the leading newspapers published al
Toronto urges Ontario farmers to pay more
attention to stock raising, and by so doing
much of the money sent to the States would
be distributed in the Dominion.
The greater part of the property OF the
Roman Catholic church IN and near Cincin.
natl will be turLed over to a board of trus
tees. to be managed in the interest of the
creditors of Archbishop Purcell. The prop
erty consists of st. Peters Cathedral, St
Joseph's Seminary, the orphan asylum al
Cumminsville, the Considine property on
Prices Hill, the Cathedral school-house
corner of Elizabeth and Mound streets, the
old st. Johns Hospital, corner of Third and
} Plum streets, together with large amount
of personal securities, notes, mortgages, ac
: counts, etc. A thorough examination dis
closes the fact that the liabilities of the
Archlepiscopal Savings bank are about $500,
. 600. The property turned over to secure the
. debt is worth at least 81, 600, 900, but If il
should prove inadequate. every building
and piece of ground in Cincinnati owned BY
the church Will be placed In the hands OF the
trustees. They have determined to issu.
bonds to the amount Of the lndebtedness
, payable at any time after three years enc
} within twenty, and bearing five per centun
interest