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

SENATOR AND MES. BArARD viii sail from
Southampton for home on the 26th inst.
Miss TRAVIS, a relative of Mr.. John Bright,
has just reached the venerable age Of 100 years.
ENTERTAINMENTS for the benefit of the Hood
orphans are holding in many parts Of Ten
nessee.
THE case of Freeman. the Pocasset tMass.l
Adventist murderer. will come before the
grand jury at Barnstable this week.
IT is reported that General Grant has become
stakeholder In the American Steamship
company. OF Philadelphia, and that he is to be
made director.
PROFESSOR WILLIAMS, who occupies the
chair of Chinese Language aud literature In
Yale, has not, It is said, had a single student
within two years.
BEN LOWE, a circus acrobat, stood on his
head for two hours in a Texas barroom, on a
wager, and the feat brought on brain fever,
from which he died.
REV. GIDEON B. PERRY, d. D., the last sur
viving contemporary kinsman of Commodore
Perry, the hero of Lake Erie, died in Hopkins
Vile, KY, recently.
Tom THUMB Ia proprietor OF meat market
at Middleboro, Mass. His real name appears
over the door, although he takes no active
part In the business.
PARIS urchin recently tossed lighted
cigarette into a cask OF petroleum and then
put his eye to the bung-hole to watch the
effect. 1t was his last experiment.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, the remarkable man,
who has made name and fortune over again
since the war, recently sent a poor country
editor in Louisiana a check for E50o.
In Concord, the home of the Massachusetts,
philosophers, there are 100 women who pay
real estate taxes. Fourteen pay poll taxes.
Yet only seven have registered voters.
LoSGFELLow has written poem, which will
appear in the December Harper, on the pen
presented to him some time ago. made Of wood
from the letter of the prisoner of Chillon.
THE railroad from the Naples observatory to
the foot of the cone OF Nesuvius will be opened
early next year. A steam engine at the sum-
init will draw the cars up by a windlass.
PRINCE REUss Xxx. ana his young bride. who
was up to last May circus rider, have gone to
Sofia. where the young couple are to stay a
few weeks with Alexander L, OF Bulgaria.
A MAN jumped into well at Carrollton, ILL.,,
for the purpose of suicide. Finding himself
alive on reaching the bottom, he hanged him.
self with the well-rope, and SO accomplished
death.
THE editor of the Paris (Tenn.) Ba uner said
in print that Lawyer Bonner was a murderous
ruffian, and Bonner proved the business OF the
characterization by shooting him dead on the
street.
REV. MR.. GAUL, of Philadelphia, went to a
menagerie, and did not find all the animals
that he had seen pictured on the street posters.
He denounced the show from his pulpit a
humbug.
In 1883 Canada supplied Europe with l76 900
beaver skins. Now the yearly number has
fallen to 20 200, of which 5000 are annually
caught by various processes of trappiug or
blockade.
THE wife of Rev. James A. spurgeon is q
grand daughter OF General Burgoyne. This
fact came out IN one of the speeches at the
fare we'll banquet lately given to the reverend
gentleman.
GOVERNOR VAN ZANDr, of Rhode Island, has
been presented with the cane that Daniel
Webster used to carry in the latter part of his
life. The cane is made of lancewood, and has
large ivory knob.
MAN exhibited at fair at Montpelier, VT,
three packages of butter from the same churn-
ing, but differently marked, aud got first
premium on one, second on another, and the
third was condemned as poor.
These are 100000 land-holdings in Ireland,
of which 10000 only are fl0O year, and only
$1,000 above $50 year, while there are 2i7, O0O
occupiers of land under IS a year, of whom
upwards of 10000 occupy mud cabins.
JOHN b. COUGH delivered his farewell adj
dress in England at the Metropolitan Taber-
nacle, Mr.. spurgeon presiding and present
ing him with his sermons, in II volumes, as a
testimonial TO the orator on his departure.
SENATOR THURMAN has been heard from
since the election. The result was surprise
to him, but so far as he is concerned ''it will
relieve him of the duties OF an arduous posi-
ton and give him a chance for rest, which he
needs"
1T has been discovered that the flower girls
OIL New York are as much the slaves OF their
EN- ployers as are the organ grinders. Little
girls eight years old, have to stay in the street
until O'Clock at night, because they must sell
their wares before going home.
ANOTHER body of emlgrants, this time from
Russia, disguised with Brazil, although
they were well treated while there. Men will
yet learn TO avoid, for health's sake, going
to lar dis and climates the reverse of their own
no matter how rich the soil may be.
Mr.. HENRY JACKSON Is a colored man who
has just begun the study OF law at Winthrop
Me- by 1uuustry ana lIugauty ne mas
acquired good education and considerable
property. He was a slave for Is years, and was
| three times sold at the auction block.
IT is estimated that DR.. II. j. Glenn, late
Democratic candidate for governor in CaIifor-
mia, this year has raised 100 100 sacks of grain
on his ranch at Colusa county. This is equa
to about 5000 tons, or enough to load 80 yes
seis. The crop Is worth abouss2 10000.
ST. LOUIS has q free lodging house, where
| from 30 10 800 persons, mostly tramps, SLEEP
| every night. A new rule Is that every iodgel
| must be vaccinated, and on the first nj xhL O
| its enforcement the ply sicians operated or
nearly 400 arms, Many objected, but Tho
+, alternative was night ia the streets, and, a,
the weather WAS bitterly cod, none chose 1t.
| The falling off in customs revenue receipt.
in Great Britain is attracting attention, the
decrease for the past SIX months. as reported
| in y recent cable dispatcn, belpg no less thar
/ 335,OU000O. The figures Indicate the falling of
of foreign cofo m, nd