The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-07-30
GENERAL NOTES.


In 1878 a company organized at Davenport
aalled the Davenport and Black Hills Mining
company, composed of u residents of the
first named place, who put in 81 900 each and
bought a claim at LeadvilIe, IN the Deadwood
district. Last week Mr.. James B. Haggin,
San Francisco millionaire, bought them out,
paying $4,000, or $1,000 to each stockholder.
A YOUNG woman of Newark, VT, was tarred
and ragged the other day by FIVE other young
women. The cause of this particular atten-
ton toward the first named female is alleged
immoral conduct on her part. The rags were
substituted for feathers, though the feathers
are promised in future unless she changes her
habits.
BOMBAY, with a population of 1000 and an
average to the square mile exceeding London,
is the second city In the British Empire in
point of numbers. The average death rate for
the past five years has been about the same as
London. The people are tall, thin and stately
in appearance, with fine, intelligent eyes
The city stands on an island, Joined by an
embankment to the mainland.
THE prince imperial's saddle, with the hol-
sters torn away, has been brought to Chisel-
hurst and carefully examined. An English
man, Lord Gerard, says that the young
Frenchman wasa nimble horseman, and tells
how one day, when riding with him in the
country, the prince sprang up and stood on
his saddle, and thence vaulted Into tree I'M
der which they were passing.
THE reports of IA horse car companies in
Philadelphia, all paying dividends, show that
the average cost of carrying each passenger is
little over three and one half cents. AS the
companies get at least five cents from each
passenger, and often six where single pess-
aOa 10 in ST of q log of
the fact that the dividends of these companies
have been kept u p through the hard times S
not at all astonishing
| POET actually soaring in the clouds is a
sight that would have made all Paris turn
their faces heavenward had they only been
aware of the phenomenon. However, on July
s. at O'Clock in the afternoon, Victor Hugo,
accompanied by his family and suite of Is
| friends and acquaintances, ascended in the
captive balloon to the full extent OF the cable.
The nlustrious poet will, of course, write a
stanza on the subject, and probably letter to
the proprietor of the balloon.
THE London Lancet, commenting on the
near approach of the abolition OF the scat" in
the army. recalls the fact that its founder, Mr.,
Thomas Wakley, formerly NJ p. for Flnsbury,
was the first who seriously questioned the
| practice in the celebrated. Hounslow case. II
should not be forgotten, however, that 1t was
for denouncing the inhumau logging of mill
tiamen at Ely that William Cobbett, in 1870
was condemned to two years imprisonment
in Newgate and a fine of 900.
THE mercantile failures in England during
the first half of 1879 numbered $500. During
the whole of 1878 the failures numbered 1880
and during 1877, IL ,022. Commenting on the
reports of these failures, the London Times
says that IN two chief industries there are
signs that the suffering has been severe. The
failures in the cotton and in the iron trades
during the past six months have been in
4 excess of their due proportion. In both o.
them failures for 1875 were more numerou,
than for 1877. In spite of these clearances the
failures for 1879 have been more numerous still
Mr.. JERE HARRISON, an intelligent colorct
man, who was formerly congressman from
Alabama, declares that the negro exodus ha
1 hardly begun yet, and predicts that 1t vii
start anew this fall with a wholesale SWEEP
not dreamed of. He says that no less thar
Is 600 blacks will leave the First district of AL
ALBANIA alone. The negroes are lnfatuate'
with the idea of going, and nothing will stol
them. He is not In favor of the movement
but he finds 1t entirely useless to argue agains
it.. He thinks there are enough negroes IL
Kansas now, and favors some of them goin,
, tosSouthern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
r Vanderbilt has been settling some of his OLE
debts in that region. Several years ago Van
derbilt invited the whole Connecticut Legisla
ture to a big supper at his house on Wander
bilt Hill. Among the guests was Mr.. Bacon
$ then a member from Middletown. Earl
Q next morning Mr.. Vanderbilt accosted him Il
r the street with, 'By the way, Bacon, have 20
= $500 about you? 1 want to pay the catere
,, here, and haven't a check about me, but wi
repay you tomorrow Mr.. Bacon at ono
l. loaned the money to pay for the supper II
i which he had shared, but Oorneels "to.mol
i | row" didn't come till 1879.
: ACCORDING to the census of 1870, the tots
q valuation of real and personal property i
{ the United States was over $780, 900. 900, a
increase of Sl4 100000 on the census of 1850. TIL
census Of 1880 win, it is believed, show a tots
value ofnearly $50 900 900 900. Recent writers
England estimate tho total value of propert
u in Great Britain at s42,Oo0.OO0,OOO While