The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

Boston's bricklayers receive only So day.
Mrs. Sylvester Bromley, of East Troy, Pa,
died, apparently, last week, and was ready
for burial, when she revived and lived two
days longer.
The Edinburg Review for April has a pa
per on electric light which denounces Edi-
sons invention, although the writer tacitly
admits that he knows nothing aboutit.
The steamer City OF Columbus, of the
Ocean Steamship line. on her last trip
reached Savannah from New York in 81
hours and So minutes, the shortest time on
record.
The weekly edition of the London Times,
established by Mr.. Walter soon after ms
visit, in 1876, to this country, has had only
moderate success and gets very little adver-
Using.
The Trades Union of Chicago has resolved
to oppose an autI-union employer until
such time as the Lord in His mercy may see
fit to remove the indecent and cruel old ras-
cal from the face of the earth"
Henry Young killed his wife at Pittstield,
Mass, ana his insanity was SO clearly proved
that he was sent to an asylum. His own
opinion was that he deserved to be hanged,
and one morning he was found suspended
by the neck with strips OF bed clothes, dead.
A San Francisco barber formerly a prize
fighter. seeing customer take off his coat
and push up his shirt sleeves, instinctively
regarded those movements as preparatory to
a scrimmage, and gave him whipping
before an understanding could be effected.
The Northern Presbyterian General assem-
bly, admonishes all good PreSbyterians not to
go to the theater or opera at any time and
not to read secular newspapers on Sun
day. When they get to be good enough to
do these things they will no longer stand in
need of the discipline.
The holders of called bonds which mature
before the LIST day of July next are requested
to send them to the department for payment
during the month of June. In this way the
holders of such bonds will receive payment
for them with interest to maturity before
the bonds mature.
The Passaic river, in New Jersey, has with
in the past two days been strewn with the
bodies of dead and dying fish. 1t will be
remembered that the same thing occurre d
last year, and no special cause could be as
signed for it. Doubtless poisonous dye stutfs
or other material have something to do with
it.
English capitalists have projected three
different railway lines, aggregating $50 miles
in length, into the interior of Africa, from
points on the east coast. Ii Is said that these
roads would open up1 800 miles OF navigable
lakes and rivers and bring trade to 800, 000,-
900 people.
Three young girls confined in the House
of the Good Shepherd, IN Brooklyn, at
tempted to escape night before last, by form
ing rope out of their clothes. The first one
who attempted to descend fell 40 feet, sus-
tanning injuries which may prove fatal The
others raised an alarm, and did not carry out
their attempt.
A brutal Italian organ grinder was arrested
in New York Monday for cruelty to mon
Hau He ali0wad the amin To climb N this
third story of building, and then ierked
him down, inluring him terribly. The
crowd that gathered would have punished
him severely had not a policeman arrested
HIM. He was afterward fined So.
The police census of Baltimore, just fin
ished, gives total population of 32l, i35
OF these go 914 are whites, and so 81 col
ored. There are 81, 995 houses in the city
The census of five years ago showed popu
lation of 100000. The present returns, II II
claimed. are TOO low, as the health depart
ment makes the population 365. 600.
The supreme court has annulled the mar
rage of Mrs. Maria l.. Granger widow o
General Gordon Granger, to Thomas Blair
who was recently dismissed from captaincy
in the United States army. Mrs. Granger
was married to Blair at her fathers home
in Kentucky, last September, and subse
quently she discovered that Blair had an
other wife living in Scotland.
A man bought some of the $40 Government
certificates at the Cincinnati office, and
missed one otter retiring from the window
He could find it nowhere. Give me
dollar and I'll getit for you," said boy
The Offer was accepted The boy yanked an
other urcain out OF the line, and choke
him until he opened his mouth, from which
the hidden certificate dropped out.
The ARRIVAL of the old frigate Constitution
with goods from the Paris exposition is an
nounced. The Tribune briefly gives he
history she had her keel laid in 1874. an
was launched three years later. She bon
barded TriDoli in 1904 and in 1912 she CAP
tured the Guerrero, Wasp and other YES
sells 1t is said by naval officers that not
particle of the original wood is now in tn
old frigate, except the mizzentopsail bits.
FASHION NOTES.