The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-03
GENERAL NOTES.

-
WISCONSIN has wealthy farmer who is
known as 1.-THE Cranberry Prince"
Mr.. GLADSTONE thinks that the settlement
of the Alabama claims by arbitration will
rank in history with the abolition Of the slave
trade.
In New Hampshire good deal of opposition
has shown itself to the recent State law tax1n (
church property on all sums above $4,000 In
some cases the law has been denounced from
the pulpit.
THE Providence ess mentions thee ase OF a
lady from that ity who recently visited
Mount Prospect, and although sne has Cor
years been compelled to use glass ,es when she
reads, found no difficulty In rea fling the finest
print with the naked eye wnlle on the sum-
NIT.
THE Cincinnati Gazette says that an acct
dent insurance company which held policy
for 5000 on the late Harry Baldwin, of that
city, has employed secret agent Is to investigate
the mysterious circumstance of his death, and
satisfied that it was caused by an accidental
pistol. shot: has paid his widow 81 800, having
deducted $500 to pay its own agents
AFTER three medical celebrities had gone
from the bedside of the French General X,
the general rang for his man servant: "Well,
what did they say?" "Ah, general, they
seemed to differ with each other; the big fat
one said that they must have a little patience,
and at the autopsy-whatever that may be-
they would find out what the matter was.
A GIRL at Hopkinton, VT, was cripple from
her birth until lately. The story Of her cure,
as her family tells 1t, is that, while at dinner,
a deadly pallor and an expression of agony
were observed upon her face, and she COM
planned of sudden and terrible pain in her
diseased leg simultaneously with the appear
ance of a strange, shadowy form by her side.
From that hour she began to recover, and she
is now comparatively well.
THE Montreal Post of Thursday has this sug-
gestive incident to relate: "a heavy Texas
steer fell into the canal last evening in the
vicinity of the Wellington bridge. He was
rescued by a crowd of bystanders at great ex-
pense of muscle. Once firmly landed on terra
firma, Taurus retaliated. the kindness in a
| most ungrateful manner by chasing his deliv-
ers and attempting to gore them. He was
| finally subdued and escorted off,"
Mr.. Holloway, the prince of English pill
makers, has devoted 81, 250,O00 to the erection
of a college for the higher education of women,
near London, and proposes to endow it with
$4,000 exclusive of some land, which will
probably bring a great sum on building lease.
His advertising has been at the rate of 500, 900
to sl5O,O00 year for the last 80 years, and in
Australia his pills and ointments are regular
item in station supplies up in the bush.
| FEARS of a grasshopper invasion in the
Sierra Nevada valley have caused old inhabi-
tants to give their recollection of the devasta-
ton produced by them 20 years ago. They
| were remarkably intelligent in those days.
When they found fallen trees across their line
of march, they banked up against them to the
| depth of three feet, forming an inclined plane,
| up which marched the advancing host. On
the north side of dwellings the insects thus
banked up died, and the inmates had to shovel
| them up and cart them away. In some places
| this year they have filled the creeks and
fouled the water to such degree that the cat
| tie will not drink IL.
TALMAGE writes to the Independent that
| two or three American clergymen are, he I'M
! derstands, trying to belittle his party's sue
| cess. s'They do not believe" he says, THAT
we are hay1ng great and continuous well
| come. 1t is enough to say to my friends that
| the scene everywhere is indescribably cordial
This summer is cut out from all the months
and years of my life as the one most enjoya-
BILE. The handwriting, the streets blockaded
| by friends, and the God bless you from hun.
hundreds of thousands of people, will make
me feel better forever. have preached and
! lectured So times already; and such enthusias
tic times have never had before, and never ex.
| pect to have again. By the day of my return
1 shall have spoken in all the principal towns
and cities of England, Ireland and Scotland
| if can endure the banqueting and excite
ment. My party, worn out with 1t, have re-
treated from the scene, while L, so far. have
increased in health. can stand as much
| kindness as any man know Of"