The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-24
GLEANINGS.

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WHEN the Charleston, 8. C, children saw
snow for the first time last week, opinions
weredivided as to whetheri 1t was -four, salt or
sugar.
RETURNS from all but IL OF the Is parishes OF
Louisiana give Wiltz (Dsm.), for governor
majorities of S6,siS, and Beattie (Rep) majori-
ties of $3.50.
JAY GOULD said at st. Louis that he had just
ended trip of 2,zo0 miles on railroads con-
trolled by himself. The whole run was made
In eight days.
THE friends of a Texas man were simply ad-
vised that his death was caused by his sus-
penders. 1t wasn't mentioned that his '.sus-
psnders" were members of vigilance COM
mittee. ast
A DRUNKARD handed a bottle of whisky to
his son for safe keeping, at Stanford, KY. The
boy dropped and broke it. spilling the liquor.
The loss so enraged the man that he shot and
killed the boy offender.
THE steel steamboat hull which Messrs.
James Reese and James Thorn are building
for service on the Msgdalena river, United
States OF Columbia, is well under way. Length,
! l55 feet; beam, 81 feet; depth, feet.
ONE HUNDRED milIionaires are now resi-
dents OF San Francisco. Mackay, who is said
to be their chief, being worth about $40 600,
is content to pass most OF mis- time in q tenn
perature of l00o, down in his mines.
THERE are to-day more than 2i2 COO Govern
ment pensioners. The amount of the years
pensions to all is s25493, ,74z but the actual
payment is millions in excess, because the
newly admitted cases have arrears of pension
due,
FRED DOUGLASS continues to speak sensibly
on the negro exodus from the South. He says
emphatically that all organized effort at the
North designed toprompt and promote further
stampede of this sort should be discounten-
anced.
A GRAVE error has just been committed in a
Texas town. A mob battered down the door
of the jail, and. in the darkness, drug out q
murderer and hanged him In mistake for
man who had stolen 81 horse.-Middletown
Transcript.
The New York Sun is inclined 10 think that
our own Blue Jeans Williams would be a de-
cided Improvem mt on the vice president list
for many years past. The Sun, of course,
means those who have occupied the position.
Heis long ways ahead of Wheeler.
IT is said that camping and fishing parties
can secure a good light by soaking brick in
kerosene oil, and then suspending it from a
pole with wire. When lit, it furnishes a bril-
liant light, lasting half an hour. 1t is said BY
those who have experimental with ii TO be
greatly superior to torch.
WHEAT has been selling in the Gailatin val
ley, Montana, at so cents per bushel, and there
will be a large surplus which can't be disposed
OF at even that low figure, not all. With the
Northern Pacific extended through that re-
gion, as it soon will be, the products of Mon
tana promises to be almost limitess.
THE s.. Louis National Tribune, owned and
edited by colored men, charges that the funds
sent to them for the relief of colored emigrants
have been wasted by the st. Louis relief
board. 1t says that the board voted hundreds
of dollars of the contributions sent TO them
selves and their families, while the poor refu-
gees were starving and naked.
THE London Standard, OF lste Issue, speak
ing of the previous days transactions, asserts
that the quantity of gold exported to the
United States would have been doubled but
for the simultaneous shipment of 81 .o00,Q00 in
various American bonds. Still later, the London
Telegraph remarks: "The smallness of the
withdrawal OF bullion from the Bank OF Eng
land Is due to the fact that bonds are going to
America, instead of gold.'
SENATOR THURMAN gently chaffei John
Sherman in the Senate chamber the other
day. Pointing to the seat that he was then
sitting in, Thurman said: "Oh, say, Sher-
man, you ought to try my seat Garfield was
! in here this morning trying IL. Stanley
Matthews has been in here, and he likes it..
Hadn't you better sit in here and see how 1t
| goes?" Sherman would not sit down.
A THIEVES supper Is one of the novelties of
| London. In a mission hall, near Drury Lane,
the habitual criminal has found friends. who,
on his discharge, invite him to a festival. This
| is the principle, aud last year 5s7 have thus
1 hod hal n n m
| emerging from prison. Money has been given
| to some. All were entertained and lectured
| on the principle that honesty is the best poi
| icy.
HERE are the two meanest men on record
The owners OF a clothing-making firm in Bos.
| ton employ 81 girls, who, from their earnings,
contributed s22 on Thanksgiving Day. and
gave each of the two members of the firm a
pretty album, occupying half-hour in getting
ready and making the presentation. The two
mean fellows took the gifts with ready smiles,
and on pay day deducted from the wages OF
the girls time money for the half-hour they
had occupied In giving The albums.
SPEAKING of the appointment of General
Joseph E. Johnston to reorganizs the United
states army, the Washington correspondent
of the Richmond Dispatch says: IAN agree
that he is the best soldier In Congress, and
fully equal to the important task imposed
upon him, but it seems strange to many thai
{ even the greatest surviving captain of the Con
federacy should be called upon to reorganiz'
the army now under the command Of the gen
sral to whom he surrendered. This shows
what q wonderful country this is, and how
rapidly we would be one people If the politi
clans would only let MS alone"
Old Ike and General Grant.
louisville Courier Journal