The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-05

Baliimore's water works have cost the. city
81, ,745,0o0.
An organized band of boy thieves has Just
been broken up at Sturges, Michigan.
1t has been decided In the Iowa courts
that a cook stove is a wife's personal prop
erty. t.
The Omaha Republican IS advising its
rural readers to shun the insidious. light
ming rod agent. lsr
One Boston hotel keeper has paid market
men for supplies s.. 1872, 462 25 10 the last 10
years. In 46 years, he says, he has paid them
s., 1SS, ,906.90.
Bosten has long talked of q tunnel to
Charlestown. and it is now proposed to build
one on shore, float it to the site chosen, and
sink it into place.
On Saturday the Cincinnati Sun, which
was an imitation, geographically, o; the
New York Sun, sank behind the Western
hills to rise no more.
Greeley, Col, with population of 1900
souls, requires no police constables. has no
LIQUOR stores. and has only spent 81 OF its
poor fund in two years.
A spot has been selected upon the battery
at Charleston, s. C., in the middle of the
walk, midway between the flagstaff and the
Jasper monument, for the Simms bust.
I Ia Photographic picture has been taken at
midnight oil the room in the mill at Will
mantle, Conn, in which the electric light IS
used, and 1t is said to be clear and distinct.
A Mobile steamboat captain says that he
refused seven times to take white male as
q cargo, fearing ill luck, but on his last trip
succnmbed to opportunities. On that trip be
struck snsg.
The ], ,s59, las. 600 cigars made during the
last fiscal year would encircle the globe five
times If placed end to end, and it is estf-
mated 1000 persons got their living from
this manufacture.
An old, respectable and rich farmer, OF
Ionia county, Michigan, recently went over
the hills to the poor house. selected . young
| and good looking orphan girl. married her
and took her home with him.
Mr. Blaluslu has Just got one dollar dam
| ages from the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
a year and nine months that he was injured
by something they published so long ago.
| The Louisville Courier-Journal gives the
best part Of one issue to q description of the
| Southern residents at Chicago. They are
said to own S75. 900, 600 there, and the South
is urged to bind itself by closer social and
trade relations with the Lake City.
Prayer is powerful. The women's Chris
tian Temperance Union of Chicago, claim TO
have prayed the T1voh smut That noted
resort has closed its doon and now the
| ladies will direct their attention toward
| other institutions of q similar character.
A Wisconsin young man got up in his
sleep. went to the woodpile in the shed,
| chopped off one of his fingers, and did NOT
| awake until he attempted to wash the blood
| off his hand in the bath room. At least this
is the story q correspondent of the Milwukee
Sentinel tells. M fless
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The Selma Ala Times ssys that the rail.
road bridge near that city. which let through
| . train OF cars on Tuesday with the loss oi
about half dozen lives, was perfectly rot
ten," and that 1.-The people OF that section of
the country have been looking for an acci
dent for two years past"
The committe of the Illinois Legislatu re-
appointed to investigate the business of h,
Pullman Car company, held its meetings il
the Pullman Office in Chicago, was prov ide,
with refreshments by the company, ancf con
cluded that the charges for drawing room
cars ought not to be lowered by law.
In breach of promise lawsuit in Ma,
shalltown, Ia, the plaintiff swora that b
broke the engagement with defendant be
cause, when he slipped and fell on the ics
she laughed unteehng.y. She sw0rs tina
she laughed because he would not hav
J fallen II he had not bowed with superiicis
politeness 70 yopng woman. .,l