The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-24
PERSONALITIES.

GOVERNOR NICHOLS, OF Louisiana, has gone
back to his post in improved health.
FROM all parts of the South applications have
been received for children of the late General
Hood for adoption.
WARREN j. wooDARD, a judge OF the Penn
sylvania supreme court, Is lying dangerously
i'll at Hampton, N. Y.
Ex-Governor GILBERT c. WALKER, Of vir-
ginia, has decided to settle at Binghamton, in
this State, and practice law.
Ex-Governor TILDES has declined, with
thanks, an invitation to deliver the address at
the fair of the Keystone Agricultural society
OF BsrAs county, Pennsylvania.
MINISTER ]. Nj. Comfy is on his way back to
the Hawaiian Islands, expecting to tarry
awhile in San Francisco to see the merchants
and join in,welcoming General Grant.
THE poet Whittier is at his favorite resting
place, the Bearcamp River House, West Os-
sipee, N. H., where he has long been accus-
toned to pass the early days of autumn.
THE mayor of New Orleans has received
letters from two ladies, one in New York and
one in Baltimore, expressing desire to adopt
two of the children OF the late General j.
Hood.
OF Lord Lyons, SO long the English minister
at Washington, and now the English ambas-
lency having nothing else to torment him has
foresworn not only wine but tea and coffee
also, permitting himself the one beverage,
and no other. of milk and soda-water. Also,
he smokes like a chimney.
THE bullet which De Young sent into Kali
loch at San Francisco has been removed
through the fundamentally of the latter's
wife. In dressing his wound she saw dark
object protruding, and told him to put his
finger upon it. He did so, and said: sI believe
that is the bullet; pull it out, She made sew
eral attempts, and finally succeeded in ex-
tracing it.
A YOUNG man, a member of one of the first
families of Syracuse, went to a watering place
this season for recreation. When he returned
one OF his acquaintance asked him whether
there were medical springs at the resort which
he had visited. "Springs-aw-yes, L believe
there WERE" "And what was the property of
the water, cathartic or diuretic?1 "Wen,
WEAKLY don't know, my dear boy, did not
taste ii, but from the smell should say it was
emetic"
MARK TWAIN was asked to contribute to the
fund of defraying the expenses of Battle-fiag
day in Hartford, Conn.,, and wrote in reply
'Out of the poverty left on hand by an inter
minable European trip, very gladly put the
inclosed S25 in furtherance of the good cause
| which you represent. There is nothing nobler
than for religion to support patriotism, and
nothing wiser than for both to uphold and en-.
courage domestic economy, therefore 1 sub.
tract this sum from the pew rent
| GENERAL ROBERT TONES, of Georgia is de.
voting his superHuous energies to writing out
| his pronounced views upon the
relations of railroads to the State
He is very severe upon the mo
nopolists and the tax-consumers, and says
I'VE have the right of eminent domain; the
right to take all the railroads in the State fol
public use when the public interests demands
it, by paying just compensation. If we pay
just compensation only, we can sell for tn {
same, after putting them under the law