The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

Rosewood is again coming in favor for fur
niture.
According to Joseph Cook, Boston has eight
miles OF grog shops.
Kentucky shipped, the other day, As, 900
pounds of hemp to New York.
In Washington the old heel and toe polka is
superseding the waltz.
Skating as fashionable recreation has
been successfully revived in New York, 1t
can be said OF society people that they all do
it.
While combing his hair at Trufaut, Mich,
a young man picked a hole in his scalp
with a tooth of comb and nearly bled to
death.
The discussion concerning the kind of WINE
to be used ar the communion table is kept
up in some of the churches with unabated
energy.
The University of Nebraska, located at
Lincoln, has erected a hall for young la
dies, where good living is supplied for three
dollars per week.
The supply of flour in Guestville. Henry
County KY, gave out last week, and as the
mills were frozen up, the people were Obliged
to grind their corn in coffee mills.
More Southern planters raised their own
meat and bread last year, than ever before
Those who did SO are independent of the
price of cotton for one year at least.
Elijah Bradbury, of Clifton, Me-, has
powder horn made by his grandfather,
Elijah Bradbury, at West Point, December
81, ITS, and which is now consequently 100
years old.
A candidate for the lieutenant governor
ship of Kentucky is eulogized as 1.-THE man
who put 1876 bills through the Senate N one
night and let the boys out before til bar
rooms closed"
Georgia has a village mayor OF resource,
who, having to commit two prisoners when
there was no calabooSe, turned the box of
wagon over them Upon the ground, and
anchored it by placing cotton bale on top.
Kansas City is agitating project which
contemplates the annexation of a certain
portion of the State of Missouri to tie State
of Kansas, so As to include that growing city
within the boundaries of the latter State.
Arthur Chambersis the man named who
will enter the prizs ring and fight John A.
Clark. When the fight will occur is, of
course. secret known as yet only by sport
ing men. 1t will in all probability take place
in Canada. nominally for 81 geo a side.
American drinks known at Pans: Blue
Blazes, Fairy's Kiss, Flash of Lightning,
Heap of Comfort, Boston Float, Dogs Nose,
Rsttlesnake, Arctic Region, Corpse Reviver,
Colleen Bawn, Maiden's Blush, Morality
fuQcn, CpeiHDS Dec anu 1fdirle OyStcl.
Southern cities generally have been re-
ducing the salaries of their mayor, but Den
nison, Tex, distances them all in economy,
allowing Its chief magistrate only $3.50 a
year. That mayor will have to make the
money GO pretty far unless he has private
income.
A temporary assistant-probably stran-
ger in those parts-in Lexington (ky.)
grocery went 10 the whisky barrel when a
customer called for quart of vinegar, and
there was quite q run that clerk for vine
i gar till the storekeeper suspected that some
thing was wrong
Lawyer Eager has been disbarred at Cleve-
land, o., for blackmailing liquor sellers. He
would get some one TO visit the more respect
able saloons and drink liquor there, after
which he would sue the proprietor for vio-
latiDg the State law, prohibiting sales OF IL
quor TO be drunk on the premises, and stop
proceedings on the payment of $50 or 800
( by those who preferred to be bled to being
dragged into court.