The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-20
PERSONALITIES.

PERSONALITIES.
MARK TwAIN's new book deals mainly with
Germany, Switzerland and Italy
COLONEL "BoB" INeERsoLL has given a Troy
collar firm permission to use his name on the
collars and cuffs of its manufacture.
ARCHBISHOP wooD (Roman Catholic), OF
Philadelphia, has refused 10 join in the
movement to pay the debts of Archbishop
Purcell, OF Cincinnati.
MRS. MARY QUANrRELL, of Frederick, Nd,
whose friends claim for her the distinction Of
being the original barbara Freitchie," died
suddenly few days ago.
A LATE resident of North Carolina, Mr..
Jesse H. d. Reed, has given by will his whole
property, amounting to $4,000, to three old
slaves as a reward for their care OF him In his
declining age.
ACCORDING to advices from Copenhagen the
announcement that the Nordeskjold Arctic
expedition had passed Behring's Straits was
premature. A letter from Professor Nor
denskjold, dated in February, at the entrance
of the Straits. says: 81 hope to be free from
the ice in June"
w. B. CLARKE, banker of Junction City,
Kas., who made an assignment few months
ago and compromised with his creditors for IS
cents en- a dollar, and then paid them 10 per
centum additional, announced yesterday that
he was ready to pay his obligations in full,
with interest.
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs, who is one of the
trustees of the University of Georgia. travelled
1850 miles last week to attend meeting ofthe
board of trustees, SO anxious was he to be
present, and remarked that 1t was a long way
for fellow to come who was expelled from
the college when boy. His offense was a
fist fight with a comrade.
SENATOR CHANDLER thinks the world is i'm
proving. In one of his Maine speeches re-
Gently he said: "In the days of our Savior he
selected II disciples from among the poorer
classes, and out of the number he found one
Judas; but tn at was years ago, and we have
been improving ever since, or the Christian
religion is a failure, and to day we won't find
one dishonest man in II. nor In a."
Mrs. w. G. vENsoN, who gave Texas the
Lone Star on its coat of arms, died at Craw-
ford, in that State, last week. She made
beautiful flag containing a large, single star in
the summer of 1885, and presented 1t to a regi-
ment. The flag was of plain white silk,
bearing an azure star of five points on both
sides. 1t was first unfurled on the Sth of the
following January, and hoated until Texas
was declared free.
Ex-GovERNoR SEYMOUR has been doing a
| very kindly deed. He invited to his farm at
Utica the Sisters of Charity from the Asylum
| with the orphans under their charge, and with
1 his family spent the whole day in cordially
entertaining the good women and the little
ones, who enjoyed themselves greatly. At
parting the children sang a good night song,
the klnd-hearted ex-governor standing on his
veranda and merrily waving his hat until the
last wagon passed out o: sight in the dusk.
| AN admirer of the works of DR.. J G. Holland
has presented him birthday gift with a
/ piece of mosaic work made of bits of wood
from the birthplaces of Mr.. Bryant and other
| poets, Senator Dawes and other statesmen,
President Mark Hopkins and other divines
and General John A. Dix and other men OF
| martial fame, who have been born in New
England. The memento is in the shape of a
parallelogram, polished to a beautiful surface
and the gold mounting is inscribed with a
quotation from what Bishop Simpson and
President Hopkins have said of Holland,
work in the field of letters.
REPRESENTATIVE DoGGErT, of Nevada, goi
very angry the other day with the Overland
railroad people because he was forced to pay
large sum for extra baggage. He says that he
| is going to get even with the company by
sending his public documents to and fro, as he
can do under the ranking privilege and under
the Government contract with the company
which must take the documents for nothing
He says: "I1l put my frank on 'em and shiI
| 'em to Zach Chandler, in Wisconsin, and he'll
frank 'em and send 'em back, and III frank
'em again and redirect em to him; and thess
books-two tons of 'em-will go back and forth
over that blasted road free until the next SEES
sion of Congress, when III get hold OF som'
more and start them along, too"
Mr.. JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, 1t is stated by tn,
New Orleans Democrat, has recently bought
beautiful Partisan residence for the comfort
able sum In cash of 800 900 francs. 1t is addet
that this large sum does not exceed one-hal
of his yearly income from his practice in tn
English courts. The Southern journal recall
the fact that Mr.. Benjamin, IA years ago, afte
the dispersion OF the Confederate Government
tramped on foot from Central Georgia to Flor
J ida and escaped in an open boat to Nassau
with a single $40 gold piece in his pocket, whIc
he gave to the negro who rowed the little boat
He Is said to preserve an unchanged sympath
with and devotion TO his Louisiana friend,
and to look forward enthusiastically to revis
r iting the State and those old frie nds.
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