The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-10

the mails 60 go or come by land or water; the
steamboats, are tied MP at their wharves, and
the telegraph is Of no more use than broken
clothesline."
TssE st. Gcthard tunnel was completed I'm
les than seven years-that is, half the time
consumed tn piercing the Mont Cents, which
e exceeds In length by 27u0 metres.
A SINGLE American city now produces near
ly 100000 yards more of carpeting than the
entire yield OF the British Islands, and large
proporSson of American goods find British
purchasers.
TsF cars body guard Is on duty day and
night. Anybody entering the bedroom or
library of the sovereign woald have TO pass 100
Cossacks. Two soldiers sleep at the foot Of his
BED every night.
Mr.. JUDAH p. BENJAMIN, the new counsel
fer the "claimant," has expressed himself as
confident of proving the innocence OF his
client and the truth OF certain new evidence
recently discovered.
JOHN Cox, the Pennsylvania Aoolitionist,
whose house before the war sometimes con-
/. cealed as many as 2erunaway slaves in one
I Ms ht, and whose golden wedding was cele-
2, brated in verse by whittier and Bayard Tay-
F, lor, has just died at the age ofsi.
|
hngiy, Conn, who had been deaf for 30 years,
dreamed, on the night of January 30, that he's
hearing was restored. The next night she
went to bed deaf as usual, bat awoke in the
morning with perfect hearing, which as yet is
\ unimpaired.
| LAWYERS Allen and Taylcr, the latter an ex.
.udge, had a quarrel in court at Newark, q.
While Taylor was riding home. Allen invited
him to dismount and have his hide tanned
with a whip. Taylor got off his horse, took OF
| his coat, and challenged Allen to attempt the
/ lob. Allen tried hut failed, and was badly
beaten by the ex Judge.
DURING the past i've years 1885,, Ols,255 worth
of property has been destroyed in tins coun-
try by fire. In 1873 the loss SIS, lO2 2S5; in
1876 in 1877, s6s 26jSOO in 1878, &c.,
Sl5,9OO and in 1879, SIC, 200. or the States,
/ New York leads in big figures. Her loss ia
1876 was 1900 600; in 1877, sIl,4564O0; in 1878,
80 Sg7 900, and in 1879 sl5,79S 200. Pennsylvania
comes next, with a total loss in the four years
of SIS, l23 500.
TIE poor car can not be shielded from the
meGdlesome pranks OF the NihiIists. When
he awakes in the morning he finds revolu-
| tionary documents on his dressing bureau.
When ne opens bis mail he reads menscing
Letters written on black bordered paper. When
/ he goes to the theater he draws from his
/ pocket with his handkerchief a revolutionary
manifesto. Is it strange that he distrusts every
one in his service?
REV. BURR BALDWIN, the Oldest surviving
graduate of Yale, and the only living member
OF the class of 1909, died at &ontrose, Pa aged
81. He was regarded as the founder of the
American school system, and Q school was or
ganiZed under his direction at Newark, Y. j.,
in the first quarter of the present century. The
application of a colored woman foT admission
caustd much apprehension, but she was ad-
mitted, and the school at Parsippany for the
education of colored teachers was soon insti-
tutsd.
BERNARD BIGLIS went home from a carousal
at Vernon Hill, Neb., expressly "to have some
fun with the old man." his father. He began
by pulling his aged parent out of bed and COM
Polling him to dance ajig barefcoted on the cold
floor. Then he commanded his father to stand
on his head; but the feat was beyond the old
mans power, and the son began to whip him
for failing, when his mother, a stalwart sort OF
woman, bounded out with a chair, and knock
ed him senseless. Bernard's skull was broken
and he came near dying.
GENERAL ROBERT TONES has lately been
visited at his Georgia villsge home by a CORE
spondent OF the Boston Herald, who describes
him as ga man worn out with years and pas
siOnate existence, but glorying In the fact
that he is not a citizen of the United States;
that his political disabilities have not been re-
moved. and that he is the one only and unre-
pentant rebel" He was the guiding mind Of
the Georgia Constitutional convention OF 1877,
but that is the only public Office he has held
since the war. His closest friend is Alexander
II. Stephens, with whom he discusses politics
by the day.