The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-05-12
GENERAL NOTES.

1T is reported that Secretary Carl Schurz is
engaged to a Miss Irish, of Washington.
SENATORS CAMERON, Logan and Conkling
are now called Grants Syndicate of Sena-
tors"
GOVERNOR MCCLELLAN's hobby is China,
and his house on the top of Orange Mountain
is made attractive by choice specimens fro N
all parts of the world.
A MAN of sanguine temperament is digging
in bank of earth ii Hsgerstown. Ind, for a
box containing s6OOOO, which he claims to
have reason to believe was buried there half a
century ago.
DIR. OLIvEB WENDELL HOLMES will "wel-
come the clergy" at the coming Unitarian
festival in Boston, and the Rev. DR.. Bellows Is
expected to respond IN behalf of the ministers
and their wives.
A WHITE widower married a black widow a
Cape Girardeau, Mo. He had four white child
rem, she had five black ones. and three yellow
ones have been born to them since. The fam
hy presents varied aspect.
PROFESSOR WI. BELL, leading coIored
man of Missouri, says the colored voters Will
demand the nomination of either Frederick
Douglass or Senator Bruce for Vice President
by the Chicago Convention.
BOSTON Post: "How would Colonel -d do
for a delegate to Cincinnatl?" asked one DEM
ocrat of another yesterday. "He would do
first rate to go to the depot to zee the others
off," was the prompt reply.
In vote of the Democrats Of the Twenty
fifth Senatorial District of Wisconsin, in Con-
vention at Madison. Thursday, on Presiden-
tial preference. decided majority was shown
for HoratIo Seymour, of New York.
THE Benton Review advises thus: "NomI-
nate Hendricks for President. Neither powers,
prIncipslities, things present nor things to
come nor the colored exodus can carry the
State against the Democratic ticket with Hem
bricks at the head"
OF Captain Francis Sterling, of the missing
Atlanta, it is stated that he was near rela-
tive of Commander Sterling, who set sail with
his wife and children in the steamer City of
Boston, from America for England, and was
never heard OF more.
Mr.. MORGAN, of Alabama, has introduced in
the Senate bill providing that the President
of the Senate shall submit to the Senate and
House, when assembled to count the votes for
President and Vice President, all packages
purporting to contain electoral votes.
FOUR locomotives were stopped by a drift In
a snow shed on the Union Pacific Railroad.
Snow covered the roof completely. so that no
air could get in and no smoke could get out
The engineers and fi-emen soon became in
sensible. Fifteen Cinnamon went to the res
cue. and were also overcome. All were nearly
dead from suffocation when finally taken out.
A HORSE biscuit Is being manufactured in
Russia to take the place of oats. 1t is made of
crushed oats aud the flour OF gray peas, mixed
with hempseed oil and salt, and is four inches
in diameter. A days rations weighs about
four pounds, and is equal TO ten pounds of
oats. The horses like the biscuits when soaked
in water, and IL fed exclusively on them,
though they lose In flesh, are still ut for IA.
tiguing work.
SOUTHERN knocking birds well deserve the
name. They initiate not only the songs of
other Birds but human whistlers as well. A
lady of Macon, Ga, relates that her pet mock
ing bird often deceives all the inmates of her
house by its clever imitation of the postman 8
whistle. They go out to get the letters, and
md Jack on q spray near the fence, blowing
his whistle and looking entirely innocent Of
any intention to hoax the family.
AN old letter, in hich Senator Thomas H.
Benton announced his marriage to his friend,
the late Judge Wash, of st. Louis, is still pre-
served in the latter's family. "Long bsfore the
drowsy and needless post-boy snail transport
to you this scrawl," writes young Benton
"your friend Benedict will cease to belong TO
the order OF bachelors. Time, which puts an
end to everything. has now put an end to my
endless courtship, and In the month OF May 1