The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-14
RESUME OF THE WEEKS NEWS.

The President and family have taken up
their residence at the soldiers Home, near
Washington, for the summer.
At the dinner of the Cobden Club in London,
Friday night, DE Lesseps made another speech
1avoring the Panama InIer-Oceanic Canal.
Matthias Schmidt, residing near Madison,
Ind who, for several years, has been engaged
in the culture of willow, Is myster1ously miss
ing.
The deepening of the channel of the ST.
Lawrence River up to Montreal will be COM
pleted this season, so that ships drawing
twenty-five feet can pass up without danger.
1t is stated that the United States Govern
ment is negotiating with the Porte regarding
the safety of American missionaries in Eu-
ropean Turkey, should trouble break out there.
Carrie Mounrjoy, one of the best known and
most depraved prostitutes in Indianapolis,
swallowed eight grains of morphine Saturday
night, with fatal effect. Crossed in love is said
to be the cause.
Intelligence has been received of a sicken-
ing outrage committed by Martin Lofts upon
the person of his daughter, a chilu thirteen
years old: The crime was committed in Nelson
County, North Carolina.
Secretary SchurZ says orders will de issued
Immediately to employ all necessary military
force to prevent & any occupation Of the Indian
similar unlawful lntruders.
Thomas Carson, of Angola, Iud.. an old gen.
tleman OF hfty-seven years, committed sui
eide by taking morphine, on Friday night.
Temporary insanity, caused by ill health and
financial embarrassment, is the supposed
cause.
The pork packers of st. Lauis, several of
Empire, are considerably exercised over the
recent Imperial decree preventing the impor-
tation OF the hog product into that country,
simply on sanitary grounds.
The weather all over Ireland, up to the pres
ent, has been most favorable. 1t is expected
that the potato crop will be enormous. 1t
promises to exceed anything seen in Ireland
since lne period anterior TO the famine OF 1871 .
The root and cereal crops are also luxuriant.
Rev. Barnas Sears, DID,, LID, for many
years President OF Brown University, PrOvi-
dence, 1. and subsequently manager OF
poses in The South, his home being at Stanton,
Va, died at Saratoga, N. Y, on Wednesday,
aged seventy-seven.
The North Carolina Republican State Con-
vention met at Raleigh on Thursday, 1000 del
| egates being present. j j. Young presided.
| The platform indorses Garfield and Arthur.
Judge Ralph p. Buxton was nominated for
| Governor and General Rufus Barringer for
Lieutenant Governor.
| sara Bernhardt sails for New York from
Havre October l6, with a complete company,
/ and will make her debut at Booths Theater
| November 3, in adrian Lecouvreur." Jeanne
| Bernhardt Is In her sisters company, whose
| stage manager of RachePs American troupe.
Mrs. Slime Seton, the wife of a farmer living
| north of Greensburg, Ind, ran rusty nall in
Friday night, after aoout forty-eight hours OF
most intense suffering, death came to her re-
/ lease. She had only been married about a
year and a half, and leaves husband and one
child.
The census of Chattanooga is estimated al
| thirteen tr ousand three hundred. In 1870 the
city contained only six Thousand and ninety
| three Inhabitants, having increased lis pen
cent. in the last decade, larger increase than
any other city south of the Ohio. The County
now contains twenty-three Thousand souls, an
increase Of 80 per cent. since 1870.
Saturday afternoon Mr.. Nymphus Bassett
an elderly farmer residing five miles north o.
Shelbyville, Ind, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. He had been plowing neal
his house, and noticing the comingof q sudder
thunderstorm, unhitched to return home