The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-14
CLIPPINGS.

IN has been decided in Illinois that none but
freeholders are competent 10 sit on juries.
A YANKEE in Boston has invented ma
chine which will make $1,000 paper boxes a
dag.
FRANCE exports to Europe s'4e,cOO,eOo worth
of manufactured articles in excess OF whst
England exports.
In 1910 the debts OF the New England States
were s4,S400e0. The debts of the same States
now amount to ISL, 100000.
THERE has been shipped from Wilmington,
n. c., to Etussian port, cargo OF cotton
weighing nearly l,O0J,OOO pounds.
WILLIAM NJ. TwEED's daughter was robbed
OF her jewelry at her hotel In Paris recently,
and was made very i'll in consequence OF the
loss.
Miss NELLIE CROKER, OF Sacramento, had
an impecunio0s lover. Dying the other day.
she LETT him sl0O,OOO-to squander GA some
other girl.
JOHN B. GoUG H is reported as saying recently
that drunkenness has increased in this eoun-
try in the last Is years, and that there are now
more ministers drinking and more women
than ever before.
IKE total ice crop of Boston and vicinity
last gear was about $4,000 tons, but the crop
this year, received from distance, is esti-
mated at about 100000. The price of ice will
doubtless be higher.
FROM official statistics recently published in
Copenhagen, it appears that in the ~ years
from 1868 to 1878 there were 4,779 cases of sui
eide aseertained to have been committed In
the kingdom of Denmark. OF this number
of person 5000 were males, and LOCI females.
DUBOIS CITY, Clearfeld county, Pa, has two
saw mills planning mill and a machine shop
In full operation. Mr.. John Dubois, the lum-
Der king, for whom the place is named, has
cut this season 2OOOO,OOO feet of lumber, and
employs 600 hands. He owns 10000 acres OF
land In the immediate vicinity of the place.
LADY CHARLOTTE BACON, widow of General
Bacon, daughter of Edward Harley, fifth earl
/ of oxford, and one of the famous beauties of
/ the early part of the century, has just died in
London. She was the Lady Charlotte Harley
I to whom Byron refers In his poem to "Ian-
I the" which forms the prologue to "Childe
/ Harold"
IN Mississippi it has been found that the
cotton seed mills have become to a large de-
gree burdensome monopoly because of each
of the mills being allowed a certain amount of
territory, upon which the others are obliged
not 10 infringe, which enables them to keep
down the price of cotton seed below its in
trinsic value.
A MAN butchered his family in London
a few days ago, and q woman locked her three
children in a room and set fire TO the place.
The English "Salvation Army" escaped these
terrible scene by coming to New York to con-
vert the city officials. Probably, says the Nor.
ristown Herald, they were overworked at
home, and came to this country for rest.
IN Binghamton, n. Y, last summer pair
of Baltimore orioles built their hanging nest
in a tree opposite a tinsmith's. The limb to
which the nest was suspended recently blew
down, and the nest is now preserved in evil
dence of the remarkable skill and instinct of
these birds, for the nest was found securely
wired to the branch with pieces OF wire which
had been picked out OF the sweepings of the
shop.
THE beauties of sleep walking and of the in
destructlbiiity of the human frame were
equally illustrated in the case of John O'Con-
nor, of San Francisco, who walked In his
sleep the other night, and stepped down a
well In a building 80 feet deep. He went
crashing through glass skylight, and the
shock OF the fall simply woke him up, for he
got up and walked up stairs as If nothing had
occurred.
THE Reading Pa Times and Dispatch says
that the increase in the iron ore business
along the East Pennsylvania railroad within
nine months past has been most surprising.
Along the entire northern slope OF the Lehigh
mountain, from Blandon eastward to Emaus,
and in the adjacent valley to the north, there
are hundreds of iron ore mines, and prospect
ing is going on at numerous points, with new
mines being opened daily.
RUFUS HATCH, of New York, has spent
$500 in a fight with New York carrisge
man, over a bill of $50 for repairs on his car
rage. 1t seems that the latter had been in the |
habit of making Mr.. Hatch's coachman pres
ents, and in return the coachman brought Mr.. |
Hatch's carriages around for repairs rather |
oftener than the owner thought was neces- |
sary. Mr. Hatch has, therefore, refused to pay |
the bill, and, being sued for it and beaten, he
has appealed it from court to court, until it is |
now before the chief justice of New York.
JAMES LYNDE, a rebel deserter, who after
ward enlisted in the Fourth Michigan caval- !
~, is said by the Detioit Free Press n have |
stolen JEFF Davis horse and money after the |
rebel leaders capture. Lynde would never !
tell what he found in the saddle-bags, put his |
fellow. troopers are sure that 1t must have |
been gold, for after the regiment was mustered |
out he disappeared for time, turning up six |
months later in Detroit with thousands of |
dollars in his possession, much OF which was |
left after he had taken years trip in Europe. |
MORE singular condolences than this one |
have happened. A sawbones of Davenport, |
Ia was in Washington few days ago, and |
found shelter at the house in which now |
celebrated Tommy was boarding with his |
mother. The doctor, Who is a physiognom1st,
laid wager with friend that If Tommy's |
father should happen to be one among rs In |
the Senate chamber he could pick him out ]
from the visitors gallery. After five minutes
scrutiny. the doctor selected head to wear |
the crown, who, on inquiry, proved to be |
senator from a State which was named after |
one Of the English Georges.
THE Western grain markets are again weak. |
Both wheat and corn are depressed and 1t is |
beginning to look as II the clique that has been
SO long bulling these products are about to re-
sign their position in favor of the logic of
events. When the fan that has already taKen |
place in the price of wheat and the reduction |
In the rate OF freight from Chicago eastward |