The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-01-31
GENERAL NOTES.

WI. VANDERBILT gives employment to H.
eO0 men.
SENATOR CoNKLINGs wife is at Washington
with her husband this winter for the first
time in several years.
A Steel. rail mill is to be established in In
dianapolis, railroad officials having promised
to give the manufacture their active support.
EDGAR ALLAN PoE's watch is now owned by
a family in Chicago, to one member of which
the poet many years ago gave 1t as security
for a debt 1t is gold repeater, and bears
Poe's name.
For IL years DIR. Julius Schm DIT, of Athens,
has been at work upon an immense map oil
the moon, which shows 32,S56 craters and
ring-like formations on the lunar surfaces and
3iS riffs and clefts.
GOVERNOR SMITH, of Maine, is a bigger man
than Governor Davis is. Smith weighs go
and Davis only 40 The Republicans had bet
ter see that their man is kept at ssafe distance
from the big Fusionist.
MR. SAMUEL SMILES has received from the
king of italy valuable decoration as a mark
of the royal appreciation Of his books. "Self-
Help" translated, has been sold in Italy to the
number of $1,000 copies.
THE crop report of the Board of Agriculture
of Illinois, shows that the wheat acreage of
that State is 656 S26 acres, or % per cent. more
than last year. and considerably larger than
the average of any previous year.
MR. ]. c. FLOOD has just bestowed a pleasant
little amount of pin-money upon his
daughter Miss Jennie Flood. He has regis
tered s2,5O0OOO in United States bonds In her
name. This gift provides for her an incom
of slOJ,C0O year.
Miss JOSEPHINE HARPER, daughter of J. w.
Harper, Jr., is the author of the charming
story, "a Night on the Tete NOire," In Har-
per's Magazine for November. She sent the
manuscript anonymously, and 1t was accepted
and paid for unbeknown to her father.
WHEN Judge Day offered ia the Kentucky
Legislature, on Monday, bill taxing pistols
and other weapons, Representative Rudy
caused a sensation by suggesting that every
member step up TO the speakers desk and de
posit thereon the shooting-irons he happened
/ to have with him.
| OUR imports of rails from Europe for III
mon his, ending November 20, 1879, com pare
| with previous years as follows: Eleven
months, 1879 steel rails, 2O,3H tons; iron rails
II, sl6 tons; total, 81 $50 tons. Eleven months,
ls7s-steel rails, sol tons; iron rails, 335 tons
total, S36 tons.
| THE Lou sV1lle Courier journal does not
seem to be in good humor with the United
states Senate, and says the United States Sem
ate has a motto of it's own-''Four days q
weeks work" The same paper says: With a
few trick-horses, Congress would be fully into
the circus business. 1t already has its clowns.
TIE Peoria National Democrat expresses
the opinion that the United States Supreme
| Court is a superannuated body Judge Clifford
is past 76, Swayne is past IS, Strong has turned
20, and Bradley is turned 6S. Hunt is par
alytic, with little hope of recovery. They all
ought to be retired, and younger snd more
vigorous blood and brains infused into the
court.
THERE is a student of natural history at
Chico Cal, who believes that the deer of
Butte county know what day the game law
| goes into effect. He has graveIy read paper
before the California Academy of Sciences, in
which he asserts that they stay on the foot
hills every year until November 2, and then,
knowing that on and after that date 1t is un-
lawful to shoot them, go boldly down into the
inhabited valleys
THE New Orleans Democrat calls attention
to the fact that Asia is a terrible consumer of
silver. Every year millions of dollars find
their way to the East, never to return to the
civilized world. This Eastern demand for sill
yer seems to be on the increase, as SAC, 900, 00J
was thus swallowed up this year, against
$4,000 GOO in 1873. What becomes of this bull
lion is more than the greatest political econo
mist can tell.
THOMAS ADDS EMMETT, a granddaughter OF
the famous Robert Emmett, who was tried fol
high treason against the English Government