The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-05-01
GENERAL NOTES.

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ment's notice."
GENERAL NOTES.
Bob" INGERsoLL wears diamond shirt
studs.
BosroN is TO have a new Court House erect
ed on q site Costing $4,000, on Pemberton
Square.
Mr.. WILLIAM THAw, of Pittsburg, Penn,
has offered TO give $4,000 toward building
Homeopathic Hospital In that city
FLORIDA gardeners get $4,000 this year Tor
the early vegetables they have sent North,
and next year will the business increased
WITHIN the past six months more than loo
white people have emigrsted from the neigh
borhood of Goldsboro, n. g., to indiana ana
the Northwest.
SOME idea may be formed of the rapid
growth of seaside resorts by the fact that at
Atlantic City, N. j., about 800 new cottages
have been built are building this spring.
DURING the winter the ice pinnacle under
Yosemite Fall became tower over 800 feet In
hight, but latterly 1t has been decreasing, be
cause of the change of temperature In the
water falling upon 1t.
A REMARKABLE feature In the history OF
William Smoak, of Charleston, s. c.. is that he
has lived to see his youngest and thirteenth
child grandmother. He has just entered his
ninety seventh year, has 100 grandchildren,
3gl great-grsndchildren and seventy great.
great grandchildren.
Mr. GEORGE W. CHILDs offers to bear the
entire expense of removing AM rebuilding
In It's original style in Paramount Park the
house which William Penn built for his
! daughter Letitla, In Philadelphia, and in
which she lived and died. It is soon to be de-
molished to make room forimprovements.
PuRIIrANIC New England ia stirred to its
depths by the announcement that the Agassiz
Museum at Harvard College is to be opened to
visitors from L O'Clock to o'clock on Sunday
afternoons, and that the Peabody Museum
and the library will probably follow suit. Lib
eral New gland is correspondtDgly pleased
Carry the news to Cotton Mather!
THE American show at the Berlin fish fall
is already the subject of admiring comment
for its fullness, variety and rarity But 1t must
! be puzzle for the Prussisn observers to deter
mine to what department of piscIculture be
long the fire engine, with horses yoked anc
men seated, which appears among the ex
hibits.
A PARROT that had strayed and been found
by Mr.. Grafton, of Port Jervis, proved to be
rock the cradle Poll cried: mother, Sail.
don rock the cradle" After religious service
were held In the house they were frequentl.
interrupted by Poll calling upon some one b.
name to close the meeting with prayer, and l
was done.
GENERAL WASHINGTON, in a letter which
now published for the first time, refers to La
fayette rs follows "He possesses uncommon
military talents, is of quiet and sound judg
ment, persevering and enterprising, withou
rashness and, besides these, he is OF q yer.
conciIiating temper and perfectly sober-qual
tiles which rarely combine In the same per
. SON."
, RArsIN grapes are being planted In Califor
MIA on q gigantic scale. This furore IL stimu
ated by the gre ut profits, the superior quality
the export demand and the very light wori
; REQUIRED In that climate for preparing raisins
! A large company OF capitalists Is Incorporates
TO introduce raisin culture In Fresno County
, and I'm Eve years time California raisin
will drive all such imports from the Unite
States.
Mas EIIzABETH JEWELL SAKE, the IN pthe
of John q. SAKE, the poet, died on the III
: inst, at st. Adams, W., In the ninety-hr'
! year of her age. She was married In 1918, an
, was the mother OF four sons. She was II
markable woman, retaining her freshnei
: and yigor to an advanced age, and possessin
+: excellent ability. At the time OF her deaf
= her hair had not turned gray. She died OF n
disease, but peacefully passed away In GUILE
= siumber.
y A SWEET young thing OF sixteen. WI
4 wanted to do something unique, recently n
r rived I'm London from Scotland, and explain
ing that sho was clergyman's daughte
: asked the manager OF the Aquarium to lot N
e marry Zulu. In vain no demonstrated viii
Z her on her folly. She replied that her hea
y was given. He suggested that she would ON
}, be one OF many wives when her contemplate
husband returned to Zuuland: but she pc
y sisted. rindipg that 10 was useless to reaso
a with her, she was tolt she could not mar
,r without the consent OF her parents, and WI
y sent back TO Scotland to obtain IL.
l. THE middle OF April marked In other par
r OF the county by not weather, followed
violent storms OF wind and rain, was accom-
20 panied in California by a violent snow stor
iiss the severest, we arc told, ever known In u
n sierra Navada sincs the Pacific Railroad w
A. built. The slides or snow down the sides
- the mountain were so heavy that great iengt
" OF the snow shed were crushed In, blocking
the tracks and rendering them impassao
h, Snow plows drawn by eight engines were OF
-, ployed TO clear the track. The snow fell
=. four days I'm binding clouds, until IL had Q
IN tanned depth of four To six feet.
ii pEFALcArIoN in the great banking co
70 osrn of the Rothschiids IN such an extraore
70, "a nary occurrence that the European papers d
vote much space TO the late affair In Vienn
~ IL seems that the Vienna branch OF the hou
n had long had In Its employ man nam
IL Straffer. He entered It's service In 1891. at q
,n age of twenty one. Nothing I'm his way of II
az ing excited suspicion. He was q bachelor, al
", his salary of 5000 year seemed ample
IA his expenses. About a fortnight since Stran
rt called upon the principal attorney OF I
n RothschiIds and confessed that for sevel
's' years he had been specializing on the BouI
with funds obtained by hypothecating I
"a, securities paced I'm his charge, and that
%. had covered up his operations by false entr
re I'm the books of the bank. series OF hea
es losses had made it impossible for him Ions
IA. to conceal his guilt, and he made cle
at breast of the hole affair. He was led to sp'
81 ulate by the belief that he could safely limits
an the operations of tile bank, OF which he
ne early knowledge. His mistake was In Z
od taking into account the fact that he KIN
only OF the transactions of one branch OF I
na great Arm which has itsasgencies In eve
,al money center of the world, and that
ON Rothschilds might choose 70 lose An Wen
~, for the sake OF winning In London or Pa