The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-21
CLIPPINGS.

In 1879 2F,Sl5 acres of public land wers sold
in Manitoba.
| CONGRESSMAN AIKEN Is mentioned as pos
sible Governor of South Carolina.
Two boys at Grand Island, Neb., were sue
cessful in making their father believe they
were burglars, and he shot one of them dead.
MAYOR LATRoBE, of Baltimore, has vetoed
the resolution to permit the erection of
Confederate monument in Eutaw Place, in
that city.
THE New York Herald soys that the Char
lotte IN. CO. Observer dominates Horatio sey-
mour and William II. English for President
and Vice President.
THERE has been a rumor that Sir Robert
Peel is to be made Earl. His father spe-
clally enjolned his widow not to accept peer
| age with remainder to his children.
EVERY Democratic State Convention thus
far held has pronounced in favor of the reten-
ton of the two-thirds rule in the nomination
of candidates at the Cincinnati Convention.
REV. H. H. HAYDEN, of murder trial motto.
riety, and wife have taken up their resi-
dence in New Haven, in the house where
the traitor, Benedict Arnold, dwe-t ITO years
ago.
QUEEN VICTORIA sailed from England to
visit the tomb of her daughter, the Princess
Alice in Germany, on the same day that the
Elk Empress Eugene sailed to visit the place,
In Africa, where her son fell.
THE Washington Sentinel says that Grant
said some time ago that the Democrats always
managed to upset the milk bucket when it
happened to be full. The GRANTEES place
their sole hopes upon that Democratic milk
bucket kicking propensity.
THOMAS WALL stole $4,000 from an express
Office in New Orleans, twelve years ago, and
fed. He lived comfortably on the money in
various parts of the country, under assumed
names, until lately, doing work. The fund
being then exhausted, he gave himself up vol
UNFAIRLY and confessed his crime.
THREE farmer brothersof the late William
Cullen Bryant live in Princeton, Ill. They
are described as good, honest and substantial
men, only one, Mr.. ]. al. Bryant, having lit
erary capacity. he has written many poems,
and published them, too. He dwells IN a
handsome house, which was the gift of his
distinguished brother.
AFTER a telegraph pole had fallen on Sa-
vannah negro's head, he threw up his hands
and shouted, Don't hit me again wild yer
club, Mr.. Policeman. 1t wasn't me that stole
| the chickens. 1t was Deacon Henry" Then
he looked saw what hit him. and walked of,
| 4
'spected dat de policeman had nae shuah dat
| time."
one of the English election phrases for
which there is no equivalent in the United
States is ''plumping" Wherever a constitu-
/ ency returns two members, each voter can
| give one vote each to any two candidates, but
he can not give his two votes to any one can
didate. Ifhe chooses he can give one vote to
only one candidate, and this is termed
! "plumping."
THE Wallace and Randall factions in Penn
sylvania are TO rush into each others arms,
according to a late report, at the Democratic
/ State Convention at Harrisburg on the 18th of
this month 1t matters little whether they
get up weeping spectacle not, as they
| Will prove in November that they are firmly
united In opposition to the party OF kemble,
| plumber and the Camerons.
| THAT Senator Blaine has written an anti
Masonic letter is a rumor rpundly stated by
the Portlann Press to be not only untrue, but
absurd. Among the hundreds of letters reach
| ing Mr.. Blaine daily, was one from Chicago
asking him If he were a Mason and IL he
meant to attend the Knights Templar gather
| ing there next August Mr.. Blaines private
| Secretary, Mr. Sherman, himself a Mason.
answered that Mr.. Blaine was not member
of the fraternity and would not attend the
gathering.
THE st. LOUIS Globe.Dsniocrat says that
| Horatio Seymour says: "The history OF THO
Republican party shows that It's strong men
have generally failed to receive the nomina
tion for President" In the Democratic party
1t looks as II the strong men succeeded In get.
ting the nomination only when there was no
chance OF getting the election. A party which
succeeded in electing Pierce aud Buchanan,
and which failed to elect Mcclellan and Sey.
mour, has no room for observations about
parties in which the strong men make poor
| innings.
| THE Empress Euge mics large fortune will
not, it is said, go to the Bonapartes. Her heir
is to be the Due d'AIbe, her nephew, the son
OF her only sister. The Empress has been &C.
companied to South Africa by two English
ladies. Mrs. Ronald Campbell and Lady Wood
Her voyage has been remarkably comfortable,
three large cabins having been SO altered as to
form suite, the first-a sitting room-with
lounges, davenport, and whatnots; the sec.
ond, bedroom; the third, a bath room. won
derfuIly luxurious for board ship; the whole
suite lined with charming pale green stuff,
like silken tapestry, and panelled in places
with mirrors.
Ara recent meeting of the Southern Histor-
ical Society in Louisiana, an apron made In
the semblance OF Con tolerate nag was shown
and Its history told. In the spring of 1858 toe
Eleventh Virginia Cavalry passed through
Hagerstown, weary, discouraged. and pursued
by Federal troops. A young girl stood in a
doorway, wearing this apron. The soldiers