The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-12-29
PERSONAL.


As substitute for "state rights" Henry Wat
terson has coined the word statehood"
JOSEPH sELIGMAN, the New York banker, gave
away So, 900 Christmas Day-s1 900 each to ten
public charities, and $500 each to thirty.
EDITOR MCCLURE of the Philadelphia Times
says that Senator Bruce Is respected by all classes
in Mississippi; and Bruce is as black as the ace of
spades.
WHEN Henry s. Foote drew his pistol in the
senate TO shoot Benton. the latter catching at his
breast as if to tear it open, roared out LET the
id assassin.shootl"
AN Iowa paper says that judge of that State
although sixty-eight years of age and considered
pretty well-edHcated man, has entered a college
in Boston a student.
Mrs. sooTT-sIDDeSs. the actress, won the prize
at private shooting match recently held at st
Louis. She used heavy rifle, and scored sixty.
nine shots out of a possible seventy-two.
SECRETARY OF WAR RAMSEY was a school teach
er at Kutztown, Pa. in 1888. He fell in love with
a Kutztown girl, and asked her to marry him,
but she refused him because he was poor.
| GENERAL SHERIDAS nodded his head vigor-
ously at the New England dinner in New York
the other night. when the orators chanted the
hymns of praise to General Grant, but he never
said Captain General once.
Mr.. JAMES c. FLOOD Is reported to have had
transactions to the amount of $500 900 600 in the
Stock Exchange during the past five years. Mr..
Flood is described as an exemplary en- and a
pun,tual and exact man of business
CAPTAIN EADs has been cordially received at
the City of Mexico by all the Government officials
and other leading men. The Government ap-
pears willing to assist him in his Tehauntepec
project, and the newspapers commend him.
JAMES W. ENGLISH, the newly elected Mayor of
Atlanta. Ga, was a Rebel soldier, who gave up at
Appomattox and came into the city in May, 1865.
with fifty cents in his pocket He began work
there carrying brick at fifty cents a day, but is
now one of the city's heavy men.
DELAWARE is ablaze on the quarrel between
Bayard and Conkling and they are rakIng up
stories OF duels between Tom Bayard's grand
father and other defunct chaps II is said that
Toms grandfather shot man in the mouth who
had called him names, driving his offensive cpl
thets down his throat.
EDGAR A. PoE, st the University of Virginia,
had passion for drawing weird aud grotesque
pictures on the walls of his room. A griffin that
Poe drew attracted considerable attention among
the students. He wrote verses a good DEAL but
was more distinguished at the University as
linguist and crayon artist than a'poet.
Mrs. ELIZABETH THOMPSON, of New York, who
has given away 5000. 900 for benevolent purposes
during the last sixteen years, now says that she
believes she has done more harm than good. She
says that the poor are of two kinds-"Gods poor
and the DEVILS poor'-and that she has been vic
timized by the latter class until she is sick of it.
JAY GOULD has now picked up the international
Railroad of Texas, so that there is but one road
in the State. the Houston and Texas. which he
does not control. 1t is still in the bands of the
Morgans, and is the most valuable railroad in
Texas. and by means of large feet of steam
ships has the outlet all the year to New York and
the East
Hon. A. L. AKERNAN died at his home in
Gainesville, Ga, on Tuesday night, after weeks
sickness from inflammatory rheumatism. He was
born in New Hampshire. and, after graduating at
Dartmouth College, went to Georgia and practiced
law. He was Unionist during the war, took
part in the Reconstruction Convention of 1S6
and in 1870 was appointed Attorney General of
the United States by President Grant. He was
succeeded by Mr.. Williams.
GENERAL SHERMAN has repeatedly stated to
his intimate friends" says the Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun, "that he should
celebrate his sixty-second birthday, which comes
in April next, by voluntarily retiring from the
army. He can retire on three-fourths pay, which
is about $4,000 year. This will give Sheridan
chance to command the army, although the
Office OF General of the Army expires with Sher-
mans retirement or death. III he should retire.
as contemplated, it is possible that Congress will
revive the office and give it to Grant unless pro-
vision is made for him before that time, which is
more probable"
THE Pittsburg Commercial records the death at
Elders Ridge, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
on the 2Sth inst, of Mrs. Letitia Ewring said to
have been 107 years and twenty-five days old
Her oldest son is aged eighty-two years. and her
Youngest has reached three-score years. She left
two other sons and one daughter, the last being
seventy seven years of age. she left thirty-two
grandchildren, over fifty grandchildren,
and several great great grandchildren. Her mem
DRY was SO retentive that she was enabled to keep
a correct chronological record of her numerous
progeny without the aid of memoranda, and her
chief pleasure to name them in chronological
order, giving date of birth, marriage, etc.
REV. DIR. THEODORE IRVING. a nephew of Wash
lngton Irving, died in New York on Tuesday,
aged y years. Washington Irving took an early
fancy to his nephew Theodore and made him
taking him from Columbia College for that pur-
pose-his private secretary, when he was himself
Secretary of Legation at the Court of St. James.
The deceased became Professor of History and
Bellies Lettres at Hobart College. and in 1855 he
was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He was for many years conspicuous figure in
New York society, OH public occasions at festivals
and in literary assemblages. He was noted for his
genial dignity of manner, for his conversational
powers, and for the grace OF style and purity OF
expression of his writings and sermons.
ALEXANDER AGAssIz Curator of the Museum of
Natural History at Cambridge, Mass. has given
not less than $4,000 to that institution since
1871, beside making numerous gifts and subscrip-
tons to other departments of Harvard University.
Personally" says writer in the Harvard Reg
lister, "Mr. Agassz is bright, intelligent, busy
man, easily approached. something more than a
man of science, Astounding in liveliness interested
/ in all that interests humanity. but TOO much &C.
cupied with special work ever to be idle. Though
Swiss by birth, he is essentially Yankee ia in
tclectual grasp. and in all that belongs to his
binary life. Few men ut forty five are so full of
vigor or show more reserved vitality. Mr.. Agassiz
laid the foundation of his fortune by developing
the famous Calumet and Hecla copper mines in
the Lake Superior region
COLONEL J. F.CLAIBoRNE, one of the oldest
editors of the South, tells novel experience that
befell him at Jackson, Miss. The hotel at which