The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-05-15
GENERAL NOTES.

ten. year, each copy,......-..-- 800. l.50
GENERAL NOTES.
1T Ia reported that Secretary Carl schurz is
engaged 70 Miss Irish, of Washington.
SxHAfoRs CAMERON, Logan and Conkling
are now called Grants Syndicate or Sena-
tors"
GovERxoR McCLEILANs hobby il China,
and has house on the top of Orange Mountain
is made attractive by choice specimens from
all parts OF the world.
A NAN Of sanguine temperament Is digging
In Q bank Of earth 1t Hagerstown. Ind, for a
box containing $4,000, which he claims to
have reason to believe was buried there half a
century ago. -s.z gr.ss (
DE- OLIVER WENDELL HoIMEs viii "wel-
come the clergy" at the coming Unitarian
festival In Boston, and the Rev. DIR. Bellows Is
expected to respond In behalf of the ministers
and their wives.
A WHITE widower married a black WIDOW at
Cape Girsrdesu. Mo. He had four white child :
rem, she had i've black ones, and three yellow
ones have been born to them since. The fam
hy presents q varied aspect.
PROF EssoR w. H. BELL, leading colored
man of Missouri. says the 'colored voters wall
demand the nomination OF either Frederick
Douglass or Senator Bruce for Vice President
by the Chicago Convention.
Or Captain Francis Sterling, of the missing
{, Atlanta, 1t Ia stated that he was a near rela-
tive of Commander Sterling. who set sail with
his wife and children In the steamer City of
Boston, from America for England, and was
never heard Of more. -
Nh. MORGAN, Of Alabama, has introduced In
the Senate . bill providing that the President
Of the Senate shall submit to the Senate and
House, when assembled to count the votes for
President and Vice President, ali packages
purporting TO contain electoral votes.
The Richmond (va.) State has discovered
tnas Colonel A. d. Streixht, who engineered
the hmous tunnel which let 100 Union pris-
oners ont Of Libby Prison, Is broadcasting Q
lecture Of bis on the subject through Indiana
q bait for the Republican Gubernatorial
nomination. F& - = - ~
The Danville Qll) Post thinks that William
A. Morrison, OF Illinois, els one OF the ablest
purest and beldest members OF Congress, and
that, II nominated for the Presidency, he can
command al of the German vote Of the West
and poll more votes In the United States than
any other man." IS Im
FouR locomotives were stopped by . drift In
. snow shed on the Union Pacific Railroad
snow covered the roof completely. 50 that nc
air could get In and no smoke could get out
The engineers and q emen soon became In
sensible. Fifteen Cinnamon went to the res
cue and were also overcome. All were nearly
dead from sunocation when finally taken out
Ex-PsEsIDENT wooLssY, OF Yale College
writes: AT should regard the nomination to
third term In itself TO be highly undesirable
and that to break through an Old habit o
three generations for which the best reasons
exist, without q most imperious necessity
would be very an wise, and would deservedly
expose those who would set 1t aside to defeat.
THIS Is what ex-President Grant said In hi
annual message 70 Congress, December .
ls5: "With the present term OF Congress m,
oficial Life terminates. It is not probable tina
public Affairs will ever again receive atten
ton from me further than as q citizen Of tn
Republic, always taking adeep interest In tn
honor, integrity and prosperity of the who'll
land"
The excess of exports over imports of mer
ehandise, stated In specie values, was as fol
a,,ows: Month ending March 81. 1881
"A. se2; 90 month ending March 81
lSn, 81, 08. l34: nine months ende'
Maroh 81, 1850, sl5e. 075, Ss3; nine months ende'
March a, 1879. s23 272.O s2; twelve months ende'
March u, 1850, 90. 4e5,1ss; twelve month
ended March 81, 1879, s2sS, 81 .5e4.
A HORSE biscuit is being manufactured II
RussiA to take the place Of oats. 1t is made O
cruahed oats aud the flour Of gray peas, mikes
with hempseed oil and salt, and Is four inche
In diameter. A days rations weighs abOu
four pounds, and Is equal to ten pounds o
oats The horses like the biscuits when soake,
In water, and IL fed exclusively on them
though they lose In flesh, are still ft for ia
iguing work.
SOUTHERN mocking birds well deserve tn
name They initiate not only the songs O
other birds, but human whistlers a. well. 4
lady Of Macon, Ca, relates that her pet mock
Ing bird often deceives all the inmates Of he
house by its clever imitation of the postmani
whistle. They 60 out TO get the letters, ant
md Jack on . spray near the fence, blowing
his whistle and looking entirely innocent o
any intention TO hoax the family. is4
A PHILADELPHIA shoemaker Is making lift,
pairs of shoes for the men who are to go OF
the Howgate Polar expedition. Each pair viii
weigh nom four 70 five pounds, have sole
four and thee. eighths inches wide and heel
three and three eighths inches wide. Between
he inner and outer sole thick layer of corl
n placed to prevent dampnees penetrating
The shoes are made Of beaver cloth, and line
throu9hent with lambs skin with the wool on
Between the cloth and the lambs skin piece
a bladder are placed TO insure dryness to thu
1set.
An old letter, In v hich Senator Thomas II
Benton announced his marriage to his friend
the late Judge Wash, of st. Louis, Is sttn pre-
served In the latter's family. "Long before tn
drowsy and needless post-boy shall transpor
60 you this scrawl," writes young Benton
Ayour friend Benedict viii cease to belong I,
the order of bachelors. Time, which puts al
end TO everything, has now put an end TO IN,
endless courtship, and In the month of May
shall hope for the happiness OF imparting
part OF my happiness TO all my friends In st
Louis, Doth male and female, by presenting Il
them one VINO is everything to me, and hop,
win b something to them"
Tx Cincinnati Commercial says: IF MI
Washburne persists In saving between him
self and the tree by conspicuous adherence
10 Grant. he win be picked up with broker
hack and chucked into the Hospital about tn,
ID Of June, when he might have been ridin,
ON the highest seat In the band wagon"
:. Mrs. COVENTRY PATMoRE has just died. Sh,
wss the second "Augel In the house." cele
brated by the poet OF whom Mr.. Ruskin ha'
wrffkeu: ~You cannot read him to often OF