The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-07-31
GENERAL NOTES.


GENERAL ARTHUR and Senator Conkling are
at the st. Louis Hotel, Quebec.
SENATOR LAMAR Is so Ill that he has been
forbidden to make any speeches at present.
PRESIDENT HAYES and Mrs. Hayes will
probably visit Senator Hill, of Colorado, at
Denver.
MISS CARY will not sing in opera next
season, q decision which will be widely re-
GREETED.
LAST year the UGited States exported $780,
100000 worth OF wheat and flour, and more was
needed In Europe.
THERE can be no doubt that the man whom
Miss Vanderbilt will marry Is a genuine Lord.
His debts amount to s25v,OOO.
Grief JUSTICE WAITE, OF the United States
Supreme Court, will pass the summer at his
old homestead. in Lyme, Conn.
A REPORT comes from Pennsylvania that
Walt Whitman is lying very sick at the resi-
dence of DIR. Buck, in London, Ontario.
THE Princess Dora dTstria visited Hartford,
Conn, last Friday, TO see Mrs. HARRIET Beecher
Stowe, but that lady was out of the city.
EVERYONE will viii ne gid TO hear that Mr..
Peter Cooper far recovered from his
recent illness as TO be able to go to the country.
AT one time, when Barnum failed in bust
ness, he turned book agent. and tramped
through the streets of New York City selling
copies of Sears Illustrated Bibles.
"YoU couldn't hit the slice of barn with
| that pistol" said Warren tauntingly to Jones,
at HillsborO, N. G. "But can hit the side of
! you" retorted Jones, and he fired at Warren
INJECTING mortal wound.
KING STANLEY, the ruler of all the gypsies
| In this country, lives In the midst of settle
ment of his people near Dayton, o. Is
daughter, who was to become Queen at his
DEATH has lost her heritage by clipping with q
man not gypsy.
A TENNESSEE sutton wrote TO his sweetheart
as follows: "Your father kicked me last nigot
| and forbade me the house. If L whipped him,
would it lesson your love for me?" She re-
| piled that 1t wouldn't, and the parent was
soundly thrashed.
MRS. BELKNAP wife of the ex-Secretary of
| War, is at Sea Girt, few miles from Long
Branch, with her little girl. She is described
rs handsome and as witty as ever, and as hav-
ing shown wonderful courage throughout her
trials, without manitesting any bitterness to-
ward individuals or the public.
LINDSAY MUSE. the veteran messenger al
ths office of the Secretary Of the Navy, COM
pleted his hfty-secon6 year of service last
Thursday He was first appointed July 10,
1873, during the administration of John
Quincy Adamy, by Samuel L. Southland, then
at the head OF the Navy Department.
DARWIN Is right" said an awkard youth.
There are moments which come to the young
man who doesn't know what to do with his
hands, when he longs to climb tree and be q
monkey, and throw nuts at the old bipeds In
the front seats. Man has never really tasted
the benefits of true freedom since he was a
monkey"
MRS. GARFIELD Is reported to have had the
pleasantest sort of a compliment paid to hel
by her husband. He Is quoted as saying that
In all the ups and downs of Kaleidoscope
political life she has never once dropped 9
careless word which could be in any way usec
to his disadvantage. He takes her judgment
upon many things.
WE hear by private letter, says the Hart
ford Conn Courant, that George Eliot ant
her husband now In Venice, and may
often be seen together on the piazza, wher'
the novelist appears OLD enough to be her hus
bands grandmother say the Italians. W.
are also panied to read that Mr.. Cross fell int
the Grand Canal the other day from win
dow in the second story of the Hotel Europa
but was fished out by the gondoliers withou
damage.
mo, SAMUEL" calmly replied Mrs. Bartlett
in answer to his furious and sarcastic ques
tons, mo. 1t isn't because there's no gra!
, cloth in Burlington that patched your sum
mer trousers with sea-brown basket cloth
but I'm going to break you OF your loaferist
habit of going in your shirt-sleeves during
business hours or III make you the laughin,
stock of the town." And when Mrs. Liver
more makes up her list OF "superfiuou
women" she leaves Mrs Bartlett out ever,
time.
GENERAL GRANTS appearance to the eye o
| the Denver Tribune was seemingly more sen
, sible than picturesque. He was dressed In
suit of plain cloth, wore q broad-brimmet
black hat slightly turned down, front and rear
In make up of costume slightly resembling
Dom Pedro, and In general appearance a re
minder of some plain old farmer one ha
seen with his Sunday clothes on. He hat
evidently been In tender hands, for he wor
bunch Of honeysuckles In his upper button
hole and red rose as his boutOhniere."
PRIVATE DALzELL has broken loose TIT
Cleveland Leader. What fitting couple, TIT
Private with his fear of rebellion and MIR. Ed
win Cowles with his fixed fear of the Pope
toe will make. There Is nothing like either o
them under the sun, and when combined they
are simply Immense and unapproachabl., and
the Siamese twins, who could never be eepar
ated either in health or sickness, in youth Oh
age, were as nothing to the spectacle of Dalzel
and Cowles walking up and down the State O.
Ohio as congenial yoke-fellows.
THE San Francisco Call says that all the dis
putes I'm relation to the will OF James Lick and
his estate have been settled, and the trustees
are waiting for the property to advance In
value before 1t is disposed of in the manner
intended by the devisor. The requests of the
Lick will are as follows: To the Old Ladies
Home, $4,000; FOR a monument in Golden
Gate Park to Francis Scott Key (author of the
"Star Spangled Banner'D, $1,000; for observa.
tory and telescope, 100000; for a Mechanical
School of Arts. $780, 600; for public baths, $780,,
OOO for statuary for City Hall, 500 600; for Pro-
testant Orphan Asylum, $4,000; for Ladies