The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
GENERAL NOTES.

THE city of Boston taxes about s15,OOOOOO in
mortgages,
THE price of ice in New York has been in
creased from 20 to so cents per 100.
FRANCE in 1878 had $4,000 births, of which
5000, or about one in Is, were illegitimate.
WHILE boy at North Attleboro, Mass. was
holding horse the other day, the animal bit
off his lower lip
LATEST news from the Texas sugar belt is to
the effect that the late freeze stopped short be-
fore reaching that latitude, and that the cane
crop is safe.
THE Columbus (O) Democrat says that the
Democrats of Ohio are for Thurman. The
Ohio delegates will stick to him until he is
nominated, or it is demonstrated that he can
not be.
THE Cleveland Plaindealer says Speaker
Randall, who dined with Mr.. Tilden on Sun
day, says that the latter has not authorized
anyone to declare that be is not a candidate for
president.
GENERAL SPINNER, who will go down in
history as "The- Man a fraid- of. His-0wn Sig
nature stin lives in Florida, to cultivate the
golden orange in lieu of the verdant green
back, which in former times was his exclusive
crop.
THE Logansport Pharos says: 1t must be
alarming to the bloody shirt shriekers to
think of the reign of peace and security that
prevails in the South. There has not been the
shadow Of a foundation upon which to build
an "outrage" for months.
In relation to the presidential candidate the
Eureka CIll Journal, says it has given this
subject careful thought, correspondent, investl-
n
business men; and comes to the conclusion
that the best man is Hon. william II. English
of Indiana.
THOMAS JEFFERSON saw very clearly the
danger of judicial encroachment when he
said, in 1872: "The Federal judiciary is ad-
vancing its noiseless step like a thief over the
field of Jurisdiction until all shall be usurped
from the States and the governments OF all be
consolidated into one."
THE Augusta Chronicle says that 1t was
Washburne who said to Conkling: "You lie."
Eliciting no response. he resumed the CONVEX
sation after few minutes and said: 81 don't
know that you understood what said, and
don't wish to have any mistake made. said :
You lie.'" What a dose for Conkling would
Washburnes nomination be!
AN article upon the human figure says that
"the proportions of the figure are six times
the length of the feet" Coming generations,
wnen they shall excavate Chicago young
lady's shoe, will remark incontinently: "There
were giants in those days." and mentally re-
construct a race of women 10 feet tall.
ULYSSES 5. GRANT, JR., and Miss Flood fel
In love at a picnic in California. The young
lady went botanizing in the afternoon and
Mr.. Grant accompanied her. In trying TO OBJ
tain bit of wild geranium for her he. poison
ed himself with ivy, and Miss Flood cured him
with some soothing salve given by an old
lady That was enough for the young gentle
man,
The st. Louis Globe Democrat thinks that
latterly the Blaine movement has taken the
aggressive against the Grant movement, and
is being "worsted" everywhere. The result
will be- to put Washburne q month hence
where Blaine was three months ago, as the
second choice of those OF the Grant men who
will agree to entertain the idea of second
choice.
WENDELL PHILLIPS in his oratory repeats
his figures Of speech very frequently-we do
not mean to say too frequently, because there
is nobody who can repeat them so well as he
can. But IL you read one of his speeches.
any one-it will be found that he always uses
the figure OF the right hand holding this and
the left hand holding that. This figure is not
tiresome, but he always uses IT.
THE Louisville Democrat says that two true,
gallant and brave Democrats, against whose
wisdom, honor and patriotism no man in the
land ever uttered a word, are becoming more
prominent as presidential candidates-Han-
cock and English. 1t does not make much
difference which we take. They have no
quarrel with anybody, and no one has any
quarrel with them. Hancock and English, or
English and Hancock!
THE railway from Vera Cruz to the City of
Mexico is in many respects one of the most re-
markable pieces of engineering of its kind in
the world. The cost was very great, taking
into account the chespness of labor in this
country; but trip across the mountains
should be sufficient to convince the most
skeptical that not much of the sN 900 that
1t cost to build 263 miles OF the road was mis-
spent. Between Orizaba and Esperanto the
the rise Is nearly 500 feet, and this journey is
mplished in three hours.
THE Boston Post says thar Washington
gentleman who is a shrewd observer of politi-
cal events writes the Post prediction that
neither OF the Republicans now prominently
mentioned for the presidential nomination
will secure IL, and that the Democratic nomi-
nation will fall to some man little If any
talked of at the present time. He predicts
that Blaine will not come as near a nomina
ton as he did four years ago, and, though
friend of Mr.. Tilden, says his nomination by
the Democrats would be inviting defeat.
THE Paris Patrie announces the death at
Salt Lake City Of the Count Of Massena, son OF
Marshal Massena, OF the first empire, and says
he died In hospital in extreme poverty. The
Patrie must have got its news from some
source other than the American papers. A
son of one of Napoleon's marshals could hard
ly haye died In Titan without the event at
tracing great deal OF attention, unless his
identity was carefully concealss., and made
known only by letters received In France after
his death. The story Is, to say the least, doubt
full. Mk5Hen y