The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-07-17
GENERAL NOTES.


GENERAL NOTES.
JUDGE HoADLEY, the Chairman of the Gin
cinnau Convention, has sailed for Europe.
SENATORS BLAINE and Cameron are de.
scrfbed as having delightful horseback rides
together at the White Sulphur Springs.
QUsKN IsABELLA of Spain is very anxious
that her eldest daughter, the Infanta Paz,
should at once find q husband. The Princess
Ia now seyen-and-twenty.
Mr.. OLE BULL viii sail for Europe to-day to
be absent for some weeks. He win not be
able to appear at the Poe benefit matinee at
New York, as previously announced.
JUDGE JERK BLACK is In Paris, and helped
the American colony celebrate the Fourth on
the 5th He made a characteristic speech, full
OF political erudition, and was the same old
Jere generally.
THE youngest official in the Postoffice De-
partment Is the postmistress OF Sttka, Alaska.
She is the fourteen year-old daughter of
territorial officer located at the Capital of''Our
Arctic Domain.
The Orange County (F1orida) Reporter says
that the orange trees are not growing as rapid
ly as they usually do at this season. The
winter was too mild to check the growth Of
the trees at that season, and they are now TAX
ing the reactionary rest.
THE new oath for the French soldiers con-
tains no reference to the Deity or the Repub-
lic 1t will be taken on the 18th of July, as
follows: "In the name of the regiment, swear
on my honor to remain faithful to the Con-
stitution, and to defend this flag until DEATH"
JOHN OEGNER was q shiftIess San Francisco
shoemaker. The family harder became en-
tirely empty, and his wife said: al believe you
could get work II you wanted to, and If you
don't do Il will commit suicide. Go out, and
# you don't come back by O'Clock to tell me
you've got job, you'll hnd me dead when you
do come" He returned at 2. and she was dead.
THE public whipping post in Raleigh, N. c..
hiss disappeared. Until q few days ago 1t stood
near the Court House, and has been used of
late as q hitching post for country roadsters
whose masters had law business on hand.
Before 1858 1t was the Comfy whipping post.
The stocks and the pillory which stood beside
1t were removed long ago, but the cd post re-
NAMED.
LAWRENCE BARRETT has given up his trip
abroad with his family this summer, and has
settled down at his cottage at Cohasset, to rest,
read, study, and prepare for his fail and win
ter work. He proposes to bring out several
new things next season in rather elaborate
style, and to secure-what he has lacked be-
fore-a superior supporting company.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to pride herself ex-
ceedingly upon her beautiful collection OF
miniatures, and she Is accustomed to boast
With laugh, thst In this respect she has only
one rival In Great Britain, and that Is the
Duke of Buccleuch. The Queen maintains her
fopdness for art, and though now over sixty,
stfll sketches from nature with much skill and
taste.
Mr.. MATTHEW LYNCH, who was killed last
week In New Mexico by falling tree. left an
estate of over 100000. He was a Philadel-
phfan q Roman Catholic, and Q bachelor, who
fought through the civil war, and at Its close
went out to New Mexico with q small capital
which he used In purchasing canal, sup
plying the mines Of Elizabethtown with
water This started him on the road to wealth,
and later he discovered the Aztec Mines,
which yielded $4,000 q month. His heirs are
two brothers and one sister.
TEE election for President is about to come
70 q choice In Mexico, and q revolution may
confidently be expected by next week. An
election there attracts very little attention In
the United States, because II there is any one
thing concerning which our people are utterly
ignorant, it Is the inner affairs of the only
Republican neighoor they have. They study
the politics OF England, France, Germany,
and even Spain and Italy, but pay little at
tention to Mexico, their only neighbor on the
South. Its politics have been SO varied that
the finest mathematical mind In the country
could scarcely keep track Of he number, va
riety and importance Of Its revolutions.
Da. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has written
TO Ladies' Literary Club, at Cortland, N. Y, a
pleasantletter In reply to the announcement
that they were about to discuss his writing. 81
have no doubt you will deal gently with me-"
he says. "If you were disposed
TO do otherwise could help you
very much, for could point out plenty Of
faults In my writings which many readers
might possibly overlook. 1 began to publish
too early, fear, and many Of my earlier pro-
ductions would have been just as well left In
nv portfolio. Perhaps you will say some Of
the latter ones, too; but lam quite willing to
trust to your good nature. After all. the main
point is not what are the least worth reading
of an authors books or essays or poems, but
what are the best, and are they worth read
Ing"
THIS has been q year fruitful in canine
sagacfty. A Nashville physician is accom-
panied In bis professional visits by large dog,
which watches over the horse and buggy. One
night he left the horse unhitched. and when
he returned the horse had disappeared, but
was found several hundred feet away, where
the dog was sitting on his launches In front
of him and holding the hitch rein In his teeth.
At another time the horse was standing I'M
hitched near a railway track, and took fright
at the cars. Before he could run far the dog
had caught the reins In his teeth, and soon
stopped the runaway. A Canandaigua mother
thought her little daughter merited whip
ping and as she aimed to strike her, the New
foundland dog Of the family caught the
rnenacing arm in his mouth, put did not bite.
the father, coming In at that moment, out of
curiosity made a pretence of Furnishing the
child, and his arm was arrested In the same
way.
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