The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

ner na1r nad not turned gray. cne oleu OF no
disease. but peacefully passed away In a quiet
slumber.
A REMARKABLE feature in the history of
William Smoak, OF Charleston, s. c., is that he
has lived TO see his youngest and thirteenth
child a grandmother. He has just entered his
ninety-seventh year, has lOG grandchildren,
S9l great-grandchildren and seventy great
great-grandchildren.
Mr.. GEORGE W. CHILDs offers to bear the
entire expense of removing and rebuilding
in its original style in Fairmount Park the
house which William Penn built for his
daughter Letitia, in Philadelphia, and In
which she lived and died. It is soon to be de-
molished to make room for improvements.
PURIITANIC New England is stirred to its
depths by the announcement that the Agassiz
Museum at Harvard College is to be opened to
visitors from O'Clock to o'clock on Sunday
afternoons, and that the Peabody Museum
and the library will probably follow suit. Lib
eral New England is correspondingly pleased.
Carry the news to Cotton Mather!
THE American show at the Berlin fish fair
is already the subject OF admirlng comment
for its fullness, variety aud rarity. But 1t must
be puzzle for the Prussian observers to deter
mine to what department of pisciculture be-
long the fire engine, with horses yoked and
men seated, which appears among the ex-
hIbits.
GENERAL WASHINGTON, in a letter which is
now published for the first time, refers to La
fayetUe as follows: "He possesses uncommon
military talents, is of quiet and sound judg-
ment, persevering and enterprising, without
rashness, and, besides these, he is of very
conciliating temper and perfectly sober-qual-
tiles which rarely combine in the same per-
son."
A PARROT that had strayed and been found
by Mr.. Grafton, of Port Jervls proved TO be a
fluent tslker. When the children neglected to
rock the cradle Poll cried Mother. Sally
don't rock the cradle" After religious services
were held in the house they were frequently
interrupted by Poll calling upon some one by
name to close the meeting with prayer, and 1t
was done.
RAIsIN grapes are being planted in Califor
mia on gigantic scale. This furore is stimu-
lated by the great profits, the superior quality,
the export demand, and the very light work
required in that climate for preparing raisins.
A large company OF capitalists is incorporated
10 introduce raisin culture in Fresno County,
and in Eve years time California raisins
will drive all such imports from the United
States.
EDMUNDs' strength as a Presidential candi-
date is recognized in the Northwest. The st.
Paul (Minn) Pioneer-Press says that the
Worcester Convention ''gives a commanding
prominence, backed by all the traditional
moral prestige of Massachusetts, as a leader of
progressive political opinion, to the Republic
can statesman who is, perhaps, beyond all
others, the worthiest to fill the great Office of
President of the United States"
THE Shelby Democrat says that as the time
approaches for the Cincinnati Convention, 1t
begins to be acknowledged that Hon. Thomas
A. Hendricks is the coming man for the Demo-
cratic nomination for the Presidency. Other
candidates may go and other candidates may
come, but the fame of Hendricks, like Tenny-
sons brook, flows on forever. His strength
steadily increases, and it is admitted on all
hands now that he is the man to win the race.
A SWEET young thing of sixteen, who
wanted to do something unique, recently ar
rived in London from Scotland, and explain
ing that she was a clergyman's daughter,
asked the manager of the Aquarium to let her
marry Zulu. In vain he demonstrated with
her on her folly. She replied that her heart
was given. He suggested that she would only
be one of many wives when her contemplated
TcJuEncu W Oub Suc per
sisted. Finding that it was useless to reason
with her, she was told she could not marry
without the consent of her parents, and was
sent back to Scotland to obtain 1t.
THE middle OF April, marked In other parts
of the country by hot weather, followed by
violent storms of wind and rain, was accom-
panied in California by violent snow storm
the ssverest, we are told, ever known in the
do flo Poll u-aS
built. The slides of snow down the sides of
the mountain were so heavy that great lengths
of the snow shed were crushed in, blocking up
the tracks and rendering them impossible.
Snow pIows drawn by eight engines were en-
ployed to clear the track. The snow fell for
four days in binding clouds, until 1t had at
tanned a depth OF four to six feet.
JOE BoTTs, a negro desperate, has been the
terror of sections of Wyoming and Colorado
for years. Arrested a year or two ago. he
knocked the Sheriff down, and escaped by
swimming the Missouri River. A few days
ago, Captain Hawley, OF the Rocky Mountain
Detective Association, met the negro In the
streets of Denver, and, walking straight up to
him and holding out his hand. said, "How are
you Botts." They clasped hands, and Haw-
ley reached for the negro's revolver, which
was In his pocket. The next instant he reeled
back from terrific left-hander from Bolts,
who ran up the street. The Captain shot six
times, and put bullet through the fugittve's
body. But, after that, the negro scaled fence,
and escaped for the time. He was afterward
captured in a dying condition.
THE liberal clergymen of Boston are taken
severely to task by Mr.. Wendell Phillips for
their failure to aid the temperance cause in
that city. at is a singular fact" says Mr.
Phillips, "that these liberal clergy, the out
come of what is called the best culture and
humane faith of the day-children of Tucker
man, Charming and Mann-are rarely or
never seen or heard on temperance plat
form. 1 have been for forty years familiar
with all sorts of temperance conventions,
meetings and appearances before Legislatures,
and never have happened to meet any of
our prominent liberal clergy, now living, at
such gatherings; have never known of their
taking part in any such efforts, with the one
honorable exception of Mr.. Hale"
DEFALcATIoN in the great banking con-
Germ of the Rothschilds is such an extraordi-