The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-03-28
GENERAL NOTES.


KEARNEY has had his "boom" at last. 1t
was the "boom bang of his cell door.
SENATOR DAVIS, of West Virginia, is report
ed to be the wealthiest man in his State.
MILTON SAYLER has become the first vice
president of a big New York mining company.
A VERY dangerous counterfeit $40 legal ten
der note of the series of 1915 is in circulation.
SEVEN hundred men are out OF work in Chi
cago in consequence of the furniture makers
strike.
CYRUS W. FIELD has received more decor
atoms from foreign potentates than.any other
living American.
Mr.. JOHN A. BINGHAM, minister to Japan,
will be candidate for denomination to Con-
reSs in his old district
QUEEN VICTORIAN income is $500 day.
The car has more than any other European
soverelgE-S25,0O 600 day.
DIR. GATTLING, of Hartford, Is personally to
superinteud improvements being made In
Europe on his famous gun.
JOHN g. THOMPSON says that Ohio wants
Thurman to be president, and that Tiiden is
not even her second choice.
Ex-SECRETARY McCULLoCH Intends to give
up his New York house in May and return
with his family to their home near Washing
ton.
Mr. EMERSON is said to have refused to in
vite Rev. Joseph Cook to his house, because
he had "slandered his friend, Theodore Par
kerr"
Although Kept fiat on his back by rheu-
matism for several months, Garibaldi Is now
able so take daily walk on crutches in the
open air, at Caprera.
Mr. Eliot superintendent of the Boston
schools, says that the Boston teachers punish
too much, some of them reporting l3O cases OF
corporeal punishment in a month.
AN Iowa woman examined straw utter in
h srdware store, and she has just recovered
$500 damages for the loss of two fingers, on the
ground that the machine was not labeled
dangerous"
AN Englisbman well acquainted with Herr
Krupp's establishment at Essen says that since
the rurco-Russian war Russia has purchased
there no fewer than 700 cannon, mostly OF
large Galore
THE czar's body guard is on duty day and
night Anybody entering the bed room or the
library of the sovereign would have to pass 200
Cossacks. Two soldiers sleep at the foot of his
bed every night
prese nted in the reports for last year show
that the death claims were considerably gres.v-
er than In previous years, which would seem
to indicate that last year was an unhealthy
one.
THE accident to Cardinal Newman was
queer one. While walking across the room he
stepped upon a portion of his gown, which
caused him to stumble sideways against a
projecting piece of furniture, thereby breaking
rib.
WHILE hidirg out III the swamps from bull
dozers, last Sc ason, the Southern negroes man
aged To make nearly 100000 bales of cotton, to
say nothing of corn, rice and sugar cane.
There is no telling what they would do If they
had a chance.
THE Southern Pacific track Is expected to
reach Tucson by March Is The San Pedro
river will be reached in May. Work will soon
be begun at tide water on the Gulf Of Mexico
and connection is expected to be made inside
of two years.
A CoLoRED Methodist pastor at st. Helena,
La, was accused of stealing bacon, and his
presiding elder deposed him; but the congre-
CATION stuck by him Loyalty, drove his sue
cessor out of the pulpit with knives, clubs. and
pistols and finally burned the church.
one day next mouth. A barbecue will be
served after the event, and Texans are looking
forward to the day with much pleasure. IL
must be pretty dull show where the people
of Texes can't have fun.-New York Express.
A SERVANT girl in Philadelphia, while de-
scending q steep back stairway in private
house, with basket Of china, slipped and
fell to the bottom. The china was broken
int, f,o in
bris, her throat was cut, and she bled to
death.
TROY church is to adopt novel idea. 1t
has determined to abolish the use Of spire
bells, rs a relic OF barbarism. Electric bells
are TO be arranged In the houses of all the
members of the church, and the sexton can
thus notify them OF the time to get ready for
the services.
Two Boston women of couture" came across
an old-fashioned milestone In the suburbs. One
read the inscription, al m from Eoston," and
the other said: Here is a grave, perhaps, OF
some young girl. who wished 1t written on
her tombstone, I'm from Boston, How SIM
pie and sufficient"
AN instance of five children at a birth has
just been published by DIR. William Fraser, OF
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Four died imme-
diately, and the fifth lived only few days.
Three were giiIs and two boys. They weighed
IA pounds In the aggregate, and ranged from IL
to 10 inches IN length.
The car, when the famous explosion oc-
Cured wanted, it is said, to run down to the
soldiers, and exclaimed: "The wretches, they
might at least spare my childreDr rhe czars-
witch, however, put his arm round him, and
held him back, saying: "Your life IL more
precious than ours; stay here father"
SENATOR BAYARD is tall and slender; his
head is small, but well proportioned: his eyes
are deeply shaded by overhanging brows. His
diction and hts gestures are agreeable, but an
unpleasant voice goes far to spoil his oratory.
He never writes his speeches before delivery,
speaking with the help of a memorandum
pad lying on his desk.
HOUSE built in 1889 still stands In Dedham,
Mass and is the oldest In New England. II is
beautifully situated under heavily branching
elrns, with g moss covered roof. Much Of the
original furniture 2s0 years of age, stu re
mains, and has been In the possession of one
family, named Fairbanks, all of that time.
Miss EMMA ABBOTT, having been told of
some criticism upon the warmth of her acting
In love scenes, responded 81 detest the con
ventional, STACEY, stupid love making scenes
often depicted by women who were never
In love and know nothing of the passion. /
have been in love, and know what am act
ing"
GERMA ANY with population Of i2,0O0,OOO,
has G0.0OO schools and an attendance of D. 100000
pupils; Great Britain and Ireland, with pop
ulation ofS4O0OO0J, has So 900 schools and 3OCO,-
OOOpupils; Austria Hungary, with population
OF 81 100000, has 5000 schools and 5000 900 pu-
pills; France, with population of 81 600, OOO has
ono scbooIa nd A 100 900 -, ~.sra. c-us- -..L