The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-29
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TABLE GOSSIP.
THE first currency bearing the signature of b.
K. Bruce, the new colored Register, was received
at the Treasury Department on Tuesday last.
Mr.. CoNKL1NG spent Sunday in New Jersey.
In case there was any thing in that story about
the world coming 60 an end, he wanted to be out
of danger.
MRS. GENERALs~ mERxAx, with her youngest son
and Miss Lizzie Sherman, will pass the summer
in Boston with her daughter, Mrs. Lieutenant
Thackara.
Mr.. KEENE's horse Foxhall is named after Mr..
Keene's son, FoxhallParker: Keene. who was
named after his mothers uncle, Commodore
Foxhall Parker.
WHENEVER there is a big fraud at Washing
tom says Mr. Hayes, hotly, 1.-The Blaine men
may be looked for in itin one shape or an
other. Interview.
THE youngest son of President arheld. who
has just made arrangements to enter Williams
College. is engaged to be married to Miss Claimie
Bradley, Of Mentor.
THE Baltimore News says: "The insurance men
quote the price of Legislative votes at Harrisburg
at $50 each. The idea of a rooster getting $1,000
in Albany is too abusuId.'
WE stump James A. Garfield TO do as brave an
act as the New York Senators-that is. resign and
go to the people for vindieation of the ruthless
work OF his Observation-Disclosures Journal.
BRADY is rapidly buying up newspapers in the
District of Columbia. He is ore of the few lead
ing Republicans who believe in the horsepower
attached to a free and untrammeled press.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Miss EMMA GILLETTE. who has just been ap-
pointed a Notary Public by President Garfield, is
a Wisconsin girl by birth. She overcame this
defect as much as possible, however, by going to
school in Ohio.
ONE of Brady's papers does General Grant a
good turn. 1t says he is a reputable citizen OF
the Republic" An affidavit from a Louisiana
witness would strengthen this statement.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Miss 0'BRIEN, who, in the Pail Mall Gazette,
some little time ago made grave accusations con-
corning the treatment of Storage passengers on
certain of the Transatlantic lines. has retracted
all she wrote, and will now probably seek the
seclusion that the Emerald Isle grants.
SENATOR ~STRAHAS'S testimony before the
Bribery Investigating Committee was in the high
est degree significant and important. It places
the Administration of President Garfield on the
defensive. snd renders an explanation by the
President himself imperatively necessary.-Roch-
ester Herald.
SESSIONS got $1,000 from Barber. Two he paid
to Bradley, and the one thousand he put i'm his
pocket until Depew was elected, when, according
to Bradley. Sessions was to pay it to him. And
the Tribune ~reiterates there is no bribery at AL
bany.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
1T is understood that Mr.. Vanderbilt very re-
~luctantly consents to Mr.. Depew's running for the
United States Senate. The services he renders the
great corporation with which he is associated, in
professional and other capacities at Albany. out
weigh any he could render his clients as a mem
Der of the Senate.-Brooklyn Eagle.
MEN engaged in a State Prison offense seldom,
If ever, admit the crime. Sessions could not be
expected to confess that he paid the 1900 TO
Bradley. He was not quite such a fool. 1t is the
fellow in a hole, like Sessions, who perjures him
self to get out. There was no motive for Bradley
to Perjure himself to get into a hole.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
REPORTS from Maine go to show that the veneer
able Justice Clifford. of the United States Supreme
) Court, is improving in health. physically If not
I mentally. He is at present a guest at an old
friends farm in Cornish, and he is able to ride,
stroll about quietly. and even indulge in a quiet
way in that favorite pastime of many an humble
d as well as great man-of ~trouting.
. II secretary NlnuOm reaus the papers, ana the
, Treasury Department is supplied with a large
number at the expense of the Government, he
= will probably notice that recent praise of his
: financial skill has been succeeded by universal
e condemnation of his job at withdrawing
mail peculatiOn in the Treasury. The
Q report showing that public money has
been wasted by the thousands has been
securely locked up by the Secretary, but the fac
is known 70 the public, and unless ppnishmenI
follows, Secretary Window will leayeb ehind him
the embarrassing record of a man who, while in
: public Office, discovered that public money haC
been stolen. and instead of furnishing the crimina
abolished his Office. Defective machinery ma,
delay public business, but il does not steal money
Springfield Republican.
JOSEPH PULITZER, editor Of the ST. Louis Post
Dispatch (Dem.), writes to his paper from Albany
saying: "Woodin, the leader of the Administra
ton forces at Albany, has been member of tn
State Senate for many years, and was one O
Tweeds most efficient tools. II is as notorious
q fact that Tweed bought Woodin as it is ths
l. Tweed was a radical. Nearly all the recognize
corruptionists in the Albany Legislature are wit
the Administration and against Conklinl
The power of money and a vena1 press, the enol
nous patronage OF the Administration, represen
ed on the spot by Robertson with 1.3C
appointments in his pocket. the influence
" Jay Gould with his newspaper connections. an
u of Vanderbilt with all his railroads. are the res
s, secret powers that Conkling has TO fight, and gree
er powers they are In New York politics"