The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
POINTERS.

SENATOR FAIR once was a constable in sonom
County. California.
Ex-sEcRETARY EvARTs win make tour @
Scotland this month.
| GRNERAL WILLIAM II. PAYNE is talked of as tn
Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia.
QUEEN VICTORIA gets rid of the greater portion
Of her public duties on the ground of poor health
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs, speaking of the BibI
revision, said: They have killed the devil an,
knocked the bottom out of hell"
SECRETARY HUNT doesn't like being consid
cred as ''junketing" at Government expense, S,
he pays his personal expenses when on trips il
| the Government service.
PHILADELPHIA man was fined s27 in that cit,
for kissing girl on the street. In this city he'C
have had to pay $500. We believe in making EN-
pay what thing is worth.-Boston Post.
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw is at once among the
ablest and most attractive OF the public men O.
New York, combining both mental requirement.
and social graces which distinguish him in every
circle.-Rochester Democrat.
MASSACHUSETTS newspapers are commenting
on the provision of the New York Constitution
which allows the Governor to veto separate items
of an appropriation bill, and think that Massa-
ehusetts should adopt similar provision.
THE Albany Express takes this melancholy
view of Conkling's fall: "Yes, he is down. He
is not a Senator of the United States now If he
should express desire to have any particular
thing done, his wish would be disregarded for
the very reason that it was his wish"
IT was the Duke de Morny. the hslf-brother oI
the Emperor who created the taste for a French
Derby. and ever since he founded the prize there
is one Sunday in the year-the "Grand Prix," as
it is universally known-when Paris and the pro-
vincial cities fairly outdo the day over the
Channel.
"As SOON as General Longstreet is fairly warm
in the Georgia Marshal's Office" says the Balti
more Suns Washington correspondent, lit is un
derstood that he is to proceed to work in the mat
ter of organizing new party. to be composed of
Republicans and the Democratic independets of
Georgia"
THERE is no reason in the antecedents or in the
character of Mr.. Depew that should repel Repub-
licap votes. There are many reasons why they
should be attracted to him, Fifteen years ago he
left political life to engage in private business
If he now returns to politics, the public service
will receive of large integrity, as well as of
undoubted ability. He is cultured scholar a
polished orator and worthy man.-Rochester
Democrat.
SUIT of more than ordinary interest is on trial
before Judge Williamson in Chicago s25 900 being
sought under the "Dram-shop act" The COM
plainant is Mrs. Lucy A. Elkins, the wife of the
landscape painter, Henry A. Elkins. Since Octo-
ber 1876 Mr.. Elkins has been an habitual drunk
ard and owing, Mrs. Elkins says. to the perni
cious influence exercised over him by LIQUOR
seller. His art yielded him an income of $4,000
year, all of which he squandered. Mr.. Elkins'
most celebrated picture is Mount Shasta"
THE Raleigh, n. c., News and Observer Dem.),
upon jefferson Davis book, says
'while 1t appears that he hoped, after the sur
render of General Lee, to protract the struggle
and obtain better terms than an unconditional
surrender, yet we were glad to see that his last
words are: The Union-may it be perpetual "
Now. considering the proved facts in the his
tories of Messrs. Garfield and Blaine as weighed
against the spotless career OF Mr.. Conkling, it
seems to us far easier to believe that the Admin
istration men have simply been caught in one
more corrupt money transaction, not dissimilar to
Others in their history, than that the other side
has now for the first time abandoned upright DO
litcal methods for ways of atrocious trickery and
Y. Herald.