The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-01
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GENERAL NOTES.

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Ms. LINCOLN, the wife ofithe ex-President, is
steadly failing, and her physicians think that she
may not survive many days.
Fv-rovERHoR HoRATIo SEYMOUR has gone into
the Adirondacks for his health. He Is not strong,
and uas too tired to respond to a serensde at Low
vile he other evening.
SEcEErAKY BLAINE is informed that the French
delegation to the Yorktown Centennial will con-
sisi % 10 more than ten gentlemen. descendants
Of Lafayette. De Rochsmbeau and other OF oar
slhes in 1881.
ES-GovERSoR HUBBARD last Tuesday paid
more than $40 for the first Connecticut River sal
mon Of the season, which was taken near Lyme
on Monday night, and weighed twenty-five and
one-haif pounds.
OYs of Wall streets characters is said TO be
Uncle Joe" Richards, the ragged millionaire"
who has made s., 900, 900 by sticking to Jay Gould,
lend ag him 100000 once, but who dresses in
the cheapest and shsbbiest way.
rs The Chicago Convention Mr.. Conkling said:
the election before us is the Austerlitz OF Amet-
lear politics." while Mr.. Garfield remarked. 1.-THE
coming fight is our Thermopyl@." Just at this
~junc;ure, however, the fight is rather suggestive
OF WsterlOo.-New York sun.
SIMON CAMERON has presented to the Lutheran
Church Of MsytOwn, Pa, the old Cameron home
stead, to De used as a parsonage under the coDdi
ton that a portrait of the late Eliza Cameron shall
remain in the parlOr of the parsonage-the owner
devising that the parsonage shall constitute a
memorial Of his wife.
LOvGFELLOw recently remarked of Hawthorne:
'He vas a shy man, and exceedingly refined. If
any one thought he wrote with case he should
have seen him as 1 have, seated at the table with
pen and paper before him, perfectly still, not
writing a word. On one occasion he told me he
had been sitting for hours waiting for an inspira-
ton 20 write, meanwhile filed with gloom and
an almost a~pathetic despair
CosKIIEG and Platt's course in ~resigning being
Ikened 10 that of the Southern Senators in 1861,
il was remarked that they did not even have the
excuse of going with their State. but have de
manded that their State should go with them. It's
case Of the tail trying to wag the dos.-Washing-
ton Gar (Rep)
LOUISE MICHEL, the Partisan Communist, is a
wOInsn OF very ordinary appearance as regards
dress and other accessories, about forty to forty
two years Of age, of medium height. very strongly
buns with hair which hangs in a wild sort of way
abont her ears and forehead. Her face is not
handsome, but her eyes have a sympathetic look.
RFv. JoHN F. ADAMS, of the New Hampshire
Conference. Is thought to be the Oldest Methodist
minister in the world. He will be ninety-one
years old this month. and has been sixty-nine
year in the ministry. In the same Conference
are four other men VIII entered the ministry over
ffy years ago-one in 1928, one in 1s2s and two
il 1880.
TN whole country has sadly disappointed the
gar: statesman of New York who last week re-
signed two seats in the United states Senate. He
expected the country to rise up with one voice
and demand that he be returned to his two seats.
but be was Mortified to see it get up aud protest
against just that thing. There are disappOint-
ments in store for nearly everybody in this world.
Philadelphia Times.
SEVERAL wealthy citizens of San Francisco
nave promised liberal subscriptions for the
monument TO the memory of General John A.
Sutter, the first diScoverer OF gold in California,
which is to Oe erected in Golden Gate Park.
General Sherman, it is said. will contribute one
OF more pieces of bronze ordnance captured
during the Mexican War with which TO cast a
statre Of General suffer.
TIE Catholic Telegraph says: "Parnel knows,
ard Understands, and respects the feelings of the
Catholics of Ireland. He knows that should ever
3 { iestiOn arise as to preference for faith over
sutherland, the former has the stronger claim
upon the Irish heart. Such a question never will
arise. Ireland is Catholic to the core. and when
she Is an independent country (which great good
may God speedily grant) the Catholic Church will
be the state religion. It can net possibly be
otherwise"
IkssERT that the spirit of Ingersollism is large
ly the legitimate production of the prevalent spir-
II Of what stands for Christianity in modern socie-
" We may drive out the ugly brat. but we can
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nenis of its distorted face. If We had been more
like our Master in our charity, 1 believe that inf
deity would have been robbed of its fang. Vol
t8ire dropped his stiletto and silenced his sneer in
the presence of the sweet and simple piety of the
English Qusker.-St- Louis Western Light.
DEVOTED Methodist, it is said. asked John
Wesley what he thought as to marrying a certain
woman well known to both. Wesley advised
him Tot TO think of it. "Why." said the other,
"she is a member of your Church. isn't she?"
Yes" was the reply. And you think she is
truly a Christian woman" YES, . said Wesley,
~ believe she is" We'll. then, why not marry
her. Because" replied Wesley; because, my
fnend, the Lord can live with a great many peo-
pie that you and / can't"
CHANG the Chinese giant. says: After the
show season is over / have a most magnificent
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society and buy a mansion on Fifth avenue. Then
will turn II from top TO bottom into a Chinese
palace. Everything will be Chinese. and In the
moss perfect taste. I will then give Chinese meals.
served by Chinese maidens and boys, TO the best
people of New York. have never been married.
and my brothers wife, a lovely lady with very
small feet, will be the mstrOn, while / exercise a
general superintendence. II shall all be very
6ne, and I viii have only the best people at my
tables"
> TIE Republican party has IN the general
opinion fulfilled its mission. Why should il not
30 10 pieces: Why should any one Of lis honest
voters mourn over its dissppearances 1t may not
se dead at this moment. but 1t is rotten. To say
that such a party, which deliberately chooses
Dorsey as one of its public manipulztors and I'M
blushingly gives him public dinners; which has
honored and protected Robson, which openly
courts the friendship of public plunderers. which
during four years sheltered Brady in his Stal
Route jobberies and took part of his gains for it,
campaign fund after the exposures made of him
in Congress; to say that such a party, which
eonceals its relations with a dozen Hobbies and
many of whose public men live by jobs-to say
that this party, quarreling now over the spOils
.ought to live is absurd.-New York Herald.
UTrTED STATES SENATOR THoNAsC. PLAT, who
recently resigned his position, was born In