The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-23

and commissioned by Secretary Ramsey on March
5, before copy of the law authorizing their en-
ployment was received
The shooting match between DR. Carver and
Scott. in London, concluded Saturday night, and
resulted in the following total score-Caryer,
! 9.73S; Scott, 9, 1876
while playing with some friends on Table Rock
in Pickens County, last Thursday lost his footing
, and fell 200 feet.
purse of $4,000 is offered for a stallion race at
Rochester, n. y, on July4, Among the entries
are Santa Claus, Monroe Chief, Wedgewood, Bone
setter and Voltaire
The timers of Pittsburg and Allegheny City
have notified their employers that II their wages
are not advanced 20 per cent. by April they will
inaugurate a strike.
Lastavia Abasta. Spanish girl, connected with
some Of the Oldest families in Southern Cali
fornia, killed +. p. Foster in the street in Los
Angeles last Thursday for seducing her under
promise of marriage.
The Ashuelot Savings Bank. at Winchester, n.
H., has unearthed deficit of 100000. The
Treasurer Elleroy Albee. has assigned his prop
erty to the institution.
The First Congressional Church of Princeton,
ILL.,. was organized at Northampton. Mass half a
century ago, by the Hampshire colony. Only two
OF its original members are living.
| The new Car has authorized the announce
ment that he will first give his attention to the
/ internal development of the State, and that his
foreign policy viii be entirely pacific.
| A. D. Lynch, State Bank Examiner of Indiana.
has been elected President OF the First National
Bank of Indianapolis. Mr.. Lynch succeeds Mr..
| William II. Morrison, recently deceased.
The question of calling an extra session was
discussed by the Cabinet on Friday, and II is be-
lieved that the National Legislators will be sum-
moDed to the Capital in the early part Of May
President Garfield has appointed ]. Stanley
| Brown his Private Secretary, and nominated s.
Dana Horton be Secretary to the Commission
to attend the international Monetary Confer
ence.
On plantation near Florence s. C., on Friday,
Joseph Biggs was simultaneously killed and
buried by lightning. His CORPSE was only dis
covered by portion OF his oyercoat being left In
sight
| At the request of provision shippers in Chicago
! and New York. Secretary Blaine has instructed
the American Ministers at Paris and London to
! insist upon the admission of all meats shipped
prior to the edict against pork.
The General Assembly Of Arkansas adjourned
sine die Saturday. The presiding officers OF both
Houses were. besides the usual resolutions, COM
plimented by the presentation to each of gold
headed cane by their respective Houses.
In an attempt to execute James Black. at Ma
rion, s. C., on last Friday. the rope broke after
was restored to consciousness by means of
whisky. and hanged as speedily as new hemp
| could be procured.
At a concert in Montreal on last Friday the
President of st. Patrick's Society proposed that
| homestead be purchased in that city for Michael
Davitt, and that the British Govern ment be re-
! quested to allow him TO emigrate tn Canada.
| Many handsome subscriptions were paid in. one
| being from the Mayor
The failures reported the past week throughout
/ the United States and Canada, published in
| Bradstreet's number 49, an increase over the
| record of the preceding week OF about 10 per cent
The largest number in amy State has been in New
| York-twenty-seven The New England States
had twenty-four, the Middle States forty, South
ern States forty, Western states twenty mine, ana
| Canada and the Provinces seventeen.
The portable boiler of Tyler & Harrod's saw
mill, on the Kentucky River, two miles below
Frankfort, exploded Saturday. killing aud
wounding all Of the nine men in the MILL except
| one John Harrod blown forty feet and in
/ stantly killed; his brother, Lawrence Harrod,
| died in an hour, and Frank Graham died in three
| hours. VIM. Arnold's jawbone was broken, and
James Redding, VIM Wheeler, Louis Harrod aud
Hugh Tyler were badly scalded.
INDIANA STATE LEGISLATURE.
The only bill of importance that passed the
| Legislature during the past week was bill gu
lating the assessment of property for the pur Ose
of taxation. Both Houses have been eng ged
upon various bills from the Revision Comm ttee
| growing out of the cocifcation of the laws.
In answer to various correspondents who are
anxious concerning the medical BILL we will say
that bill has passed both Houses thus far.
When one does pass will give Ii in full iE our
/ weekly edition.