The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-01-12
GENERAL NOTES.

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GENERAL II. NJ. NA0LEE.- who distinguishe
himself at Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill and other ba
tle-fields in Virginia, is now in the wine busIne,
at san Jose. Cal.
\ LAPoRTE CITY, -. man recently found
good-sized lizard in a plug of tobacco. The an
NAL was all there except the head. which ha
been bitten off by the discoverer.
GENERAL and Mrs. Grant will be the guests {
, Governor Cornell. at Albany, from Monday, jar
uary IL, TO Friday. the 2lst. They VIII then go Z
Troy. accompanied by Governor and Mrs. Cornell
DARWIN rises for work at O'Clock and goes Z
bed before 10. His trouble is one of the stomach
caused by a five years sea voyage long ago. Mr.:
Darwin reads TO him the novels OF the day. lie
in his seventy-second year.
THE Richmond state thinks ii was the lat
Judge Percy Walker of Alabama, who sent tn
famous dispatch North announcing the attack ol
Fort Sumpter
with cannon. mortar and petard,
JEFF Davis sends old Abe his Besuregard."
E. F. PmLsBURY. the one stalwart Democrat il
the State of Maine is going south. He is chile,
out by a severe Northern climate, and besides
the Republicans in power refuse TO pay him
bill of 81 900 for public printing done in tn,
Garcelon days.
CAPTAIN JAMES B. EAps arrived in st. Loui
from Mexico on Friday morning. and viii leav,
for Washington in a day or two. There he viii
present TO Congress his plan for ship railwa,
across the Isthmus OF Tehuantepec and ask fo
aid in carrying it out
ADEIISA PATTI is now singing in Madrid foi
the first time in seventeen years. She has been
received by the King and Queen. who presented
her with their portraits Upon the evening o
her first appearance she wore a pink satin gown,
and was almost covered with flashing jewels.
| THE Philadelphia Times says that since Conk
ling isn't on speaking terms with Blaine, how
would Conger do on the Committee on Foreign
Afairs? He would create something of a sensa
| ton among the diplomats, who follow the maxim
of Talleyrnd, TO make their words conceal their
thoughts. Diplomacy couldn't be put to more
trying ordeal.
REPRESENTATIVE 4. II. STEPHENS, OF Georgia.
told reporter OF the Atlanta Constitution that il
is all a mistake, the prevailing opinion that the
South does not want Northern men to settle
within its borders He says: I'VE want North
ern men-we want Yankees; we welcome all hon
est, thrifty citizens" Mr. stephens assurances
are gratifying
TIE military of Charleston, 5. c., will celebrate
the anniversary of the birthday OF General Rob
ert Z. Lee, January 10. by turning out in uni
form. without arms, and attending gathering at
Military Hall. where an oration appropriate to
the occasion viii be delivered by Colonel Hugh
S. Thompson.
GENERAL GRANT is said to smoke 100 cigars in
two weeks. He gives away as many as he smokes.
He has used the same brand of imported cigars
for ten years. They cost s22 50 hundred. Colonel
Bob Ingersoll pays $50 for box, and uses from
five to ten cigars a day General Butler pays $40
and sometimes so for box. Senator Matt Car
penter, who nearly killed himself BY smoking,
has been reduced to three cigars a day.
FIGHT miles south of Glasgow, at Mallet-Schen-
eek, lives an old woman 102 years old, who knew
the poet Burns. Burns used to fiirt and crack
jokes with an elder sister OF this lady, whose
name, by the way, is Cunningham. Mrs. Cum
ningham says she "canna understan what the
folk max sic a wark about Burns fora lowse,
thriftless fellow and fain O. the DRAM"
AMONG the Christmas cards of Mrs. Ben Eggles-
ton, OF Cincinnati was one which informed her
that unless her husband, who is member OF the
State Senate, withdrew from his support of the
Elevated Railroad scheme, he would be neatly
and promptly assassinated. A man might as well
be an Irish landlord as an Ohio legislator.
CONGRESSMAN ORTIZ, who Is said to be proud OF
his German ancestors and of his knowledge of
the German tongue, is described by merry friends
as addressing the Austrian Emperor al Vienna in
this beloved language. The Emperor, It Is re-
lated afterward mentioned Mr.. Ofth to another
American in complimentary terms; and then
added: 'what was the dialect in which Mr.. Orth
delivered his address, l knew. of course. that ii
was not English, and thought that l detected
some faint traces Of the Teutonic tongue III some
of the words"
Corr, the new lad interim) Secretary of she
Navy. is thus described by Governor Matthews. OF
West Virginia: General Goff was my competitor
for Governor on the Republican ticket in 1876.
We canvassed the State together. and became
warm personal friends. He is elegant gentle
man, a profound lawyer, and strictly honorable
and upright in all his dealings. He is very pop
ular man-in fact the leader of his party in West
Virginia. General Goff is native of the State.
He has always resided in Clarksburg, Harrison
County and all of his immediate relatives reside
there. He Is very youthful-looking man, and
quite handsome In appearance. His age is only
forty-three, and really looks to be much younger.
His nomination gives general satisfaction in our
State"
THE little granddaughter of DR.. Prime, the
veteran editor of the New York Observer, got into
his lap about New Years time, and after taking
the pen out of his hand. asked him, demurely:
"Grandps, how long have You been writing in
this way? Ever since was little dot, you have
been writing, writing, every time come; did
you always write just so?" Then her grand
father told her how long he has been writing
for .other peoples pleasure and profit. ''The
| first piece that / ever wrote for
the New York Observer was printed In
that paper April :, 1888. From that time to this.
about forty-three years, with a brief interval,
have been writing every week. and almost every
day for the Observer. II Is curious to see how
much one writes ia such steady work. Suppose
a minister writes sixty pages each week in max
ing his sermons (less than ten pages day. and he
can easily write ten pages In an hour or two he
will write 5000 pages In year. $4,000 In ten
years. or 100, 900 In forty have written on an
average more than five columns each week for
forty years, or 10000 columns in all at least 100
volumes of 400 pages eacn."
For years old John Koop, of Houston. has been
known as a miser He died on Sunday of sheer
starvation refusing food up to the last moment OF
his life He left at least $4,000 in real estate and
money. lie owned much property in Houston.
Koop was hater OF mankind, and es.
pecally of womankind. He hated women
so bad he would not even rent his houses
10 one of them. The miser lived In
two o-roomed hoyel. In the front room there
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