The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-07

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WILLIAM HSvASDERBILr recently paid $40, CO.
for a blue-white diamond weighing fifteen carats
Mr.. Vanderbilt viii be remembered as the mar
who attained considerable notoriets last sumlne;
by owning horse that trolted in 2:lo.
ToN MARSHALL. of Western Pennsylvania, Is
said 70 be powerful strong on metaphor. His
reputation is evidently deserved since we learn
from some recent remarks OF his that the hide
pendent movement in Pennsylvania is 1.-THE en-
tering wedge for the dawn OF right"
AS MAYOR HARRIsoS entered the Chicago City
Hall one day last week. with about 81, 800 in his
pocket. he felt a man brush too closely against
him. He grasped the arm of the stranger. stared
into bis face. and found he had captured small
pox patient bearing note to the Health Depart
ment.
BENEATH the Garfield memorial tablet in the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad depot Washing
ton, was placed on Tuesday rich token OF ever
greens and flowers, representing ''the gates ajsr >
and the silver star ON the door that marks the
spot where the martyr fell was covered with a
large star of snow.white flowers.
Ex-GovERSok HosATIo SEYxouR's goodness
crops out every little while. He has been caught
writing to an Omaha friend, recommending that
wild black cherry be planted in Nebraska. 81
have been very i'll during the past three months, "
writes the dear old man. 81 am getting old. but
l wish to be useful as long as i've"
II has been suggested by cynical paragraphei
! that only abou. one out OF fifteen of the Amer
lean girls who go abroad TO become great singers
or painters are ever heard OF after returning home
The other fourteen marry Italian Counts, and
when night comes are too busy taking care of the
monkeys and mending tambourines to hunt I'D
their old acquaintance.
THE apportionment law made no change in the
number of Congressman Louisiana has he'd, but
as the Districts as now constituted are unequal
in population, the Legislature has appointed 4
Committee to remedy the error. The State has
six Representatives, and 1t is thought the Dis
| trIcts can be so arranged as to give nearly an
equal number of people to each.
AFTER Illinois was redistricted congressman
Sparks and Townshend found themselves placed
in the same District, and the question was which
Of them woald have to retire to private life
Sparks. who has been elected four times, hiss gen
erously concluded to step aside and permit Mr.
TOwnshend. who has been elected three times, to
prolong his Congressional career. The District Is
the Fourteenth, and it is Democratic by about
$500 plurality.
A SALzBURG wine merchant was recently fined
SIPS and imprisoned for two months for aduitera-
ton. He had purchased 5000 small casks Of
wine, which. by additions of water. alcohol.
potato sugar wine dress, and salt in enormous
quantities, he had increased TO 50 600 casks. This
mixture (which was sold at five times its value,
recalls the dying winters advice TO his
"Always remember that you can make wine out
OF anythiug-even wine"
SIMON FRAZIER fought in the war of 1872.
driited ashore on a single timber from his raft
which the St. Lawrence rapids had knocked to
pieces, blows fifteen feet into the air by the
premature discharge of blast, assisted in boiler
explosion on the Hudson, was brought home hall
dead from three other accidents of which the par
iiculars have not been preserved, twice recovered
from illness after his doctors had given him up.
and finally died in peace and hope in a Home for
the Aged at the age of los years.
PoPE LEO XIII. having objected to the proposed
visit of the Emperor Francis Joseph to Rome, the
Austrian Ambassador sought an audience with
bis holiness and inquired reproachfully whether
the conc;liatory policy toward Italy initiated at
the beginning of his reign must be regarded as
abandoned. AT this, says the correspondent, the
Pope became SO greatly disturbed that it was
feared he would faint. The conversation was
turned to other matt rs, and the audience quickly
ermlnated with much coldness.
ST. LOUIS editor accidentally received in his
morning mail proof1sheets intended for the
employees OF a. religious publication house
and, after glancing over them, rushed to
the city editor. yelling; why in the
world didn't you get a report OF that
big flood? Even that slow old religious paper
across the way is ahead Of you. Send out your
force for full partlculars-only one family saved
Interview the old man. His name is Noah.-In-
dependent 1t must have been proofsheet of
the revised version OF the ancient food.
sIoNEwALL JACKSON ON the morning after the
second battle of Bull Run ordered General Ewell
TO move his division at sunrise. For some cause
the troops did not move until an hour after sun
rise. Riding up to General Ewell, Jackson hotly
commanded him TO give up his sword, which ne
did. All that day Ewell remained without COM
mand, until toward night chafng under the dis
grace he sought out Jackson, aud going up to him
said: General, I want my sword" The sword
was returned TO him yith,ihe curt reminder:
"You must obey orders, General Ewell, you must
obT orders"
STORY is narrated of the present Bishop of
Limerick which, coming from Lord Emily, must
be true. The Bishop, who has for some time
back been in extremely delicate health, was told
some days since By his physician that trip to
Nice was positively necessary to set him up in
health; but ne positively declined to entertain
the idea OF going, and shook his head so deter
Intimately that the man OF pills and potions
thought it only right TO express himself in plain
terms. "My lord" he said very solemnly. ~
tell you candidly that your case is most serious
one, and ii you do not go to Nice you must very
soon go TO heaven" "Ohl well, in that case"
said the Bishop very dismally. II viii &c to
Nice!"-Life.
For several weeks past Butler County, Ken
lucky, has been the center OF Mormon missionary
labor and the result is such disturbance of pub
lie aud private peace the County has not seen
since the War. Families have been broken up
and friends separated, and the jealousy and bit
tsrness have reached point which threatens still
worse results. The Mormon elders, alarmed at
the storm they had brewed, retired for time, but
they are expected 10 appear again in the neigh
borhood OF Huntsville shortly. "If they come"
writes a correspondent of the Louisville CONNER
cial. there viii be some lynching done, as the
people through all the neighboring Counties are
desperate. If no other law will protect them,
they viii have to resort to mob law"
THERE can be no doubt that the emigration Of
the Jews has reached dimensions which make
the movement not only serious economic blow
to Russia. but grave difficulty to her neighbors-