The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-31

YOUNG DaxW1n, who intends to prepare his late
fathers biography, is mentioned as peculiarly
fitted for the task both by education and person al
knowledge. de has been his fathers colleague
in many of his recent scientific researches.
GOVERNOR cRITrENDES. of Missouri feels good
because there is a healthier feeling" in that
State since the death of the distinguished Mr..
James. Mr.. Crittenden says that travel has in
creased, the people now feeling more secure while
riding on the rail.
IT was DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, we believe,
to whom. as he waited for prescription. the
druggist said: That is my SON. sir, sitting by
you; don't you think he looks like me?'.' Well,
yes. replied the poet. Il think can see some of
your nniments in his face."-New York Evening
Post
THE Count de Paris, in a letter of recent date to
General b. C. Norton, of Boston, wrote: 81 see
with pleasure that the new trial OF our friend,
General Fitz John Porter, is likely to terminate
favorably for him in short time. He has been a
victim of great injustice. and this tardy repara-
ton is well due him."
| MRS. THoMPKISs. the aunt of General Grant,
who recently died in West Virginia. had a son
who served in the Confederate Army under Lee,
and first met his cousin when Lee surrendered at
AppomaGox. This son since the war has been
/ OhS VI AuC NcNulcu lUllONCIc VI O6IcIdl UIdUl,
aud was numbered among the 600 at Chicsgo.
STILsoN HUIcHISs. editor of the Washington
Post and Concord az. H. Union, writes: Mr..
Tilden said to some weeks ago that he would
not accept the nomination for Governor this
year for fee simple to the State of New York,
and that he had no more intention of being
candidate for President in 1884 than he had of be-
coming an applicant for the throne of Russia"
1T is reported that George Bull, of Philadelphia
whose wife was brutality assaulted last summer by
q guide in the Adirondacks, is about to be IT,
dicted by the Hamilton County Grand Jury for
alleged c2mplicity IN the shooting of the guide.
Ifthis step is taken II will be at the instance of
certain other guides, whose ill-wiIl Mr.. Bull in
CURED by expressing his suspicion that they were
in completely with the brute who committed the
assault. Mrs Bull died last week.
| A. H. STEPHENS ankle is fast recovering from
the wrench given it in his recent accident Curl
ously enough, the similar fall which he had two
| years ago brought compensation with it. A
tumor had been forming for some time on one of
his knees. 1t had grown serious enough to de-
msnd surgical attention, and an operation for it
had been determined on. The fall. however gave
nature chance TO remove it. 1t burst and went
completely away.
Mr.. ARTHUR viii Nave about all he can do If he
fuldlls the various engagements which he is cred
tied with having made this week. To attend the
exercises of Decoration Day. visit West Point,
participate in the celebration of Evacuation Day
at New York, witness the unwilling of Washing
toms statue on the Sub Treasury steps. look after
his private business and appoint Tariff Com
mission, are only the leading ones on the list.
IN reply to a question as to his own specialties
of discussion ct the School of Philosophy this
summer, Mr.. Alcott said in substance the other
day that he should talk OF our growth toward the
spiritual life; how it may be lived here; that all
true life is in love- for love is life, and that who
ever would accomplish WORTHY. deeds must divest
objects OF their materiality. adding the force of
spirit to matter. Mr.. Alcot believes our own
wills are our creators; that our choices are our
destiny, and that nothing is ours which our own
wills have not made ours.
MAJOR B. W. BELLAMY, who owned several
hundred slaves before the War. is the master
of thousand negroes, who cultivate mis- farm of
600 acres, near Quitmsn Ga. They live in neat
whitewashed cottages, and are provided with
Churches schools, and, if the local newspaper is
not mistaken, dance-h houses. Every dwelling has
its garden, potato patch and orchard and every
tenant is encouraged to save money. buy land and
develop his individuality. 1t is said that all the
children over ten years of age read and write.
At the plantation house things done in the old
style.
| REV. DR.. SPEAR was for many years pastor Of
st. Luke's Protestant Church, Philadelphia. At
the age of sixtysix, when his eyesight had failed
and his strength decreased, he retired from the
active ministry and was provided with place for
life in the Old Mems Home. Lately, on his sew
enteth birthday, he sent In his resignation to the
managers, explaining that he was under engage
ment 20 marry on June l. He says that he made
mistake IN supposing that he was ready to re-
treat from the world. His affisnced wife is es-
Unable and wealthy spinsIer.
| REV. GEORGE WAsHBURN, President of the Robert
College, Cansiantinople. writes of the late Horace
Maynard. ex-Postmaster General: "He was the
first scholar in his class at Amhurst, and kept up
| his scholarly habits to the end. He read Greek
and Latin with ease and unaffected pleasure, and
could not only quote freely from the classics but
seemed to have inexhsustible fund of English
prose and poetry always at command. He was q
| genuine orator For six successive years, on Com
mencement day, he addressed the graduating
class of Robert College, and have never heard
addresses more admirable in style or substance"
IN my callow days of London experience 1
/ WrOle 10 the hmeflCdiA cdsAhS tAut L
| would be, ETC., etc., If he would kindly write me
a pass for performance at the Houses Of Parlia-
ment. received very nice little note to the eff
feet that Mr.. Lowell had long since exhausted all
the passes at his disposal. But" said the Minis
ter, 81 have heard that half crown judieiously
expended may gain a person admission to the
Strangers Gallery" Mr.. Lowell was quite cor
rect in the matter of the half crown. and, as one
good turn deserves another take this occasion 10
inform ]. r. that on ordinary occasions shilling
will do the same service.-LondOn Correspondence
Detroit Free Press.
IN response to request for some of the mos
valued thoughts of his long and useful life
Peter Cooper recently wrote as follows TO a socia
gathering OF aged men in Boston: II rejoice in
the belief that mankind throughout the world
viii improve and better their condition in proper
ton as they draw from the revelations of nature q
more national theology, that will present God in
the character OF loving and afeetiOnate father
Such God will be our highest ideal of all that is
lust, powerful, wise, pure and good. All men
should realize that what man, community, q
State or a nation soweth that must they also reap
somehow, somewhere. and at some time, and thai
by the operation of laws. designed in InEnite wis
dom. so wise and so good that they viii never re
auire to be altered, amended or revoked"
AFTER the performance of the last drama Of