The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
CURRENT NOTES.

GENERAL KILPATRIcK's widow, who is g native
of Chilli, will return to this country.
GENERAL GRANT has transferred his Long
Branch pOperty. worth $4,000, to his wife.
II anybody has any Confederate bonds TO dis
pose of there is still market for them at 81 on
thousand.
| Ex-GovERNoR ENGLISH. of Connecticut, cele-
brated the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF his birth last
evening at his home in New Haven.
THE Mississippi House of Representatives has
passed bill providing for submitting to the peo-
pie constitutional amendment for qusdrenHial
elections.
/ CONGRESSMAN DUGRo, of New York, and his
wife are the youngest couple among Congress
sional families. he being only twenty-six and she
| several years younger
4. BRONSON ALCOTT attributes his strength of
body and FRESHNESS. of mind to the simplicity Of
his habits and the strietness with which he has
kept the Ten Commandments.
THE Rev. Newman Smith, d. D., pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church OF Quincy, Ill, has
been elected 10 the chair of Christian Theology at
the AndOyer Theological Seminary
Dynamite was recently discovered in the Cars
| fire-wOOd. He must have been stealing fire-wood
from some Of the neighbOrs We didn't know
Alex was that kind OF Czar.-Texas siftngs.
HARRIET BEEcHER STOVES son Charles has
been ordained and installed pastor of the SacO
(AIe.) Congregational Church. though four Of the
five descOns and thirty three members protested
that he lacked piety and was theOlogieally loose.
Mr. RUSSELL, known as Bull Rum. states in a
letter the London Post that Charles Reemeln,
author of book on America, published in Lon
don is at present Governor of the State OF Ohio"
having been created in 1871 by President
Hayes"
THE Apportionment Bill, which will in all
probability pass the Michigan Legislature. makes
each of the eleven Districts solidiy Republican,
with the possible exception OF the First The
Repub lean is the champion "gerrymandering'
party of history.
Miss KELLOGG Is about to make another "fGIe
well'' tour. She has signed a contract with Max
Strakosch for a number of performances IN the
principal cities Of the United States, her engage
ment to extend until the 10Th of May. after which
time she will be heard M mOse in public.
THE Wisconsin Senate has passed bill author
izing Insurance Commissioners annul the IL
censes Of insurance companies which publish sd-
vertisements conveying false statements Of the
company's condition. which advertise to take
a different class of risks than those actually
written.
Mr.. VANDERBILT is now perfectly content to be
admired and envied simply as the driver of Maud
s., whom he has just brought to New York. He is
be in the Park every pleasant afternoon. is
often accompanied by General Grant or MT.
LOnllard, and would rather talk about the turf
than anything else.
THE volume Thoreau. by +. b. Sanborn, soon
to appear in the American Men of Letters"
series, will contain many new and interesting
stories of the famous men and women of Concord.
including Daniel webster's futile courtship of
Thoreau's mother. Thoreau's poem on the death
of his brother John Will also appear.
| THE Kentucky Senate is considering bill to
establish Superior Court in that State. The
House of Represen tatives has passed a law that
il a barkeeper sell liquor to a minor over eigh
teen years Of age, believing him to be of lawful
age, he shall not be liable to the penalty now
prescribed by law in.thst State.
| Mr.. HOLLOWAY, of England, in memory OF his
deceased wife, has endowed at Bingham an insti-
tuition for the higher education of women. The
college buildings are palatial in sizes. The prin-
cipal is 70 be woman, and qualified female
physicians are to reside at the college. Mr. HoI-
loway has conveyed TO the trustees a Of 100, :
900. The students are to be allowed to choose
their own places of worship.
THEoDoR ELzE, well-known shakesperean
scholar has been investigating the genealogical
tree of the HOhenzollerns and his delight at find
ing evidence that DeSdemOnda belonged to that
family may well be imagined. Just what his evil
dence is the reports do not say. but it has been
enough 10 convice him that Shakespeare took his
history of the unfortunate lady from the family
papers of the Italian branch of the Hohenzollern
race.
| PRESENCE OF MIND.-A few Sundays ago a
Western Church was discovered TO be on fire, but
the preacher, with great presence OF mind, said
nothing about It. He merely remarked: This
building is heavily burdened with debt. aud
wish some one would lock the doors until the
amount is raised" Everybody volunteered to do
the locking. and as everybody forgot TO come
back there was no panic, and no one was hurt
/ Detroit Free Press.
GOVERNOR LONG, Of Massachusetts,, has a niece
in Portland. Me-. whom he is giving musical ed
ucation. Miss Long has been a member of Bap-
tist Church choir in that city for some time, her
singing giving great satisfaction. The Governor
will send her abroad after a course in Portland
She is said to have fine contralto voice. and has
received compliments from Annie Louise Cary,
which induced the Governor to promise to give
her these opportunities.
COMMODORE JOHN II. UPsHUR, who will relieve
Admiral George II: Cooper of the command of the
New York Navy Yard, on April 1, is one of the
most popular officers In the Navy, socially and
officially 1t is believed that with the aid of his
1 g~of Tho
heroic General Phil Kearney-he will continue
the receptions and other social entertainments at
| the Navy Yard which became feature under
J Admiral Cooper's command, and which con-