The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-01

MS, tdtely Drought SUIT In Suyt-
rlor Court at Westmeath, Ireland, to recover from
the Countess Della Tore possession of her house,
with arrears Of rent. Counsel stated that the
furniture not sufficient to disirain upon, but
that some thirty forty cats in possession of
the rooms.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD who celebrated his sew
eRty-seventh birthday on Monday, is in excellent
health and walks the streets seemingly with the
yigor of twenty years ago. He is still working
; vigorously on the codes, which have been the
great work of his lfe and TO which be has devoted
great attent for over forty years.
Mrs. ELIZABETH ANN WHITNEY, who, accord
ing to the Salt Lake Herald, enjoyed the distinc-
ton of being the second oldest member of the
Church of the Latter Day Saints, died in Salt
Lake City, Utah, on the 18th inst She was the
wife of the late Bishop Newell X. Whitney, and
was born in Connecticut, December %, 1900.
MRS FELTON,. the wife OF the leader of the
Georgia Independents. regrets the political con-
troversy between her husband aud Senator Hill,
because it breaks up relations of the most friend
IL kind Hill aud FELTON, were College chums, and
nave been close friends for many years. Mrs.
Hill aud Mrs. FELTON,, also, have been very
intimate
MISS LOUISE NJ. ALcoTr is a lady in middle life,
with broad, high brow like that of Charlotte
Cushmsn, and sensitive, intellectual face. with
black eyes ana ebon hair. She is by means
one Of the little women" being five feet seven
inches in height, and large in proportion. Miss
Alcott will shortly publish q volume OF Theodore
Parker's prayers.
| BILL is before the Connecticut Legislature to
impose license fee OF SIS upon all peddlers ex-
cspt those selling provisions produce grown in
the United States. 1t is further provided IN the
bill that the Selectmen of any town may at their
discretion. abate any license, and that any town
may vote that the law shall not be operative
within its limits.
DONALD 6. MITCHELL. the Xix Marvel" OF
former years, Is now almost sixty years of age.
His hair and bushy whiskers are plentifuliy
sprinkled with gray, and he has grown stout, but
his face has the Iuddy hue of health. Mr.. Nit
chell occasionally leaves the retirement of his
Farm at Edgewood near New Haven. to read a
lecture before popular assembly.
| The two debutantes most admired in society
this season are the little senorita Mabelle Paeh-
eco, of California, and Fraulein Emile Deuster OF
Wisconsin. The two seem TO have exchanged the
type Of race-the Spanish girls style of beauty
being the purest Saxon, while the German bellies
complexion might be ripened in the genial sun
shlae of Andalusia. Washington Capital.
TIE Queen has sent Nine. Marie Roze hand
| some diamond bracelet. in remem brauce of the
pleasure afforded to Her Majesty when Nine.
Marie Roze sang to the Queen at Osborne. Her
Majesty's unerring Judgment in discerning true
merit has not been wanting in the present in
stance, and the great honor the Queen has paid
Nine. Marie Roze is most deservedly bestowed.
CoNMoDoRE STEPHEN B. LUCE, commanding the
training squadron at Newport, expects 10 start on
the annual cruise with the vessels of the squadron
early in Nay. The Commodore is engaged in.the
compilation OF a book of sailors songs "for the
exclusive use of the American Navy, and designed
| to encourage manliuess of thought and indepen-
dence OF action in all the branches OF the service
Two poets will celebrate their birthday on to-
morrow, the 9th of this month-PrOfessor Long.
fellow and Mary f. Robinson, the English author
of "a Handful of Honeysuckle," and 1.-The
Crowned Hypolitus." Miss Robinson is what is
supposed to be an anomaly in llfe-a beautiful
young woman and an excellent Greek scholar. 1t
is her twenty sixth birthday which Miss Robin
son Is approaching.
PROFESSOR SIMON NEwCoNB is a familiar figure
In Washington. for lie takes long walk, swinging
his cane. studying the pavement as ii TO classify
each stone, and quite oblivious OF the approach
of friends. He is connected with the United States
Naval Conservatory, which contains the largest
equatorial telescope in the world. II is built on
the hill, near the Potomac, where Braddoek's
army encamped in 1855.
GARIBALDI loves the sea and can not bear to be
away from 1t. When be was carried out on ter
race overlooking the water, after his recent i'll
ness he cried: Here have the sea; live on the
sea; and for us sailors the is ifelr He at first
insisted upon staying upon the terrace late that
his doctors had to teg him 10 be more prudent.
The poor old man urged that 1t would be depriv-
ing him of his greatest comfort
Mr.. OSCAR WILDE says that ne finds in our cities
of the East people enveloped in a perfect mist
of prejudice quite unlimited. owing to the impor
tation of Old World absurdities and Alterations,
which have driven away sincerity and natural
ness; but he is delighted with the new. fresh
West whose people are so generous and so free |
from prejudice. Notwithstanding that there
lacking of both architecture and scenery.
THE New Haven Journal says that one OF the
most regular attendants at the Lyman Beecher
lectures, In the Yale Theological School, is the
venerable Rev. Joel Mann, OF that city, who has
just entered upon his ninety-third year. He
studied theology first with the late Dr. ChanHing,
before the latter became an avowed Unitarian,
and then with President wheelock, of Dartmouth
i College, and was settled in the ministry nearly
seventy years ago in Bristol, r. 1.
AN amusing letter from Alexander Dumas the
younger concerning his father has just been pub
| lished in Paris He says he was not only the first
dramatic author, but the dramatic poet OF his
day. Taking Shakespeare as ''the eliminating
Dumas the elder most nearly approaches him,
and the distance between Shakespeare and Dumas
| is probably less than that between Dumas and his
contemporaries. ITO sum mp my opinion of this
extraordinary man." says his sop, 81 viii say
that he is as little known as he is illustrious."
A SWISS correspondent tells how an agile and
adroit band Of canine smugglers have been skill
fully trained TO perform dishonest work for their
owners between Chiasso in Switzerland. and
Como, in Italy. They arrive at about noon in the
| former place by train and are at once taken to a
certain house, where, al nightfall, they laden
with contraband goods. The lighter articles are
strung around their necks; the heavier are
strapped safely on their backs, and thus. as soon
| as it is perfectly dark. they led forth and
| started on the southeast side of the town. From
this point they make their way over hill and dale
across the Swiss frontier into Italy and run to
Como, where they take refuge in some empty
houses to which they have been accustomed to
go. There the contraband goods are unpacked
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