The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-17
CURRENT NOTES.

GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND (Gath) expects to
sail for Europe ON the steamer City of Rome on
July1.
DIR OLIVER WENDELL. HOLMES is said to have re-
ceived s. a line from the Boston Globe for his
poem on Garield's death.
Mr.. EMERSON is said tolhave left an estate valued
at about $780, 900. Much OF this was accumulated
and preserved through the thrift of his wife.
SENATOR HILLS slight improvement has caused
a renewal OF hope among his friends. Never.
theless it is believed in Georgia that Mr.. Hill can
not recover.
RALPH AIcoRr. en- eightyear-old Broome
County, New York, boy, wears an eight and a
quarter hat. his head measuring twenty-six inches
in circumference.
BEFORE the time of the commencement of the
lecture of Professor \. tutor steps into the hall
and exclaims: Excuse me, gentlemen, the Herr
Professor can not lecture to-day; he is dead
Fiegende Batter.
JOHN w. MKCKAY is said to be thinking of
leaving the Nevada mines and of retiring To San
Francisco. The latest idea in regard to the Com
stock embraces the proposed expenditure of
si5O, 900 for the mere work of pumping.
THE Massachusetts, House spent all of last Fri
day forenoon upon the Senate bill to limit liquor
licenses to one for each 600 inhabitants in cities
and towns. and the bill was finally referred TO
the next Legislature by vote of 100 TO IL.
On her last voyage to Europe the Alaska, of the
Williams & Guion Line. made Fastnet light from
Sandy Hook ia six days twenty-one hours forty
six minutes. We may look confidently forward
to the time when even the record of the Alaska
will be excelled by many hOurs.-The Traveller.
GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN and DR.. W. c.
Prime have been appointed by the Princeton Col
lege Trustees the first Directors of the proposed
school of Fine Arts at that Institution. They
will draw up plan of the new department.
which is expected to stand with the academic and
scientific departments
IHE Boston political observers say that General
Ben Butler is by no means 70 be considered as a
mere cipher In Massachusetts, politics. His
nephew, sc. III. B." reyives story of him to the
effect that once. when he was asked to come
under a tree &c a thunder storm. he said: mo.
you don't. | had q nephew struck BY lightning
it runs in the famiiyr
LAURA A. TRIMBLE was "amicably'' divorced
from John A. Trimble, a lawyer, in Cincinnati,
recently. the grounds being gross neglect of duty
in failure to support. she testified that she a
widow with some property when she married
him. and that the only support he had ever
extended to her was four concert tickets. and one
of these he took away before the hour for the con-
cert arrived.
THE enemies of Ireland will endeavor to make
the indignation Of the English people over the
assassination OF the representative OF their Para
ment serve a reason for the enactment of meas
ures of the most oppressive character and all the
concessions that have been gained may now be
lost. Every true friend of liberty will regret that
whole Nation must suffer for the bloodthirsti-
ness Of few irresponsible persons. Harrisburg
Patriot.
IN order to create the new Navy which we
need it would be highly desirable to reduce such
men as Mr.. Robson. who years ago spent so
much money 10 destroy the Navy, aud who is
now again the potent man on all the Committees
that have anything to do with it. TO minimum
of influence. In other words. Congress should
be careful not TO appropriate more millions for a
new Navy until IL has reasonable security that
the money will be honestly and judieiously ex-
pended.-New York Evening Post.
KING KALAKAUA sent to New Bedford. Mass,
to have built boat which he expects to use in
running between che Sandwich Islands The
boat is sharp both ends. like whale boat.
thirty feet long five feet eight inches BREADTH and
two feet six inches deep. 1t Of beautiful md
e., constructed OF white oak and cedar. and thor
oughly copper fastened. There are six thwarts.
ana the boat will be propelled by twelve oars,
double banked. and lug sail seventeen feet long
on the foot and twenty-five feet high.
THE senate Committee on the Reform Of the
Civil Service having reported a bill sppropriahng
SIS 90 to enable the President to promote ef
hciency In the different branches of the civil ser
vice" the Boston Herald Qnd) says: THE Re-
publicans in Congress can only meet the just de-
mands of the country. and fulfill the pledges re-
peatedly made by their party, by passing the Pen
dleton bill or some equally positive measure.
But if they propose to again postpone this. they
ought at least TO leave the responsibility upon
the President Of keeping what has been gained In