The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-14
CURRENT NOTES.

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Mrs. GRANT is afflicted with near-sightedness
QUEEN VICTORIA gets $500 day. Mickey
never goes off on a strike.
BEN JOHNSON was the first Euglishman to drop
his h.-Boston Transcript.
BRICK house in Philadelphia was moved the
other day distance of forty feet.
GENTLExEN's patent-leather shoes, with silk
tops, cost only SIS pair in New York.
TIE present Chief Justice of Alabama used to
stick type on a weekly payer for IS per week.
Mrs. TYLER, widow Of ex-President Tyler, is
staying for her health at old Point Comfort, Va.
II is said in France that Gambetta is losing
ground because he has taken no pains to keep
the women on his side. Mr.. Beecher wouldn't
set left that way.
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD girl named Rice died at
Poughkeepsie few days ago after jumping rope
500 times in succession.
Two New York young women got after the wo-
man their widower papa was about to marry, and
pounded her tender with a club.
COUNT DE LEssEPs, who is now in his seventy
seventh year, was presented a few days ago by his
young wife with another child-the tenth.
A NEW HAVEN man has been arrested for break
ing asilk umbrella over his wife's head, and the
Danbury News Indignantly exclaims: 1.-The ex.
travagant brute!"
THE negro refugees in Kansas and the West
memorable Congress to appropriate portion of
the public domain for a home for the freedmen OF
the United States.
THE wheat crop in England is progressing slow
ly, and needs rain and warm weather. Trading in
breadstuffs has been very limited the past week,
and prices quoted lower.
ST. LOUIS merchants received from the cotton
region general prediction of the failure of the
crop in the northern belt line. and whole sec
tons are said to have been planted to corn.
LoTTA writes to a friend that she is no longer
young, and has decided to play only sixty years
more, after which she will retire and leave the
field TO Maggie Mitchell.-BoStoa Traveller.
Two or three editors employed on Wisconsin
paper have been discharged because the chief
editors wife didn't like them. The ladies of Wis
consin seem to get along very well without the
ballot.
SENATOR MITCHELL, of Pennsylvania Is re-
ported as saying that Mr.. Blaine has told him
that in certain contingencies ne would make an
active canvass against Senator Cameron and the
Stalwarts in Pennsylvania.
THE Buffalo Express (Rep.) has made a cata-
logue of President Arthur's nominations from
New York State. The grand total OF twenty-five
consists of twenty-four Stalwarts and one doubt
full 'Half-Breed," James Low, Consul at Clifton.
CAPTAIN CEccHI. the Italian explorer of East
ern Africa. is not yet thirty years old. But his
face is wrinklei aad haggard, and his hair once
black, almost snowy white-the effect of the ter
rible suferings and privations he has endured in
the dark continent.
MRs. JENNIE r. SMITH, whose trial with Covert
D. Bennett for the murder OF her husband at Jer-
sey City can not have been forgotten, was mar
ried last week to a gentleman connected with a
Jersey newspaper. When a woman strikes the
downward path she goes it lively.
ASIAN Francisco Jury has awarded book can.
vasser $3.50 damages fol-. being kicked outof doors
This is mighty bad precedent. A book agent
will need only one book to carry under his arm,
and brick in his coat tail pocket, and he will
make more money than by canvassing.-P
Sun.
THE Iowa Star Leader Dem.) says of the com
ing vote on the Prohibition amendment in that
State: Had the amendment been submitted in
May. as the Prohibition side first insisted, ii
would have been carried by $4,000 majority. 1t
Is a question whether it will go through in June
with over 10000"
THE Texas wheat crop. now being harvested, is
the finest ever grown. Many fields yield thirty
bushels per acre. A terrible hailstorm in Miami
County, Kansas, last week, is supposed TO have
dresdfully injured the growing crops. The hail
was large, and as it fell made noise like the
rattle of musketry.
DIR. NORMAN KERR recently stated, in Exeter
Hail. London that of the 81 O0O, 900 cases of dis
ease every year in the United Kingdom large
proportion arose from indulgence in intoxicants.
Some seventy diseases are described as arising d.
rectly from alcohol. The estimated annual NOR
tally caused directly and indirectly from drink
ing was given at 10000.
Mr. GIFFARD, an eminent French seronaut, who
secured euthanasii by invention o. his own
for inhaling chloroform, has bequeathed to the
Government a sum to be devoted to institutions
in which persons suffering from painful and in
durable maladles may be allowed, with the con-
sent of their frieads to shorten life by pain kill
ers, under the direction of medical experts.
HENRY CABOT LODGE, in his Decoration Day
address in Massachusetts,, said: "There is the
railroad question. We have built up a vast sys
tenn of railroads which have become so powerful
that unless we control them they win soon con-
troll They must be dealt with, not in a spirit
OF wild, unreasoning. ignorant hostility and hate,
but wisely. firmly. carefully. and after long and
patient investigation"
DR.. WILLARD PARKER was induced to study
medicine In rather an unusual way. When In
his Freshman year at Harvard his ''chum" met
with an accident which required the services of a
surgeon. The late DR.. John c. Warren, the
famous Boston surgeon, was called, and his pos
itiveness in the diagnosis and skill in the treat
ment OF the injury so impressed young Parker
that he resolved to devote his life to the study of
medicine.
GCIrAUs counsel is fast exhausting the posi-
blies of any interference with the verdict Of the
jury and the sentence blythe trial Judge. The re-
fusal OF the Judges of the Supreme Court Of the
District of Columbia on Monday to reopen the
case, for the reason that they had "heard it pa
tiently, fully and fairly, aud that a reargument
would bring them to no other conclusion than
that at which they had arrived" was followed
yesterday by Judge Wylie's denial of the motion
for a revision OF the record in the case This
leaves Mr. Reed without any further remedy in
the local Courts OF the District There seems now
to be no other chance except to apply to Justice
of the United States Supreme Court for writ of