The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-02-22

bridgeport He should have called il "New
York. as that is the best place TO see The ele-
phant-Sorristown Herald
FIFTY American ladies arrived at Queenstown
last week, IL answer to Mss Parnells telegraphed
desire that they should come over and assist her
with The laOors entaiied BY the League.
zTHE late Bishop wiehtman. OF south Carolina,
was specially cevout man. He vas. 1t is said. a
habitual reader of the Greek New Testament
which he ca .ried with him wherever he went.
THE construction of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Is being rapidly pushed that Congress viii
not get back much of the land IL it does not act
promptly. There is only COO miles to be built
THE portrait OF ex-Sccretary of the Navy
Thompson has been receiver at the Navy De-
partment in washington. snS has been. hung in
the sscretary's room 1t is said to be very good
likeness.
II. c. ROGERS, OF Lancassea. Ia. Minister TO
Sardinia when Martin Van Buren, was President,
man.oi many accomplishments and once very
much respected, has been committed to Jail for
vagrancy.
! MAcALUs1 Who threw the revolver in the TIA :
ian Chamber, stating that he intended it for the
Premier. has been retired in the Court of Appeal
aud sentenced to FIVE years' Imprisonment, in
stead one, as before.
ONE of the lady visitors ct the Jail where
Guitcau is confined begged for piece of the rope
from the scaffcld (wherc two men have been
hung ito cure diphthera," and the request was
complied with.
SEVEN watchers with clubs Couldn't prevent
ghost from holding carnival in a vacant Vermont
farmhouse but good. healthy skunk, let loose
in the building. sent the ghostly visitor away on
the gallop. There's your remedy for CHESTS
A Mrs. STEWART. OF New Vineyard, recently
drove two stalwsrt neighbors from disputed
wood lot with stick of alder Whitfield and
smoked into the likeness of horse pistol. A
Justice fined her 81 aud costs for assault with
bloody intent.
AN adverse report has been inside by the Ju-
dietary Committee OF the Connecticut House of
Representatives on a bill providing for secret
ballot The scheme embraced the use OF envel
opes, to be furnished By the state. in which the
ballots were to be placed by the voters.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has rented the cottage on
Cedar avenue Long Branch, opposite the lodge
OF Hollywood Park. The cottage is nearly COM
pleted. II VIII be furnished throughout in the
most costly and comfortable manner. aud viii
contain all of the modern Improvements.
WHILE yet boy. Baron Nordenskjold. the Arc
tic explorer, was an industrious collector OF min
erals and insects and was permitted to accom-
pany his father, weliknown naturalist. aud
chief Of the Finland MINES. on his tours, thus
acquiring early in life the keen eye of the min
eralogist.
w. GAEDNEE's model for statue OF thelGte
General f. 7. Blair is said 10 be "a most faithful
likeness either from a front or side view Gen
eral Blair is represented in the attitude Of sIeak
ing, WITH the left hand thrown out little from
the hip, grasping roll OF manuscript. and the
right hand raised, clenehed and thrown Harvard.
THE world does move, after all and stronger
proof that It does so could not well be had than
that supplied Yesterday In the Senate of the
United States, when the venerable senator from
Massachusetts, Mr.. Dawes, took the floor to urge
upon Congress the merits Of civil service reform.
1t was not only that he didit. but there was some
thing absolutely inspiring in the way he did it,
Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep)
TIE peach crop. 50 far. seems to have escaped
general injury from cold. In Michigan prospects
are particularly favorable tOa good crop. From
New Jersey there are a few reports of injury, but
from the Delaware peninsula no barll has been
reported so far. In western New York prospects
are also good. In the Hudson River valley there
places where the buds said 20 have been
injured, but the cases are scattering.
A NOTICEABLE feature of the Democratic nomi-
nations for Governor in Pennsylvania is the way
they have been concentrated in certain Districts
Of hmitedsarea. Four Counties adjoining Centre
have had the candidate six times in the last forty
four years: aud six Counties, of which Schuylkill
is the centre, have bad the candidate eight times
-
state has had the candidate only once in the forty
four years.
THE pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in
Newark, n. j., has just resigned after pastorate
OF thirty-two years. Although more than 200
years old, the Church has only had fourteen pas
tors. including Aaron Burr, the father Of Colonel
Aaron Burr; Abrahara Pierson, first President of
Yale College, and Alexander McWhorter, a friend
and adviser of Washingtons. If the next pastor
remains long the last, he viii stay there un-
til some time into the next century.
WHILE Bernhardt was in 81. Petersburg Rus
sian Count fell madly IN love with her. aud when
she LETT for Vienna he followed in her steps, Many
sensational stories of the affair have since been
printed in Continental newspapers One of them
says the Count made her an offer OF marriage to
which she replied that she could not marry a
man, because she was already married to her art
"a remark, by the way, which is not original
with this woman nor these times.
ATLANTA Posr-ARPEAL: Harrison Berry, col
ored. and formerly slave, has written reply to
Bob Ingersoll's question, ''Why don't God kill
the devile'' The author is salts fed that he has
completely answered the question. The
pamphlet viii be published at an early day.
Berry formerly lived in Atlanta, and while still
in slavery wrote a pamphlet in defense of that
institution. He is a remarkable colored man.
CHARLES Howard, believed to be an American
and having a dozen aliases, has just been sen
fenced by London Judge to five years penal
servitude. Howard has been engaged in long
series of swindling operations in England, and
was weil-known as the Count Hoovardo," Won
Howard, +" Colonel Stewart, )" Colonel Erskine,"
Colonel stanhope" and Lieutenant Maur."
The enterprise which finally bought him to grief
was an attempt which he made to obtain a of
money from the Duke OF Monirose BY fraudulent
pretenses.
JOE JEFFERsoS's Southern home, to which he
has retired for the winter is beautiful planta-
ton OF several thousand acres on island in the
River Teebe, about 100 miles from New Orleans.
Il has been in charge OF his eldest son, Mr. Charles
Jefferson A marked feature OF the place is the
abundance of flowers which have been brought
from every climate and bloom in the greatest pro-