The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-29

rade, and who was afterward Major in the
! fiftieth Indiana. General Thomas raised a
/ Company for the Eighteenth INDIANA Regi.
Inent, and was appointed Captain, then Ma
I jor, then Lieutenant Colonel successfully.
he was in many battles and skirmishes in
that Regiment, and was after.ard made Col
onel of the Ninety-third Indiana. He was
promoted 10 be Brigadier General but hay
ing received wound which incapacitated
him for duty, he was discharged upon a pen
sion. He had held several offices by appoint
ment under the Government since the War,
aud also served term or two as Justice OF
the Peace in this Township. His funeral
took place from the family residence Sunday
afternoon.-Salem Democrat
A soldiers reunion will be held in Attica
on September 10 and 20 1882, which will be
partici pated by the following Indiana reg
iments: Tenth, Eleventh. Twelfth. Fiji
tecnth, Twentieth, Thirty-third, Fortieth,
Sixtieth, Sixty-third, Seventy-second,
Eighty-sixth, One Hundred and Sixteenth
One Hundred and Fiftieh, One Hundred and
t1fty-fourth, and the Eleventh Cavalry and
Eighteenth Battery. The Arrangement
Committee, consisting of one member of
each of the regiments named, will meet in
Attica on Saturday. March %, and they in
vite all their comrades who can conveniently
| 60 to meet with them on that day.
Last Saturday the County Commissioners
took up the piGtion signed by George w.
Bell and ninety-nine Others of Antioch, in
which the Board was asked to change the
name of the town from Antioch to Andrews.
! After deliberatlOn over the matter the
PRAYER of the petition was granted and the
place will hereafter be known as Andrews.
This change was asked by the people in
honor of Colonel Andrews, Superintendent
of the Wabash. and from the fact of the
iGGnf1On - ChOnG "a inf fhnx-
! thought it right that the person who had
| taken such interest IN the matter should be
thus Observation-Disclosures Democrat
| The new Encyclopaedia Britannica" says
that the belief in the appearance of ghosts
us now more widely spread and more firmly
| held among the educated classes than it has
been for centuries" 1t quotes also from the
late Augustus De Morgan, one of the most
eminent metaphysicians and mathemati.
clans OF modern times, who wrote: Il am
perfectly convinced. in a manner which
should make unbelief impossible, that
have seen things called spiritual which can
not be taken by rational being to be capa-
bic of explanation by imposture, coinci
dence or mistake" In regard to the
whole question OF ghosts, says the Encyclo-
pedia britannica, I'VE must leave it sui
! judice."
| The colored voters of Newport, r. l., have
adopted resolution that IN their judgment
the Republican party at Washington should
refute the imputation il is open to, namely,
| that 1t IS OF the opinion that there are no
colored men in the North capable to fill
prominent offices of trust in that section, or
that ii designs to maintain the color line in
the distribution of the same; and that 1.-The
best interests of the party and of all the peo-
pie and sections demand q recognition in the
North of the merit aud ability of colored
men residing in that section; that it will
have a stimulating effect, increase respect
for the eolored people in all sections, and
! create a conciiiatory sentiment North and
South