The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-03
CURRENT NOTES.
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Tom 0cHILrEEss District. in Texas Is five times
| as large the State of Massachusetts,.
AN Illinois Court has decided that q woman's
lie about her age doesn't vitlate her insurance
policy.
THE Sultan of Turkey is very much afraid of
assassination. 1t is hereditary In the family.
several members having died with it.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN says he has come home 10
stay. He has but a few more years to live. and
there stlll two or three Offices which he has
not held.
wHES Henry Jsmes was criticised for believing
In the miracles III the New Testament. he re-
piled that he must confess himself IAN abject
Christian"
ONE Philadelphia girl received dozen offers OF
marriage in one week, and she is as homely as the
average Philadelphia girl. Her dad worth 81. OOO,
600. is very sick.
THE Mark Lane Express says the wheat acreage
In Eoglard will be extremely limited the coming
year. and notes that the values of iolr and grain
are lower and business duh.
A PIrrsBURG man jumped from a bridge forty
feet rather than meet his wife while he was
walking with another woman. His wife must get
teTIlt lie eNlnS Oh EOllAue piu'
The House Pension Committee has agreed to re-
port bill giving IS per month to soldiers engaged
for thirty days in the Mexican, Blackhawk or
Florida Wars. or to their widows.
TIE young American prima donna, Miss Emma
Nevada. has engaged herself to the opera com
ilue at Paris for three years. She is to receive
81. coo per month for the first year.
A NEBRASKA Norwegian who bad got all ready
to hang himself. discovered that his pipe was out.
and he thew of the moose and walked two miles
to obtain light. BY that time he had concluded
to live.
HoS. JOSEPH HoLr. President Buchanan's Post
master General, and afterward Secretary of Way
and Judge Advocate General lives In strict retire
ment in Washington. He is a childless widower.
and is very seldom seen in public.
CASTELAR, announces his intention to continue.
by all lawful and proper means. the propagation
Of republican ideas in Spain. He has the hearty
sympathy of the American people. but they have
little hope that freedom will make rapid progress
in his country.
T. B. CoNNERY. managing editor OF the New
York Herald, has been granted al extended
leave of absence, from six to twelve months tn
account of failing health. He will be succeeded
W EA1nhs AOA cl6ub ySdiS CuAtOA Va ZIG
Evening Telegram.
POLISH priest at Bay City Mich, has had his
eyes opened 10 the range and accuracy Of the law
Of libel. by being called to pay $3.50 10 parish
Toner whom he had boldly denounced from the
altar a bad Catholic, warning the congregation
not so business with him.
A rRINcELY pastor is Rev. NJ. P. o'Brien, Of the
Romsa Catholic Church in Minersville, Penn. He
is said 10 be a lineal descendant of Donald
O'Brien. long ago King Of Limerick, aud also, on
his mothers side. from the same ancestry as that
of Charles Carroll, Of Carrollton. Md.
Mr.. Ross r. wISANs and family, Of Baltimore.
move this week into their new mansion, which
200 men have been engaged in building for full
year past, at cost OF nearly half a million dol
lars. The house is seventy feet square, five stories
high. and looks like French chateau.
CHILLIcoTHK has seven citizens whose aggregate
age ia 6O3 years an average of eighty-six years.
They Isaiah Austin. eighty mine; Fitzpatrick,
eighty nine; Frederick 0utoalt eighty six; w. d.
Jourdan eighty-four; Thomas B. Jones, seventy
three: Patrick Carter. eighty-two; Mrs. Z. w.
Harris ninety years.
THE original doorknocker. brought over In the
Mayhower, which for several generations was
upon the front door of old winslow street
house at Marshfield, still standing on the Webster
farm. has lately come into the possession of the
Rev. w. C. winslow. of Boston. who will probably
give 1t to the Webster Historical Society.
THE Earl of Dudley, who derives more from
minerals than any man in England, al whose
income has oftentimes In good years approached
IS OcO co., has for some time been In mental con-
dition bordering imbeciiity. Consequently
mis- wife and children live very quietly. and as he
may last for years the accumulation OF money
threatens TO become enormous
The most successful of recent confidence wo
men In the West was one who represented herself
as the niece of President Garfield and an accred-
tied agent of tho Women's Christian Temperance
Union. She carried forged letters Of introduo
ton, made excellent speeches foI total abstinence,
gained the confidence of Christian women in a
number OF cities. and made good living, besides
accommodating q considerable amount ofmoney
contributions.
THE drouth in Northeastern New York is a
serious matter to mill owners, some of whom are
using steam power for the first time In twenty
years, and to thousands of people whose wells
have never failed before. In many spots the
ground does not contain moisture enough to
freeze. lover a considerable portion of Western
Vermont and Northeastern New York." says the
Troy Press, there has been nothing like a soak
ing. drenchfng rain since early last summer. and
and only from two to four five days rain all
told during that period"
JOAQUIN MILLER writing about Fifth avenue,
New Yak, on Sunday morning when the Churches
are emptying their immense throngs into that
world renowned thoroughfare. says: Truly IL
is the carnival of Rome without the confete. the
badinsge. and the yulgarity. Every man. wo-
man and child is not only richly but elegantly
and tastefully clad. 1t Is conceded that there
are no such well-dressed people in the world as
those who promenade Fifth avenue The less
pretentious poorly clad keep to the other
streets. Elegance alone aud wealth and beauty
take their airing here. and here only. You meet
hundred men, the most noble and kingly on