The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

rayed in blue coat and brass buttons. Miss Ed.
munds is frequently seen out riding on a fine
animal of her own, which Is said to have cost
$1,000"
STANDING before clergyman who was about
to marry him, rustic was Asked "W;lt thou
have this woman" etc. The man stared in sur
prise, and replied: "Ay, surely! Whoy,
kummed a-puppus!"
AMONG those present at the reunion of homeo-
pathists in Boston last Friday evening was Miss
Elizabeth Peabody, who, despite her eighty-f four
years, was one of the most interested and inter-
esting persons there.
MR. IRVING, the English actor, has fully ar
ranged for visit to the United States this year,
to last six months, and tells his friends that he
expects to return to England the richer by no
less sum than 100000
THE Rochester Democrat says that ex-Iieu.
tenant-governor George Fl. HosKns is now a
sworn deputy in the Attica postoffice, and as
sists the clerks in distributing the mails with
the same ease that he distributed parliamentary
law TO the Senate solons at Albany.
EN r ON j. CoNGER, associate justice OF the
territory of Montana, against whom charges OF
drunkenness and gambling have been preferred,
is brother Of Senator Conger, of Michigan, and
the latter had just got him appointed. He is
much cut down over the downfall Of his brother.
THE late P. " Dibble, leading merchant of
Charleston, s, c., who died recently once de-
clined to accept Federal Office for the reason
that his sons had been in the Confederate ser.
vice, and therefore he could not console ntiousiy
take the oath that he had never syInpathlzed
with the Confederacy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN's old "bulrs eye" watch
is owned by man in Lancaster Pa. Large Of
fers have been refused for this watch, including
one of ST. 900 per annum for ten years, from a
New York watch company, simply for the loan
of the watch during that period to display in the
window of their office on Broadway.
GATH: Florence Dixie, who says she was as
saulted by men in women's dress, may have been
morphine-taker. The late j. B. Stillson, news
paper correspondent, reported that he had been
shot at in Salt Lake City. His friends knew he
told the truth, yet they the story was inco-
herent. 1t came out that he had been taking
morphine for some days, and saw things Of,
the minds eye. <
EX-QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, can be seen
almost any fine afternoon on the fashionable
PaseO of Saville, sometimes unattended, some
times with sixteen mounted guards. The crowd
pay little attention to her, she has nothing but
her notoriety to make her draw attention. In
figure she would be good match for David
Davis as she pulls the scales at about $50
pounds, and to beauty the least said will
please her the most.
WHEN seventy years of age William Cullen
Bryant wrote to James T. Fields: 81 send you
poem for the Atlantic Monthly. Ask me for no
more verses. septuagenaran has passed the
time when tits becoming for him to occupy hims
self with the rhymes and rattes of the man and
boy. Nobody, in the years after seventy,
can produce anything in poetry save the thick
and muddy last runnings of the cask from which
oil no ole and " I,uo air
been drawn"
SENATOR BECK says that his son George is
doing finely in Wyoming Territory, where he has
a ranch of 400 acres and 1900 sheep He now
lives in a house built OF pine lumber, though
when the Senator and Mrs. Beck visited him last
year he had only log cabin plastered with mud,
and with clay floor. But it healthy
there that Mrs. Beck, who was i'll before start
ing that the trip was delayed from day to day,
got well and felt such redundancy of
spirits that she took hold of the household mat
tiers and taught Irish boy how to bake bread
and do all sorts of cooking for the men on the
ranch.
FEW days ago, says the London Telegraph,
woman upward of ninety years of age, died at
place called Eglnton, near Londonderry. The
usual arrangements for the funeral made,
and the coffin was closed and taken in a hearse
to the place of interment, where the service was
duly gone through, the coffin lowered, and the
grave filed in. On reaching home, however,
the relatives of the deceased were amazed to
find the corpse of the old woman lying on the
he'd upon which she had expired, 1t not having
been placed in the coffin. The body was subse-
quently taken Ill a cart to the grave, the coffin
raised, and the corpse was placed IN it and in-
TERED.