The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-31
THE STATE.
News, Opinions and Personal Items as
Gathered From Our State Exchanges.

4 OraWIOEUSNllle WOTlu VI ltD
provements last year, by way of new build
ings.
Rev. DR.. Dickinson, of Lafayette, is tenn
| pOrarily employed as one of the Professors o.
Purdue University, assisting President
White.
| Professor Ridpath, of Asbury, is workine
on his Universal History. His United State:
History has reached a sale of over 200, 00t
volumes.
| The public man who wants to 60 to some
| place where people won't make fuss oyel
| him, should settle right down in his native
town.-Kokomo Dispatch.
On his seventy first birthday Alexander
| Thompson, Treasurer of wabash College
was presented with an elegant gold-headeo
cane By the College Faculty.
Six men at the foundry of Nichols &
| LIbey, at Lima, were recently nearly suffo
Gated while at work by csrbonic acid gas
generated in the molding room.
Captain W. IL. Hall, of Laport died kst
| Thursday from injuries received by jump
ing from third story window of the New
hall House during the terrible fire.
A Company has been organized at Cory
don to build large bathing establishment
and sink artesian wells. The sulphur water
at that place is equal 10 the water at White
| sulphur, Va.
Jacksonville has twenty-nine white
schools with sos pupils. There are fouI
grades in the High SCHOOL, and twelve grades
in those below the High Sohoel.
Put Montgomery CouD4 in a judicial
circuit by itself, and away with this Repub
lican buncomb about a Superior Court
which will cost the taxpayers of this County
| s., 600 per annum.-C rawfordsville Review.
The Notre Dame University at South
| Bend, Ind, is to have the finest dome in the
country, except that of the Capitol at Wash
ington. 1t will be 200 feet high, and the
statue surrounding it will be illuminated
| at night by ali eclipse of electric jets There
| will be thirty-six allegorical paintings on
the inside by Professor Gregori. The ma
| terial will be iron, and the cost is estimated
at 81, 600 to $4,000.
Miss Matte Brasket, residing on Hannah
street. is, what is strange among her sex, an
expert pistol shot. She owns a thirty two
calibre Smith & Wesson, and at ten PAGES
can drive the center nine times out of ten.
At thirty PAGES she can hit a spot the size OF
a silver Quarter nearly every shot. She shoots
| oil-hand, without much aim apparently A
| burglar would stand a poor show if she got
the drop on him.-Anderson Review.
DR.. Sid Mcclure is the only man outside
| the Governors who ever exercised the par
doning power. On making an estimate oil
| all prisoners who ever were confined in the
| Prison South while he was physician down
| here, ne found one name on the book to
| which no one inside the walls laid claim.
He concluded the convict who was on record
but could not be found ought TO pardoned
and marked so on the book. The convict,
however, had skipped. -Jeffersonyille News.
After a long and unfortunate quarrel
Iov fho Of Ind . a,x
public schools. matters have Quieted down.
and Mr.. H. S. McRae has been reelected
| Superintendent. The teachers elected by
| the old Board of Trustees last spring, finding
their case hopeless, withdrew their suit for
| damages, and the teachers elected after the
organization of the new Board have control
of the schools, and every department of the
| work seems to be doing well. The High
School is the largest in the State in proper
ton to the size Of the place.
Charles +. Strack, of Fort Wayne. has in
vented an automatic railroad gate and signal
| apparatus to be used at the crossings of rail
! reads &c prevent accidents while trains are
passing, and is SO perfectly CONSTRUCTED that
the running of train gives signal Of It's
approach in time for passers to get off the
track, then closes the gate so that persons
and trains can not cross until the train Is
out Of the way, alter which the gate is
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closed it, thus doing away with fsgmen and
human agency, in opening and closing the
gates at railroad crossings. Railroad men
/ unhesitatingly pronounce it the greatest in
vention of the age, and insist that 1t will &C
complish more to prevent accidents at rail
road crossings than all other devices com
bined, and that it can not fail to be adopted
by the great railroads of the country al an
early day.-Fort Wayne Journal.
Ma Al
transact their business, adjourn and return
to their homes and thus avoid the necessity
of defense at the hands of the party two
years hence?-Michigan City Dispatch.
Hon. H. 2. Shaffer, Representative from
this County. true to his promises to the peo-
pie, has introduced bills IN the Legislature
to repeal the obnoxious Board of Health
law and infamous road law, passed by the
last Legislature. There is but little doub.
of the repeal OF these lsws.-Anderson
Democrat
George Winter, Esq has sold the Ander.
son Review to Messrs. George Ross and
Thomas L. Harris, of that city. The new
management gives evidences of ability,
| literary taste. good judgment and practical
| business sense which iDsures their future
success as editors and proprietOrs. 1t will
be conducted strictly on business principles
and will advocate pure democratic doc
| trines.
All of the little Republican sluirt-gun
organs in the country are firing away al
General Fitz John Porter and at once pro-
eeed to read out of the party every Repub-
| lican Senator who voted for the bill to rein
state him. The old Rebel yell has been
worn threadbare by the penny whistle Re-
publican press and they dive down upon
the FiIz John Porter case like vultures in
search of meat Sufficient TO carry them
through the campaign of 1884 Michigan
City Dispatch.
and childishly in ole affair. Both Houses
have appointed Committees to examine into
the State HOUSE. matter. The consequences
seem likely To be two expensive investiga-
tons, probably conflicting reports and moth
| ing done. A Joint Committee should be ap-
pointed and go ahead with the work at once.
The people are watching this Legislature
very closely, as it went in on a reform cur.
rent If il does not run in that channel, ii
will go out in q counter current and some
of the members will be badly damaged from
having run against snags-New Albany
Lecger.
| The young Democrats of Jacksonville IN
council last night, decided TO keep up their
organization. The Club will. at an early
day, issue an address to the Decocrats of each
and every Ward in the city, urging upon
them the necessity OF orgaaization with q