The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-24

BISHOP JESSE t. PECK is repoysed to be very
at his home In Syracuse.

ness that puts out fire In its beginning.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES denies the report
that he intends making a visit 20 Europe.
THE report that Cardinal Newman was seriously
i'll was untrue. His general health is very good.
RER. DIR. f. A. BAIRD. of Syracuse. n. Y. is to
succeed Rev. DR.. Hitchcock in the American
Church In Paris.
RETURNED missionary told a Toronto audi
ence that English weuld be the language of China
fifty years hence.
IT must be a sad pleasure TO David Davis to re-
fleet that no man can fill the chair he will vaeate
in the Senate.-Graphic.
GENERAL U. s. GRANT has been asked to accept
of the Presidency of the National Rifle Associa-
ton. 1t is thought that he will do so.
THE elder Mrs. Garfield passes several hours
each day reading the recently published volume
of the works of the late President. her son.
SOME New Orleans boys had the felicity of snow
balling on Monday evening last the snow having
been brought In on the tops OF railroad cars.
Mr.. PAUL CHEssEBGUF. one of the very few sur
vivors of the "grand armee. is dead In Paris. at
the age of "a. he was at Austerlitz. Borodino
and Waterloo.
QUEEN VICTORIA has granted out of the civil
list a pension of ESQ year to David Wingate, the
Glasgow workingman poet. in consideration OF his
straitened circumstances.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is living in Honesdale,
Pa, endeavoring TO recover her health. Later In
the season she will give dramatic readings in the
West, and will visit Boston.
OF the thousands of indictments drawn by the
late Judge May, of Boston, during his six years of
service as District Attorney for Suffolk County,
only one, 1t is said, was ever quasned.
WESTON, the pedestrian, is making successful
lectures in England on Exercise VS.. Tonnes" He
claims to have walked $1,000 miles In the last
fourteen years on temperance diet and totsl
abstinence.
THE Chicago Journal assures General sherman
that nowhere on he wide earth would he be
more apt to pass his declining days in ease. qui-
etness and obscurity than in sleepy ST. Louis. But
the Journal is VIGOROUSLY prejudiced.
A PENNSYLVANIA papsr makes the announce
ment that it is going 10 be fashionable next sum-
mer for young ladies to stay at home and help
their mothers with the washing. There be lots of
questionable girls next summer, toO.-Boston
Post
THE Countess Telfener, who is sister to Mrs. j.
W. Maekay, recently gave large dinner party at
her hotel in Paris, covers being laid for twenty
guests The floral display is said TO have been
uncommonly fne aud the presents tC the ladies
present very valuable.
The memory OF General A. J. Myer, "0ld Probe-
bilities," is to be honored by the erection of
fine granite and bronze mausoleum in Forest
Lawn Cemetery. Buffalo. The structure will be
twenty feet square At the base. and thiTty-nine
feet high, including asurmounting globe.
PENNSYLVANIA has had but nineteen Gov
ernors in nirety-tw two years The first three Gov
ernOrs-Mifiin, Mexican and Snyder served nine
years three termsl each. Four Republican Gov
ernors-Curtin, Geary. Hsrttranft and Hoyt-
served an aggregate of twenty two years.
A QUEBEC telegram of the 18th inst. to the
Toronto Globe says: "Forty-three old maids held
a meeting in the public hall OF the adjoining
parish OF St. Romuld last night to consult upon
the best means of extricatins themselves from
their forlorn condition. Report is silent as to the
nature of their decision"
THE New York Herald. founded by James
Gordon Bennett, deierds the Bible from the
criticisms of Ef iscoPsl clergy man in good and
regular standing-Rev. II. Heber Newton. ITO
deny the inspiration of the Bible" 1t says to him,
sis to cut the auto graph of the sovereign out of
your commission as an officer"
MARSH 7. POLK. the Tennessee defauIter. paid
$50, 600 for his Mexican mines, 10 which so many
unexplained references have been made. These
mines, two in number, are q number of miles
south OF the "Boss shepherd Mine" in Chihua-
hua. One Of them, the San Antonio. yielded
$500 OoO between 1856 and 1871 and the other, the
San Petro, has yielded $4,000 since 1872. Polk
spent $40. 600 for new machinery and the like.
SINCE the sickness and death Of NJ Gambetta.
public sentiment in Paris has suppressed the op
cratic antics of the Nile. Claire Gambetta, whose
sole claim upon public patronage seemed to be
her alleged relationship to the Republican leader
"a relationship the genuineness OF which is in
dubitably sttested by the fact that she now bobs
up serenely as mile. Alice Grevy, cousin to the
President of the Republic"
THE late Lot n. Morrill, and Timothy Howe,
now Postmaster General, were admitted to the
Bar together. and began the practice of law IN
the same town, Readfed, Maine Morrill, was
then a Democrat and Howe Wing. and there
was much friendly political rivalry between
them. After few years they lett Readfeld to-
gether, Morrill, to win honors in the Capital of
his native State, and Howe to 'go West and grow
up with the country"
To THE Prince of Wales has been given as
souvenir OF the bombardment of Alexandra.
ten-inch spherical she'll, recently mounted on
wooden stand at the Royal Arsenal. The inscrip-
ton upon il includes these words Game
through the port side of Her Msjesty's ship Alex
andria, above armor, passing through Torpedo
Lieutenant's cabin. struck csmbing of engine
room and rolled along main deck where Mr..
Harding. the gunner. put 1t in tub of water. for
which he received the Victoria Cross"
The announcement that "Mr. Langtry' had
been engaged, at az enormous salary, to appear
in public, drew to New York Museum a host OF
persons DESTROYS of seeing the husband of the cele
brated Jersey Lily. The celebrity did appear and
delivered recitation in a manner as devoid OF
Evolutionary merit as the Lily's performances are
of dramatic ability. "Mr. Langtry'' is the same
individual who but few days before was seen on
Broadway selling thimbles from basket strapped
to his waist.
A MARRIAGE ceremony came TO an abrupt and
ludicrous termination the other day In Atlanta.
Ga A prominent clergyman OF that city
having consented TO unite a colored
couple, had just asked the solemn ques-
ton, "wnt thou take this woman
etc, when an old flame OF the bridegroom poked
her head into the room and said: Henry, Jess
dar you to say yes" Henry sank into the nearest
chair without word, and the company thought
fully withdrew.
AMONG the numerous murders 'confessed" by
Mrs stflIWell of ST. Joseph Mo- on her sick bed