The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-16

years old, daughter of the Hon, John A.
King, granddaughter of Ex-Governor John
A King, of this State, and great-grandaugh-
ter of the famous Rufus King. As her sec
ond name indicates, she also comes from the
Van Rensselaer, family, and is direct de-
scendant of the great PATRON OF Albany.
General Hamilton to whom she was to have
been married, fought under Scott and Tay-
lor in Mexico, and was in three different
battles left on the field for dead. he also
marched to Washington, in 1851, at the
first call for troops, and cut the hrst tele-
graph wires in the war. He is
more than seventy years old, and belongs
to both the Hamilton and Schuyler families
that have occupied so prominent place in
American history. Miss Kings relatives, L
understand, are responsible for breaking the
engagement.
The Free Thinkers Club has been trying
to prove that John Howard Payne, OF
"Home, Sweet Home" fame, was related to
the great prophet Tom" Paine. They lind
it uphill work.
John Livingstone, the only surviving
brother of David Livingstone, the famous
African missionary and explorer, sailed
from this city for Scotland last week He
has been living in Canada for years. but is
growing old and wants to get back to the
land of his birth to end his days,
TALK ABOUT TOWN.
The Union Ferry Company has reduced
the tolls for vehicles to correspond with those
on the bridge. The price of its stock has de-
clined 10 per cent II has lost nearly one
third of its business. Still, at present patron
age, it will be able to pay 10 per cent. divi-
dends annually.
So much trouble has been caused here by
the sending of false fire alarms by scoun-
drels who have stolen or counterfeited keys
to the boxes, that a new kind of box is being
substituted containing gong which rings
when the alarm is sounded, loud enough to
be heard several blocks This will enable
neighboring policemen to see who sends the
alarms
The recent running aground of the City of
Rome has called attention to the deplorable
condition of the harbor. Thirty years ago
there were six fathoms or thirty-six feet of
water all the way through the channel, at
low tide. But the wretched system of dump
ing garbage and street-sweepings into the
river and bay has changed all that SO that
now there are less than thirty feet at high
tide. Every ocean steamer has to wait till
high tide before passing out or in, and any
vessel drawing more than twenty-five feet is
in danger of grounding even then. Survey
ors who have taken soundings, and divers at
work on wrecks, say there is ten feet of
muck-garbage and street dirt-at the bot
tom of the bay. The Cunard and Anchor
companies are seriously thinking of making
Boston or Portland their American port.
There are some funny headings to our
newspapers. The Herald has long announced
itself as having 'the largest circulation in
America" If that means that it has a big
ger circulation in this than in any other
country, it is true; but if it means that it has
bigger circulation than any other paper in
this country it is false, for the Boston Her
aid, New York Sun and Philadelphia Record
have very much larger circulations-not to
mention the New York News and some other
evening papers. The Brooklyn Eagle an
nounces that it has 1.-The largest circulation
of cry" evening paper in the country. The
bad grammar got there forty years ago
through carelessness and has been kept
there FOR auld acquaintance sake" The
statement, if it means "larger than any
other as it doubtless does, is VIGOROUSLY
false, New York alone having three or four
evening papers of larger circulations Final
lv, Joe Pulitzer has put at the head of the
World the statement that it is the only eight
page paper in the country sold for two cents;
. Numbering untruth, for the Philadelphia
Inquirer sells for two cents, and is a far
better paper every way than the World, and
it always has at least eight pages.
The electric lights on the big bridge work
30 badly that the trustees are making ar
engagements to have them removed and gas
lamps substituted. LII.