The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


MINISTER SARGENT writes to a friend in Wash
ington that he hopes to be home by the middle of
July.
E.Z. G. JUDsoN, the "Ned Buntine story teller, is
travelling from the South to mis- home in Ge North in
a carriage.
A CHURCH of England divine has just published an
autobiography of Judas Iscariot intended apol
ogy for the famous traitor.
THE old hotel in Morrisania, at which Washington
stopped his retreat to White Plains has been
formed into garden
MINISTER LOWELL will preside at the opening
meeting of the Browning Society in London. It is
expected that he will make critical speech upon the
qualities of the poet.
THEY know how to put stop to extravagant opera
charges at Nice. When Nine. Van Zandt sang there
recently the price of stalls raised to twenty-five
francs, and SO the people stayed away.
MILE. RHEA, who lately closed engagement in
Philadelphia would never leave the theater by any
other door than the one by which she first entered
She thought it would bring her bad luck
MR.. LAWRENCE BARRETT is making considerable of
a social spread in the English metropolis He has a
furnished house for which he pays $3.50 week rent
and he holds many large and small entertainments
there in the off hours of his time
RELIGIOUS sectarian agitation in Finland has
Il
native of Osterbotten, has set up as Pope, and is
selling indulgences. An emissary Of his was re-
Gently murdered while engaged propaganda mis-
SION
MR.. HENRY GUY CARLETON has resigned the ed
itorship of Life, but remains a contributor to the
columns of that bright weekly. Life will be pract-
cally directed hereafter by John Ames Mitchell and
Andrew Miller son of the ex-Superintendent of In
surance.
A GRAND wedding in India is remarkable for many
things, but feature of it is more extraordinary
than the universal hospitality by which it is attended
At the wedding of the Rao of Clutch 81, 900 people
were fed the first day, the second 81 900, and the
third SO 600
ANGST unfortunate title has the Dukedom of AL
bany been 1t has been adopted five times in Scot
land and four times in England In six the title
became extinct with the life of the first recipient and
four Dukes of Albany have died violent deaths. 1t
has never passed a second generation
PREMIER GLADSTONE who is now visiting the
Durdans, EPSON has entirely dispensed with the
services of his physician, and may be every
shiny morning walking for hours EPSON Downs.
The old is famous pedestrian, and even
when he is supposed to be at rest he has something
on foot.
CHARLES READEs English contemporaries are made
exceedingly uncomfortable by the announcement that
the late novelist has left sketches of most of them
presumably served up with or less of the mus
tard which Reade mixed freely in most of his works
and the publication of these sketches promised speed
lily by Reades executors.
THE Indian papers state that King Thebaw of Bur.
mah whose acts of despotc cruelty were at one time
SO notorious continues to exhibit himself in the char
aeter of reformed monarch" In addition to the
cent improvements introduced by him into the admin
istration and laws he has just issued proclamation
announcing important reforms in the financial system
of his kingdom.
HEAR that William Swinton lost $50, 900 by pub.
fishing his weekly paper the StoryTeler and that he
has gone up the Amazon river for recuperation and
philosophy It said that the of the paper fail
ing was original tales leaving the part of Hamlet
the author out and relying the English mail and
the scissors This latter kind of author is dead
on this side of the
LONDON Truth says 1t is quite mistake TO suppose
that the lady of title who the author of the libel
which got Edmund Yates into hot water has escaped
punishment. The Queen is very angry with her, and
has crossed her name out of the state ball and
invitations She has also received the cold shoulder
from Marlborough House. Such Sights these
calculated to make woman of her calibre feel that
Edmund Yatess punishment is bed of roses com
pared with her own.