The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-27

/ anteed by the election OF Rev. L. G. Hay, D. d.
| as president His character is sufficient to give
the college name and standing equal to the
/ best. Prof. M. S. Coulter, of Logansport,
brother of j ohm NJ, of Wabash, has accepted the
professorship of natural sciences There will be
a full corps of teachers of the best ability and
experience. The school year opens on the 9th of
October. 1t can be heartily commended to the
favor of the people of Indiana
| A LONDON paper seriously discusses the ques-
ton of what shall be done for the relief Of
women while sitting by themselves after dinner,
awaiting the advent of the men from the dining
| room. According to this journal it is an oppres-
sive and silent half hour, the ladies having no
occupation or recreation, and finding it difficult
to be sociable with each other without the in
| tervention Of some external pretext for break
| ing the ice Readers of English novels have
often noted the dullness of the after-dinner hour
as there portrayed, and have wondered if the
pictures were not overdrawn; but it seems from
this that English women in real life are quite as
stupid as those found in fiction. Fancy party
| of American ladies incapable Of conversation
when left to themselves in drawing room!
MRS, HENDRICKS, the New Jersey woman, who
| took little girl from Philadelphia orphan asy-
lum promising to be mother toh her, and fulfilled
her promise by tying the child up by the thumbs
and by beating, roasting and starving her until
she was injured for life has been tried and con-
| victed. The tender-hearted jury could not do
| otherwise than find the woman guilty, but rec
commended her to the mercy of the court. The
| court, after taking the matterunder advisement,
sentenced Mrs. Hendricks to Imprisonment for
| ten years, with fine and costs amounting to one
| thousand dollars. What the sentence would
| have been had the judge not tempered justice
| with mercy the yearning mother of orphans is
| left to conjecture.
THE new marriage law in Pennsylvania i'm
poses so many penalties upon the officiating
| clergyman who violates any regulation that a
| book of specifications has been issued with
which the wary minister goes around on all
occasions. When q bold, bad man runs away
with seventeen-year- old Pennsylvania girl
against her fathers consent, the preacher who
marries them catches it" from the authorities
to the extent of big fine and possible imprison-
ment and thus satisfies the sense of justice of a
| great State
| NEW YORK paper slyly insinuates that the
new stock of fancy goods in the rooms OF the
| Woman's Exchange on Fifth avenue is the
handiwork of ladies who spent the summer at
watering places, and whose white hands busted
| themselves with embroidery and knitting be-
| cause the work was $50 fascinating, you know"
| Such things may be and not overcome any one
| like summer cloud, who like the dolls dress
maker is at all familiar with the tricks and the
manners of the ''eenteel" classes
| MRS CLINT TAYLOR widow of we'll known
livery stable proprietor Everybody knew Clint
Taylor,) of Atlanta, Ga, has gone to Dayton,
O., to claim property worth $500. 600, 900 none
of the ciphers got away, which she is heir to as
| granddaughter of General Messer, a revolution
airy hero. She wouldn't say anything about it,
but Clint having died, she feels the need of a
little money. The beauty of this claim is that
there are only five heirs all told. A hundred
millions piece won't be so bad.
| OF all the gentlemen who were offered the
presidency of Vassar College this year half were
afraid and the other half ''dasnt" accept, so
| that school begins without such official at the
| head of the institution Inasmuch as one
| hundred new students are enrolled, and every
evidence given of increased prosperity, the trus-
tees may consider it inexpedient to let the pres
idency 90 begging any longer. but to allow the
position to be sought for.
THE evangelistic firm will hereafter be Jones
! & Small Sam Small, the Georgia humorist.
who has been converted by Sam Jones, have ar
ranged combination, and will travel together
and conduct revival work under a tent of ten
| thousand man capacity. Mr.. Small started on
| the evangelistic warpath the day after his con-
| version, rightly thinking that humorst who
| means to redeem his reputation has no time to
| waste.
| MRS J. ELLEN FOSTER, the vigorous temper
| ance advocate did not call Mr.. st. John liar at
| the Philadelphia meeting where they both made
speeches last week. She only declared, politely
| but pointedly, that he had made an irregular
statement" but the man without State and his
friends got just as angry as if she had talked in
palmer English.
ABAPTIsr examining court of Western Pennsyl-
vania, have deposed minister on account of his
belief that conversion comes after baptism while
the true doctrine of the church is that repentance
and conversion are followed by baptism. The
church is probably in the right on this interest
ing point. First catch your convert, and then
baptize him.
| THE heart of the country will sympathize with
Commissioner Of Pensions Black, who has just
lost one child from diphtheria, and has two 9TH
ers dangerously ill with the same dreadful
scourge
BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT.
THE private fortune of Queen Victoria is reckoned
| up at $50 600, 900.