The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

HITHERTO priests marriage in France has
been treated null, and tho children of such
marriages regarded as illegitimate. This doc
trine has just been reversed by the highest
court and priests may now legally marry in that
country.
On his sixty eighth birthday, Feb. 8. 1888,
General Sherman was captured by Lieutenant
Quincy, of Saronys Photographic establishment,
and during his term of imprisonment was
.'taKen" in twenty different positions General
Sherman was in full uniform, and bore the
ordeal with his usual stocism.
AMONG the messenger boys in the service of
the first telegraph Office opened in Pittsburg.
Pa. years ago. were four known respectively
Andy. Bob. Billy and Harry This quartet
has won both fame and fortune ANDY" Car
States. bob" Pitcairn is general agent and
superintendent of tho Western division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Billy Moreland is city
attorney or Plttsburg ana Harry Oliver has
made o fortune In steel aud narrowly missed
seat in the United States Senate. Evidently
the messenger boys of former times were
..husters."
LAST Sunday was celebrated tho ffteith an
nversary of the Eleventh Baptist Church, of
Philadelphia. of which tho late Rev. ]. Hyatt
Smith was the third pastor, from 1859 to 1866.
SDeaking of him, the present pastor remarks:
His term of Office covered the entire period of
our late civil war, and nobly and eloquently did
he sustain. both in word and deed, the cause of
our beloved flag aud country. So earnestly did
he sustain the patriotic endeavors of those who
stood In the defense of the Union that the
church at Twelfth and Race streets was fre-
quently spoken of as the religious headquarters
of the army"
"ENGLIsHMEN may be just as nice. and good,
and everything as some people care to make
them" observed Washington damssl at New
England watering place last summer, but
never yet met ono who had the sort of politenesS
value and which find in my country
men. | remember once climbing over craggy
Scotch hill with one of them and he never once
slipped and stumbled. He just walked beside
me, with his hands in his pockets, and when I
had reached the top breathless, he loosely in
quired how felt after that brisk bit OF walk.
Now the average Englishwoman would have
beamed upon him for svensthat much attention,
but well. ] was disgusted!"
IT was not until last year that the Moors
would permit any examination of the cliff dwell
ings which have long been known to exist some
days journey southwest of the city of Morocco.
This strange city of the cavedwellers is almost
exactly like some of those in New Mexico and
other Territories which psychologists have ex-
plored. The dwellings were dug out of the solid
rock. and many of them are over two hundred
feet above the bottom of the valley. The face
believed that the troglodytes could have reached
their dwellings only with the aid of rope lad
ders. Some of tho dwellings contain three
rooms, tine largest of which is about IL by feet,
pierced by windows Nothing is known as to
who these cave-dwellers were.
HE WASN'T GOING TEACHER.
At fvs-thirty old Mrs. Meagher
Got into the NJ E. Eagher, Eagher.
One of Wall streets elite
Rose and gave her his site,
Which she took with grateful teagher-teaeher.
Life.