The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-14
FEE and salary reform is in the air.
EFT CsTERA.

PRINCESS BEATRICE prefers to be ad-
dressed as Princess Henry of B~attenberg.
SENATOR CARLIsLE's grandson and name
sake, although only two years old, insists
that his friends shall not call him John
nor Johnnie" but John c."
Ex-SECRErARY HUGH MCCULLoCH, in his
MEN and Measures of Half a Century"
said of the late Gen. Spinner: ale was
the best business officer | ever knew"
Mr.. FARJEoN, the celebrated English
novelist, whose writings nave been ranked
with Dickens, and who married a daugh-
ter of Joe Jefferson, lr., will visit this
country.
Miss IDA LEWIS has an offer to go upon
the stage, but it is hardly likely that she
will accept it. She is too good-natured a
woman, and after saving so many lives on
the ~rock-bound shores of Narragansett
bay, would hav no heart to paralyze
people with her acting.
Mrs. CHARITY HATHAWAY of Beemer
Hill. Sullivan county, Pa, is the only
woman trapper and raw fur dealer in the
county. Last season she cleared nearly
$3.50 from the sale of furs and ginseng root.
The animals from which the greater por-
ton of the furs was obtained were trapped
and skinned by Mrs. Hathaway.
A NEGRO in Chattanooga, who had killed
a very large rat, was persuaded that it was
a great dellcacy with the Chinese and they
would buy it. He took it to a laundryman
and he barely escaped with his Ii e. The
Chinaman threw flatirons and everything
throwable about the place at the fright
ened negro, and chased him several blocks
up the street.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND presided at a
lecture given by the Rev. DIR. Paxton at
the church of the Puritans, New York, on
Tuesday evening. DR.. Paxton, in the
course of his lecture, said: Il congratu-
late the chairman on being very much
alive. In spite of his modesty he cannot
be hid; like Banquo's ghost, he won't
DOWN Speaking as a republican, | think
| shall yet see him lead my party to the
frontiers and dismiss us to a long exile. |
am much afraid | shall vote for him." MIR.
Cleveland smiled, and the audience broke
into loud applause.
BENTON H~ALsTEAD, a brother of Murat
Halstead, claims that he made the original
typewriter in 1870. He rigged up a ma
chine, using types borrowed from his
brothers office; keys whitfield out of pine,
and connections between type n key of
hemp Irvine that were forever stretching,
breaking and otherwise causing trouble.
He used this rough affair in his own law
office for many months, and ~pleadlngs
prepared thereon were the admiration OF
the entire Cincinnati bar. \ patent was
secured, and a model of the machine,
- ,-o ,no I.ye onI nn-pnonar
type, is now in possession of Uncle Sam at
Washington.
Mrs. HENRY MCGOWAN OF Barre, Vt,
died from typhoid pneumonia recently.
Twenty.four hours later her husband
died of heart disease, while standing by
her coffin. The coffins containing the
two were placed side by side in the same
hearse. The funeral procession stopped
first before the Roman catholic church,
where a service was held over the body of
Mrs. MCGOWAN. Then the procession moved
slowly to the other end of the village, to
the universalist church, and there the
coffin containing the husbands body was
borne into the church. After service the
collins were again placed side by side and
taken to the receiving tomb of the vii
lage cemetery.
Miss ABBOTT was of a s~ingularly i'm
petuous temperament. About ten years
ago Jennie Smith and Covert d.. Bennett
were condemned in New Jersey to be
hanged for the murder OF the woman's
husband, a Jersey City policeman. The
accused persons had had two trials and the
gallows awaited them. Their counsel,
however, said that if he could get $1,000
he could secure another trial and acquit
them. Emma Abbott read this
meut in a newspaper, and instantly call
ing a cab, she visited Judge Henry Hilton,
August Belmont, ST., Henry Drexel and
other ~millionaires, soliciting aid for Mrs.
Smith and Bennett. She started on the
tour about 9 O'Clock a. m, and at 2:30 p.
m. had the money collected. She sent it
to the Rev. DIR. Rice of Jersey City, who
devoted it to tho purpose intended. A
new trial was granted the condemned
people and they were acquitted.