The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-25
EFT CETERA.

SENATOR KENNA's funeral last week was
the second wherein the Roman catholic
rites were celebrated in the senate cham
Der.
Governor HoeG OF Texas, in his message
to the legislature in that state. advocates
the taxation of vendors OF deadly weapons
and cigarettes.
JOHN g. CARLISLE will be the first man
south of the Mason and Dixon's line
10 hold the treasury portfolio since the ad-
ministration OF James Buchanan.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS, has ceased wearing
red neckties and has discarded the slouch
hat. Perhaps he is in training for the re-
publican nomination for president in
1895.
PROF. MORSE saws that the jap
anese never mix di lerent kinds of flowers
together in one vase. like simplicity
of taste is also shown in their drinking
customs.
THERE may be some doubt whether
Senator Brice lives, politically. in New
York or OHIO, but 1t was the poor people
of Lima, o.. that got 100 tons of coal and
100 barrels of -four that he sent around.
Horace SMITH of Springfield, Mass. who
died the other day st the age OF eighty
four years, was the inventor OF the orig
inal typewriting machine. it ia claimed,
and also invented the metallic cartridge
and some improvements in small arms.
A NOTABLE Californian died last week in
Creed Raymond who had charge OF the
law department of the Southern Pacific
road. His success in that place was Que TO
his policy of compromise of suits. He
gave California a code OF laws and a sys-
tenn OF irrigation. and was a leader in anti
Chinese agitation. He was a Nirginian,
leaving home for his trip across the plains
in 1852
JAMES, SMITH, JR., the new c. S. SEN
ator from New jersey, was born in New
ark in 1851. He lie a large manufacturer
of patent and ena eled leather. Prom
inent in city affairs. he broadened with
county politics, taxing Ess county from
the republican column. He is a friend of
ex-Secretary Whitney and a Cleveland
man He is wealthy, married and has
few enemies. lie is stout, with q round,
smoothshaven face.
The Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
will not, a. widely reported, suspend pub
LEGATION. The alma mater of Mark Twain.
Dan DeQuille and other western writer's
of the mining age is to be continued by
Congress man-elect NsWlands, poDulist
who represents the Sharon estate, and
wants free silver organ to keep him
fresh before the public. At presen; ne il
conspicuous for extensive real estate deals
In Washington.
EDWARD MURPHY, JR., the new U.
:. senator, is the victim of sciatica.
While he was a; Governor Flowers recep-
ton last week Monday evening shaking
hands with hundreds of persons gracious
ly it was noticed that he prespired freely ;
which some OF the gusts no doubt attrib-
uted to the warmth of tine room eF his ex-
ercise The real explanation. however. it
is said. was that he was suffering intense
pain. Mr.. Murphy evidently has pluck
THE death of Gen. Butler removes an
other manager OF the celebrated impeach-
ment trial of Andrew johnson. The
board on the part of the house was Bng-
ham Ohio. Stevens Pa. Butler Mass. I,
Boutwell, Mass, Wilson la, Will
Jams Pa. and Logan IN. In the bal
lOting fixing the selection OF managers the
veteran Bingham received the highest
vote, add he, with Boutwell,, Wilson and
Williams, alone survive of the seven who
made the historic fight against Andrew
johnson. The Hon. John A. Bingham
atll lives at his old home in eastern Ohio,
and. although seventy-seyen years of age,
takes part in every Ohio campaign. Judge
Bingham was historic figure in congress,
and in addition TO the part he played in
the Johnson impeachment proceedings
was special Judge advocate in the trial of
the assassins of President Lincoln. From
1873 to 1885 he was minister to Japan.
IT is an honorable place which Henry
Cabot Lodge, aged forty-iwo. has been
elected by Massachusetts, to fill in the L.
S sonata This seat has been filled by
seventeen men through period of l04
years, an average term of almost exactly
six years the constitutional term. But of
the seven cen, three have he'd the seat. in
all, sixty years. or consid arably more than
half OF the whole period. These three
have been Daniel Webster, Charles Sum
ner and MIR. Dawes. The succession has
also included Theodore Sedgwick. John
Quincy Adams, Christopher Cove, Rufus
Choaie and Robert Rantoul, a much more
notable series OF names, remarks the Bos-
ton Adgerfjser. than shat which has been
associated with the other seat, though
identified with it have been John Davis
Edward Everett. Henry Wilson and Mr..
Hoar. MIR. Lodges natural ancestor
George Cabot, WAS the second senator
from this state in the line now filed Dy
Mr.. HOar.
What n saving of Ten Cents a Day VIII Do.