Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-06-23


our infant hearts, when vet soft and capable u
receiving the most profound impressions, and al
the after feelings are more or less light in com
pasisoo. Our passions and our wiifulness may
lead Us Ear from the object Of filial love; We
may become wild. beadstrong, and angry at her
icoousels or opposition; but when death has stled
her monitory voice, and nothing but calm memo
~ remains to recapituiate her virtues and good
deeds, affection, like flower beaten to the ground
by q rude storm, raises up her head and smiles a
midst her tears-Rostnd that idea. rs We hav e
said, the mind ciings with fond affection; and
even when the earlier period Of our loss forces
memory to be silent, fancy takes the place Of re-
membrance, and twines the image Of our depart
ed parent, with a garland ofgraccs, and beauties,
aud virtues, which we doubt not that she possess
ed.
An Earfhqxake.-Oa Saturday morning last,
a little after o'clock, several shocks Of an
earthquake were sensibIy felt in this town.
our merchants ratified together 20 as to be dis
tinctly heard, thereby demonstrating that the
shocks were real and not imaginary. Six years
since, we understand, similar occurrence took
place; and about fourteen years ago u number Of
chimncys in the town Of Spencer, Owen county.
were destroyed by the same cause 1t may be
that these not Of local origin, but
the effects Of distant commissions in the South
ern portion of our Continent, SO subject to such
caIamities. Wabash Cour.
Locusrs-Thesc insects, which have not made
their appearance in large force, since, I've Think
the year 1881 ARE now coming up out OF the ground
in this section in vast numbers. The surface OF
the earth in some places is perfectly ridd!ed By
the holes through which they have emerged, and
the plants, shrubs, trees, end fences seem alive
with them. We remember, in the year before
mentioned, hearing the death Of many persons at
tributed the eating Of mulberies and other fruit,
L. cod tMs, d.
posted their eggs. Whether such was truly the
fact or whether like danger is at hand this year
we cannot pretend to say; but VIC hope some ma
turalists, familiar with their ravages and the evil
liz it exists) alluded to.-Frankiort Ky y Farmer
SINGULAR CUsroMs.-There is a custom proper
10 Sicily, which I must not forget to ment.on.-
This is a right Of purchase " a singular kind. III
my man buy an c~;:ic. be i, house, land or vino
yard, The ncIgah:: the purchaser, for the space
or an entire year aftcrward, may eject him by an
adv nce Of price. In VAIN would the first pur-
;hasers give more to the original owner This
angular law is generally cvaded by fa'sehood. |
The Purchase-moncy Is stated, m tho articles OF
grecmcnt, at higher sum than has been agreed
pon in the presence Of four witnesses. There |
another no less singular law in Sicily, according |
o which any man can oblige his ncighbor to sell
is house f he will pay him shres '':es -. ~.i''e-
rhe intention Of this law was, for the improve
nent Of tho towns. 1t was to encourage the pos
cssors Of large houses to purchase the humble a.
odes Of the poor.--Count Stolburg's Travels.
PRoLoxcA ALTON OF L1FE.-Dr. Thompson-not
fsteam and lobeIia memory, in his late anniver-
ary Grafton before the Medical Society Of Lon
on, has the following statistics of the increased
uration Of life:
at appears from the bills Of mortality and IS
rmed by the observation Of Marshall, Hawkins,
nd Robertson, that the average duration OF hui Z
Ian life in England and Wales had, during the
ut half century, increased from AZ to So years
! Middlesex, from 25 to IS. and in London from =
D to 46 years. Eighty years since, 81 Of every U
Do deaths in London were persons under the age {
20 At present only AZ per cent. die under that
re, q less proportion than used to die 50 years c
nee under 10, while there is reason to believe u
mt q greater portion Of those born now reach g
e ago Of 10 years than formerly attained the a
e Of L."
IMPROVEMENTS IN PRrxrrxG.--Wc learn that Il
% Van Buren, presses have each the words ''fed-
alist' - ~Bddle, and GBank" stereotyed. An e.
,mense amount Of labor il thus saved to those n
mpositors who have to set up their long editorial
ticles as the above words occur more frequent e!
in them than the most common propositions and to
njunctions Of our language.-1|oy MaA pr
We would recommend that they also have ster- "
typed stunning head lines" FRoN THE GLoBE, =.
isical article they publish. de
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We understand that the shock Of an earthquake NJ
sensibly felt this morning, about ten O'Clock, fe
MANY Of OR citizens. The motion was q til
,htly oscllating one, but sufficient to move &C
hrs and all light articles that were not conin- wi
somewhat from their position Louisville (ky) de
,rnal. tIs
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FATE OF A misunderstanding of the feel me
Of the population Of Upper Canada in regard da
he late executions for political offences, may cal
gathered from the following paragraph, which
cut from the Lewiston Telegraph: tio
'ete, the hangman, in Toronto, who executed slit
Ia Murdoch. and afterwards Lount and Mat car
vs., was a few DAYS after the execution Of the ma
latter, dressed up with Scotch bonnet and and
clothes similar to those worn BY the Queens We
q. The Sheriff gave him 800 and let him and
into the city. where he was stoned and beat Joa
llmost to death-his clothes torn from him and
pockets rifled. He was compelled to return
Ill for safety. farm
fter that the sheriff sent him in disguise down =.
os,'s tavern on the Kingston roads where he can.
recognised, bruised and cut to pieces, whence !,