The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-03-29

Beverly ruhet Aas gone to Mexico
as the correspondent of the London
Herald and standard
Nv axe up anu pay FOR Your lodgings
said a deacon as he nudged sleepy
stranger with the contribution box.
The health oil the venerable Lewis
Cass is rapidly failing, He scarcely
sits up at all, and his death j. daily ex-
pec,ed
John t. Monroe, Democrat. IL elected
Mayor of New Orleans bv 3l6 majority.
Three ont OF the four Recorders, are
Democrats.
Special dispatches announce the de-
feat Of the bin restoring the death pen
atty, in the Wisconsin Legislature. BY
vote of 50 TO 81
II Is said that So, 600 people in North
Georgia are perishing for food In Al
ALBANIA there are Is 900 persons reported
IN suffering condition.
The severe cold has injured the wheat
in many parts of Missouri Some of the
farmers intend 10 plough up their fields
and SOW spring wheat.
The North Carolina LegisTatuer ad-
journed on the 18th The bill permit
ting negroes te testify in alf cases where
they are concerned, was passed.
The Winamac Democrat says there is
a little girl belonging to a Sabbath school
IN that place. who can repeat the whole
of the New Testament from memory.
The rebel Captain Semmes, of the AL
ALBANIA, ii is said will not be tried, it hav-
mo- h,aan f..fI hot j, 81
inclnded in the Sherman. Johnston con-
vention.
During the last month 1888 new
names have been added TO the pension
roll, OF these I.sf7 were invalids, the
remainder were widows, mothers,' and
minors cases.
Bayard Taylor has introduced new
watermelon, which keeps through the
winter. He obtained the seeds from
Volga Russia, from a melon grown in
Persia, on the shores OF the Caspian Sea.
The House of Representatives has
passed bill that hereafter no portrait
or likeness OF any living person shall be
placed upon any OF thebonds, securities
or postal currency of the United States
HoRRIBLE.-A convention of school
teachers recently assembled at Adrian,
Michigan Daring the session City four
of them had spell OF erysipelas, and
melancholy to relate. but three of them
got through it-4N n A Ledger
At a church collection for missions.
the preacher said my christian breth-
ren, let us caution those who put in but
tons not to break off the eyes; it spoils
them for use, aud they will not pass
among the heather for coins
The worlds laugh may make fool Of
a man-its frown and condemnations, a
hero, for it IS he who struggles up amid
mighty oppostlols that challenges our
admiration, AMI bushes up the eowardty
tongue of envy and periudice.
A schoomaster who was as fond OF
his grog az Of his globes, was asked the
difference between gravity and gravita-
ton. ..When We drank five glasses Of
grog,' replied the pedagogue, ..my gra
witty vanisnes and my gravitation begins
to operate
Josh Billings isn't out of the way in
the following remark .sAdvize is sume
thin like the itch, eazy tu Civ, but hard
tn tax, and tn be much ov krop. wants
to be sowd on ginerous sile, and sowd
sparinglv. and don't ought TO be harrow
ed in tn much.
"Ah. Sam, you've been in trouble.
have yon Yes, Jim. yes" "Well,
cheer up, man, a1versity tries US, and
shows up our best qualities .Ah, but
adversely didt try me; it was an old
vagabond Of Judge, and he showed up
my worst qualities.
The prospects Of emigration for the
current year are very promising Al
though, during the war, it was said that
emigration was encouraged by high
bOuntles, and that most Of the emigrants
came over to serve IN our armies; vet,
for the month Of January. of this year,
the arrivals were double those Of the cor
responding month of last year. For the
year 1860, the arrivals at New York
were 2oo,08l, mostly Germans, and the
arrivals, for 1866 promises to be little,
if any, short OF 800, 900.
To THE TreKLIsH WE'RE. kiss
there is of course proportionately tick
lish grammar, and the subjugation is as
follows:
s'Buss, to kiss rebuss, 10 kiss again
pluribus, to kiss without regard to mum
Der: sillybns. to kiss the hand instead
in the room cerebus, TO kiss in the
dark"
So says the 4ibion, and we would say
blunderbuss, 70 kiss the grandmother in
stead Of the grand daughter.
The ''boys in blue tell good many
funny things Of General Osterhaus, who
was not particularly felicitous in his
choice of English. The following 10 not
the worst:
, One morning, when We we're confront
ing the enemy at Kenesaw Mountain.
they made an attack On Osterhaus com
mand- He was at breakfast when N
orderly dashed up with:
General, The rebs are advancing
upon US.
:. Shust wait, . said he, !" till gets
mine coffee I makes him hell smell"
After drinking his coffee, he hurried to
the front, ard If he didn't literally fulfil
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