The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-10-25
GENERAL NEWS.

lunhers 70 rebuild itself
i A bale OF new hops recently sold in
New York for 81 per pouni.
New York city has had five thousand
more deaths this year than last.
Oliver Goldsmith's niece died in Ho-
boken, n. j., last week, aged 81.
r A young Montreal publisher has alb
seconded with s25,08 not his own
f. Cholera is still raging among the ne
groes on the Louisiana plantations.
g A pill factory in Bristol, Vt. uses
300 cords of birch wood per annum
Squirrels and coons are thicker than
ever before knewn III New Hampshire
A branch Of the U. S. Military Asylum
will be established at Augusta, Me.
u AT Wheeling, Va, a boy of nineteen
has just married a woman of fifty five
"A little girl Of Montreal was saved
from drowning by gambling geese-there.
noise draw assistance to the spot.
: The total cost of the New York Cen
trail Park up to last January, was 80, 1884,
S95,9s.
The Government allows JEFF Davis
twenty dollars per week for the purchase
of rations.
Orders have been issued to the various
recruiting officers to enlist no more men
for the cavalry branch Of the service.
One of the attractions OF the Paris
Universal Exhibition next summer will
be a prize Of $4,000 for the best singer.
+ Gold has been found in Somers, Mass,
specimens of the ore showing, by assay
ing, over ten ounces, or S222.67 per ten.
Yellow fever is gradually increasing
in New Orleans. Five to eight deaths
are daily reported
The priests and Sisters Of Charity are
working night and day to relieve the
wants of the unfortunate sufferers at
Quebec.
The we'll of the Sullivan County Oil
AMI Mining Company at the depot has
reached depth Of near 700 feet. No
signs Of oil yet.
AT fashionable wedding at Albany,
N. Y, the bride received check for
$50, 900 from the father of the bride
groom.
The greatest novelty of the season in
the New York fashionable world is said
to be the short dress, just introduced
from Paris.
Mr.. Walter, the principal proprietor of
the London Times, has left England for
a tour in the United States, accompanied
by his son.
Over four thousand children attend the
public ana private schools OF New albany
over two thirds of them attending the
public schools.
A colored convention at Albany, New
the right of the elective franchise to all
classes of colored people.
Scotland, with one half of the popula-
ton of Ireland, consumes annuity 2,364,-
900, while Ireland drinks only 1850, 900
gallons.
The Pennsylvania Legislature stands:
Senate "a Union to II democrats; House
63 Union to 80 democrats. And that
what's the matter with Cowan.
Colts Arms Manufacturing Company,
at Hartford, have an order for maaufac :
turing 1000 Prussian needle guns and
100 Catlin's patent revolving cannon, at
a cost of 100000.
Major General Thomas, commanding
the Department of the Southwest, en-
bracing Kentucky, Tenn essee, Alabama,
Georgia and Mississippi, will establish
his headquarters at Louisville, Kentucky.
The number of emigrants landed at
the port of New York last week was s.
09l-making 1890 from the first OF
January last up to the present time,
against 1902 arrived in the correspon-
ding period last year.
Gov. Cox has gone to New York TO
canvass the State until the election The
contest there is exciting, but it will re-
suit in an overwhelming Union victory.
The probabilities are that we shall gain
two Union members of Congress.
The rebel organization at New Orleans
known as the Knights of Arabia, is
said to have 1900 stand of arms and
four pieces of artillery The Union men
of Louisiana are naturally very uneasy
over this discovery.
A corps of engineers on Friday last,
surveying site for new White House
at Washington. A park is also contem
plated to embrace 500 acres. The loca-
ton selected is two miles from the city
on 14th street.
Rumor says that the wife of one of the
members of the cabinet was invited to
dine with Queen Emma and also to ac-
company the President and party to
Chicago. No." said she. Il have no
fancy for dining with q cannibai or trav-