The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-04-05
An indianapolis bridegroom psid his
marriage fee inbologna sausages-

An Indianapolis Bridegroom paid his
marriage fee inbologna sausages-
S~ During the var but thirty four
officers of the Medical STAFF of the ar
my were killed; twenty -four were wound
ed, and one hundred and sixty eight
died from disease aud accident.
The disbursements TO the War Depart
ment for the week ending Saturday last.
were nearly s., 600, 900 70 the Navy
Department over 81 .0eo. goo. and TO the
Interior Department. nesriv e2..sset. eoe.s
Boston has city inspector of milk
That city uses 1918 gallons of milk
day Dealers who habitually adulterate
their milk are prosecuted. Several were
fined last year whose per centage OF wa
ter ranged from one third TO one half
Vast bells Of oysters, equal to those OF
Chesapeake Bay, have been found in the
9 ulf of California. between Mazatlan and
Guaymas. from which California will IN
future he supplied. They are planted
in San Francisco Bay, and there fattenec
for the market
Hon Pierre Soule has been put in pos
session of his magnificent residence on
Esplande street, New Orleans. by order
OF General Howard. Chief of the Freed
mans Bureau This mansion has been
used for two or three years as colored
orphan sylum.
New Orleans now has a population
larger BY sixty thousand than ever be-
fore: Galveston and other Texas cities
are full to OVERLOOKING. and the same is
said of Memphis, Mobile, Montgomery,
Atlanta, and all the towns of the South
. west.
There are already at least five hum
bred applicants for appointments as Uni
ted States Commission er to the Paris eX-
position of 1867, many of them parties
interested in machinery and implements
which are to be exhibited, and not one
in twenty is able to understand or speak
a word of the French language.
A mayor of one of the comnsunes in
France, lately made the following entry
upon his register - /, Mayor of,
found, yesterday, in the forest of, a
man by the name of Rollin, committing
an act against the laws. | commanded
him to surrender, whereupon he set up
on me. heaped me with insult and con
tumely, calling me ragmutfin, an ass,
and precious dolt, and a scarecrow-aA
Of wAich certify TO be true =
The second King of Siam died in Jan
uary 1t is snrmised that he choked to
death in trying to pronounce his own
name, which was P'ra Bart Somdet P'ra
Pawarendr Ramesr Mahiswaresr P'ra
Pin Klau Chau Yu Hua. His remains
were deposited in golden urn, decora-
ted with diamonds, and placed on a par
ticular throne, and after the usual period
Of living in state according to the Sia-
mese custom, were buried with great
ceremony.
A gentleman who has visited the coal
mines in PENNSYLVANIA for the purpose
of learning why coal cost so much in
New York city, writes the result of his
observations to the World. He saws the
cost of mining one ton Of coal is 80 cents;
royalty to the owner of the mine, 44.4
transportation to canal, 81: freight to
New York. sl,20, Government tax and
weighing, 50; making the total cost OF
224o pounds of coal at New York, 81.
10 The price of a ton, 1900 pounds,
to the consumer is ST., 80.
The London Economist, of the oath
of February, very high authority in
matters of finance and commerce, has in
it an elaborate article hes ded, The
Sound State Of American Banking at
present. in which our national system
is thoroughly analysed and exposed for
the information of the people of Eng
land. comparison drawn between it
and their own system, and the conclu-
sion candidly and unequivocally stated
that the banks of the United States
. evince amazing solidity; perhaps no
banks in the world on the same scale
show as much .