The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-08-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Catholic Cathedral at indianapolis, is to be
crowned with higher tower than any other in Amer
lea. .ssl,thae s"altar aaj.t@ at.a
~-A johnson Convention of Officers, soldiers and
sailors, is called at Cleveland, Ohio the 18th Sept.
The University Of Wisconsin owns nearly $750,000
worth of property. 1t has 100000 besides the
Agricultural College grant. That at 81 IS acre
amounts to 100000.
very singular phenomenon has lately occurred in
q village in the Canton of Villefranche:
woman enciente having been frighte ned at the
sight of q negro gave birth little girl half black
and half white. Even the face of the child has one
side black and the other white, that the profile is
that Of negress on side and Of white the
other Iu spite Of this the child is very pretty and
enjoys perfect health.
Mr.. Isaac Solomon, of Baltimore, has purchased one
of the finest islands in the Chesapeake Bay, and is
erecting magnificent mansion, which, with the build
ings for his oyster business and other improvements,
will cost 100000. His fortune made in the
oyster business. etsL s'
The Universalists Of Lafayette are
about to erect new church building.
It is rumored in Norfolk that the pro-
perty of Henry A. Wise has been restor-
ed to him.
A negro woman living near the Four
Mile Station Alabama, gave birth on
Thursday morning to four we'll formed
children, two boys and two girls. One
of the boys died after few hours
The remaing three children and the
mother are alive and doing remarkably
we'll.
The Associated Press will have two
hundred words or less each day from the
Atlantic Telegraph, if it lays. The ex-
pense will be eighty thousand dollars q
year.
Field marshal Count Won Benedek de-
feated in command of the Austrian arm
les at Sadowa, is Hungarian by birth,
and Lutheran Protestant in religious
tendencies.
The Island of Sardini. which it is ex-
pected France will get for Venetia. po So
esses nine thousand I've hundred square
miles. 1t is about the size of Massach-
etts and Rhode Island united. Only
one third Of it is, however, available for
cultivation, on account of the mountain
ranges.
New York city has been thoroughly
clensed, as a consequence, cholera IS OF
the decrease in that locality.
The Republican Convention of the 9th
Ohio District nominated Hon. r p. Buck
land for Congress. Resolutions sustain
ing Congress were passed.
Mrs. Calhoun. widow of the late John
c. Calhoun, died at Pendleton, South
Carolina, on the Goth ult.
Col. NJ. C. CARRIER is about to again as
sumo the editorial charge of his paper, the
Madison Courier, which position he left
for duty in the field, at the breaking out
Of the war. D ~
The mobbing of the Union Convex
ton at New Orleans, and slaughter Of its
members by Louisiana Democrats, furn-
ishes the Copperheads an inexhaustible
text for eloquent homilies on the Free
dom of Speech
Another conscience stricken individ-
ual in Chicago, who has been plumber
ing the United States Treasury, has
sent to the Treasurer fourteen thousand
dollars as belonging to the United States.
The number of persons in Indiana
polls between the ages of six and TWEEN
ty one yesrs is reported at Is, $50.