The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-03-15

Jasper county, Indiana, produced
., 900 gallons Of sorghum molasses the
past season
An immense food is reported in the
upper w abash. causing much destruc-
tion TO property above Lafayette
Tie Lafayette folks complain bitterly
OF the shipment of paupers and Grim
mails TO that place from Indianapolis.
The laws Of the late extra session Of
the Legislature are printed and now be
ing distributed 10 the several county 9TH
GERS.
Forty eight insurance companies
doing business in this State have com
Piled with the insurance law OF the Leg
islature.
The last Michigan City Entsrprtss says
that the final letting of The contract for
building the harbor will take place on
the 18th of this month.
The Coal Oil excitInent is raging in
Gibson county. Some fellow has srnelt
something in a deep hollow and tie
whole county is in an upToar
The Evansville papers complain the
number of burglars in their midst Four
attempts at burglary are reported AS o.
curing in one night last week.
The postmaster at Logansp-rt has
been removed and Mrs Colonel Brown.
widow of an officer who fell at the second
battle of Bull Run, appointed in his
stead.
arrangements have been made for
4 hot
foxes have been secured and big time
is anticipated.
A Directory of indianapolis has just
been completed. and it contains 13.440
names against $50 in 1860. From this
the formal figures out that the pres ut
population of that city is $500
HEAVY LICENSE FEE.-The Shelley
Union is publishing an ordinance by
which saloon keepers must hereafter pay
license fee of $500 for the privilege of
selling Intoxicating liquors in that place.
Jealousy induced man named Battles
to shoot and dangerously wound his
neiehbor, named Sullivan, at Petersburg,
Pike County, on Saturday last. Both
men wanted to marry the same woman.
The New Albany Ledger understands
that a gang of counterfeiters are '.shov-
ing the POS on the First National Bank
OF indianapolis, and the $50 compound
interest notes, in the towns along the
river between that city and Evansville
The editor of the Muscatine Journal
has been .'shown a bug about the size
and shape of a bean, which WAS taken
from the heart OF a potato, that article
not seeming to be in any way decompos-
ed or effected by its chronological ten
ant
SPOTTED FEVER IN MARsuALL.-The
Mattoon Journal learns from 4 gentleman
who left Clark county few days since,
that number of deaths from spotted
Fever had lately occurred in Marshall,
and that considerable excitement pre-
vailed throughout that section on ac-
count OF it.
s. It- There will be total echpes of the
moon on the night of March 30th, which
will be visible throughout the American
continent. The size of the eclipse will
he "a digits 1t will commence in
the meridian at exactly nine o'clock; at
10:7 it will be total; at l1:46 it will be-
Gin to decrease, and at l O'Clock A. NJ. on
the 31st it will pass off entirely.
Professor Madison Evans was killed
on Monday night. ct Bedford. Lawrence
county. Indiana, by DR.. Benjamin New
lin. Evans suduced the daughter of
Dr.. n, OF which fact the doctor was not
apprized until Monday, when he armed
himself with pistol and knife, and went
in pursuit of the professor, whom find
ing, he first shot, and then to make sure
of his death, cut his throat-Ind. Her
aid, 1h inst,
\ recent trial in Fort Wayne demon
strated the fact that q German couple,
who have been living as man and wife
until they have become gray headed,
were never married and on account of
some trivial difficulty, were proposing a
separation We believe it has been de +.
cided once by a judicial tribunal that
parties living together as husband and
wife, and acknowledging the relation,
are legally bound together according to
Indiana law. If so, the old folks will
have to make it up.
From the Terre Hautte Express, Feb. 49,
sulphur Well.
We have mentioned several shines the progress
boring o-well ut Lodi, the Wabash. some for
ty miles north Of this city DAYS the au
CUR bT3k through the roof of a cavity. The augur
taken cut when gas began 10 up in consid-
cradle quantities pushing the salt before it, and
causing it to fow the top Of the conductor. AZ
ter the salt driven out sulphur water con-
tinued to flow, in small stream. The welIwas
four feet deeper which opened cavities and IL
creased the amount of to ten gallons N mute
and it flowing five hundred barrels a dsv, OF
white sulphur. The water, it flows from the con-
ductor, white after standing while il deposits
black sediment and becomes clear. On being agita-
led it bos and emits gas. In mineral ingredients,
dsssreeable smell and specific gravity is sai to ex-
-eed the Lafayette artesianespecialy the sulpaurous
claimed it will rank with the most ia
nous medicinal waters OF the world. The compa1r,
understand, viii cease boring until the water is
snalvzed and tested.
DIED-We understand that John
Shawhan. an old and respectable citi-
-,r - Push county l;oJ ~ HI -: