The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-08-01
Their. IN AZ places Of public wo.hip -

The receipts OF internal revenue last WedneS
day were $739.71 eepsasa aszas eas @sza nsil
The ram Stonewall will leave about the 5th |
OF August fer Japan.
About 1000 miles OF railroad arc being con- /
structcd in Minnesota. H0r3RYgeaE4 |
San Francisco Is made happy by the discov-
cry of bed Of oysters in the lay.
The tobacco crop in Southern Indians 10
more promising than At any previous season.
The Commissioner OF Patents will issue 2s1 !
new patents for the week ending the 5Oth inst.
Cholera has broken out with great virulence
among ieedmen. on plantations on the Yazoo |
River.
produced $7ss.O43, 1896 since they we're first
opened
A boy in New York has been arrested for .
stealing his fathers dog and trading it off for
two cats
The centre of the United States has been !
definitely fixed. 1t is Columbus. Nebraska.
ninety six miles west of Omaha. e4
Immense deposits of tin ore have been dis
covered in Madison County, Missouri. not far
from Pilot Knob and lion Mountain. - s AS
An unxrsteful son at Boston stole his moth.
er's feather bed, worth $40 and sold it for 81,
to take his girl riding, the other day. SCI
The cholera is on the increase at Memphis.
Seven deaths occurred on the 18th. Thus far
the disease prevails exclusively among the COL
ored people.
\ svee. young lady says that males are Of
no account from the time that ladies stop kiss
ing them rs infants ill they Commence kissing
them as lovers. slss s @ns ss,s
The stassmen. of the public debt for the pres
ent month, which will be published the first Of
August, will show a decrease of the debt of
two or three millions. Il
General Weitzel and q cosps Of Typographical
engineers hare commenced the preliminary
work for the survey of the Canal around the
Ohio falls, at Louisville.
The wheat crop Of Summer county, Tenn, is
estimated by good judges At 3UO. COO bushels.
The home consumption will be about 100000,
leaving surplus Of 100000 bushels.
At a meeting OF the New York CITY Union
Republican General Committee on Tuesday
evening, General Grant was nominated for the
next Presidency. subject to the decision OF the
Republican National Convention. Ii ~ =
Mexican news, by way of Brownsville, to
the 18th instant, is received. 1t has been most
" anticipated. Escobedo has been placed in
command Of the army, Juarez is announced as
a candidate for reelection to the Presidency.
committee appointed to examine the line of
the proposed Lexington and Richmond tken-
tucky) Railroad, report that there is an abund-
ance of excellent coal adjacent to the road, and
any quantity of superior timber, limestone and
hydraulic cement. 5dz5
A man named Paine, in Monroe county, N.
Z. a lawyer, drew up will for dying man,
and after it was signed and read, Paine claim
ed that il was net right. and drew up new one
which was signed without reading, and it was
found that all the property was wiiled to Paine.
He is now in jail awaiting examination.
Just rs an auctioneer was saying !" Gone |"
= few evenings since, his audience went through
the floor into the cellar, but happily without
hurting them. The anctioneer, as soon as he
found hs legs remarked the accident would
enable him to sell lower than before, and called
for bid, and they bid him good night"
They have had "baIloon wedding in Pitts
burg The ceremony was performed one hun
dred feet from the earth after which the 'haLpy
couple" took bridal tour two thousand feet
higher up. The pair were considered rather
Eighty b1s it was believed the hallucination
would not continue longer than thirty days.
Betsy. my dear" said Mr. Stubbs giving
his wife q damaged pair Of unmentonables
.'haye the goodness 70 mend these trowsers it
will be as good as going to the play to night"
Mrs. 8. took her needle but confessing she
could not see the point. remarked:
How SO p
why, my dear. you will see the wonderful
rayols in the pant mine"
Mrs. Stubs finished the Job and handing
back the unmentionables told Stubbs. .'that is
darned good. .s@
One evening parent was hearing his little
Johnnie recite his Sunday School lesson. It
was the thirteenth chapter of Matthew, where
in it relates the parable Of the malicious indi-
viiual who went about sowing tares, &c.
"What is tsre - the parent interrupted to
inquire.
Johnnie hssiiated E
"Tell me, my son, what is a tare 2" r4tssa
You've had EN- said johnnie, casting
down his eyes and wiggng his foot.
'Iiad 'em y said the astonished parent, OPEN
ing his eyes rather wide, why. what do you
mean Johnnie e.
When you didn't come home for three
days last week. said Johnnie Il heard motner
tell aunt Susan you was off tare sstaa
The sunday school lesson was abruptly
brought to a close, and Johnnie, who knew
too much to sit up any later was sent to bed
Newspaper editors are we'll paid in Paris. II
is affirmed in the journals that NJ. Clement Du-
vernOis, vho WAS recently one of the writers in
the Liberte and who is to become editor of the
Epoque, il to receive the salary of 81 600
year and an 4idemnity on entering on his du-
ties Of $2C.uOO. A carriage is moreover, to
be provided for him. On some of the journals
the remuneration is even higher than this and
it is to be remembered that a Paris editor does
nothing ike the amount OF work that is expect
ed in the u. s. In fact the Partisan passes the
greater part of his time in smoking cigars and
in talking and if he knocks off an article or
two week he thinks himself wonderfully in
dustrious. Sometimes he let's weeks pass with
out writing line.
In the Northwest tits a Democratic principle
to talk against tariffs and in favor Of free trade
but in Pennsylvan;a Democracy is quite an
9TH ~c kIo
'tims- honored" want of higher tariff, and at
their recent State Convention arraigned Con-
gress for not increasing the duties on imports,
which now average about fifty per cent. in gold.