The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-06-20

The com &c nee usent exefcises OF Hanover,
Bloomington and Greencassie Colleges. all takes
place next week.
The work on the White Water Valley Rail- |
road is rapidly progressing between Connersv'l!e |
and Cambridge. ...se~...-.-sx5
A branch Of the Evansville and Charlottesville
Railroad is soon to be built from Princeton or
Patoka to Mount Carmel. ea 5sa
At a grail army festival, in Richm,nd
Miss Jennie Prescott was voted to be the hand
soIncs. girl ia America. lndiana2olis Herald
A MN named Be,ner, living in Rush county.
near Knightstown killed him self with a pistol.
last week. t.Eg ss--- .f
Miss Wright, young lady in poor health.
took strychnae IN Elahart county a few days
aimee, with suicidal intent. She failed.
A young man in Fort Wayne, reesa,ly mar
RED to fast girl. committed suicide by swal-
lowing strychnne last Wednesday.
= A little boy, son of Lewis Aloes. was drown
ed in pond near St. Mary's. Viso county last
Thursday.
The New Albany glass works will begin op
ings recently destroyed By fire have been re-
placed with larger and better ones.
Gold mining is about to be commenced at
Button and Huntington. a. the latter place
a quartz mill is being erected at cost Of &c.
900.
There were thiIty-seven persons immersed
and eleven sprinked by the United Brethren
at Hannah's Creek. Union county. on Sabbath
of last week .-Brookvile American.
Zebna Gainos, young man eighteen years
Of age, was drowned in Whee'er's mill race near
Winchester. OH Sunday. while bathing. He
was unable to swim.
fellow tried to commit suicide at Blooming
ton a day or two since, bat the bloody doctors
woulden't let him die. Domestic infeIicity.
Sarah Crawford. of New Albany. for inhu-
man treatment Of an adopted child was sentenc
ed to fine of $500 and thirty days imprson-
ment.
AsRUay UNIvERsIrY The twenty eie nth
Annual commencement OF the Indiana bury
University will take place from the Goth to the
9th Of June, inclusive. The whole number of
students present duriaS the year is 3 8. The
next year will open Sept, 1lth 1867.
An OK team, loaded with lumber, belonging
to Thomas Posey, ran away near Lawrence
burg, few days since, AMI striking against q
bank. the lumber was thrown on Posey's son !,
abby seven years old. He died in few hours
The heavy rains of the latter part of last
week and Sanl,y AMI Monday of the present
week, caused great overflow in the streams of
Perry county, resulting in the washing away of
miles Of fencing. several mill DAMS and a num-
Der Of bridses.-New Albany Ledger.
The indianapolis Herald of Saturday, says ::
Last evening, about half past 8. man, name
unknown. while runnisg to catch an Illinois
street car, tripped on some obstacle on the side
walk, and was thrown into the gutter near the
north end of the Bates House. passer.b y.
seeing his legs proIuding. drew him out. but it
was too latc-life had fed the odor of the gut
ter and pc sonoas gases exhaled therefrom had
destroyed him. a more horrible fate cannot be
imagined"
A dispatch from Mobile states that General
Swayne has appointed negroes as aldermen of
that city.
The Eight Hour Bill passed the Connecticut
House OF Representatives,, by nearly 4 unani
nous vote. The bill goes into affect from the
day Of its passage. .
The Louisville Board Of Trade have prepared
. memorial to Congress, paying for the removal
Of the tax on cotton, and setting forth its Unjust
ice and injurious influence upon commercial az
fairs.
The number ofemiSrants that passed through
Columbus last week was 1871. Of whom 2I2
will settle in Indiana.
4 bloody asfray occurred at Natche toches
Parish, in which G. w. Suffer. the radical can
didate for the convention, was deliberately shot
10 death with a double barreled gun, by John
Jones. The sheriff, in attempting to arres, him,
was shot in the head and severely injured.
Jones is ne phew of Governor Wells.
The Episcopal Convention of Ohio pros led
that the Bishops salary should be five thousand,
and the Assistant Bishops four thousand dol.
lars, to be raised pro rata all churches of the
diocese and adopted.
The Oldest OF our turfueR, John Campbell q
native of Maryland, and late Of Mobile died on
Sunday morning At the Louisville Hotel, Louis
vile. He had just completed the purchase OF
farm near Glasgow, Kentucky. for his former
slaves to occupy, rant free, for twelve years. lie
had long been in i'll health. He was noted for
his honor on the turf and personal generosity
His age was seventy six.
A clergyman in Chicago has been deserted BY
his wife because he was guilty of plagiarism.
preached other mems sermons, and was not so
brilliant intellectually As she had supposed pri-
or to her IN arriaSe.
Fort Gibson, Arkansas and beyond the earth
is filled with young grasshoppers. just Matched.
As soon as they hatch out of the eggs, they com.
mence hopping South. From Kansas to Red
River the ce.ntry round, for forty fifty miles,
is filled with them.
At . Mormon meeting in kensington, Eng
land, recently. dissenting minister of the
Church Of England embraced their faith and
publicly avowed his intention of taking his wife
and family to Utah with the next batch OF con-
verts that leave for that country.