The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-11-07
Ihe Palladium.
RICHMOND, IND, NOV. 1867.


Cholera has broken out at Malta.
John b. Cough is fifty years old.
Utah has church property worth 5000 900.
Rosa Bonheur is soon to visit this country,
There are seven million Jews in the world.
Tire U. 8. has 5000 periodicals of all kinds.
Land is offered in Florida at SO cents an acre.
Barney Williams, the actor, is worth 100000
Pascal, the French writer, invented omnibuses.
Austria has bad no metallic currency since ls4s.
negro 1870 years old recently died in Louisiana.
None of the 1000 students at Oberlin tobacco.
The Papal army is only $4,000 strong, all
naries.
The caterpiars ha spoiled the pecon nut crop of
Texas.
panther is troubling citizens of Bllsborough,
Kentucky.
The Latter Day Saints of Council Bluffs build
ing church.
Gen. Fremont's fortune is millions than
nothing.
A mine of black lead has been discovered in New
Brunswick, Nj.
Baltimore has appropriated $4,000 for negro
schools this year.
The new orchards in Maine have yielded the best
crops this
Delaware is enc of the few States which hold no
elections this year.
snow white deer was killed near Versailles. ILL.,,
few days sgo.
wild cats ar causing catas,rophes among the
sheep in Maine.
The double track on the Western railroad Mass,
is nearly completed.
In he Tho road FROM
London TO Liverpool.
There is an immense immigration of Mormons
into Salt Lake just now.
$780, 900 watches are sold yearly in this country,
$4,000 Of them American.
Milwaukee has expended sl25,o00 for street i'm
provements in ward.
The Williams Silk Manufacturing Company of
Bridgeport, CT has failed
Five challenges pending for the base ball
championship Of America.
The English champion swimmer swan loco yards
in seventeen minutes
Paris is crowded with Americans bound home ard
after their summers tour.
One avenue in Chicago has twenty churches, most
II them elegant and costly
Every married couple may calculate on 4,l9i,s04
escendants in Fl We hundred years.
The upper half of the slopes OF the White Noun
tains already white with snow.
Mr. johnson is shutting out all visitors,
from the White House, except in ex-
IRENE cases, with the view of preparing
his message.
Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, told
the Pan Anglicans that, in his judge
ment, the exclusion of the laity from the
councils of the Church was the great de-
feet of the Church Of England.
The coal trade Of Pennsylvania in
creases largely every year. 1t is stated
-A---' =. . i.~..S'so ca -"s' arsy thousand tons
more of anthracite coal have been sent
to market this year than during the cor
responding period of last year.
The girls at Willimantic, Connecticut,
got to kissing Sheridan, and as the train
moved off one buxom lass failed to reach
his lips. at was a miss said Phil,
'but good line shot. nevertheless"
We learn form various sources that it
is proposed to organize battalion of
Canadian Papal Zouaves, by enlistments
in the different towns Of the Province of
Quebec. This project is said to be in
course Oh execution.
A practical joker in Brooklyn reflected
the rays of the sun in the eyes of lady
by means Of looking glass, whereupon
ne was complained of, arrested and fined
for committing assault and battery.
Mrs. Mary Clark, widow of Ichabod
Clark of North Herman, Maine, died re-
Gently, aged ninety two years. She was
the mother of twelve children, her de
scendants of three generations number
ing 225. Fifty of them were soldiers in
the Union army.
If tax paying citizens want to learn
the economy and integrity of the Demo
cratic party, let them look at New York
City That party has had control Of the
city government for dozen years, and
has swollen the taxes from three to eigh-
teen millions.
At Democratic meeting in Ohio re-
Gently the chairman read burlesque
letter, purporting to have been written
by Abraham Lincoln ''in hell" 1t is
needless TO say that the Democrats
hailed this profane allusion to one of
Americas noblest heroes with loud
cheers
Tue Evansville Ind journal of Fri
day announced, Dy authority O1 hon.
Schuyler Colfax, the letters published
in reference to his candidacy for the
Governorship were written without con-
sulting with him, and that he is not, and
will not be, a candidate for that office.
The machine and car shops at Bloom
ington, owned and operated by the
Chicago & ST. Louis Railway, were COM
pletely destroyed by fire on Friday night,
with most of their contents. The loss
is put at S15O,000. About $50 men are
thrown out of employment by the dis
aster.