The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-11-07

in two years.
Ten Thousand Virginia negroes have
learned to read during the past year
There are twenty four immense lager
beer breweries in Cincinnati.
Robert Lincoln is said to be smart
LAWYER. He calls his mother insane, but
doesn't think it is hereditary.
All the Kentucky rebel Generals have
been pardoned except Breckenridge and
Buckner.
A bar of gold taken from Colorado
Gulch. weighed 226 ounces, valued at
$4,000.
There is one thing that will never get
hurt from a fall, and that is fiour-lt
falls so slow.
The Kellys Island Wine Company
are now crushing about 10000 pounds
Of grapes per day.
1t is said to be fact, that Mrs. Lin
Logan is to help her.
Why is a prosy preache r like the mid
die Of a wheel? Because the fellows
arc und him are tired.
Il come off with flying colors,, as the
painter said when he fell from the lad
der with palette over his thumb.
..Patrick, do you know the fate of that
drunkard? ? Fate? DontI stand upon
the most beautiful pair you have never
seen 2
s'Are you not afraid your wife will get
married again when you die !? Il hope
she NAV, as there will be one man in the
world who will know how to pity me-
\ New York wife petitions for divorce
on the ground that her husband zen
dangers her soul by his immoral be-
hayiOr.
New York has three hundred horses
whose owners proudly believe that they
can drive them 1.-THE horses) q mile in
side Of three minutes.
Ten Of the largest Touring mills at
St. Louis have stopped running, and the
principal buyers Of wheat are out Of the
market.
Hon. Charles Sumner has notified all
associations in Iowa, wheEe he was adj
vertised to lecture, that he was unable
to fill his engagements.
1t is said that the population Of New
Orleans has declined from 800, 900 to
$4,000 since the advent of the yellow
fever.
The Government is making arrange
ment to have the Davis trial, evidence
and argument, reported by stenograph-
ers for preservation in book form.
The session of the Grand Lodge of
Good Templars, held at Kokomo last
week, was satisfactory. Terre Haute Is
to have the next Convention.
A tender hearted gentleman in Brook
Ign uses no mosquito bar, because the
little fellows ''cry like child to get at
him.
Overcoats to the knees, very tight
pants, like those worn thirty years ago,
and silk hats, with low crowns and broad
brims: such are mems fashions for the
coming season.
Fat cattle are selling in Sullivan coun-
ty at to cts. per fb. gross. The sup
ply Of fat stock, of all kinds, in that
part of the State, is abundant
A Pittsfeld pastor astonished his au
dience last Sunday, by remarking, that
most Of his people were asleep-part of
them in the house of God, and the rest
at home.
A .Women's Christian Association"
has been organized at Pittsburgh, and
the sum of one thousand six hundred
and forty dollars was subscribed at the
preliminary meeting.
The large Touring mill owned by Da-
vid Malick, Lexington, this State, was
destroyed by fire on last Tuesday after
noon. The loss was about ten thousand
dollars
Senator Nye made one great hit in his
New York speech, on Wednesday even
ing. ''In Baltimore he said, they had
fired a hundred guns for a Democratic
victory; these were more, but not so
fatal, as those fired at the Massachusetts
soldiers in 1861.
A couple Of fellows who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with bad whisky,
got into the gutter. After foundering
about for a few minutes. one of them
said--s'Jim, let's go to another house
this hotel leaks
81 saw lady wrapped up IN shawl
that she would not take six hundred dol
lars for said Smith to Jones. 81 can
beat that all hollow, retorted Jones
"for saw lady that was SO wrapped
up in her baby, that she wouldn't have
taken six hundred thousand dollars for
it.
A hand organ grinder was lately no
ticed turning away in disgust from the
front of deaf and dumb Asylum at
Hartford His audience, SO to speak,
consisted of one little boy, and he
deaf one, intently curious to see what
he was turning the handle for
There were 1915 bull fights in Spain
last year, in which 2,5ll horses perish
ed. Taking the value of the bulls and
the horses killed. and the expense at