The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-10-31
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A Model Town.

Town near NeWry. LIS pkluclpHI IouuueIs
!. and nov sole propristsr. is j. 6. Rich I
: ardson, a leading melnber of the Society
{ of Friends. Tkisgentlennan, with one
: or two other Friends, founded the Bcss-
/ brook Spinning Company, and erected
! there the Bessbrook Mills. The factory
has grown 80 large, that it gives employ
ment to 3. 900 hands, most Of whom re-
! side in the neigNB6fhood or the works.
In Bessbrook there is no licensed public
house.. nor is there one on. any Of the
/, surrounding lands.sso Therc arc no police
in the place The Irish qconstabnlary !,
armed. occupy. every, town in Ireland.
!, and hayc barracks for hall. a-dozena men
!, each along every roadside, but there arc
no police in Bessbrook. Mr.. Richard
/ son allcdges that. 30 long as he keeps
out the public house, they can do with
out the police; but that as soon as the
tap-room is introduced, they viii require
the constAbulary' There is nodrunken-
/. ness in Bessbrook; in short, the opera
, tiycs are models of sobriety and good
order. of course; it is not M can't to be
said that they have not their faults and
failings like mankind everywhere; but
the town is wholly free from the sad
Z scenes which are to met with publicly,
in towns of much smaller population.
And the population Of Bessbrook is
j composed entirely Of operatives, while
that of many other towns are mixed,
comprising the wealthy and the poor.
q The operatives themselves have not two
q opinions on the question Of the absence
or presence of the public house. They
are agreed that if licensed houses were
il opened in Bessbrook, the reading room,
the library, the schools, the cooperative
societies would all be deserted, by only
{ too many, forkthe aliurementsi of the
: dram shop, and that another establish
& ment hitherto unknown in Bessbrook,
0 the pawn Office, would soon be required
And not only so, but the police barracks,
the handouts, and the dark cells would
come in fashion, too, and homes now
{ happy, would soon become miserable
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many towns, and he decided to keep the
licensed public houses out Of Bessbrook.
The results have decidedly confirmed
: him in his resolution, and would con-
vince the most skeptical of the wisdom
of the course he thus adopted, if the
town were only visited by them. Coup
4 led with the last negative point of man
agement is also the exclusion of police
and pawn offices, as already referred to;
these follow the wake1of the dram shop,
and the dexclusion of the public-house,
renders NIL the rest unnecessarily New
Castle Weekly Express 90 E
- IA photograph of Bessbrook can be
seen at John Bells Office, No. Is. Noble
FAMINE IN SCANDINAvIA.-Emilie Car
den, the Swedish author, has addressed
a pathetic appeal to the women of Swe-
den, on behsl flthe inhabitants of Norr-
land ,-on the Gulf Of Bothnia, thousands
OF whom are near starvation. Last j ear s
bad harvest and a winter Of unusual
-inc1emency. caused amongst the people.
destftution which this years harvest was
expected to relieve, but there has been
such q failure Of crops of all, kinds as
has not been known since 1s12ass In Lu 4
lea there is not a pound Of meal to be
bought. Bark bread and bread Of sal
low leaves, fungi, lichens Ssd moss are
eaten by the destitnt e &c The sufferings
Of the dwellersi in remote inland villages
are said to be beyond belief. A famine
committee has been formed and sub
scription list opened at Stockholm. The
picture which Miss Carlin draws of
mothers seeking to keep life in their
starving children by doles OF softened
moss, is very touching. 3asAotsds /
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81 Some radical darkies in Savannah, have been using
tar and feathers conservative Individual of their
own color. OF course there isano justification for
This conduct, but it 10 just little more than ridca
ous, to witness the spasms Of indignation with which
the rebel papers speak OF the Outrage These radical
negroes only following thesexahpe set forth by
their former Masters. Previous tostKe swarzit
common thing for the savehodsrs tar and festher
northeEp who NIGH, be, travelling through their
section, or be engaged in business there, northern
school teacher wssone Of the x Yaukses'' who always
deserSed such aseostune.c The negroes have seen
sdSE abuses perpstratsse often BY the whites that
10 not suSrising to find of them at times in
tolerant towards those df their color who may
differ from the majority n opinion. Theonfy wonder
is considering the educa ton they have received dur
ing the years Of slavery that they able sewell to
resist rs eva influences. ,..s4 ~ aI+tir 49,, !
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essVIRyUE OF THE NIcHoLsoN PAvEngNT -
II whatthe New Orleans Crescent says is
true, the Nicholson pavement recon-
mendsi itself upon other aand' higher