The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-01-10

The Methosiist Church has 81, 843
white and l.243 colored members in
Virginia. z
Letters from Turks Island say re-
ports had reached there that President
Geffrard, of Hayti, had been poisoned.
Resolutions were adopted at the New
Corn Exchange, Monday, against the
future reduction Of the currency.
The Illinois Legislature met and or
ganized on Monday Franklin Gown,
nephew of the late Thomas Gown, was
elected Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes.
At the Convention OF Manhattan Cir
cles, New York, Sunday evening, James
Stephens was declared an exploded hum
bug, and General Gleeson was elected to
his vacated position of Chief Organizer
Of the Irish Republic.
The decision in the test oath case. it
il stated, win not be made until the 14th.
The majority opinion will be delivered
by Clifford, Nelson, Field and Wayne;
the dissenting opinion will be delivered
by Judge Miller and be sustained by
Chase, Swayne and Davis.
The tax which will be paid by New
York City in 1867, is estimated at $780,
O00, 900, nearly twice the amount of the
State debt of Ohio.
, A lady in Ansable Forks, New York,
made her husband Christmas present
Of three sons at q birth.
General Fitzpatrick our Minister to
Chill, is often picked up drunk in the
streets of Santiago, and is described as
drunken blackguard. So says the
Springfield Mass. Republican.
Mrs. Miriam Hart, Of the town Of
| Union, Me-, died recently at the advanc-
| ed age of 100 years. She had distinct
remembrance Of the fight at Lexington.
Mrs. Rebecca Burnet, relicit of Judge
Jocob Burnet, of Cincinnati, died in
! Cincinnati, on the Sd inst, aged SO years.
Dan Rice has made contract to play
circuits twenty weeks for SIS, 900 in Pi.ila-
delphia.
/ Prentice says that q patient is in bad
| way when his disease is acute and his
doctor isn't.
Mccormick, the reaper man, has
bought residence on Fifth Avenue,
| New York.
Kentucky war claims, amounting to
about $4,000, 900, will soon be paid by
, the Government.
| In the Pennsylvania Legislature, the
election of United States Senator has
/ been fixed for the 18th.
| The fathers of Generals Mcclellan,
Grant, Sherman, Sedgwick and Mansfield
were born in Connecticut
! The exact number Of rebel dead buried
in the vicinity Of the various camps in
Ohio, has been ascertained to be 1907.
The total number Of deaths in Phila-
| delphia last year, 16, 800, which is 366
|. less than in 1865. Deaths from cholera
The paper mill of Col. Hall & Denza,
ut Bloomfield, n. Y, was burned on
Monday last. Loss S25, 600. Insured
for S1S, 900.
i Thirty one homicides aad sixty one
murders in New York last year-cheer-
full spot.
\ The Buffalo Courier reports for the
action of the police prize concert swim
die, in which insHy tickets have been
sold in that city. Three hundred thous-
and tickets were advertised for sale al
one dollar each, and the drawing was to
take place on the 26th of November.
The swindlers have vamosed.
4 The towc of Coburg, in Can ada West
was, on Saturday last, lighted up with a
new gas made from pine wood, bones
and refuse vegetable and animal matter
The manner Of manufacturing this gas
is not stated, but the light produce ed by
it is represented to have been quite
brilliant
/ Fifty years ago, John Smith arrived
in this country from Brechin, Scotland,
and the other day, in commemo grafton OF
this event, he invited seven hundred OF
his friends and employees to dinner The
mammoth banquet took place in Ando-
yer, Mass. where Smith has his factories.
! An old bachelor of Laporte has been
''taken in and done for" by . strange
woman from Canada to the extent of
$4,000. After paying her bills for three
years, she skedaddled with gallant
captain. Old bach. was INDUCING in
some tall swearing when Last heard from.
Brown, Of Missouri, is for suffrage
without limit of color or sex. An ex-
change says such 5 mixture of bues
makes him appear a Whitley Brown.
A Ripon wisconsin, editor having
seen a specimen Of Anna Dickinson
handwriting, says she writes . horrid
.s6st," and advises her to 60 to school.
A. T. Stewart is about to retire from
active business. We believe he is not
worth more than S so 900 900, and should
think he would remain in business until
he had amassed a competency.
An appeal is made to the charitable OF
the country to relieve the necessities OF