The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-05-05
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The strength Of the London police
force in 1868 was 5000.
The Russian language is regularly
taught in New York.
A couple in Ohio have just re married
after b year of divorce.
Thirty additions to the Christian
Church in South Bend during the winter.
Barnum has gone to stock raising.
among his herds. 5
The seventeen year locusts are an
nounced among the entertainments OF
the coming summer.
Libby prison is being pulled to pieces
by relic hunters. What q pity that
couldn't have been done six years ago!
Some stupid fellow wants to know il
there ever was an eclipse Of the honey
moon.
Colonel Samuel Pike, the veteran
Journalist, is soon to commence the pub
LEGATION of Democratic newspaper at
Kokomo.
Gas company organized in South
Bend. Works to be completed, and
ten thousand feet of main pipe laid on
or before the 1st of January 1869.
Marshars portrait of General Grant,
now on exhibition in New York. is pro-
nounced the best work of that artist,
and the best portrait of that General.
Dubuque is moving for co operative
brewery. In this city the drinkers CO.
operate with the brewers without an as
sociation.
The removal of the remains Of the
late rebel General John II. Morgan to
Lexington, Kentucky, is to be made the
occasion OF rebel demonstration.
A new school house, in De Kalb co,
Tenn, which cost more than THOUSAND
dollars, of which the negroes contribu-
ted nearly one half, was burned by the
Ku Klux, on Sunday night.
A man in a New Hampshire town re-
fused to pay a tax Of three dollars, and
was put in Jail, where he remained three
years. and was then liberated He has
cost the town four hundred dollars, and
the town had cost him three years Of
life. Which was the greatest loser?
The Louisville Democrat Of the 10th
says "We regret to announce that our
fellow townsman, the Hon.
James Guthrie, was yesterday stricken
with the paralytic affection that gives to
his Immediate family and extensive
circle of friends great solicitude as to
his health.
BENNETT of the Herald has created
genuine sensation. He Endorsed the
Gettysburg lottrey scheme in the Her
aid, and now that it has turned out a
swindle, he has notified all subscribers
to the scheme that if they apply at the
Herald Office he will pay them back their
money.
6 The State Board of Agriculture meets
on Tuesday Of next week. The ques-
ton of locating the State Fair in this
city for determinate number of years
will then be settled. The Council will
take action on the petition for aid in the
erection of the Mechanics Hall at its
Monday night session.-IND JOURNAL.
The widow of the late Pleasant A. |
who gave his life to his
country at the desperate battle of
Corinth, has been appointed Post Mis- |
,ress at Nashville. Itgives US pleasure
10 chronicle this act Of kindness to the !
family of General Hackleman, and we
mark it as one of the few official acts of
Postmaster General Randall that is
worthy of unstinted approval.
An exchange says There is no need
IF buying umbrellas. They can easily |
pc procured without-thusly Take
your stand in doorway on rainy day.
As soon as you see man with nice
step out and say to him
Sir, beg your pardon, but you have
ny umbrella y Nine times in ten he
will surrender it, for how does he know
it was not you he stole it from.
On the night Of the 21st, two men,
to be Fenians, were arrested
1t a late hour, near the servants door
IF Buckingham Palace, London. They
we're carrying hamper, which on being
opened, was found to contain a gallon Of
liquid phosphorus, or Greek fire. The
parties made desperate resistance, and
we're with difficulty secured.
The Troy Times relates the following
Instance of longevity +: A gentleman who
ives on Ida Hill informs us that ten
,ears ago he bought piece of enameled
,loth for table cover, OIL which there
vas ct that time, and has been ever
'ince, small knot or bunch, apparently
n the make Of the cloth A day or two
,ince a child Of his scraped the bunch
With knife, when out crawled bed
Jug, as lively and happy as ever.
A quaint writer compares a certain
lass of professors of religion to ''sheet-
ron stoves heated by shavings." When
here is a little reviving in the church
hey all at once fame up and become
warm and Jealous. They
re ready to chide the pastor for his
oldness and want Of activity. But alas
he shavings are soon burned out, and
hen the heat goes down as it went up.
they are never seen in the prayer-room
r more spiritual meetings of the church
gain until there is another excitement.
+ such people had souls of their own
o be saved they would not be worth