The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-12-01
JEAN RAPTISTE.


Jean Baptiste, pourquoi?
Jean Baptiste, pourquoi?
Jean Baptise what for do you grease
My little dogs nose NIT tart
I grease his nose NIT tar, by gar;
grease his nose NIT tar, by gar;
grease his nose NIT tar, because
He has un grand catarrh.
o, Jean Baptste, c'est bien;
o, Jean Baptste c'est bien;
o, Jean Baptste, tits well that YOU grease
Ny little dogs NIT tar.
SEVERAL of the New York papers
nominate George W. Curtis for Minister
to England.
THE Montreal Gazette says Greeley is
"crotchety, but honest" and would like
t. sec him made British Minister.
SQUIs says that thanksgiving week al
ways gives him feeling of mince piety.
Sunset Cox has sailed for Europe.
Judge Ould and John Lyon are to re
present Jeff. Davis in court, in Rich
mond.
The nine Congressional Districts in
Kentucky went Democratic b. the fol-
lowing msjorities: First, 1866, Second
e.5ss, Third 6,976. Fourth 1l,409, Fifth
1859, Sixth 1857, Seventh 1851,
Eighth AL. Ninth 3,67S
Secretary Seward has addressed a
note to Secretary w Giles. stating that he
has advised the President that suffici
ent naval force should be sent to Para
quay to protect the lives and property
of Americans, and to demand prompt
redress for such injuries as may have
been already inflicted.
A WIFE's PARTING ADvICE-A lady,
parting from her husband a few days
since in the cars at Albany, was over
heard by the passengers to utter the fol-
lowing paragraph, all in one breath:
"Good bye, Will; write to me every
day, won't your I'll expect letter
three times week any way. Take good
care of my Sunday school class, for I'll
want it when I come back. If Miss
Smith calls, don't give her more that
fifty cents, for We must support our own
church, you know. Don't forget to
bring my silk dress and my other shoes.
Come as soon as you can. Goodbye;
don't forget your cane; and let you mus
tachc grow"
Seymour's majority in Oregon is fig
ured down to less than fifty.
General John O'Neil has been elected
President of the Feninn Brotherhood,
by the Philadelphia Congress
The Republican Council Of Charles
ton, South Carolina, has declared null
and void the recent municipal election
there.
It is calculated that the Indian wars
of the last forty years have cost this
vvuns-y eight hundred millions Of dol
lars.
Austria has started out a feet to cir
cumnavigste the globe. for the purpose
of advancing her commercial and man
ufactine interests.
The ship owners Of Great Britain
seem to think they have cause to com
plain Of the Alabama treaty, az failing
TO do Justice TO British claims.
y very suitable memorial has been
erected to the late Colonel Robert G.
Shaw, who was killed in the assault on
Fort Wagner, at the head of his regi
ment, the Fifty fourth Massachusetts In.
fantry. 1t stands in Charleston, South
Carolina. few miles from the site of
Fort Wagner, and is known as the
SHAW Free School" The land was
purchased and the structed from a fund
subscribed by the colored troops who
were serving at the time of the siege of
Charlestown. The building is occupied
by fiourishing school Of nearly five
hundred pupils, with eight or nine teach
ers, under the supervision of a New
England Society.
Sturgeon, like the majority of Eng
. lish clergymen, is q wine bibber. He
says he cannot get through his arduous
labors without his wine and beer.