The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-12-15

Tae Palladium u !; d
RicHMoNDy iMD1 DEC.sl6th, 1868.
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Speaker ColsaS will NTH resign dur
ing the present session OF Congress
There are four men i'm Providence,
RI. whose estates are assessed at from
81, 4OO, 900 to 81, 100000. ~ 6a <ar
The gentleman, who pronounces pug
kin with an IN and p was in town yes
terday. So says the Gin Times -,
Fifteen papers in this state are printed
on sheets, one side of which is printed
in Chicago. sn6lt7sua gs tuisi leJ
A Magistrate AIMED Canine -adminis.
tiers justice to offenders in : Crawfords-
willie. He is said to be a dog on good
fellow. t,s3s
Spain has one hundred and seventeen
sea- ports. six hundred and seventy five
miles Of railroad, and ninety-four miles
Of canal
A Frenchman recently drank 81 cups
Of coffee on q wager, His life was saved
by an emstic of salt aud water. -oa9e asi
The Princess. of Prussia, who is the
eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, has
six children. The youngest is 6 months
old, the next eighteen, She was mar
ried in 1857 81 rs. i.Ls 9is7 cd o. 21s..a
In Australia they have fenced in To-,
900 acres, where ostriches are kept, and
IL is found that the feathers Of full
grown bird will sell for 500 a year. 81
Baptist Bother don't like your
church government. tbs not simple
enough There is too much machinery
about it. y - ~, 81 rssd- le. sssJ
- Methodist Preacher--t'It is true we
have more machinery aboutit than you;
but then, you see, itdon't take 30 much
water to run it, b aEog2 aa2H q
General Grant has been gossiped
about Of late as being worth 100000.
This il an enormous over estimate. He
has never been a money-getter, and
about all he possesses has been given to
him. 4 I'D t ,tIi5 AiiO
Josh Billings says that he has "seen
some orful bad throat diseases complete
ly cured in three days by simply jining
temperance society" The temper
ence societies of this city have fine
field for the practice of this cure te
The Hearid says Grant is in favor Of
the projected constitutional amendment
to make universal manhood suffrage tn.
supreme law for the whole United States
IF that is true, the measure will b,
carried through this Congress
How much has j. Davis cost us sine,
his capture9 In the legal proceeding
alone he has been costly case! H
should be quashed now, and be left t,
continue henceforth at his own expense
The motion to quash should not b,
resisted. ,..,.s,-..-.-
LARGO writing for the C incinnat
Commercial" represents the city o
Madison as "seated in modst beauty q
the feet Of half a dozen lofty. graceful
hills, busily engaged in manufacturin.
immense quantities Of starch;'' which i
novel and felicitous commingling O
the profitable with the picturesque
Wheat.--But little is doing in thi
market in wheat Dealers think tha
there is little in the hands of producers
Such small lots as are offered sell q
S1.5O to 81. IS. The stocks in the hand
of our millers and shippers have bee
much reduced in the past few days
Terre Haute Express. a55o al
A schoolmaster, drafted into the arm
from Spencer county, and killed in &C
ton, has returned, in accordance wit
threats made at the time he drew tn
fatal number, to haunt the schoolhouse
His voice, coming from the wall, is of
ten heard, to the great discontinue o
the scholars and the present teacher
1t was believed at the time by thous
ands of intelligent Englishmen that An
drew Johnson, if convicted in the I'm
parchment trial, would be hung. TIL
British are as ignorant of American jus
dce as of American geography.