The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-05-12
Detroit. Michigan, has q population

! Detroit. Michigan, has population
of 6s, 1856. lt.s' 50 2 e'''s
! A seven foot eagle was killed last
! week in Benton county.
/ Randolph county, Illinois, boasts the
possession of 76 900 acres of coal lands.
/ The common sunfower grows to the
hight of thirty feet in Arizona Territory.
! 1t is said 1000 900 bushels wheat will
be produced in Blue Earth county,
Mimi, the present season.
Santa Annals property in the island
! of st. Thomas, has lately been sold at
tpubic auction. =
I Never give your tongue its full lib
] erty; let it always be your servant, never
4 your master. "a 4ba4s ssass 500. 7laaf7e
/ It is better to sleep with an empty
stomach than to lie awake with an ac-
/ cusing conscience.
If any one speak ill of thee, consider
whether be has truth ON his side; if SO,
reform myself = 5r5e
I
Four things come not back: the
/ spoken word, the sped arrow. the past
life, and the neglected opportunity
! St. Domingo news reports business
there utterly Frustrated. and the state Of
the country feverish and unsettled.
About thirty thousand persons have
died in and around Buenos Ayres during
the prevalence of the cholera epidemic.
1t is said to be subsiding now.
The famous race horse Kentucky has
been sold to q company of gentlemen,
including Messrs. Belmont, Waters, and
Hunter, and will be trained nv his former
rider, Littlefeld.
At Jacobs jewelry store, ia Chicago,
on Friday, man requested to be shown
diamond ring worth $4,000. Upon its
being produced he put it on his finger,
rushed out and has not yet been cap
| tured.
William SiddeiI, of North Vernon,
Jennings county, has lately fallen heir
to the comfortable sum of $4,000
in gold, by the death of q relative in
the Old World. E9
| Three brothers residing near Balls
town, Ripley county, got into dispute
on Monday, which resulted in the elder
striking the two younger with an ak,
killing one and perhaps fatally wound
ing the other, after which he went into
his fathers barn and hung himself.
Miss Parker attended Sabbath School
last Sunday at Oak Church, Knox coun-
ty, and during its session, without any
premonition, fell upon the floor of the
church a corpse, not uttering a word
after falling. No cause is known for
the young lady's death, as she has here
tofore enjoyed excellent health.
John Newton once said: "The act
of spreading rumors may be compared
to the art of pin making. There is usu-
ally some truth, which call the wire
as this passes from hand to hand, one
gives it polish, another point, Others
make and put it On the head, and at last
the pin is completed aa
A clergyman observing poor man
by the road breaking stones with pick
AK, and kneeling to get at his work bet.
ter, made the remark, ''Ah, John, ]
wish could break the stony hearts Of
my hearers as easily as you are break.
ing those stones The man replied
perhaps, master, you do not work On
YOUR KNEES" 5
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
says: "a pleasant little family contro
. versy has been going on for the past
two years in Bloomfield, over a matter
in cash value not exceeding % cents
and 81, 500 has already been expended
in the courts about it without no better
prospect of settlement than ever. The
parties are members of good standing
in the Methodist church, and own prop
erty among them to the value of full
| 81, 100000. .4.rsno su..
| LOOK TO Your CELLARs.-Now is the
time to clean up the cellars, Jas it is a
work that should not be left until warm
weather is upon u.s. By that time any
vegetable matter left remaining will
decompose and produce an atmosphere
/ deleterious to health. The meat stands
should be emptied upon the asparagus
beds or manure heap, and must not be
thrown anywhere else, as the brine will
kill even trees as thick as an arm if ap.