The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-09-01
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"a fall of tears. ass
Piqua is to have fremen's tourna
ment on the 10th Of September.
Can horse lack for food while he has
a good bit in his mouth !?
Almost all persons in a certain North
ern latitude have lived on burnt crust
this summer-the crust of the Earth.
A hard fall from which most people
recover-fahing in love. They some
times have their heads cracked however.
Attorney General Evarts declines to
defend in the recent suits against Gen.
Butler.
Accounts from Mobile represent the
crops in that vicinity as poor, and get
ting no better.
Three thousand Mormon immigrants
have passed through Chicago for Utah
since the middle of July.
The divorces granted in Indiana un-
der present laws, number on the average,
about 5000 per annum.
The number of deaths in New York
was increased one hundred last week by
eating meat Of diseased cattle.
Dexter has created great excitement
among sporting men by trotting quar-
ter of mile in thirty seconds.
It is rumored among the Democrats
in Maryland that Governor Swami will
support General Grant for President
A Washington paper announces the
expected early return Of General
Mcclellan, to participate in the cam
paign.
The Hoosac Tunnel is likely to run
through the Massachusetts State Trea-
sury. 1t will make large hole in it, at
least.
The best Workingmen's Society in
the country land they are made up Of
all other classes of workingmen) are the
Grant Tanners.
The most ancient revolutionists are
the Poles; from the earliest times they
have kept up their revolutions, it seems,
using only axes.
Barnum used formerly to make profit
on the feats of others; now, it seems,
te is trying his own feet. He run for
wager the other day.
Six of the eleven Republican candi-
dates for Congressional honors from
this State, were soldiers in the war to
crush the rebellion.
A popular kind of combs with many
young ladies, and which often have the
strange effect of turning their heads
completely-Coxcombs.
If this war was ga failure" as the
Democratic party declared in 1868, why
are they so anxious to prove that Sey-
aour was in favor of it?
We presume the Democratic ball is to
be kept rolling, as usual, this year, until
November, when it will be, like another
olling ball, "fattened at the polls"
Primary definition of Blair-a blast,
a noise. Secondary definition-A small
copper coin. Hence, according to either
definition, fit candidate for the Copper
head party.
Several persons who attended the
camp meeting at Sing Sing are said to
have died since arriving at home, from
eating meat of diseased cattle sold at
that place.
How a "nigger" may be transformed
into a respectable citizen, be made a
member of "The White Mans Party"
and enrolled comrade of "White Boys
in Blue"-by voting the Democratic
ticket.
On Tuesday the passengers on the
morning train from Cleveland to Colum-
bus took a vote for President, which re-
suited as follows: For Grant 48, for
Seymour II; or nearly three for Grant
to one for Seymour.
It was Coleridge who defined rogue
to be roundabout fool; fool in cir
cumbendibus. Political rogues are not
exceptions they are sure to be caught
at last. The truth of this Blair and
Seymour will fully appreciate after the
fall elections.
A new volume of poems by Longfel-
low is announced by Ticknor d Fields,
under the title of "The New England
Tragedies" This is something of
which, for q wonder, no indications have
appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. We
shall have an appetite unwhetted.
The flux is prevailing to an alarming
| extent at Delta, Ohio. It first appears