The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-04-09

they'll find out they're casting pearls
before swine
In Texas lands are now held at about
one tenth their value six years ago.
There are at the present time about
100000 Juvenile paupers in England.
On the Island of st. Thomas the
deaths by cholera number thirty per
day.
The past winter was the coolest since
that of 1S43 on the North Pacific coast.
The railways of France, during the
past seven years, have killed 297 per-
sons.
Prairie chickens are so plenty in Mis-
souri, that they are used for swine's food.
A magazine devoted to billiards is the
latest periodical venture in New York.
Information is said to be generally
scarce in the region of the White House.
Bayard Taylor says that only one
meerschaum in ten made in Ger many is
genuine.
Vicksburg is about to shut up the
schools for want of money to pay the
teachers.
Beer and whisky are being made in
Shanghi. China is likely to be elevated
at last.
Masses Of mineral, supposed to be
silver, have been found near Lookout
Mountain.
Iowa does not owe dollar, and
change Of name to I-don' t. owa has been
suggested.
There were AL fires in Chicago in
January, POI in ST. Louis, and only 70
in New York.
Idaho raises so much mahogany that
it takes six cords of it to buy one ton of
hay.
1t is asserted that the Havana lottery
draws annually from New Orleans over
81 100000.
An exchange calls the bills Of the gas
companies the heavy charge Of the light
brigade.
The Rev. B. F. Paddock has declined
to accept the appointment of Bishop of
Oregon.
juneau and adjoining counties of
w
hops last year.
Ohio has population of 68 to the
square mile; Massachusetts, 1862; New
York, IS.
The Chicago Times of last week re-
ports % chicken fights occurring there
in one week.
Fifty. one fires have occurred in Lon
don theatres during the past thirty three
years.
Hiram Powers, the sculptor, intends
coming summer.
A good sized store in Boston is
warmed thoroughly by water heated by
two gas burners.
Hamilton College has the law library
of William Curtis Noyes, which is val
ued at 100000.
Property is largely being sold in
Mississippi to pay debts and taxes, aad
at very low rates.
Young men who are drafted in the
army of France can be exempt by pay
ing twenty five hundred francs.
frlnce Humbert has purchased q dis
pensation from the Pope which allows
him to marry his cousin. Cost $50, 900.
awful Gardner, the converted prize
fighter, is living in shanty and chop
ping wood on the shore of Cayuga Lake.
A rattlesnake, three feet four inches
in length, and having four rattles and
button, wss ploughed up on Tuesdy, by
Leonard Harvey, Of Bullitt county, KY.
It was alive and moving, but seemed
rather stiff and rhematical, like old Rip
when he awoke from his long Catskill
nap. Cold weather don't effect the COP
perhead species in Kentucky.
The Enquirer's Washington CORES
pendent says that Jerry Black quarreled |
with the Pres ident about some South |
American claims for guano.
There will be convocation of the |
clergy and laity of the Episcopal Church |
of Southern Indiana, at ST. Paul's |
church, in New Albany, on the 18th and |
10th of April, on which occasion Ri.
Rev. Joseph Talbot, D. D., assistant |
bishop of the diocese, will be present
Md preside.