The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-06-01

The boiler of the Terre Haute Furniture Factory
exploded on Friday last. 1t ascended perpendicular
ly thirty feet and down in ten feet of its
original position. The engineer buried in the
falling walls and suffered considerable injury.
In Laporte County eighteen marriage licenses were
issued in the month of April, and the Circuit Court
for the same county granted twelve divorces. We'd
lock is ticklish thing in Laporte County.
The Laporte Argus says, during the storm on the
9Th instant, Mr.. A. B. Salisbury, a farmer Roll
ing Prairie, lost thrty-one sheep by stroke Of
lightning. His entire flock consisted of only forty
two head.
THE TRIAL OF ABHAMs.-Judge Wilson, of Con-
nersvle, has consented to preside at the trial o.
Abrams, for the Young murder, but as he is unable
do before the Goth of july it has been postpon-
ed until that time.
fragment of elk horn about three feet long,
with prong it of twelve inches, was exhumed in
Corroll County.
Salt Lake correspondent of the National Intelli-
gencer says that the Pacific Railroad is hundred
miles shorter than the company claim it to be. and
that they have received bonds and grants this
hundred miles, to which they not entitled He
further alleges that on two hundred and fifty miles
of the western portion of the road, the work of
structng a frst.class railway has scarcely COM
menced.
The New England Women's Rights Convention, at
it's Boston meeting the other day, demanded a six
teenth amendment OF the National Con stitution Sc
curing suffrage to women, and asserted that Mr. Ju-
lan's proposed amendment prohibiting political dis.
tnctions account Of should take precedence of
any national questions of mere political expediency,
and is essential to permanent reconstruction of the
Union, and OF vital Importance to the peace and pros
| perity of the republic.
Dom Patt is going into the newspaper business in
Dayton, and will start the Dayton Daily, Re.
publican paper. What is the matter with Bickham 8
Dayton Journal that another Republican paper is
ne eded there Is it the necessary thing for
| respondents of Cincinnati papers to go 10 Dayton
and embalm themselves in a. daily ?-I -ICleveland
| Herald.
The only thing the matter in Dayton is. the poll
ticians there of the Republican persuasion tired
of a newspaper whose proprietor does not have to
serd around the hat two three times year for
| support. newspaper that is making money is
above all things abomnable in their sght.-Ci Cincin-
natl Commercial.
| The Good Templars Of Maine intend
to run an independent gubernatorial
ticket.
| Two ladies have travelled from San
Fancisco to New York, overland, ac-
companied al! the way by bull dog as
protector.
! There are five weekly American pa
pers in Paris, chiefly supported by ad-
vertisements sec king the eyes of Amer
ican travellers, and there is serious talk
of establishing daily.
1t was an apt answer of young lady
who, being asked where was her native
place, replied: I have none ; am the
daughter of Methodist minister
The other day large Norway rat at
tackled brood of chickens at Barnes
vile, Ohio. The mother hen at once
came to their rescue, and fought so gal
lantly that she killed the rat in few
moments. She managed to seize him
with her claws, and holding him down
pecked at his head until he give up the
tghost.
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