The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-02-23
New York produced 1l24 babies last

week. el
The stallion, General Knox, has net
ted it's owner, Colonel Lang, of Maine,
sixty the usand dollars.
A negro by the name Of Epeminondas
Squash has been elected o member of
the Arkansas Legislature.
A Graharnite addressing his faithful
congregation says: MY tobaccoless,
rumless. meatless, BUTTERFLIES brethren
and sisters
Madame Parepa- Rosa is still disabled
in Baltimore. What was supposed to
be sprain, received in leaving the cars,
proves to be rheumatism.
The salt works at Syracuse, New
York, have increased a capital of $780,,
600 into one of four millions six hun
dred thousand, by their profits.
A lady in New York offers to- invest
100000 as the Ducleus- of o fund fos
providing for the illegitimate innocents
who are now generally murdered in that
city.
Auber heard Miss Hauck's- first per-
torrance in Paris, and kissed her after
wards. Gossip says he goes through
the same ceremony with every pretty
actress or singer who appears on the
boards Of that city.
The Warrick, Indiana, Herald, is for
sale
Charlottesville is to have FIRE engine
within the next two months.
Colerick Hall, at Fort Wayne, has
been rechristened Colerick,s Opera
House.
Tie prisoners in the New Albany Jail
tried to dig out on Sunday. bat were
frustrated in the attempt.
The supply of brick in. Terre- Haute,
is not equal to the demand aA eight dol.
lars per thousand.
Gil. Shanktin has taken an interest in
the Evansville Courier, and will be as
sociated iu the editorial department
with his brother George.
STEAMER BURNsD.-On the night of
the l1th inst, the Steamer Nellie Ste
fhens was burned in Caddo Lake, Red
River, with a loss of 63 lives. The
steamer Dixie saved 43 persons.
Some mems minds are never half
blown. With their. trumpets it is far
otherwise.
Money is the metal wheel.work of hui
man activity, the dial plate of our value.
A strong but sinful spirit rises upward,
not like the lark, to- make mnsic; bat like
the falcon, to dart down on its prey.
Never offer to intrude, by words of
untimely sympathy, upon a grief borne
as men bear it, and felt as women feel
it.
Prejudices are like rats, and q. mans
mind like trap; they get in easily, and
then perhaps can't get out asalE
The lady looks oldest who tries to
conceal her age. If abe refuses to let
her age be upon her tongue, it will be
all the more in her face.
"How many feet long was the snake?"
asked a person of traveller who had
just related story of hisencounter with
a boa killed by him. Zone hundred and
ninety-two inches,' Was the reply,
''snakes have no feet''
A girl, who was making a dress, put
the sleeves in wrong. She was unable
to change them, as she could not deter
mine whether she had got the right
sleeve in the wrong place, or the wrong
sleeve in the right place.
Al
falls on the weary heart like q breath
from the gar,len of Eden; and as our
hearts feel thrill of its voiceless melo-
dy, the Futures sky before US seems lit
by an angel smile.
An Irishman dropped letter in the
post office the other day, with the follow
ing memorandum on the corner, for the
benefit of all indolent postmasters into,
whose hands it mihgt fall: ''Please hasten
the delay of this"
4 down easter sold another man a,
horse for a certain number of sheep, to
be delivered such a, day. They came
pt omptly, but to the purchasers aston
ishmens, all nicely sheared. It was a
cool transaction, especially for the sheep.
An Irishman was employed to trim
some fruit trees. He went in the morn
ing, and, on returning at noon, was asked
if he had completed his work. tsNo,"
was the reply; ''but / have cut them all
down, and am going to trim them in the
afternoon" as
A juryman held out again st his, eleven
in Santa Cruz, California;
he others, after trying all other means,
inaify agreed to send in . verdict Of
guilty, with the addition that the obsti-
pate member was great rascal and con-
'ederate OF the prisoner. He thereupon
gave in.
The Odd-Fellows of Madison will cell
ebrate the semi centennial anniversary
'f the founding Of Odd Fellowship. A
number Of Indiana and Kentucky Lodges