The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-11-16
NOV. l6, 1869.
Chips and Scrapings.
Gen. W ool is dead.

Hon. Amos Kendall died at Wash
ineton on the 1lth inst
An effort is being made to confeder-
ate Canada and British Columbia.
1t is said the Kentucky tobacco crop
has been damaged about onc>third.
A statue of Mr. Peabody is to be
erected at Rome, by order Of the Pope.
The remains of the late George Pea
body are to be brought to this coun-
try.
Indianapolis has Woman's Suffrage
Association-organize on the 18th in
slant
Anna Dickinson is gloating over the
similarity Of the Bostonians to the Nor
mans.
Hog cholera is destroying large
mum ber of hogs in the country north of
Dayton.
Samuel Elliot was elected President
Of the American Social Science Associ-
alton, at Boston.
Western r. r. have carried their war
into the Ohio courts.
VIM. G Bryant is translating for the
New York Ledger a romance by Caro-
line Coronado &c Perry.
Nearly all the Georgans who emigrat-
ed to Brazil Immediately after the war,
are returning to their old homes.
The late Franklin Pierce was a class
mate OF Lopgfellow and Hawthorne, in
Bowdoin College, in the class of "a.
The recent census of Atlanta Ga,
shows the population OF the city proper
to be 90, l66, Of whom 13, Isl are color
ed
A hat n manufacturer claims for him
self the title Of Universal Sympathizer,'
because he says, he has felt for every
one.
A claim is put forward for the harboi
Of Wiscasset, Maine, that it has an echo
which distinctly repeats eighteen sylla-
bles.
An Irish paper says of the late Lady
Palmerson, her father was sister of
Sir Ralph AIilbanle, the mother of Lady
Noel Byron
The reunion Of Old and New School
Presbyterian Churches was effected on
the 18th inst, with appropriate cere-
monies, at Pittsbuig.
It is gratifying to be assured by The
Times that after the great gold con-
spiraey burst, Jay Gould was for three
days a non est man
Tie Mexicans are jubilant over the
completion of railroad between the
i III 10 Il
is forty miles long.
-Four women were elected members Of
the School Committee in the town of
Eastford, " Windham county, Connecti-
cut. al the recent election.
The Governors of eighteen States
have appointed the 18Th inst, as day
of Thanksgiving, in accordance with the
proclamation of the President.
Mr. Aquia Lockwood, one Of the de-
Tenders OF Baltimore in 1914, died at tue
residence of his son, in that city, on
Saturday, in the S3d year OF his age.
Ladies are like watches-pretty
enough to look at-sweet faces and del
icate hands, but somewhat difficult to
regulate after they are set going.
The wives at Carlo, ILL.,, have formed
themselves into a society whose ruling
is to lock all the doors at 10 p. NJ. after
which hour dad don't get into the
house.
At recent fair in Boston, $4,000
persons were weighed, and their aver>
age weight was 1873 pounds The Leav-
lest man balanced the scales at 3701
pounds.
A writer in the New York Times
charges that the practice Of inaulging
in private bottles Of home is fearfnlly
on the increase among respectable Ia
dies in New York.
During the past fiscal year seven hun
dred anu sixty millions of letters passed
through the mails of the United States,
being an increase of forty millions over
any previous year.
The boiler in Henderson & Lang's
Planning Mills and Sash Factory, Gov
ington, Kentucky, exploded terriically
last Thursday. The house was torn
down, one man killed and several others
wounded.
An unfortunate couple in Vermont
have been married sixty-nine years, and
have lived IN the same house during all
that time. Think of the pleasurable
excitemen. lost by people who have
missed sixty nine moving days!
In answer to the question, What be-
comes of al the newspapers that are
seized by the French police the Pail
Mall Gazette informs US that they are
boiled to pulp in huge caldrons of hot
water-literally soup pressed, in fact.
A contemporary says there are only
two persons in the country who have
not communicated their views on the
Byron question to the newspapers, and
they are citizens of Cape Cod, who
went off mackerei fishing six weeks ago
and haven't returned. s7's
The only actual soyereigns who will
attend the opening of the Suez Canal
/. ro RI a Cr,ltan IF TarIyay and tho Em