The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-09-21

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A fire in Philadelphia, Saturday last,
destroyed the -four mills of LIBBY q |
PENNYBAcKER and the armory Of Colo
mel Thomas regiment. besides damag-
ing the steel-pen works, cabinet shop
and machine shop opposite. Loss, $50,
900.
Bishop SIMPSON preached at the Ope-
ra Hail, in Indianapolis, on last Sabbath
afternoon. The attendance is said to
have been immense.
Advices from Tennessee report all
things quiet in that State, and politics,
in a measure, lost sight of in the deyel-
opment of the material interests Of the
State.
The vote in Indianapolis on Tuesday,
Sept. A., on the question of appropria-
ting S35O,O00 to the Indianapolis, Del
phi, and Chicago and the Indianapolis
and Illinois Central Raj lroads resulted
in small majority for the N easure in
the city, but in the county the vote was
Overwhelmingly averse; so the measure
fails
A Helena Montana dispatch says,
that the coach which started Saturday,
Sept. 4, for Corinne was stopped Tues
day about midnieh t; fifty miles north OF
Corinne, by robbers, who obtained about
$4,000 worth of gold bars.
Somebody, supposing that Mr.. Andy
Johnson did really desire return to
pastoral simplicity and vegetable diet,
has kindly presented him with whole
load Of water melons. There is no such
thing, we believe, in nature as a whisk-
ey-and-water- Melon; and. if there were,
"a load of the fruit might be too much
for Mr.. johnson. The water melon,
however, if properly iced, is a great
cooler of shot coppers." Still, it does
seem hard, when man is aspiring to
or perspiring for Scnatorship, that he
should be put off with load of w:ter-
| melons 1t looks like what Mr.. Nasty
| calls sssarkasm.'
GREASE ON CARPETS Cover the
| grease spot with whiting, and let it re-
main until it becomes saturated with the
i grease; then scrape it off and cover it
with another coat of whining, and if this
does not remove the grease, repeat the
application. Three coats Of whitning
will, in most cases, remove the grease
when it should be brushed off with a
clothes brush.
Connersyille has turned out one Uni
ted States Senator, Hon. Oliver II.
Smith; and for. Congressman, Hon. Ca
leb B. Smith; Hon. Samuel w. Parker
Hon. Jonathan McCarty and Hon. An
drew Kennedy. Pretty good that, for 9
small town.
Quit borrowing this paper of your
neighbor-who often loses it entirely
by your carelessness in not returning
it-and take copy Of your own. i
can be had six months for 81, or 50 9
year. Depend on your nei ghbor's gen
erosity no longer.
A badly bunged up Emerald Islander
in response to the inquiry:-s'Whe
have you been?' said:-sDown to Mrs
Mulroony,s wake; an Elegant time W,
7 had of it. Fourteen fights in fifteer
minutes; only one whole nose in tn,
house and that belonged to the tay ket
tle.''
"The blessed man who pre- ached TO
us last Sunday" said Mrs. Darlington
; 'ssers ed the Lord for thirty years-firs
, as circus rider, then as a locust preach
er and last as an eXhauster.''
A large fund has been contributed al
: over the country, for the relief Of th,
, widows and orphans Of those killed il
the recent terrible coal mine disaster i,
Pennsylvania.
. A good many of the flying rumors o.
, this day would be more appropriately
e designated by taking off the letter F.
The startling facts elected at the inquest over tn
I Avondae victims tina. the Wyoming Valley
full of mines having only single opening, that in a
many three out of four the breaker is situa
ted directly the shaft, that nearly all vent
lated by fur naces and that it is possible for confa
grafton to be kinded by sparks from surface 200
distant. The facts speak for themselves.
: RANKIN BALDRIDGE, of Harris IN TowI
ship, this county, attended the Fayett
county Fair last week, and there, as U
sual, carried away number of prize:
on his magnificent herd of short horns
. Mr.. Baldridge is attending all the fair
in this vicinity, and so far has met wit
4 every possible success -Cambridg
!, City Tribune, Sept. 16.
= General Butler tells the followin
. good story: While he was in comman
. at New Orleans, native louisiana
was observed one day by a wag readin
: staring placard on wall in a publ
l. street: "Buy your shirts at Moody's.
r The reader inquired Of the wag VIII:
e that meant 'sO' said the joker, in
= eolnnn tana ksthat Ia ono of tho od;ot