The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-12-14

I Capt. Hall gave q matinee to th )
children Of the public schools on last
Thursday. Nearly one thousand child
rem were in attendance.
Mr. ID Harrison, OF East German
town. was killed last Wednesday, by
large rock falling On him while enga
ged in moving it from it's place. H
was completely crushed.
Rev. r. Tobey, has sufficiently rocov.
cred to be able to resume his labors
pastor of the NJ. E. Church at New Cas-
tie. He preached his first sermon since
his injury, at that place last Sunday
week.
The Wayne County Temperance Al
lance meets at Centrevilie on Friday of
this week. The session convenes in
the Court House at 10 1-2 A. N. All
friends Of the cause are earnestly re-
quested to attend.
A Quaker meeting is to be regularly
held in Morrey's Hall, Cambridge City,
on Sunday mornings. A dispensation
will be granted by the Milford (Milton)
meeting; and should the movement
prove successful, it is intended to build
= meeting house at some convenient To-
cality in Cambridge:
The Fort Wayne Railroad election in
Randolph county on last Tuesday re-
suited as follows -
White River Township majority for
tax, ITO
Franklin 1876
Washington &c against 80
Another election will probably be or
dered in the latter township.
Luke French, connected with the Hol-
landsburg robbery, was tried at Green
vile last week, and the jury found
verdict of guilty. A motion for new
trial will be made, before the sentence
is pronounced. John Hogan is also i'm.
plicated in the same affair and will be
tried early in next month.
The officers of Richmond Lodge F A
NJ, for the ensuing year, are as fol-
lows:
WP Ratliff, w NJ; George P. Brown
s W; IA Unthank, W; John Suffrins,
Treas; NJ NJ Richie, Sec'y; c B Walk
er, S d; S Fox D; f Cory, T; A
Samson, Trustee.
A colored school has been set in ope-
ration at Cambridge City, under the
management of a competent colored
. teacher, named T. w. Tester. The
school occupies the old Public school
house, east Of the river, and has suffici-
cient money to keep in operation about
} seven months. There are forty-eight
I colored children enrolled in that dis
trict.
Our friends Of the Cambridge 'Trib-
. une' in it's last issue, announces in one
column, the death Of q citizen of q
neighboring town and in another col
umn, says that the same individual ''is
prepared to move all kinds of build
. ings" Reading the Terre Haute Ex-
:. press, we learn Of most wonderful do
ings by the spirits, but we were not pre-
pared to hear Of demonstrations such
as moving all kinds Of buildings.
FAT CArrLE.-On Saturday last, to-
gether with quite q number of our citi-
, zen, we looked at two oxen raised by
John Hart of Beechmire, Union County
Ind, which he sold to Mr.. Sands Of our
county. for 8614,25. One Of them
weighed 5000 pounds, gross, and both
together weighed $3.50 pounds! These
Eve year old ealoes, were shipped by
Mr.. Sands on Saturday night last to the
New York market. for Christmas fea St
ing.
Dinner at Phillips Hall. Dec. 2lst,
from IL to o'clock. Tickets Scots.
A we'll served turkey dinner, given by
the ladies-proceeds to go to the Home
of the Friendless. Country people are
invited to bring their chickens, turkeys
: and vegetables. on the 18th, and leav e
J them at the residence Of Frank John
, son, on Main street, opposite Ninth.
Those in town wishing to contribute,
will eend in their cooked vegetables,
DO, to the hall, on the 2lst, .: III
o'clock.
The following gentlemen were lucky
D enough to draw . seat in the Jury box,
during the January term Of 1870, Of the
Wayne County Pleas Court:
Wilson Hunt, Abingdon Twp; Geo.
w. Stevenson, Boston Up; Thomas
Harvey, Centre Tp.; Josiah CIawsop