The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-03-23

The first bill Grant signed was
Schenck's strengthening plaster and the
second was bill striking the word
white out of the charters and laws of
Washington and Georgetown.
In New York it is said that though
wheat cost 50 so per bushel last April,
and but $1.45 now, yet the bakers have
neither expanded the dimensions nor
reduced the prices of their loaves.
The velocipede has gotten into the
highest court in England. A lower
court bad decided that it is unlawful for
toll gate authorities to charge toll for a
velocipede; but the company against
whom this decision was rendered, mean
to carry the case up to the chief tribunal,
The charge of toll was made uI.der the
clause empowering to charge for "a foot
passenger driving a wheelbarrow.
Our readers will observe by the advertisement of
friend VIM. E. Bell, that be continues the bas
ness established by his father Wan. eN, upwards Of
Is years ago. and the cid stand where he prepar
ed to effect all kinds of Insurance in the most reliable
companies, and to buy and sell Real Estate negotiate
Loans, ana transact all other business in his line in
the most expeditions and reliable As an eff
Gent and t. trustworthy agent, earnestly recon-
mend him such of our friends have not already
had experience of his facilities for transactng the
various branches of business in which he is engaged
Prest. Grant is the youngest man ever elected
Pres ident he will be AZ the o2d of April Washing
ton, Jefferson and Van Buren, each So the elder
Adams 61 Madison, Monroe and the younger Adams,
So; Jackson Go: Harrison 81; Polk 40; Taylor IS;
Pierce 4S; Buchanan 50; and Lincoln 81. Mr. Colfax
is As.
Little Johnny was being catechised by his brother
who asked him lat he was made of. Johnny replied,
you, and me and papa, are made of dust-and mann
ma and sister are made of mems wibs.
Minnesota paper says 'The ladies of the congre-
cation have carpeted the Presby terian church Sha-
kopee, and request that gentlemen who chew tobacco,
leave their mouths at the door,
1NsANITy.-Next to i'll health, according to the re
cent report of the Indiana Asylum for the Insane the
principal causes of insanity in the West domestic
troubles and religious excitement. The victims of
these disorders nearly equal in nnmbers-twenty-
even of the former and thirty OF the atter-in the
indiana Asylum.
An eccentric English lady, who imagined herself
ne destined bride of Christ recently died, and the
urniture of her residence which was fitted up in &C
ordance with her insane idea, is to be sold In the
rawIng room is large aud costly chair the
Judgment seat. The room is divided by a curtain
ON the bridal bed chamber intended for Lord
he bed alone cost 1 ,o00 and the furniture of the
rooms cost not less than f25,000.
Eminent physicians assert that change of a phys
cal type is periodic that since 1862 the pleho-
ic type has been gaining on the nervous. Men can
ose blood now, according TO their statements, who
oud not a few years ago. The nervous type, says
ply stefan came in with the first cholera epideIn
;, and has lasted about third Of century,
Terre Haute paper says Democratic boiler, ju ST
eturned from the State Capitol, exchanged his crib
ed stationery for plow, and paid for his wife new
in postage stamps. The wife of resigned
representative in Southern county offered in part
aymens for bill of dry goods, thirty eight dollars
IA postage stamps, which she said her husband had
rawn from the Legislature
In Rochester, Minnesota, oats are
'orth so cents per bushel, and many
irmers are selling wheat at so cents to
i'uy oats at 80
A South Carolina inventor has patent
d a cotton press, which is so arranged
lat the same power removes the packed
tail from the press and prepares another
'ail for packing