The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-06-18
INDIANA NEWS.
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ooN' DaheT anu nuInDeT Ol the oldte
officers excursed to Connersville on Sat.
urday. ..-...s-
Horatio Gillette, Switzerland coun-
ty, fell dead while at work in the field
last Friday.
The other day an Evansville woman
took hearty swallow of bed >bug poison
by mistake for the fluid extract of corn
The Woman Suffrage movement is
making rapid progress in many parts oil
the State.
Spiritualists report q rapid increase
of believers in their doctrines, through>
out the State.
Steuber county girls are trying to
make the young men quit the use of liq
uors and tobacco.
There are less female convicts in this
State, in proportion to our population,
than in any other State of the Union.
There were six new postofices estab-
lished in this State during the month of
May.
A liquor saloon in Washington county,
was busted by resolute constable this
week, in spite of the resistance Of its
proprietor. Salem is one 'pitfall' less.
Joseph Ernest. Stark county, broke
his neck by fall from tree last Thurs
day. He has left large family in poor
circumstances.
Mrs. Sarah Healy. Pulaski county
was fatally scalded, few days since, by
falling, head>foremost, from a chair into
a..tub Of boiling water.
Jethro Armstrong. Delaware county,
was found dead in his bed last Thursday
morning, having retired at his usual
hour in apparently good health.
John EltonstaH, Pulaski county, was
found dead in his barn, last Monday
Heart disease is supposed to have occs-
stoned his sudden death.
Harvey Packard, St., Joseph county
tried to destroy wniskey. but got wors>
ted and gave up the fight, last Monday
in fatal tit Of delirum tremens.
Miss Emily Cheatham, Marshall county,
committed suicide by taking morphine. a
few days ago. Cause. the treaehery of a
lover.
To Got out Of the way Of a scolding
wife John Barnet, of Benton county has
gone to the Land of the Hereafter. He
took morphine. 30
Mrs. Nellie Hagerty, Bartholomew
county, 'whaled her husband. the other
day, until he was nearly dead. Drink
ing brought this chastisement upon Mr..
Ha gerty.
Mrs Deborah Gums, of Spencer
county. a matron of forty years. has GONE
OFF with a Kentuckian, leaving MIR.
Gums and several little Gums disceH-
ISOLATE.
Arthur Repp, Of Huntington. tried TO
hang himself, last Thursday night but
the great length of his rope prevented
entire success, and he still lives
Henry z. Mitchell, who lives near
Huntington, undertook last week TO
draw the ramrod of gun with his tee tn.
when the load passed into his cheek,
where it remains. The young mans re-
covery is doubtful.
The Treasurer @ the town OF Marion,
Grant county, has decamped with $500
belonging to that place. He was for
merly connected with one Of the papers
OF that place, and little apparent pros~
perty made a big loot of him.
Lieut. Daugherty, the kokOmo muir
derer, has been taken to Upton. there to
be tried. Efforts are being made to have
him released on bail, in which event the
widow of the murdered man has sworn
to kill him.
A rural exquisite, residingin Barthol-
omew county, went into the water, the
other evening, to enjoy quiet bath; but
some roguihs girls 'gobbled' his clothing
and he was compelled to travel two
miles to his home, in q state Of nudity.
This argues refinement in that region!
1t is not always safe to tread upon 4
worm, and there may be point beyond
which it is not safe for a woman to go ca
in the way of.heu>pecking her husband.
Mrs. Belson, of Ohio county, has learn
ed this at the expense of a severe THRASH
ing at the hands Of her long suffering,
man I a5
Mr.. Samuel Seabrook, an cd citizen
of New Albany, crossed the great Ohio
River Bridge, at the Falls, on MendS Y,
where, FIFTY SIX YEARS AGO. he crossed
in small skitf, and entered New Alba
ny, (then mere settlement Of log huts }
where he has resided ever since. 1t is
great thing to be old.
Since the organization of the first lodge
of Masons in Indiana, which event oc-
CURED at Nincennes in the year 1909,
sixty-one years ago, the craft has multi
piled its number greatly, and increased
its number Of Lodges until they now
number about 425 in the State, eampri-
sing about 1000 af1iiating Masons and
it is supposed there are in the neighbo1.-
hood of 1000 who are non -affilia:ing.
The Terre Haute Railway, since the
completion Of their new Short Line con>
nection with st. Louis, via Wand ala,
has obtained the pre-eminence for carry
ing the longest trains tina, have gone in
or out of the Union Depot, except, per-
haps, a few excursion trains. Tie Night
trains on the route, now consists eff nine
coaches. and the day trains Of eight.
TIE CRoPs.-Ths conIRuous five
weeks drouth, extending through Nay
and to the fourth of June. led to the most
Siooihy apprehenSions as 70 all the sun
MGR crops of grass. wheat, -ye, oats, corn,
garden vegetables and fruits. Corn. the
great staple. where early planted, was
slow of growth, and the late planted did
not appear above ground. The wheat
was thin in the fields, the plant did not
stool out, bat was of dwarf growth,
commencing to head near the ground
The recent rains have materially i'm
proved the prospect Of all crops. Corn
has a good stand all, late and early, is
up and vigorously growing; most Of the