The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-03-29

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We all need resistance to our errors on ev~
cry side. Woe unto US when all men speak
well of US; and woe unto US when all men
shall give way to us! To-
A grape vine in Jonchecy, France, fifty -four
wears old, yielded three tons of grapes last
year. The stem is one hundred feet long, and the
branches cover . space of two hundred feet
square.
Salt fields, as rich in brine as those recently
discovered in Goderich, Canada, have been dis.
covered in Sanilac county, Michigan. The
lands comprise about three hundred acres, and
lie abou. six miles in and from Lexington, the
county seat of Sanilac. /
Mr.. w. n. Perry, Of Yates county, N, z,
gathered last fall from forty apple trees, stand~
ing on little over acre of ground, 1873 barr
rels OF good fruit. The net receipts were $402,
so. The orchard at the same time was planted
to corn, which was very good. IS
The Page county (Ill.) Herald has the fol-
ling: IA gentleman from Bedford was in
town on Monday. A short time since he lost
his right eye The sad event was the result of
lifting two heavy sticks Of timber. In half an
hour after he had overtaxed his strength, and
no was sightless. He felt no pain at the time,
and has experienced none since"
PRESIDENT MeSSef, OF Drown, says the CO0gro-
cationalist, was q dreadfully awkward man,
with all his goodness, but luckily was uncon-
csious of the fact. One day student who was
declaiming the chapel stage, 'lobstered" SO
with his supernumerary hands and arms. as to
arouse the President to ''set him a copy" So,
repeating the sentence which needed the illus
tration Of gesture, and at the same time strik-
ing out in manner suggestive of cross te>
tween the swoop of q windmill-arm and the
frenzy Of pump handle, the Doctor insisted:
'Do it gracefully. 1t is just az easy to do
thing gracefully as ungracefuliy. Do it grace
fully-do it as dol"
A correspondent of the Indianapolis JOURNAL,
in an article on the coal fields of Indiana says:
II confidently believe that in the future and at
no very distant day, The eight thousand
square miles Of coal land in Indiara will be SO
covered with mines and manufactures that
the traveller will scarcely ever be beyond the
sound of steam whistle or the sight Of smoke.
stack; and yet that field will never be so dens>
ly crowded with miners and factory operatives
that Indiana not feed them from the pro-
ducts of her own teeming soil. This whole
subject is fraught with an importance which
neither farmers nor manufactures have as yet
comprehended.'
An extraordinary incident has Just occurred
ut Lerida, Spain. The banker Jose Nunez.
had two strong rooms, one in ordinary use;
ana tue OLueT, WHlCu WAS only nau ToCOdfse 70
when any heavy payments had to made Or
iginally two keys were provided for the latter.
but some time ago one of them was lost. A
few weeks back necessity arose to visit this
reserved safe, and to the intense establishment
ofthe cashier. he found key in the lock. He
Immediately informed his employer, and the
two together opened the door, when they found
inside the corpse of . man who had formerly
been employ ed in the bank. He had probably
stolen the key and visited the depository with
the intention of robbery, but the door had &C.
cidentally closed, and, as it fastened with a
spring, he had died miserably in the midst Of
the wealth which he desired to appropriate.