The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-05-24

At Lafayette, the other day, during |
game Of base ball, a boy named Poltz |
threw the oak bat at another boy, Joe |
Clark, inficting o terrible wound upon |
his head. It was done in fit of anger. |
Either the high-tempered boy, or the |
game itself, should be abolished. We |
prefer the latter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Haley, of Bar.
tholomew county, have been married
eighteen years, and the result has been
family Of seventeen hearty and hand
some children--ten boys and seven girls |
The Monroe County Gazette says
Our farmers generally agree that anoth-
er bountifnl crop of wheat is prospect
i've. It has come out right smart dur
ing the last few weeks. Peaches, cher
ries, apples, etc, bid fair to be abundant.
Physicians are complaining of the dis
tressingly healthy condition of the peo-
pie of Leavenworth, Crawford county.
That complaint seems to be general
just now.
Last week a fool in Sullivan county,
Ind, said if he could not sell his young
mare before Saturday for S13O he would
shoot her. He could find no man who
would give him more than 800, so on
Saturday he took her to the woods and
shot her. .4
In Baltimore, in the General Confer
ence Of the Methodist Protestant Church,
proposition to abolish the probationary
state in the Church was referred. Prop
ositions for various changes in the Con
stitution Of the Church were discussed
and withdrawn.
The Boone County PIONEER says: Farmers
in this section report the wheat crop looking
well, but that the yield will not be near as
large as last year.
The brick building for the new glass
works, in New Albany, will be 24O by
480 feet in size.
Nearly every day some Of our crack shots
with the fish pole go up or down the river on
fishing excursions. We haven't seen any fish
caught upon these excursions,
1t is fated in the nature of things that Wash
ington shall not long be the capital of the Uni
ted States. Every school>boy with his map
before him knows the decree Of nature that
cannot be thwarted.
The expedition of g. 500 men who are on the
march to explore the valley Of the Big Horn
River will be opposed by 5000 Sioux and 9th
er Indians. They have gone in search Of new
gold fields, and Of course the army of Uncle
Samuel will retaliate any damage to the exps,
dition by the Indians.
The Mayor Of South Bend, on meeting the
council for the first time after his reelection,
delivered an address which occupy six columns
in the Register.
The spirit of ambition which has seized the
hens of Indinana this season, has cropped out
in Vernon, Jennings county. Mrs. Wander
grlt of that place, SET portion of her ecter-
prising brood on 85 eggs, and out of that NUNS
Der 83 chickens were Matched. Next!
An old bachelor says: Suppose all
the men were in one country, and the
women in another, with big river be-
tween them. Good gracious. what lots
Of poor women would be drowned.
Somebody has devised contraption, which
is deliberate, cool, downright swindle on the
finny tribe 1t consists of bright metallic
minnow, which revolves rapidly when in mo-
ton.and is so arranged that the moment the
fish bites, and you pull, the hook darts into the
fsh's mouth, then he opens it because he has
the tooth>ache, and out pops the minnow, and
you haul your fish ashore throw in your line
again, the bait falls to place, and you go right
along having all the sport you want to on the
same bait all season.
RUSHING THE SEAsoN.-Hot weather a
rule, does not begin in the latter part of April or
the first part of May, yet there are hundreds
Of people in this community who ready,
the first warm day. to cast off all winter cloths
ing and assume the airy fashions of summer,
and the result is physicians 'huncommon-
ly hactive,' and rivers of cough mixture and
cod liver oil must be swallowed. People of
average years and intelligence ought to know
better, but somehow they don't for every
spring they repeat the same foolishness and
suffer in consequence Tx.
Non-paying subscribers are thus
talked of by a Western editor sWag-
ons cannot run without wheels, boats
cannot run without steam, bull frogs
cannot jump without legs, or a newspa-
per carried on everlastingly without
money, no more than dog can wag his
tail when he has none. Our subscribers
are all good but what good does mans
goodness do when it don't do any good
We have no doubt that every one thinks
that all have paid except himself and as
we are clever fellow, and his account
is little matter, it makes no difference,
Strange hallucination.'