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

port, April 1st; Milton, April Sd; Dub
lin, April 18th; meetings were held at
Cambridge on the 26th and at Centre.
vile en- the Goth.
| City electioe takes place in May
The terms Of Councilmen Elder of the
First Ward (Democratic) Palmer of the
tho Second Ward, Patterson of the
Third, Watt of the Fourth (Democratic)
and Roberts of the Fifth. expire this
year..
DEGREE OF REBEKAH.-The following
officers were elected for the current
term at the last Meeting of the Degree
OF Rebekah: E. j. Salter, N. G.; Mrs.
e. j Salter, ". g.; Mrs. Chas. Lieve,
Secretary; Mrs. S. X. Dugdale; Treas
urer.
The twenty second anniversary Of
Modern Spiritualism will be observed
at Lyceum Hall, on Thursday evening
the 31st inst. There will be several
short speeches and seance, and the
remainder Of the evening will be deyo-
ted to a social time.
A petition was presented to the Board
of Commissioners at their last me citing,
by the citizens of Cambridge, asking
| for an extention Of the corporation Of
their town. Remonstrance was filed
and the case contained for further hear
ing at the June term.
Mrs. E. S. Warner delivered her last
lectures in this city on Sunday morning
and evening. She will, however, be
present at the anniversary on Thursday
evening. She spoke at New Paris on
Monday evening, and at Eaton on We'd
nesday evening of this week.
A crowed nearly equal to that OF the
convention in February, assembled at
Centreville on last Saturday. 1t was
composed of the candidates who met
to arrange for the printing of tickets,
and other business relating to the elect
ion. The ticket will probably be
eighteen inches long.
The Richmond Musical Association
gave concert at Cambridge City We'd
nesday evening. The affair was very
creditable to the Association and to the
city they represented. Owing to the de-
, layed return Of the train { q remarkable
, occurrence upon the Central Road) we
are unable to give a further account this
. week.
e A confidence man obtained 317 of an
old gentleman at the depot one day
last week. A young man approached
the old gentleman, aud said that he had
nothing less than hundred dollar bill
and had need of S17 just at that mo
ment, and would return the money as
soon as they were aboard the train. The
old gentleman believed the story and
handed over the money, and has not
, since seen anything of the borrower.
The following named persons were
drawn by the County Clerk in the pres
ence Of the Commissioners, to serve as
grand jurors for the April term, 1870,
{ of the Criminal Court:
= William Manning, Clayton Brown,
G. p. Wilson. Cornelius Thornburgh.
: j. C. Grave, Samuel Caty, Adrian Boyd
e A. w. Bradbury, Thomas Ewbark,
Thomas B. Williams, Henry Eliason
, and Johnathan Scarce.
The Young Templars are organized
with the following officers for the ensu-
t ing term:
> N. c., Albert Thompson, D. c., John
Taylor; Sec, Lewis Crinel; Treas.
Clemmy Gaar; F. S., Chas. Ashley:
Watch, Frank Spinning; I. G., Oscar
Henegar; o. g., Frank Mccoy. APP
pointed Officers: R. A. Harry Lyle; L.
A., Albert Kirm; A. S., Willie CARL; A.
H., Jos. TAeis, J. NJ Randcll and Mary
Smith were appointed Guardians by the
two Lodges of Good Tcmplars.
The organization is composed of boys
mostly from twelve to fifteen years OF
age, and already numbers oyer thirty
members. They meet on Monday even
ings in Good Templars Hall.
The Board of Directors of the Fort
Wayne Railroad, had a meeting in this
city, Wednesday: Present-Mr Cody
OF Fort Wayne, McCue Of Ridgeville,
Gen. Stone of Winchester, and Messrs
Perry, Patterson, Scott and Norman.
of Richmond. Mr.. L'Hommedieu, Pres.
J ident of the c. III. & D. Railroad was
present, and made a proposition to en-
; dorse the bonds of the road, if the CON-
pany would get all the conditional stock
: converted into unconditional; and grade.
f bridge ana furnish cross ties for the
road from this city to Fort Wayne, be-
{ fore the bonds were offered for sale
This proposition was discussed by most
| of the IN EN- herS nd