The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-07-09
The connection of PORTS. Brown and
Hoshour with the n. w. G. University
has ceased.

Hoshour with the N. w. G. University
has ceased.
Five hund red pioneers attended the
Old Settlers Re union in Laports coun-
ty, the other day.
Seventeen divorces were granted at
the recent session OF the Laporte Com :
mon Pleas Court.
Lightning Killed two horses and fifteen
sheep belonging to Joseph Patten, Rush
county, on Sunday.
The Laporte Herald says the peach
crop Of Northern Indiana, promises well
better than that of Michigan.
York Herald, and Horace Greeley, Of
the Tribune. are both reported seriously
ill.
Miss Nelly Barker, Crawford county
made an unsuccessful attempt to drown
herselfon Sunday. Cause, dsappointed
affection $50 @f
An emigrant wagon passed through
here early on Friday morning having on
the cover the strong inscription, 'kan>
sas or Heli'
Poylgamy was not part of the Nor
mon religion originally. 1t was not un>
til 1852 that the practice Of plurality oil
wives was at first recommended.
An English farmer lately placarded
the fol lowing announcement: Extensive
sale of live stock, comprising not less
than 10000 head and an unlimited
right OF pasturage.' All he had was
few hives Of bees.
The Ledger says New Albany now
has the questionable honor OF being the
only city in Indiana whose merchants
work their employees from fifteen to six
teen hours per day during the terrible
heat Of the summer season.
A woman in this county has helped
her husband to raise seventy acres o
wheat. She helped him by standing in
the door and shaking a broom at him
when he SAT down to rest, thus keeping
him at work. Wabash Express.
The Springfield Republican is author
ity for the statement that Mrs. Cook O.
Wallingford, Conn, was kept alive thir-
ty-iour days without fo1d, by morphine
injected into her veins, and that at tbs
time Of her death she had not wasted
away.
The Piqna Journal says: One of the
charmingly original lady lecturers or
Women's Rights recently declared in one
Of her lectures. with much emphasis
that she demanded for her sex, abso ute
equipotency with the men, This is 8
sumner
A census.t aker, in Evansville. has
discovered negro named George Woods
who claims to be one hundred and eigh
years old. His wife, who is only TWEEN
ty-nine, weighs over two hundred
pounds, ard they have child that is en-
~ two years old.
4 contemporary states that Ann;
Dickinson was weak girl before the
war who scrubbed store for quarter
TO buy a ticket to the first lecture she
ever attended. This shows what
dreadful consequences first wrong
step may lead to. #
The fact is, said an elderly wife, :;
man does not know how 10 straightee III
commence. [ dent wonder she con.
tnued, that when God made Adam he
went right to work and made woman
to tell him what to do
'Oh, that mike enemy had written ;
book said Job. What do you suppose
JOB wanted his enemy to write boob
forP pupil was said to la asked hel
teacher, who had something of liter
airy taste. Why my dear, J cb wanted
to review it and cut it up
While ten men watch for chances ore
man makes chances, while ten men wait
for something to turn up, one turns VI
something, 50 while ten fail, one sue
ceeds and is called man of luck, the ia
voTitc OF fortune There is no luck like
pluck, and fortune must favor those wh,
are most Indifferent to fortune.
The Hearth and Home says it la
known man who has moved round tn.
stone heaps on six acres of of land TOR 81,
years when two men and pair OF oxel
would have removed them all in on,
Gay. 1t estimates that he has lost il
hay 10 times the worth OF the labor, an,
in time double the cost of removal.
CHANGE IN THE ESGL,sH Law {.
MAsalaGE.-The bill repeating the pro
vision of law which prohibits marriag
with deceased wife's sister, recent,
/ passed the House Of Commons by a larg
majority. 1t is said that great amour
of money had been subscribed by man
| wealthy Englishmen, who desired t
marry sisters of deceased wives, to Kee]
up agitation on the subject and to effrc
the repeal Of the law.
The Indianapolis journal states tina
During the thunder storm on Sunda
afternoon, a horse attached to a carriage
in which were three ladies and one ma
returning from the Hebrew pic mic a
Crown Hill, was struck and Instant
killed by lightning. No further damag
| was done, although the inmates Of tn
carriage were considerably frightened
and thu driver Of tue horse said that hi
hands looked blue for several minute
afterward.