The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-05-13
STATE NEWS.


the last few days. 81
Four grown coons were caught
on one tree, in Waterloo township,
one night last week.
Master Horton Ferguson, ,h'r-
teen years old, shot and killed
three foxes in Posey township last
week.
John Saunders who was run
over by an engine on the Fort
Wayne road recently, i: is said
cannot recover.
Five hundred good little boys
put money in the savings bank at
Terre Haute.
Laporte has three eyed dog,
and wants to know how is that cor
eye?
Mrs. Irwin, a widow, of Colum-
bus, was SO excited the other day
at seeing her house burn, that she
died.
Decatur county is troubled with
yellowish rust in the wheat.
Madison has mosquitoes in clouds.
Many of them weigh a pound.
A cow in Findley weighs one
thousand eight hundred pounds.
An artesian we'll is being sunk at
the Vigo County Poor Asylum.
The colored people of Michigan
City, are building a new church.
Ninety thousand bushels of corn
have been bought and shipped frou
Clinton this spring.
A lad named August Beigler.
nine years old was drowned in the
river at Terre Haute on Sunday.
Montgomery county lost on hun
dred sheep in one night recently
by dogs.
The huge fossil tusk found in
digging q we'll near Terre Haute,
recently. proved 10 be a piece of
petrified wood.
The Masonic Fraternity of La
fayette, contemplate the erection
of splendid bus mess block.
Fletcher S. Dewey was arrested
in Lawrenceburg. on the 4th inst,
on suspicion of having stabbed his
father-in law few weeks ago, and
taken to Brookyille to testify in the
Cheek Harrison murder trial for
the defense.
Andy Heilmsn, an employee in
Grenier's brewery, Madison, was
caught in the fly wheel of the en-
CINE on Saturday morning, and in-
jured internally to such an extent
that his life is dispaired Of
The semi-annual comm unica,i. II
Of the Grand Lodge and Grand
Encampment l. o. o. F., will con-
vene at Indianapoli on the 10Th
instant.
They have a thrifty man out in
Terre Haute. He is wealthy
farmer, who sells all his whest and
feeds his large family on stale
bread, bought Of the city bak ers at
the rate OF three leaves for five
cents.
The morals Of Leyenworth, Ind,
are deterioating. The Bible De-
pository there has been converted
into a lager beer loon.
Motley Tilley, known as Kitty
White, a girl who lett her parents
near Lebanon and went to Indian
apolis, where she was q woman of
the town. committed suicide on
Sunday, by taking an over dose
of morphine.
Frank Egcter, a mechanic. at
Marion, last week wounded him
self in the arm with knife BUR
posely, and then threw himself in
the river and was drowned. The
old fogies of that Intian Agency
tried to raise the body by firing
powder in an anvil. After two
days, they dragged the river and
secured the remains.
A colony has been organized in
Peru. in Miami county, having for
its object immigration TO some of
the unsettled lands in the far west.
1t already numbers near a thou.
sand members. The society has
appointed commissioners to select
land for q settlement. The com.
missioners will star: west in a few
days to carry out their instruc-
tons. The colony will probably
settle somewhere IN Southern Kan
sas.
MOUNTAINS OF FLEsH-BIG Hoo.
sIERs FOR BARNUM's SHow.-John
H. and Mary J. Powers, the fat
artists of Hendricks county, left