The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-08-19
NEWS BREvITIES.

On the 18th, at Pittston, Penn. q FIRE damp
explosion occurred in the Eagle Shaft, BY
which not less than II of tue nnsn lost their
lives.
A startling affair occurred near Edy vile, by
which five persons lost their lives. William
Briggs had decided to reope an old coal sha #
and sent his ION and daughter to dip out the
water. The son put down ladder and de-
seconded, and was suffocated by Ore damp.
The sister rot hearing him also des cended.
Briggs coming up to the mire with his broth
er and hired man, and not being able to hear
his children, also descended one after another
thus making five persons who found untimey
graves in the bowels Of the earth.
The yield Of fruit in all parts OF Kansas is
abundant, and the corn crop promises to be
unusually large.
The income Of :he Methodist Episcopa
Church extension society, for seven months
of the current fiscal year, is $40, 5s5, or sIO,-
00J more than then entire rec eipts of last
year.
Methodistism is encroaching rapid upon
the domain OF Mormondom. Utah now boast
of three churches of that demon; nation, The
membership is not very large yet, but they
have five Sunday schools with an average of
500 scholars. There is regular preaching in
We places, with an attendance Of about 600
persons
The Commissioner of Agriculture is per-
haps a little too sanguine when he says eth
culture OF tea in the Southern and Western
States is SO successful that it will probably
require but few years to raise all that is
" anted for home consumption" We should
be well pl eased to have it so, but we are OF
aware of any such amount of pro dueton in
any locality as to justify this grand e1 pecta-
ton.
Having got into this coroner's business, We
propose sticking to it little longer, tho ugh
to tell the truth We are somewhat disheart.
ened. One Of these remar kable institute ons
has just held an inquest in Maine, and dis
covered that the deceased was ccidentally
killed. That is good To translate it into
legal phras eology, the deceased came to hi,
death by an accident which ia better. They
ought to pair t fl with that Missouri jury
You know the story, of course: A 10 an bough
some corrosive sublimate for his bcd.bugs
and, installing it for his whisky bottle, par
took, and surely died. The jury found tina
be cane to his death BY reason OF bed bugs
OF course. sir; for were not bed-bugs the I'll
70 n; ,,o.
Something new for the boys" is en- rout
| from Paris, and it behooves US devoutly t.
beseech Heaven that it may fall BY the way
side in stony places, and not reach this coun
| try TO bear its evil fruit. II is called "car
toucle- mitrailleuse,' and, as the Partisan
| gamins express it, "it can just knock day
light cut Of the Union torpedoes.' A packag
of them exploded by accident in the Man
chester railway station, blowing three me-
and all the glass right ut Of the windows il
splendid sly lie givi ng uudeniable evidence tina
as Fourth of July plaything it is without al
equal among men. The boys must be anus
ed, sir; and few people more or less in th
world don't matter.
Que of the things which give greatest prom
Use for the future OF France, is the READINGS
With which she turns from her evil ways an
profits BY the example of her enemy. Ate
determining to remodel her army upon til
principle of thai which go badly defeated il
she copies Prussia's school system, also, an
introduces bill in the Assembly providin
tor compulsory education. This is indee
striking at the root of the evil, and when m en-
tai culture shall have commenced its goo
work among the French masses, the perman
ency of the Republic and the power of the ma
ton are assured.
The Pennsy lvania Central Railroad Com
pany on Saturday completed the purchase ,
about three. fourtbs of the stock of the Jeffe,
sonvillc, Madison ard Indianapolis Railroa
and branches of the Louisville Bridge. an
Thomas Scott was elected President of hot
companies. By this arrangement the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company secures the con
firol of the bridges across the Ohio River {
Cincinnati nnd Louisville. and therefore I
ali through lines leading over them to tt
South and Southwest. giving that company
commanding position in regard to traffic wi,
those sections.-Cin. Tio,es.