The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-07-29

Henry heiser, aged 80 years Tell upon
circular saw. on Monday morning, in J. A.
Reitz's saw mill, at Evansville, and was cut
through from the crown to the hip. He
leaves wife and five children in Cannelton.
Steps have been taken in Bloomfield tow ard
the erection of SIS 900 school. house.
Major Joseph Justice died at his residence
in Connersvife on the 22d. aged 60 years.
The Lafayette papers were called upon to
chronicle only FIVE runaways IN the streets Of
that village last Sunday.
Solemn high mass for the repose of the
soul of the late Bisgop Luers, was celebrated
in Lafaye on Wednesday.
Carthage, Rush county, on Saturday voted
An appropriation of goo to the Indiana
Northern Railroad by majority of 1877. The
vote stood 253 to 1o6. Hanover, Shelby coun-
ty, voted on q $4,000 appropriation on the
18th.
On Thursday evening, at . bali at Sulphur,
Springs, nea- Levenworth, Indiana, q man
name unknown, raised difficulty about the
price of admission, when the doorkeeper shot
him, killing him instantly. and made his es-
cape to the Kentucky side.
bank Of fire clay. from five TO seven feet
thick, has been discovered at Highland Sta
ton, Verpsllion county, on the land of Mr.. J.
Burns. 1t has been thoroughly tested BY q
person who has experience in fire brick terra
Gotta work and has been pronounced equal
if not superior to any in the State.
DR.. Henry G. Lee, who for thirty-seven
years has been a prominent physciun at
Lockport, Eigo county, died at his residence
on Wednesday morning.
The Sheriff of Jackson county offers re-
ward Of $500 for the arrest of George w
Willard, the horse thief, who escaped at the
time the jail burned.
1t is reported that a large number Of Chi
nese viii be employed to construct the rail-
road through Jay and Adams counties.
The late Bishop Luers had an insurance
policy for ten thousand dollars, in favor of an
orphans asylum that be established near
Lafayette, Indiana.
A fire. light brakeman named Perrin, was in
stsntly killed Sunday morning, by falling from
q train, while running at full speed. His
body was cut in tw o, and his legs and arms
severed from his body. He resided in Fort
Wayne.
The officers having failed to take action in
the premises, the citizens of Logansport lose
up in their might, armed With clubs and
boulders, . few nights since, and almost de-
| reputation.
A notorious counterfeiter named J. N. Phs-
labam. for some time engaged in the manu-.
facture OF brooms in Fort Wayne, was ar
rested on Monday by detective Charles E.
Anchist, of New York, who has been on his
track for several months. He was taken TO
indianapolis. This, it is thought. will break
up the gang that has infested that section for
q long time back.
The School Trustees of indianapolis, have
pure hased as a site for the High School
building the homestead property of James NJ
Ray, fronting 1921 feet On Meridian street
by l95 on Ohio street-price $2s2 4s per foot
Assistant Road Master Stapleton, of the P.
c. Il st. l.. r. B., vas killed on Saturday last
two miles east of xeuia, by failing between
be cars Of or avel train. Ten cars passed
| over his body cutting him into pieces. He
resides in Piqua, Ohio, where lie leaves q wife
| and children. His remains were sent there
for interment.
On Saturday last, Henry Gorssge, Of Woos.
| ter, Ohio, intercepted his runaway wife n
Fort Wayne. He had the guilty parties ar.
rested at the hotel whore they were stopping
~ man and wife, and the boy OF eighteen
summers was fined for ssdacing Gorsage'a
wife of fifty summers from her virtuous home
| The " life paid the nne, and the trio returned
to their Ohio home last night. The name Of
the offending youth is Henry Lifts.
Al party oftbieves forced entrance into st
Mary's Catholic Church, LAFAYETTE. Frida,
night, by m cans Of ladder, upon which the,
climbed and forced open one of the windows
About sixty dollars worth of articles were
taken from around tho altar, including silve
cups plates, &c. The parties made an At
tempt to get into the tabernacle, but were I'm
success full. In this there we're deposited ar
ticles TO the value of several hundred dollars
There is Al appletrse on. tie farm Of Adal
Bigman, in Jennings township, Fayette couu
~, which measures eleven feet in cir GUNNER
ence, ono foot from the ground. TWAS plan
ted by Mr., Bieman in 1914.
: The Fort Wayne Gazette claims that moi
brick are being laid in that city this yea
than in any other city in the State.
There Is man in Terre Haute who is sai
to possess the evil eye,' and he has put III
I use by fascinating . number of youag ladie
The Kokomo Tribune says that few DAY
e aga, d. H. Bennett and Mr.. Pollard went in
g the court room to attend to some bushes
and while there proposed to "divorce som
body; and, against the remonstrance of N
: Pollard, opened The Judges docket at the ca
Q OF Frazer vs.. Frazer, and wrote, with pc
q s.Divorce granted four hundred dollars q
mony allowed" Next day the entry "
discove red and the culprit bounced upon
" the judge, who contented himself with Il
IL turing Bennett upon the silfulness and "