The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-03-04

In its sorrow and its joy. ei# 81
Call your boys home by its brightness;
They avoid . gloomy den,
And seek for comfort elsewhere;
And, remember. boys make men.
The tea traffic over the Pacific
railroad amounts to nearly 2,O00-
0OO. 51as ass
1t is said that more than fifty
deer have been killed the peasant
season upon the shores Of Lake
George.
The poor of Boston are in !
pitiable plight indeed. They are
now compelled to live on Boston
charity soup.
The International Convention of
Young Mems Christian Associa
tions is to he held in Washington,
June II. 3e sLaa ss4 ~
Fort Scott is making gigantic
strides in the advancement of its
manufacturing interest. New
buildings are rapidly going up.
Mrs. Lizzie Aughey, Of Dakota
City, Dakota Territory, makes q
public attack on Masonry. She
says Mr.. A. goes to the lodge too
often.
Tar is now applied to the bot
tom Of shoes to prevent one from
slipping. 1t is an excellent thing
for this, but Is ruinous to Brussels
carpets.
The most rapid depreciation OF
real estate we have ever heard of
occurred in Eufuala, Alabama. A
house which was bought a few
months ago for $4,000 has just
been sold for $43.
An illinois liquor seller keeps, q
temperance pledge behind his bar,
and does all in his power to induce
his customers to sign it, even to
the extent of giving them bad
whisky when they insist upon hav-
ing their drinks.
The vengeance of Kansas farm
ers must be anything but pleasant.
Lately one of these estimable gen.
tlemen became so enraged with q
SOW, for eating his chickens. that
he seized the poor beast and
deliberately cut out its eyes with a
jack knife.
The Fort Wayne, Muncie & Gin
cinnati Railroad has been purcha-
sed by the Fort Wayne. Jackson Il
Saginaw Railroad. This gives the
Michigan Central road, who con-
troll the Saginaw road, direct line
from jackson, Michigan, to Cincin-
natl, via Fort Wayne.
A sealed can of oysters carelessly
left on the embers in store at
Lexington, Kentucky. the other
day, exploded with tremendous
force, bursting the CRATE to atoms
shaking the house, and severely
injuring a bystander.
One of the worst specimens oi
obituary poetry, tackled to the end
of an obituary notice, is the fol.
lowing, which we clip from an
exchange:
"And when you leave us for better place
"A mansion in the sky
You'll sing while smiles play DER your face
sOh!how is this for highf''
There is negro debating socie
ty in Bainbridge, Co., whose last
meeting was devoted to the ques
tion whether education or money il
/ most beneficial to q community
The advocates Of education wor
the prize-S2o in gold--and ther
followed q row, the unsuccessful
competitors loudly demanding
what de debbil dem chaps da
thought money was no count wan
ted wild de gold p
Mrs. Hoax, young married la
dy in Pulaski county, while riding
horse back, last Wendesday night
slipped from her horse, but die
not succeed in disentangling hel
foot from the stirrup, and wa
dragged half mile over the frozel
ground When found her brain
: we're oozing out and her perso,
was SO badly lacerated that sh'
bore but little resemblance to hu
manity.
The HEARr.-Men have livet
many days with bullets in thei
hearts. Instance the case of Pool
who was shot, several years since
in New York city, by one Levi
Baker. In Turin Italy, some tim
ago, a man of unsound mind toll
his relatives that he had thrust
. needle into his chest but they pai'
, no attention to his assertion. 81
lived twenty-five months after
wards without manifesting an
symptoms of . disease in the regio
of the chest. He died, - VA
supposed, of nervous excitement
An autopsy was made, and needl
was found in the left ventricle Q
his heart, its point, after per!orat
ing the valve, penetrating into tn
left auricle.