The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-08-05
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The Oldest man in Davies county 10 Oxen |
lsville, Of Washingtos Township. Age 100.
The psrforming bear has reached Sssth |
Bend. Even tie Vice President smiiss at |
mrs snt'es. "a b
A South Bend msn named Frederick |
Pohmler, has becoms insane, IS the result
Of An attack Of typhoid fever. ARA var
A Nation woman has twelve twin suck.
srs and still continues the business. Her
husban nd has applisd to Congress for the
grant Of township in Nebraska.
Benton county, under the new impulse
born Of her eleventh hour consers,on 70 rail-
rosAs - . means Of grace, has improved
more in the past two years, than in all the
centuries since the deluge. Fact. ~s1a
The death of Rev. W. T. Saunders, Of
Madison, so long anticipated, took place at
one o'clock ON Saturday afternoon. de was
native Of Ireland; was converted from
Catholicism in Pennsylvania in 1858 licen-
sed to preach the same year, and admitted
to the Southeastern Indiana Confer snce in
1859. $3.50 - $50
Last Friday.a young lady in Columbus
left home for Madison, with the expec tation
Of getting married. On reaching that city,
she discovered that her intended husband had
not como 70 time. Nevertheless she waited
patiently at the appointed place until she
found the Shades of night were falling fast"
and she had nowhere to lay her head. In
this embarrassing situation she took to che
woods and slept on the hill above the old
grave yard all night. In the morning, her
mother came down after her, and in the af-
ternoon learned Of her whereabouts Calling
to her aid about fifty young men and boys,
the old lady started after her truant daugh-
ter. After half an hours hard running, she
WAS ovcrtaken and carried back home.
One night last week, Mr.. Jacob q. Crabbs
had three young mules killed by lightning,
and another one had his eyes put out. The
animals we're standing under tree which
was struck by lightning. The same mig ht
Mr.. Lyons, who resides in Veal township, had
mule killed in the same way and one knock
ed blind.-l Washington Gazette.
A Terrs IIaute printer wants the State to
build printing Office, and have all the work
done under the superintendent of salaried
foreman, under the direction OF the State Au-
ditor. "Who would watch the Auditor p
might properly be the next question. @
The Hendricks County Agricultural Society
has spent 81 500 in improving its fair grounds
this season. tt
The Aishswaka Enterprise offers to bet
seventy five cents in confederate money, that
Mishawaka has two men and one woman that
know less than any other trio in this part of
the State.
From the Rockport Democrat we learn
that suicide Was committed Thursday night,
an old citizen, Garret Peak being the victim
The deceased was gunsmith BY trade and !.
number one workman, but was two often
found on the streets intoxicated, and yelling
almost like an Indian. On Thursday his vile
sued for a divorce, which, no doubt, Dr. owe
hin to another and last spree of intox ieatiou.
He went home at twelve in the night, went
into his guasmith shop, took down his rife.
fastened it securely in the wise, placed hi.
forehead directly before the muzze of the
gun, aud BY the aid of the ramrod sprung
the trigger, discharging the entire contents
OF the loaded gun directly through his head,
blowing out the brains, which were discover
ed on the floor where he was found welter-
ing in his blsod.
A man named Irving, from Remington, ar.
rived in Lafayette on Saturday in search Of
. runaway daughter, who was found at the
American House, where she had been all
week. in company with . man named Rails
back, who had passed a. her husband. The
girl was taken before the Mayor. where she
stated that her reason for leaving home was
that her father illtreated her-her mother
being dead. She was finally persuaded to 70
home. Railsback, who is q married man
was arrested and held in $500 bail on a
charge of iornication. Failing TO procure
hail be Was locked up. -
The latest lusus nature is mentioned in the
Frankfort Crescent. It is q young pig, With
. single eye placed in the center of the head
and . tail sprouting from the head just abov,
sbs eye. 14 "e& r.
The State Superintendent has decided tina
teacher, to obtain license, must pass an ex
animation in the eight branches required b.
law. No license can be issued on an exam
| inati0n in a nu nnha, of h.. M h.. . ~ .:&hn- -,
the applicant be exempt froa. the examina
ton in o IS. History or Physiology, or both
D The election in Union county last saturda,
10 appropriate $75,coo 10 aid OF Lake Fri
and Evansville railroad, resulted in the deiea
Of the appropriation by majority of BAG.
The four German Musical Societies Of Ev
ansville have decided 20 hold a Sangerfest i
that city On the 18th and 9th of August.
They have "baidal chamber" in the Evans
, vile city lookup.
: Judge Frazer, Of this state, has been ~
pointed one of the three Commissioners IN
der the Washington Treaty.
Mrs. Filler. wife of Jacob Eiler, came to .
untimely end few days ago, at Solsberr;
] by tree falling upon and crushing her. tt
woman was engaged in splitting and cordin
/, wood-her husband doing the cutting. tt
family was in extreme destitution. Fo,
3 children left motheIless have been taken /
r didersat families in the nsighborhood.
4 Last Saturday night the thermometer mari
ed 500 in Laporte.
The Lafayette Journal has been inform,
, that the wheat crop in the no rth end of w
n bash township, Tippecande county, is the Ia
n gest ever harvested there, the yield beil
from seventeen to twenty-one bushels p
acre.
A San Francisco mineralogist is said
have discovered a method nv which a an