The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-04-15
FAR AND NEAR.
Never water ! weed.

NiAgars Falls il TO be the popular summer
6s0rt this season. y s
More bricks sse made in Philadelphia than
. any other city in the world. Il :
Z Two esrgoes OF oysters have been shipped
rom New York 70 London, for seed.
Al South Bend, indiana, one Jacob Nethu-
'alsh died Of laughter, recently, ~ some droll
tory told him BY frieni. /,
They give about ten dollars worth OF food
, week to the swans. ducks, and deer, in the
public parks Of Boston.
One Of the leading Industries Of Delaware
10 matchmaking matrimonial but sui
phur or PHOSPHORUS ones. F9
town in Ohio, complaining Of being over
run with rats, is recommended to introduce
The Chinese. s,5s /
The damage to the planting Interests by
the foods in the Mississippi has been very
great All the icvlands have been ovsrAowed.
! The Toms River Courier says over six han
dred acres Of land in Dover, Manchester
townships viii be planted With cranberry Il
vinsa this season. -ssef s4s
The Pennsvlysnia Railroad Company has
recently plssed elegant new cars on he Lam
easter train, Captain Hambright and ]. W.
Michael Conductors. These cars are pro. |
vided with gas for illumination, the new pat
emit steam heating apparatus, and the famous |
Westinghouse ali brakes. 4
At tho beginning Of the Franco German |
war two bsrbsrs in Temesvar, Hungary,
sgrsed to commit suicide If the French should
be conquered by tho Prussians. They were
as good - their word. At the news of the /
surrender Of Paris both blew their brains out,
leaving . letter which ended with ssVirs ID
France
having q joke on = compositor who set up the
toast, .Woman--without her, man would Be
savage and got the stops in the wrong
place. and produced "Woman, without her
man. would be . savage" They say that
his wife, who was helping read the proof,
discovered the mistake. f.,.s.
The report of two full grown
< lynx being seen near Newport last
Sunday afternoon, turned the peo-
pie OF that quiet village upside
down. sss.s 49, e.
Peru is to have new depot build
ings, to comport when the progress
i've spirit Of the town.
Mcfftt's Golden Ointment never
fails; try 1t. For sale by Druggists
generally.
The st. Joseph county twelve
year old horse thief has been COM
mitted for trial before the Criminal
Court.
Connersville opens the black
snake killing carnival with reptile
sevenfeet long, killed by Jesse
Shortridge.
The only prisoners in the john
son county Jail are two preachers,
one for horse stealing and one for
burglary.
Joseph Vert, tried in the Circuit
Court at rwfordsville, for the
murder Of Nehemiah Ham, in 1866,
was acquitted.
Elkhart is about to have eaa
works. Arrangements are being
perfected with Messrs. Fletcher
4 Peck, Of this city, for their cree
ton. ,a5iao a5
The Board Of Managers Of tn.
Tippeeanoe County Agriculture
Society are succeeding admirably
in the sale Of shares in the new
grounds that are to be purchased
aear lafayette.
A case of smallpox appearet
among the students of Princeton
College, N. j and as the end O
the college term was near the fac
ulty decided to dismiss the classe
at once,
Clothing which had been wor1
by smallpox patients was recentl
burnt in the open street in Nev
York. Doctors agree that no sure
method Of spreading a pestilenc
could be adopted. Great indignat
ion followed the discovery of th
| facts.
Alta crystal wedding in Portland
young man named Robert N
Woods, q glass worker. aged si1
teen, fell down a fight Of stair
backwards, was taken up insens
bic, and died the next day.
IxMxNsB Loss OF CATTLE II
i DISEASE IN ENGLAND.-It appear
i from tubular statements take
from Morton's Almanac, that tn
loss form lung disease, and 70,
and mouth disease, in Englan,
during tho last thirty years,
estimated at 5,549.7sO head
cattle. and valned at four hundre
and eighteen million, eighty 70,
, thousand. and two hundred an
seventy dollars.
De Witt c. Lockwood. of Derb
Conn.,, had q narrow and singul
: essape from drowning at his mi
race recently. He was throw
from q wagon into the currer
swept by it under a swing gst
through covered way about
hundred feet, then under anoth
swing gate and into the lar,
wheel house. Catching the movil
backets of the wheel, he Was lift.
some fifteen feet to a platforl
which he grasped and landed sal
~.
st. Louis lately had shower
what at first Was thought to
! sulphur, since it appeared up'
the sidewalk as q yellowish- gre
powder. The people we're stru
with wonder, gathered the powd'
burnt it, and emelled the odor
: sulphur. DR.. John Green, howev,
mt il under the microacOne n,