The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-01-07

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is twenty thousand greater than
last season. r.. -
The question of the civil service
reform will come up in, both
Houses of Congress soon after that
body reassemblcs. Il
The house where HENRY CLAYI
was born, near a ashland, Hanover
county, Virginia, was destroyed by
FIRE on Saturday. 1t was more
than q century old.
General SCHENCK Will resign his
seat in Congress about, the 10Th
of January, and will! sail for Eng
land on the 18th. gHe will not re
turn home before sailing. orr rroE |
Later returns from the Georgia |
election are more favorable to the |
Republicans. Republican Con-
gres3men have been chosen from
the Second, Third and Fourth dis
tricts. yag - lfo1 ..,.r eaf
The Senate Committee on the
Removal of Political Disabilities
will, as soon as the Senate reas-
scmbles, report an amnesty bill.
not universal one, but still more
liberal than the measures reported
in the House, 3 s,
s-' A colored woman named LUcIN-
DA GOLDMAN died on Tuesday
night in Baltimore. having attained,
it is claimed, the extraordinary age
of one hundred and twenty two
years, seven months and twenty two
days. She went to that city from
Norfolk during the Revolutionary
war.
A blast of sixty thousand ponds
of powder was successfulyexploded
in Blue Point Gravel Gold Mine,
in California, Thursday afternoon.
Gold bearing earth two hundred
feet square, and seventy-five feet
deep, was lifted twenty feet and
completely shattered. This is the
greatest mining blast fred in
California.
A special election, on Saturday,
for representative in the State
Legislature from tho First District
of Wayne county, Detroit, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death
OF HENRI. BUCKLEY, a Democrat,
who was elected last November,
by majority Of 90, resulted in the
election of WILLIAM G. HoGHT, q
Republican, by 425 majority.
The French have recruited a
new army in the South, which is
called the Army of Bordeaux, an
organization said to be on the
march to Paris determined to do
or die for its relief. The news
from the Gambettites is to the eff
feet that the peasantry along the
line of march are flocking to its
! standards by the thousands, while
| the Germans are flying from before
it in appreL ensive terror.
LIST OF U. S. PATENTs,--Issued
to citizens Of Indiana, for the week
ending Dec 90, 1870, and each
bearing that date Reported week
ly for the Richmond Palladium
from the Office of David A. Burr
Solicitor of Patents and Attorne,
in Patent Cases Washington CITY
D. c.:
Hay Elevator, Robert Furnas
Friendswood, Saw Mill, Jacob r
Hoffman, Fort Wayne; Boot Grim
ping Machine, John Rausch. Hun
tington, Combined Land Roller
and Marker, Henry f. Baker, Cen
treville; Gate, Henry R. Hoskins
| Harlan; Lock, Horatio Willard
! Evansville.
DESTRUCTIVE fires are very fire.
! quent. Richmond, Va, has had ,
terrible holocaust. At Mifflin, Pa.
on New Years Eve, seventy build.
ings we're burned. The loss i
about 100000 On New Year
morning six steamers were burne,
at New Orleans, all having an ex
tensive cargo Of coffee, sugar an,
cotton. All we're total loss ex
cept the Howard, whose hull wa
saved. On Saturday morning
several buildings were destroye'
at HOosaic Falls, the loss bein!
$40, 900. You can scarcely glanc
over paper without seeing an &C
count Of some great fire.
The following address was O
package received recently at th
Adams Express Office, in Georgis
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