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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

Barnum, we learn by telegraph,
is in search of the man who tried
to procure q recognition as q can
didate from fonr political convsn :
tons in five months, and failed
every time. He wants to add him
to his collection of natural curiosi-
ties for exhibition. We sent him
word that he could be found at his
home in Centreville, whenever his
health would permit him to remain
there long enough! He is known
by the title, "The Great Decliner."
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

An enthusiastic farmer says that
the Bull frogs gather on the edges
Of the ponds nightly and hold
Grant and Wilson macs meetings.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

Straw hats Of all the latest sty-
les at Suffrins' hat store.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

The hunters say that game spoils
this hot weather before they can
get it home.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

A certain Democrat ives tho other day
standing on the bauk Of tho Mississippi
River, when he noticed . raft passing
down, on which was genuine Demo-
cratic raftsmsn, to whom he called out:
"Say. Bill, do you 60 for Horace Greeley?
Raftsman-"Horaee Greeley be DID
subject 10 the Baltimore couvertion.''
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

A new lot Of cheap victoris
Lawns, ct 20, Is and 80 cent per
yard, just received at
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06
Clncianati Markes.

1uC102uu 40fkets
CnsuHnA1I Jslys
COTTOE.Demand good q fun prioss;lcs.
middling, 3l1<e:
fLOUR-DemAAd fair aid marlpot Arn,
family 81 90 70 IS, q.
WHEAf-el l8to 1 50.
C0RN-zae ~
RYE-e TITO Is.
OArS-33 Sc.
BA9LEY-70 70 soc.
PROvlSIONS-Posk u ts9a s
LARD--3;sc.
HOGS 81 a. 10
E00S-13e.
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Post Office IT Rschmon,
Ind, JULY 4, 1872.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

Ripe Tomatoes have made their
appearance ia market.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

Averill Chemical Paint 10 the
best. r.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

Isaac Commons sole agent 70
A. 9. Paint n
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

- Beer,- on the 4th, come pretty
near BtER-ing two Of our young men.
who quarreled about some trifling thing
1t Bennett's grove picnic fought with
knives and cut each other up considera>
bly,. VIM Grissfelt received cut in the
right cheek, reaching from the centre OF
the upper lip to tho ear penetrating the
jaw--another over the eyebrow and part
" across the forehead, and another per-
rendicularly to the skull. John Cox
was stabbed in the region Of the Loft
shoulder. knife striking the shoulder
bone, INJECTING an ugly wound.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

The supper. of Mr.. Greeley BY tn
Democrats looks to the future, not t..
the past. The Rochester Union. one /
the bttsrsst Of Democratic Journals, ana
4 supporter Of Greeley. having been
twitted with the fact that its candidate
''is no Democrat, and never wss,c
frankly replies: True, cut he may be. "
It has long been evident that, If Mr
Greeley were elected, b. would b com
pletely in the hands Of The Democrats.
New York Times.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

Averill Chemical Paint at Com >
mons, Il
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

The utter weakness Of the Creole
movement in California u evidenced h
the almost absolute silence and quiet Il
his protested followers here. It is 81
mos. two months since his nomination
and with the exception that prelimi
nary meeting wss held. . central com
mittes subsequently formed. and per
haps, club or two, Of which the publ
hears nothing, the movement seems, NO
dead, perhsps, but aslsep. - Il dosed b
IN overportion Of somniverous drugs
This 10 not because there arc not som
men who prefer him grossly to an.
other man, but because the number Z
supporters is very limited indeed Il ALI
California.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

The water 10 the wells and eisterns is low.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

Ono. II. KNoLIHNp.po,a.
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SO anxious are some Of the mo
prominent Grselsyitss becoming, III:
they ass claiming, hap-ha1sard, all tb
Quakers - enlisted h the sapport :,
Mr.. Grssley. and one Of them had IT,.
efroutsry 10 give William Baxter
name - one Of them. We are informt
that William has NOT sut horised an
one to put him down for Horace &C
Gratz. The "GTeat Deelines'' is har
up for capital, when be makes such re
ports out OF the clear cloth +!
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On TT. WAYNE n. n.
GOING SOUTH.
Freight -. s;eoam Express -. s s;4spm
Fxpress. .1e;lesm Freight, s;26pm
MAILS-Arrival and Departure.
sou.ss. | OPENS. CLOSE.
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Balance 7.941 10
The monthly report of the Chief
Of Police shows 81 arrests for the
month Of June, SO of which were
for drunkenness; persons lodged
4, hogs empounded 10, lamps not
lit IA; gates closed 154. The re-
port was accepted.
The ordinance providing for the
removal and disposition Of dead
animals was read and again laid on
the table.
The usual bills were presented
and disposed Of when on motion
Council adjourned.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-07-06

- once open from 7:l5 4. =. to 1880
p.n. o. Sunday, from ESQ to 1880 An
B. W. DAVIS, p. n.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
The Value of Fine Fruit.

Ii is a common event that fruit is found
on an overstocked market. Some years it
is one kind of fruit, and sometimes another
but there is always day during the season
when there was absolutely no sale, and the
fruit on hand had to be thrown away.
But this is true only of common fruit.
There never yet was time when fine fruit
did not meet with a ready sale, at good
prices. No matter how the market may be
gorged, the large luscious specimens are
always sought after, and found to yield an
excellent profit to the raiser.
The = moral of all this is, that fruit
growing in order to be good business,
should be intelligently persuvd. Only he
who thoroughly understand, what he is do
ing can achieve excellence in any pursuit.
Any one can raise fruit One has but to
set out strawberries or plant orchards to
get some fruit; but to get fruit which is
empathcally some, a fair knowledge OF the
principles and practices Of culture Is de-
sirable, and when this is possessed no one
need fear making fruitgrowing pay
weather in poor seasons for fruit, or IN
those season when so many complain that
every avenue to the popular demand Is
completely glutted, and that they intend
another year to get into business.
1t is in this as In every business, those
who understand it best succeed; and IN
Embarrassing the principal avenue to sue
cess is in the direction of the production
of frst-class fruit.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11

Oliver Wendell Holmes writes: ITO
think Of It! Not even . dog to lick his
hand, or q cat to purr and rub her fur
against! Oh! these boarding houses !
What forlorn people one sees standing
on their -desOlate shoee9! Decayed
gentlewomen with th6.poor wrecks
Of what once made he households
beautiful, disposed sfound them in
the narrow chambers IS they best may
be, coming down day. after day, poor
souls, to sit at the board with strangers;
their full of sad memories which have
no language bat sigh, no record
but the lines ofsorrow on their featuresi;
orphans, creatures with growing ten
drills and nothing to cling to; lonely
rich men, casting about them what to
do with the wealth they never knew
how to enjoy, when they shall no
longer worry over keeping and increas-
ing it; young men and women, left to
their instincts, ungvarded, unmatched,
save by malicious eyes, which are sure
to be found and to lind occupation in
these miscellaneous collections of hu-
man beings; and now and then q shred
of humanity like this little specialist,
with Just the resources needed to keep
the "radical moisture" from entirely
exhaling from its attenuated organism,
ant busying himself over point Of
science or compiling hymn book, OF
editing q grammar or electromagnetic
are the tenants of boarding houses
whom we cannot think of without
feeling how sad it is when the wind il
not tempered to the shorn lamb, when
the solitary, whose hearts are shiv'
ering, are not set in families.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
Cost of LOaferiSm.

Does the young man who persists in be-
ing loafer ever reflect how much less it
would cost:to be decent, respectable man
Does he imagine that loaferism is more
economical than gentility? Anybody can
be gentleman, if he chooses to be, without
much cost, but it is mighty expensive be-
ing loafer. 1t costs time in the first
place-days, weeks, months Of tin fact
about all the time he has, for no man can
be frst-class loafer without devoting near
ly his entire time to it. The occupation.
well followed, hardly affords time for eat
ing sleeping, dr-we had almost said
drinking, but on reflection, we will except
that The loafer finds time to drink when
ever invited.
1t costs friends. Once fully embarked
on the sea of loaferdom, and you bid fare
well to every friendly sail that floats under
an honest and legitimate flag Our consorts
will only be the buccaneers Of society. 1t
costs money; for though the loafer may not
earn cent, or have one for months, the
time lost might have produced him much
money if devoted to industry instead of
sloath. 1t costs health, vigor, comfort
all the true pleasure of living, honor, dig
nifty, selfrespect, and the respect of the
world when living and finally regret or
consideration when dead. BE gentleman,
then; 1t is cheaper.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
Curiosities Of Vision.

Appleton's Journal contains the fol-
lowing statement:
ave presume that most of our read
ers have general notion of the struct-
ure and working of the human eye.
They know that the little sphere, of an
inch or SO in diameter, which forms
the eyeball, is camera, essentially like
the one used by the photographer to
throw the image of external objects up.
on the surface prepared to receive 1t and
placed within the apparatus. The
mere forming of the picture inside the
eye is not, however, seeing. The pic
ture might as well be anywhere else,
il there were not some means OF
making the mind aware Ofits existence
The optic nerve answers this purpose
"a branch of the brain which enters
the eye through a small hole in the
rear, and spreads out in delicate net
work over The surface whereupOn the
picture is formed. The impression
made by the rays of light upon this
network of nerves is telegraphed to
the mind, which then sees the object,
rather, from seeing its image in the
eve, comes to recognize the existence
of the object itself outside the eye.
/" If the optic nerve should be sew
cred, the picture in the eye might be
as perfect as before, but we would new
theless be blind to ii. If any portion of
the network of nerves just mentioned
should be paralyzed, we would cease
to see part of the picture formed on
the portion of the eyes inner surface.
IF the entire image os some small OBJ
iects should fall on the insensIble spot,
we could no more see it, even though
hooking straight at it, than if we had no
eyes, or kept them shut. 1t is curious
fact that there is such a g blind spot
in every human eye; and, what is more
curious, it is found to be just where the
optic nerve enters the eye-the very
place which we might suppose would
have the keenest sight of ALL"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

-Spurgeon, the English Baptist di-
vine, is expected to visit America
during the present autumn.
Rev. A. l.. Smith, of South Caro-
lima Conference, died in Spartansburg
a few weeks ago.
Rev. VIM. X. Wilson, one of the
oldest members of the Trinity Con-
ference, died in Texas last week.
There is in the State of Minnesota,
100 Baptist churches, with an aggregate
membership of 5,24l.
The value of the property held by
the Presbyterian churches in Phila-
delphia, as given by the census returns,
is 81, 155,00O.
The Presbytery of Eastern Texas
had four ministers i'm 1867, and now
it has twelve preaching to twenty
eight churches.
Bishop Harris has made two more
appointments to the Indian Confer
once-Rev. Albert Norton and Rev. b.
III. Bailey.
Italy, where, but few years ago,
no son of Abraham was safe from perse-
cution, now admits Jews as teachers
TO the highest Institutions of learning
"A London paper coins the word
Kittocism" to express the manner of
preaching which deals with the geogra-
ply and antiquity of the Bible rather
than the vital truths.
The fanatic Mussulman population
are expected to rise against the Chris
tians i'm case Of the success of the
Egyptians i'm their rebellion in Abys-
sina.
The American Bible Society at its
last meeting in New York recognized
two new auxiliary societies in North
Carolina, one in Iowa, and one in
Michigan.
The ship Canada sailed from New
York recently for Callao, with the fol-
lowing cargo: One iron Church, i'm
sections weighing 800 tons ; % Corinth-
THAN columns; Gothic church steeple;
/ Roman altar, weighing three tons
and Is fortress doors, with bolts and
bars.
The Jewish Times deprecates the
fcily of encouraging emigration of
Jews to Palestine, which, it says, has
no other claim than that of a venerable
monument of the past.
-Pere Hycinthe was married on the
4th inst. at Marylebone registry office,
London. The lady he married was Mis-
Emile Jane Merriman.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
Character.

An established business house, whether
the enterprise of one person, or under the
control of an association of several, ap-
propriates to itself certain individuality
"A character, depending, like that of an
individual, very much upon the motives and
principe governing the actions. -
The desirable possessions of individuals
come under the head of two principal
with money; the other intangible, and only
attainable by strict adherence. to a path
of duty and uprightuess. Both are of un-
certain tenure, aed have to be watched and
guarded. each according to its nature, by
the possessor, if he will retain them; both
are needful to the enjoyment of life.. In
the same way a business firm needs, be-
sides the necessary capital for pursuing the
business, Notwithstanding . to in
spire a certain amount of confidence; in
one word, character And as an indi-
viduaps character is not so much depend
ent upon the prominent actions of life, but
is made and built up from his everyday
transactions, from the apparently little
noticed small events of everyday life, so
the character of house will be establish
ed not from the rulesand Regulation held
out and proclaimed to the community, but
from the common business transactions of
each succeeding day. As the man who
fails to establish a frst-class character,
had generally pure enough hopes and as
pirations in the start, and only lacked the
requisite steadfastness to withstand the
pressure of temptation and bad examples,
so almost all business enterprises are I'M
dertaken with fair intentions regarding the
manner of their feelings 1t is the want
of sufficient integrity, and unyielding OPP
position to all oyerreaching, which draws
many into practicing what some call Gus
toms of trade, but what should he classed
with, and Stunned like dishonesty. e.ia'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
Desicated Learning.

What are the school-boys of the
future going to do? Where are they to
find room in their poor little heads for
the knowledge il will be necessary to
stow away in them in order to keep
them posted up to the latest discoveries
in science and in art, to say nothing of
the past that will be necessary to COM
prehend the knowledge of their time?
1t was bad enough for us when null
DUPLICATION was vexation and division
was twice as bad, and when the rule
of three puzzled us and practice drove
us mad. In the time to come we'll
read man will be novelty to be stared
at, and one thoroughly au fait in the
isms and olOgies a source of perpetual
wOnderment that one small head can
contain all he knows. AS for keeping
upwith the literature of the times, that
will lie impossible while of making
books there is no end. Some means
should be thought of to ease the pangs
of future scholars, whose juvenile
hearts will give way, appalled, before
the magnitude of the ocean of learning
they will have to gulp down in such
perceive their flavor. Is it not possible
10 nave couueHseQ learuluS as we nave
condensed milk, SO that gallons may
he stored away in small compass and
brought forth and diluted as occasion
may require? The animal wants are
cared for by desiccation, by means of
which leg of mutton may be carried
jim the waistcoat pocket, and a side of
beef in snuff-box. Why can we not
have desiccated learning, so that Her
bert Spencer might be reduced to a
minimum and carried about with one,
80 that it may be liauified and brought
into proper use as occasion require?
With the arts and sciences treated in
this manner, learning will not be such
a bugbear in the future as it promises
to be, unless an ingenious philosopher
takes some means to render it compact
and portable.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
Pain.

Pain is never a good-cannot be a goood
in any sense of the word. 1t is empahati-
cally an evil thing, though it may be our
duty to bear it; and the thought of having
saved others from its endurance is, of
course, grand and noble satisfaction. If
it were a good thing in itself, we should
wish others to suffer it but the satisfaction
lies not at all in the pain, but in the thought
of having averted it from those we love. 1t
IS one ofthe greatest proofs of an overriding
Benehcence that love can snatch a joy out
of the fires of agony; but we equivocate
with ourselves and others if we attempted to
conceal the fact that every form of pain,
bodily and mental, is evidence ofan imper-
feet state which We have right to deplore,
and must need wonder at No explanation
OF this portentous mystery seems possible
III our present life We must wait patient
ly, and see what death has to teach us; re-
lying meanwhile on the goodness and pow
er of the Divine Author.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
The Horny Hand.
o toiler with the moistened brow.
And with the horny hand.

o toiler with the moistened brow.
And with the horny hand.
No matter if you hold the pillow.
Or ct the anvil stand,
Your heart should ill with lofty pride,
Your mission is so grand.
Ny father worketh hitherto.
And I must work. was the word
OF Him whose speech was ever true.
Yet honor claimed as God.
IT'S truly loyal then to toll
With hammer, brain or bod.
Until some patient toiler rise
With cunning hand VI brain,
No telescope can pierce the skies,
No steamer cross the main.
Nor distant ends of earth be linked
With telegraph and train.
The barren earth is clothed with bloom,
The desert bears the rose.
The darkest mine forsakes its gloom.
And all its wealth outthrows,
And wopdrous fabrics fill the loom
Where er the toiler goes.
No lordly palace-home can stand
On towering cliff or hill.
Without the msson's troweled hand
Or builders cultured skill;
Yea, all the world Of labor joins
Each palace-home to fill.
The toiler-not the drones of earth
Are worthy of repown;
These are the men of noble bi:th
With hands begrimed and brown.
And they-whcn reason has her reign
Will win and wear the crown.
The man whose ever-restless brain.
Or sturdy, toiling hand,
Has reached two blades of useful grain
Where one alole did stand
Shall have his well-deserved applause
From all in every land.
All hail! then, to the horny hand,
And TO the moistened brow.
To those who at the anvil stand
Or guide the cleaving pillow;
The day when labor wears the crown
Is dawning even now!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-10-11
To Prevent Murrain In Cattle.

Give your cattle spoonful of sui
phur once q week i'm their salt through
the hot season. If the plague is al
ready among them, give it once day,
for eight or ten days. Two years ago
We lost two nice yearlings, each of a
different breed, just a week apart. The
first hung her head low, was quite
weak, blood dripped from the hair in
about a dozen places, as though she
was wounded with small shot the in
side of the hide had the same appear
ance. She died i'm twenty-four hours.
The second was dead when he found
her. The third died i'm two hours
breathed as if in pain, bloated to the
fullest extent, as did all of them. All
had bunch on the right shoulder about
an inch thick and three inches across,
which, when the hides were removed,
looked like bruised flesh, brownish.
Blood settled next the skin in large
patches.
have been particular in describing
the symptoms, as the plague is not so
frequent here as to be generally known,
We tried many remedies with no
effect; did not know what allied them
till the last died. AS all our herd had
been together we expected to lose all.
We gave each a spoonful of sulphur
every day for about two weeks, when
a neighbor suggested that we would
kill them If We gave too much and
they took cold. Afterward we gave it
once a week occasionally through the
winter. We have had no more muir
rain nor sick cattle.
Sulphur is cheap; buy it by the
pound; it is offensive to insects;
sprinkle a little under your carpets
and around the edges; give it to your
sheep TO keep the fly from laying the
egg that causes the gruo, also TO pro-
tect ticks, etc. and to poultry, espe.
cially if the chickens have the gapes,
give little every day, and pills made
Of equal parts of soap and lard, thick
ened with meal and cooked food,
and they will get well-Correspon
dence Germantown Telegraph.