The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-02-10
srArE NEWS.

The Fl. Wayne girls treat their favor
tie male friends to sleigh rides and oys-
ter suppers.
John Hart, Of Edinburg. warts in
formation Of his lost son. Charles NJ :.
Hart, . printer, who was last heard from
when he left Edinburg, on his way West
in 1860 1t is supposed that he entered
the army.
A protest. NIL vscsinstoR il travelling
!, through Miami county. After getting
! the people we'll worked up over his
procigious yarns about the spread Of the
smallpox. he scratches their arms at fif y
cents an arm.
He needs tc be vaccinated with shot
gun.
An Attica man has sister living in
Fort Wayne whom, until lately. he had
not seen Cor forty.one years.
A wildwood tree WAS cut down in
Whiteley county last week, which, it is
believed, will make ter thousand feet Of
lumber,
A bullet and piece Of brass about
three inches in length were found in the
stomach of An or slaughtered at Evans
vile, . few days ago.
Tho lafayette Journal. Gays: Hon.
John Purdue has been directed, BY the
Trustees Of the Purdue University. to
negotiate for two hundred acres Of land
for an Agricultural Farm, to Be paid for
out Of the two last miscellaneous of his
subscription to the University.
A middle-aged lady Of Lafayette, en-
tirely deaf, attends church regularly
every Sabbath. She fully understands
every word the minister says by the
motion of has lips.
The Putnamville sulphur we'll is nc
"great shakes" after all. The only ex-
element about it was in the New AL
sany Ledger Office GreeEcastle Ban
| ner.
Smsli-pox in London carried of {. OO(
Of the inhabitants Of the English capita
during the pas. year. The ravages Of thu
disease were at times rightful, and al
ways alarming. The mortality record
Of the city show that the yearly aveIag
otdsaths from the disease during thirty.
one years before was 900. Tho obser.
vance Of sanitary pre- cautions is inculca
ted with much force by the medica
journals and scientists.
| The faculty Of Franklin College, at
meeting held on Wednesday evening re
solved to close the institution on accoun
Of financial difficulties. The Herald says
Forty Of tho eaterprising men Of thi
county stepped forward, and agreed I
run the institution for five years and pa
ell the expenses, providedis was put an
der their control. But the sage counsel
that have brought it to its present statr
could not coEsent to such degradation
Hence it's classic doors are closed, IN
.. franklin College is numbered among Il
, things that wers."
, Jonathan E. Clark loaded his gun wi,
buckshot ard went into the woods ne
Owensville, Gibson county last Monda
to shoot squirrels. Hs'stopped on q
Il way aud stood his gun down by stun
and in taking it up again the hamm
|, caught upon the stump, discbarging 4
1 load, which passed in front Of him
U close as to cut off two buttons from
l vest and innict wound npon his rig
n hand little finger. The conclusion v
. SO iorcible as to throw him upon
knees, . favorable position for returni
thanks to Providence .or his escape fre
!. death.
The prosecution in the Watson mu
der case, lately decided in favor Of t
defendant at Evansville, intend to pr
the original indictment against Watts
:. for assault and battery withiintent to
ID They hold that Watson has never be
/. tried for the cffense charged. il tho
er dictment, but for the graver one Of M
y der, and that his trial and acQuittal
10 that charge is not plscing him in jec
:. srIy for the assault with intent to K
=. Is charged in tho indictment returi
X. before Shryock's death, and that he n
an still be tried ard convicted for the
r. sault.
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