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LADD'S SHEEP STORY,
OR,
HOW MAKE UPAQUARREL

WILLIAM LADD, was the President OF the
American Peace Society, nd be believed that
the principles OF Peace, carried out, would
maintain good will among neighbors a. yell
% among nations. But there was . time
when hs had not fully considered this sub
jsst-had not thought much about it. - I
dare say many people have not. He bell cd
that II man struck him blow, It Was fair
and best ~ strike right back again, without
considering II there were not some better way
Of overcoming the offender or II q man did
him an injury, why, A. people commonly say,
be would give him IS good as he sent.
Hs had farm and poor man who lived
on land adjoining his, neglected 10 keep up .
fence which it Was his business TO keep in
order, and in consequence his sheep got into
William Ladd's wheat-feld and did much
mischief. He told his man Sam 20 20 TO the
nsighbor and tell him he must mend the fence,
and keep the sheep out. But the sheep came
in again, and William, who was . very or
derly man himself. Was Provoked. SAM
hs said, go to that fellow and tell him il he
don't keep his sheep out Of my wheat-6eld,
III have them shot
Even this did not do the sheep were in
again.
SAM said William to nis man, take my
gun, and shoot those sheep
q lad rather not said Sam.
Rather not, Sam Why, there are hui
thrss-it's NO great job
mo sir; but the poor man has but three in
The world. and an not the person who likes
70 shoot poor mans sheep
Then the poor man should take proper
care Of them. gave him warning why
didn't he mend his feace 2
WELL cir, guess il was because you sem
him . rough kind Of . message; it made hin
mad, and % hs would mot do IT,
After considering = few minutes, william
Ladd told Sam 70 put the horse to the buggy
shall ! pat in the gun ? Sam asked.
Williams relation Of what followed, v,
give In his own language.
NO. said /. I saw Sam half smiled, but
said nothing. got into my buggy ana dror
up 10 NJ nsighbor Pulsiier. He lived mil
o6, and had . good deal Of time to thinl
ths matter over.
when drove up 10 the house, the ma,
was choppisG wood. There were but e,
sticks Of wood, and the house was poor, an
my heart vas softsned. sNsighbor., ealls,
out. PulsiSss looked sulky, and did not lii
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25
THE DUTY ON GUANO.

Should the bland hlasphemer Of
Chappa qua be elected to the Pres
idency, veto message couched in
the following words may be ex-
pected:
["An Act to raise revenue by imposing duty
Of ten cents ton on Guano.
COMMENTS of the PRESIDENT.
return this obnoxious meas
ure without my approval. The man
who introduces it as an ass the
men who voted for it are scheming
British agents, and the men who
say this is not the case are liars
and horse -thieves I judge that,
on an average, every man, woman
and child in America uses tol Of
guano year in some shape or
other whether as the farmer in
New York, Louisiana, Colorado,
Podunk, etc., in Agriculture, or -
Charles A. Dana, for editorial ar
ticles. We thus consume, in round
figures, Fifty Millions Of Tons Of
Guano annually. Tho Arbitrary
and revolutionary act which I veto
to. day would thus impose q tax Of
Four Millions of Dollars . year on
our people. With what effect !? Il
would not stimulate the production
of American Guano. American
birds could not complete with the
pauper labor Of birds in debauched
and priest ridden Central America.
am not quite sure as to what I
mean or why it il not 20, or what
is which, but the man who speaks
to the contrary is hell-hound and
bribed by British Gold.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25

CHICAGO May 19.-During .
terrific rain storm which passed
over Northwestern Iowa and Da-
kota on the night Of the 18th, q
huge waterspout decended to the
earth, striking . few miles from
White Swan, Dakota, and covering
the ground for . great distance
around with water to the depth Of
eight to thirty feet. Fortunately
it did not strike in the vicinity of
any settlement and nobody was
injured. but considerable stock
was lost and the Mississippi tele.
graph line was demolished for .
great distance and covered with
earth and uprooted trees:
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Has not the Republican party
been magnanimousP What peo.
pie hes been 90 generous and for
giving - oufsl From AL the
people Who brought the wong and
misery Of civil war upon us, We
have taken no lifs-we have en-.
acted no tribute. Numberless
brave. living men-maimed disfg-
ured-and the ghosAs Of half .
million slain, all victims Of that iu-
fsrnal conspiracy against free gov
eminent, walk unavenged among
u.s. To-day, there is no law Of
the government denying the ballot
to . single rebel, and but . small
number ore rendered incapable of
holding ofice. Again / ask, where
does such magnanimity fiod .
parallel When old John Brown
and . dozen followers invaded
Virginia and struck . feeble blow
ct the slave oligarchy, scafolds
and sibbets sprung up in . nights
time. No Democrat appealed for
amnesty for these men. Oh no!
Treason had been committed and
traitors must die. A Democratic
Governor of Indiana appealed in
vain for the life Of the brother of
the wife Of his bosom. That was
the stern logic Of those days. We
are more merciful.
The Republican party, by the
Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution, provided that Con-
gress by q two-thirds vote, might
extend pardon to any or all. Is
this not enough2 Are the peo-
pie ready to grant full and un-
conditional amnesty to all the
conspirators? IL there q man in
the land that loves his country
willing that Jefferson Davis, who
still talks treason, insists that the
cause is not lost, and all the Iaen
of the South who accept the situa-
ton arc towards, shall again take
his seat in the Senate7 May the
government be generous to the
conquered, but at the same time
may it be just to ITSELF Tom
Browne.
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TRAPprna Cur WoRxs.-An q

TRAPrIHa Cur WoRns An ex-
change says: It is very annoying
after having Get out . nice lot Of
sweet potatoes or cabbage plants to
see them cut down one by one by
sut worms. We have tried ashes.
lime. SCOT, and in fact everything
we have ever heard Of, but never
found anything effectual until, by
accident, We found three or four Of
the worms one morning gathering
under . small board which had
been len by some children on .
sweet potatoe hill Acting upon
this hint No placed some small
pieces Of board, large chips, etc.,
Ill through the patch. and We trap.
ped them by hundreds. The
boards must be lifted early In the
morning, and on very warm days
about noon. A little care for .
few days will clear these pests out
Of the garden. One trial viii sat>
isfy any person Of the merit Of this
plan.
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gsn<tPr.


Oh why Should the Spirit Of Mortal |
be Proud
[Ths following verses, written by Scot
tish Clergyman, William Knox, who died in
1875, aged 50, have been often quotsd and are |
widely treasured. They we're an especial |
favorits with the late President Lincoln, who
used to recits them to his intimate friends.]
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proudl
Like swift, aeetiDg meteor, fast-aying
cloud,
A assh Of the lightning, break Of the wave
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves OF the oak and tho willow shall
fade,
BE scattered around and together be laid;
And the young and the old, and the low and
the high
Shall molder to dust and together shall lie.
The infant and mother attended Ind loved;
The mother that infants affection who prov'd;
Ths huabasd that mother and infant Who
blessed.
Zach, al, are away to their dwellings ofrsst.
The hand Of the king that the scepter hath
borne;
The brow of the priest that tie miter hath
wcrn,
The eye Of the sage and the heart Of the
brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depths Of the grave.
The peasant, whose lot was to SOW and TO
resp;
The hsrdsman. who climbed with his goats up
| the s:sep;
bread,
Have faded away like the grass that We tread.
SO ths multitude goes, like The flower or the
That withsrs away to lot others succeed,
80 the multitude comes, even those we behold.
To repeat every tals that has often been told.
For ws are the Same our fathers have been;
We 80 The Same sightsou fathers have seen;
We drink ths same stream and view the Same
SUM-
And run The same course our fathers have
| run.
The thoughts We are thinking our father
would think;
From the dsath We are shrinking our fathers
would shrink
TO the life 70 ere clinging they also would
cling;
But IL speeds for ~ Al. like . bird on ths
wing.
Thsy loved, bat the story We cannot unfold !;
They seorusd, but the heart Of the haught,
is cold;
Thsy grisvsd, but no vail from their slum
bsr will come;
They joysd. bat the tengas Of their Rladnesl
10 dumb.
They disd, aye they died ws things tha
ere now,
That walk On The turf that lie over thsi
brow,
And make In their dwellings, . transeien
abode,
Meet The things that they met on their p;l
grimags road.
Yeai hope and .dsspondency, pleasure an
pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain
And The smile and The tears, the song and Il
dirgss
Still follow each other, like surge upon surg
'Tis the wink Of an eye, tits the draught I
breath,
From the blossom Of health to the palsne1s
) death,
From the gildsd saloon TO the bier and u
shroud,
Obi Why sheuld the spi1it Of mortal bs prou.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25

We have received circular from the
Secretary of the Indiana State Board Of
Agriculture, at Indianapolis. which says
that ct the March session of the Board it
was determined to hold Trial Of implies
msnts used in the preparation Of ground
snd cultivation Of crops. at Indianapolis.
commencing Monday Jure 10th, 1879,
under the superintendence Of Messrs.
Grim, Mutx, and Mitchell, Supervising
Committee of the bosrd. All manufac-
turers Of Agricultural implements and
Machines are respectfully invited TO be
represented 1t the trial. Committees
Of practical men will be selected with
great care BY the Supervising Committee
Of the Board. Competition is free and
open to all. Books are now open for
entries. which, if made by tho first ol
Juno will enable the Supervising Conn
mittee to arrange for q thorough and
Systematic trial. Address ALFx HKRoN,
Secretary, indianapolis, md.
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A Charitable Work

eloo, 200, in 1909 PRIZES IN Cash and Rsa,
1stais Gft.. ars 70 b distribatsd Legally.
Nay 18Th, 1872, At Mason City, Illinois, In sid
OF Public Library and Churches.
ANS EnserPrise % endorsed By the businsss
particulars, addrsss. '-''
-, STRAWN b Massey.
J Business Aanagsrs, Mason City, III
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TIE SALE OF ARxs TO FsANcE.-Ths
majority Of the Senate special committee
on the sale Of arms to France reported in
substance the following resolutions, to-
wit: First, that the U. 8. War De-
partment had perfect right, BY the law
Of nations to sell arms and ordnance
stores to any purchaser. even though
that purchaser be known to be one Of
two belligerents, with both of whom the
United States was at peace and second,
that NO evidence has been given to show
that the War Department knowingly
sold arms or ordnance stores to the
French Government, whatever may
have been the knowledge Of its subordi-
nate agents in New York. The com
mittee further reported that the arms
were sold advantagsously. and that there
il no evidence Of fraud or ofany coFrup~
ton in connection with these sales, and
that the moneys received have been
paid into the Treasury Of the Unitsd
States, and fully accounted for.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25

HONEST SIMPLIcIrY.-The Seymour
Times says: "Mr. Greeley is famed for
honesty and purity Of purpose.-The
honest simplicity of Mr.. Greeley is
good thing John Brown was the honest
kind Of man that Mr.. Greeley is, and
nobody now doubts his honesty Of pur-
pose in his invasion and attempted over
throw tho State Of Virginia, and with
it tfe institution OF slavery, with . force
Of less than twenty men.-Such honest
men are useful in their way, but men noe
overburdened with that particular arti-
Gle Of honesty, are perhaps safer when
the practical Affairs Of this life come to to
considered. y
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25

It was very unlind Of . ootsm-
porary 10 say that u Mr.. Greeley
were nominated he would be able
60 tell next I'll what he knows
about q big beeA'
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25

A Lafayette clerk has become so habituased
10 signing his employers namesin the way
Of busines; that the other day, in it of ABB
sent mindedness, he did the same thing in
billet doax 10 his girl, and came near getting
the old gentleman in scrsps thereby. A
prompt explanation mollifed the big brother
with cowhide.
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EL O 10 oe o p a t b j 8 t
stand,) frst house West Of Grace
n. e. Church,
RICHMOND, INDIANA.
OFFICE Houns-From 10 TO II .. m, an
rom ! TO l. and to 8 p. y. 14.l
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RATS OF ADva.T1al1o.
STATE NEws

q
: !. Z !. : :. :, : !
|, STATE NEws
|. Wsbash doss have the munps.
There are no old maids IN Pea-
dletoA.
|; A subscription hotel q On papes
4 ct Evansville.
/ There II still talk OF . hydraulic
at Noblosville.
b Bourbon. Marshall county, haa .
population Of !, 500.
Benton eouaty = agitating the
subject oS steam plows.
a double headed calf IL the Ia
test sensation in Shelbyvills.
Marshall county claims to have
the meanest jail In the State.
It is considered . Ane joke In
Noblesville TO tie Grape upon door
Some Of the corn In Tippscanoe
/ il six incnes high and growing
finely.
/ In the south part Of the State the
the wheat crop 10 already heading
out.
Bad boys, by their evil conduct,
have broken up the Boxlsy day
school.
The Sabbath schools of Laporte
are regularly attended BY about
1900 children.
| A sNimfod Club has been Or
ganixed in Fort Wayne, and .
stuffed club was talked Of.
! Eastern capitalists are p respect
ing Michigan City with . view Of
starting iron works.
| July first 10 the time fixed 70.
| resuming work on the Mt. Vernon
and GRANVILLE railroad:
+ The social evil is reported to be
alarmingly on the increase in Fl.
Wayne.
Mishawaka girls take comfort in
the fact that Naoma, daughter OF
Enoch, Was $50 years old when
che married.
Elliott's stave and heading mill
at JaCksCn's Station, Upton Couu-
ty. Was destroyed by fire last week
Loss, $4,000 no insurance.
Four large public wells are to.be
dug ct Marion, Grant county, and
furnished with powerful force
pumps, as a protection against fire.
Thomas Cooper. . boy, jumped
into the river ct Terre Haute.
Friday, to recover . hat which
had been blown from his head and
was drowned.
A man with snakes In his boots
jumped from . second story win
dow OF the Cincinnati House,
Lafayette. Friday, without fur
ther injury than spra;ned ancle.
A six year old con Of Mr.. Bnr.
nett, OF Terre Haute, was bitten
through the nose and upper lip by
. dog with which he WAS playing.
Friday. The child's face was ter
rlbly mutilated.
/ A worthy colored man OF this
city has lately compromised .
tbastardy case by purchasing q
Dolly Warden hat and ten dollar
dress, and presenting them to the
plaintiff.-New Albany Standard.
Gottfried Sterl, at the age Of
seventy-six years, suicided at
Evansville, Wednesday night, by
severing an artery In his left wrist
with razor. Cause, mental. de-
rangement produced by financial
troubles.
The venerable editor OF the
Madison Courier 10 endeavorinR
to operate on the fears OF timid
anything beat. Grant voters. by
recalling this little scrap Of his
tory:
The fact that Northern men,
!, electsd President with Southern
man for Vice President, have
never lived long will deter many
very many Of the warm friends OF
Mr.. Greeley from voting for him
! An indianapolis girl wanted to
: name her kitten after the fashion
able lunacy, bat II wasn't that sort
Of . kitten. She compromised by
calling it Thomas Warden.
The Fort Wayne Republican
was two years old on Saturday
May 11th. It's = No, l Republican
paper, and II for the re.election o
the Great Captain true, inde-
pendent, honest man.
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J. q. MCINTYRE, N. D.,
Office opposite Huntington House
RICHMOND, INDIANA.
Special Attention Given to Surgery
Residence No. II South Franklin Street.
n13-ly.
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A Detroit man hes just painted
his house black, his doors . bright
red, and the window sash Q sky.
blue. The picket fence 10 TO be
red white and blue. and then he
expects to have place that will
attract attention.
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BEN wADE,s BATTLES.

BEN WADE,s BATTLES.
Mr.. Jsmes 8. Brisbin, thus speaks
of Old Ben Wade in Forney's |
Press:
On taking his seat Mr.. Wade
found himself surrounded by two
despicablc classes Of men, then
very properly characterized by the
newspapers - Southern fire. eaters
and Northern dough faces. He
had not been long in his seat until
he Witnessed one Of the scenes 90
common in the Senate Of those
days. A Southern 6re-eater made
an attack on = Northern Senator.
and Wade WAS amazed and disgust
ed at the cringing and cowsrdly way
the Northern man bore the taunts
and insults of the hot.headed
Southerner. As no allusion was
made 10 himself or State. Mr.. Wade
sat still, but when the Senate ad-
jour ned he said openly that if ever
. Southern Senator made an attack
on him or his State. while he sat
on that door, he would brand him
as liar This coming to the ear
Of the Southern men. q Senator
took early occasion to pointedly
sreak of Ohio and her people As
negro thieves. Instantly Mr.. Wade
sprang to bis feet and called the
Senator a liar. The Southern
members were thunderstruck and
gathered around their champion,
while the Northern men grouped
about Mr.. Wade. A feeler Was
put out from the Southern side
looking to retraction, but Mr..
Wade savagely demanded an
apology for the insult offered
to himself and to his State. The
matter thus closed. and a duel
seemed certain. The next day q
Southern gentleman called on the
Senator and asked him if he
acknowledged the code.
Il am replied Wade, Sin WASH
/, ington in . double capacity. I
represent the State of Ohio and l
! represent Ben Wade. AS a Sena-
tor I am opposed to duelling; az
!. Ben Wade I recognize the code
my friends feel aggrieved,' said
the gentleman. at what you said
in the Senate yesterday. and will
ask an apology or satisfaction
4 was somewhat embarrassed,
continued Senator Wade, 'by my
position yesterday, a. / havs some
respect for the chamber, but now
am free to speak my mind, and
take this opportunity to say to you
what then thought, and you will
please repeat it to your friend.tha
he is a foul-mouthed old black
guard
Surely, Mr.. Wade, said the as
tonished man, you do not wish MI
to convey such message as that.
Most undoubtedly I do.' replied
Wade; and I can tell you further
for your own benefit, this friend o
yours will never notice it. I vii
not DO asked by him for either re.
traction, explanation, or fight
| The gentleman immediately rose
took his hat, and left the room.
Next morning Mr.. Wade cam,
into the Senate, ond proceeding Il
his seat deliberately drew from
under his coat two large navy pis.
tolls, and unlocking the lid of hi
desk laid them inside. The South
ern men looked on in silence, Will
the Northern members enjoyed t
the fullest extent the frc-eater'
surprise at the war like proceed
ings of the plucky Ohio Senator
As Wade had predicted, no MOTTO
was taken of the affair of the da
before ; he was not challenged q
asked to retract, but ever afterwar
treated with tho utmost polightnes
and consideration by the very Ser
ator who had so insultingly attack
ed him.
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WAYNE COUNTY. ND, MAY

. william, and . slave!' OF course
the Emperor also immmediately
declared war, and became an ally
OF Russia and Of England, against
which latter country Mr.. Greeley
had actually begun hostilities al
ready. because the Queen, in her
speech from the throne, had de-
clared the Tribune's advocacy of .
tariff on pig iron incendiary, and
calculated to disturb the peace Of
nations.
Unhappily. this was not the full
measure Of our disasters. The
President had sent to the Emperor
of Austria . copy of his book,
What know &C., with his auto
graph upon fiy-leaf. The EN-
peror misteok the signature for =
caricature of the Austrian eagle.
and be readily Joined in . war
sgstns the United States while
France was provoked to the same
act by the fact that when the French
Minister came to call on Mr.. Gree
ley to present his credentials, the
President, who was writing an
editorial at the time, not comprc-
hending the French language, mis-.
took tht Ambassador for a beggar.
and without looking up, handed him
a quarter and an order for clean
shirt and a gruobing hoe, and said
to him, Go West, young mango
West!'
So all these nations Joined in
making war upon the United States.
They swooped down upon our
coasts and landed without OPPOSE
tion, for those exposed portions Of
our unhappy country were absolu-
tely deserted. The President was
afraid to call away the srmy from
Kansas at first. for feat the out
ragged people upon the plains would
come East in spite Of him. But at
last he did summon the army to
his aid, and it moved to meet the
enemy. It Was too late! Before
the troops reached Cincinnati the
foreigners had seized Washington
and all the county east Of the
Ohio, and had hung the President
whose loss was not regretted }, the
Cabinet, and every member Of
Congress. The army disbanded
| in alarm, and the invaders moved
to the Far West, where they found
the population dying Of starvation
because they had followed the ad-
vice Of Greeiey's book to TRY for
yo1r first crop to raise lines, and
don't plant more than bushel OF
quick-lime in q hill! = OF course
these wretched people were at the
mercy Of the enemy. who-to his
credit be it sai,l-treated them
kindly, fed them and brought them
back to their old homes You
know what followed; how Prince
Frederick William Of Prussia as :
cended the American throne. end
the other humfliations tha. ensued
1t was q fearful blow to republi-
canism, blow from which 1t vii
never recover. It makes Us, who
were freemen, q nation of slaves
1t was all the result Of our blint
confidence in a Misguided old mai
who thought himself q philosopher
May Heaven preserve you, ny
children, from the remorse / fee
} when l remember that / voted TO
that bucolic editor.
|
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ANDY JOHNSON AS A sEDUoER

The following ''impeachment'' Of A.
J. is from the special correspondence
o: tho Indianapolis Journal:
Suicide Of His Victim,
Special Dispatch 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
BRooKYE, May l8.-A few days
sirce It VAS announced that Mrs. Emily
Harold. wife Of the Postmaster at
Greenville, East Tennessee, had COM
mitted suicide by shooting herself
through the head with .. revolver. A
letter Just received by . resident Of
areeavills, now in Brooklyn attending
the Methodist General Conference, con.
veys the intelligence that Mrs. Harold
had been ssduced by President Johu-
son, and that discovery and exposure
led her to the commission of the rash
act. Great indignation is expressed BY
the citizens Of Gresnvills against the ex-
President. and many of the best citizens
refuse to speak to him on the street.
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The following is supposed to
have been written in 1892 by Max
Adeler, who was q witness to the
terrible scenes which occurred at
the time of which the story tells: