The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-09-06
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In f0rty-eight hours last week by the |
roughs, one Of them fatally.
North Carolina has discovered a |
mountain most as high as her State
debt.
Tennessee has watermelon festivals,
at which guests are required to bring |
their own collins.
Delaware has shipped more peaches
thus far this season than ever before
during the same time.
A new horse disease, which affects
the kidneys and produces death, has
broken out in Marion, Iowa, and vicin-
ity.
A thrifty young farmer in Mary
land has stocked his COO acre farm
with 80 children, all after his own
likeness. ai
William Cullen Bryant is said to
contemplate voyage round the world,
either during the coming autumn or
next spring.
Hon. s. s. Cox has been nominated
BY the Democrats of New York, to
fill the vacancy in Congress, caused by
the death of Hon. James Brooks.
Australia last year produced s, 391,-
5O4 bushels Of wheat, being an in
crease Of S9O3O9 bushels over the
yield of the preceding year.
Beavers are said to be again ap-
pearing ON some rivers in Canada,
where they had been extinct for over
half a century. but their skins are not
60 valuable now as then.
The new import, Kangaroo skins,
is talked of. These make boots and
shoes ofgreat durability, and of vel
vet like softness. They will probably
be chiefly worn at hops.
The world will still be able to make
shift. 1t has been ascertaincd that
the cotton supply annually increases
four per cent. faster than the cotton
consuming population of the world.
Pauperism is fast decreasing Ia
London. The number of persons who
received relief at the last weekly re-
turn was 3,462 less than in the cor
responding week of 1872, and So, 256
less than in the same week of 1870.
A Washington special says there is
no doubt that scheme will be intro
duced in the next Congress contem-
plating the assumption by the general
government of the indebtedness of the
Southern States.
The steamer Wolfe plying between
St. Louis and Red river was blown to
atoms on Friday, the I'D ult., a few
miles above Helena, Ark, and about
fifteen persons were killed and fatally
injured.
It is said that the Nebraska In
dams are allowed to ride free on all
trains they can jump on while the lat
ter are in motion. The tribe Is being
reduced very rapidly. This is by all
odds the most effective and economi-
cal system of dead heading on record.
The Shah is to be immortalized in
the British navy. A frigate Of the
inconstant class was laid down in 1870,
and it is supposed she will be the
fastest vessel in the navy. She was to
have been named the Blonde, but she
is now to be named the Shah.
3 In consequence of the appointment
Of DR.. Eliza Walker, a female NJ. D.,
as house surgeon in the Bristol Eng
land) Hospital for women and child
rem, all the visiting physicians and
surgeons have manifested the nobler
nature of their sex by rcsigning in a
body.
The ruin of most men dates from
some vacant hour. There is satiri-
cal poem, in which the Evil one is
represented as. fishing for men, and
fitting his bait to the taste and bust
ness Of his prey; but the idler, he said,
gave him NO trouble, as he bit the
naked hook. .5s ~ 80
A young lady in Ohio sought to de-
molish an unfaithful lover by pub
fishing some verses addressed to him,
in which, after prophesying her I'M
mediate dissolution, she said; Come
gaze upon my dust, false one" But
the compositor spelled dust with b.
and the young man went to see her
the next evening.
Georgia farmers appear to have,
needed the counsel SO often given to
planters in the cotton States, to grow
their, own corn. This year 1,7O2, 169
acres were planted in cotton, and L.
791 ,46S acres in corn, showing diff
erence in favor of the latter, and there
are besides over one million acres
planted with other crops.
A philosophical Kentuckian who
had but one shirt, and was lying in
bed while the garment was drying on
the clothes-line in the yard, was
startled by an exclamation from his
wife to the effect that the calf had
eaten it," well, said the Ken
tuckian, with spirit worthy of bet
ter cause-''well, them who has must
lose"
flames jenkins" said q school
master to his pupil, what is an aver
age?" "A thing, sir, answered the
scholar, promptly, that hens lay eggs
on" Why do you say that, you silly
boy?' replied the pedagogue; Be
cause, sir" said the youth, Il heard
a gentleman say the other day as hen
would lay on average hundred and
twenty eggs year"
DIR. John Stockton Hough contends
in the Medical Record that feminine
longevity is greater than masculine;
he believes woman was created first;
man, being secondary development,
will soonest decline, and woman will
survive him in the process of final ex-
tinction. If this is so, Miss Anthony
had better take rest, and wait for the
glad day when men shall be no more.
It will seem but little while to her.
The San Francisco Bulletin pub
fishes tables showing he present in
debtedness of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company to be sos, 6lS,OOO,
in bonds, borrowed money unpaid,
and interest due. The earnings of the
road for the year ending June 30,
1872, the date of the last official re-