The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-09-27

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snsyil1 Is institutedr baby
show. 49,
Jefferson county is to vote on al
lowing cattle to run at large.
-Reading and spelling matches are
to be features Of the Knox county
fair.
James C. Veal, Of Daviess county,
has sold 100, 600 watermelons this sea-
son.
The proposed Washington and Chi
caeo Railroad has been surveyed thfo'
Dubois county. + e8
George Willis. of Sullivan county,
committed suicide by taking strych-
nine last week. She loved another.
The bones Of mastodon have been
unearthed near Fairfield Center, De-
Kalb county. si.a 1avisa + slsisH $50
RAIDER and Snipes have been acquit-
ted of the Woodmansee murder by
the Criminal Court ut Brownstown.
Every one knew that as . politician
George W. Julian had gone to seed,
though few were aware until lately
that he was of the genus hay seed.
A protracted meeting at Burr Oak
Church, Pike county, resulted in two
conversions and four fights. The build
ing was repeatedly stoned by roughs.
4l,-Muncie has a fax bagging mill,
which manufactures 500 yards per
day, and has q capacity Of l 600 yards.
It is the only one in the State.
Thomas Kinaman, Of Cass county,
has been arrested on the charge of
burning the wheat stacks of his son
Nathan Kinaman. a aa.ils..s..
ID John D. Miner, an old citizen of
Sullivan county, has disappeared, and
opinions are divided as to whether he
committed suicide or ran away ON ae-
count of financial troubles. az
Al Alyord. brakeman on the La
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fayette, indianapolis and Cincinnati
Railway, was knocked of train near
Augusta on Wednesday night by a
cattlc-guard, as he was leaning out on
the side Of a car, and instantly killed.
"a drunken man laid down in the
Vandalia yard, at Terre Haute, on
Tuesday night, with the projecting
end Of tie for apillow. and . train
came along and Clipped his hair of
close to the scalp. a;a6 IT,
d-The Northern Indiana Editorial
Association will hold a meeting at
Elkhart, October TO-. when G. J.
Langsdale, of the Greencastle Ban
ner, will deliver an address on
Country Journalism" and number
Of papers on themes appertaining ia
the craft will be read. g.,tls: i
The South Bend Register says: A
barn belonging to l.. f. Cooler, Greene
township, was burned Thursday last
and with it 300 bushels Of wheat, 1OO
bushels Of oats, eight tons Of hay
straw, some corn, 2 new buggy and
some farm Implements. The barn
was insured for 500; contents, 400.
| The Hancock Democrat records
the death of genuine centeharian
Mr.. Augustus Randall IIe was born
in Prince George county, Maryland
in August, III, and was consequently
over lR years of age at the time Of
his death. In 1912, then an old man
he removed to this State, few mile.
southeast Of Greenfield, and settled
/ on the land where he died. rs.3
THE sneak thieves are now prowl
ing about Shawnee Mound. They en-
tered the house Of Lewis Dodge, car
rying off about forty dollars worth o
goods, and twenty eight cents in mon
ey They also paid their respects t,
the residence of Mr.. .Deyore,i wher,
they took valise, and d few article
Of trifing value, and the house o
Mr.. Busenbark, where they got ~
! worth Of goods. ne -Eaer f.I@:Idaf
At Goshen, q few days ago, a sever
year old son Of Jacob Robinson tool
advantage of his mothers temporal
absence from the house to pour som
kerosene on the FIRE, doubtless imitat
ing the example Of his elders. An ex
plosion followed, and, though hi
mother returned in few minutes an
did all she could to put out the flames
the poor little fellow was burned s
severely that he died
One of the old landmarks of tn
early settlements of Clark's grant
yet to be seen near Jefersonville.
is an ancient brick house, which wa
built in 1902, ut point about on
mile above Jacksonville, ON the rive
bank. This house was the scene
many Indian raids in early times. an
it is said that many redskins have bee
shot by the early settlers who fire
their flint locks at the savages throug
loop-holes which perforated its wall
The Evansville Commercial
the 18th gives this statement: II
J expenditures Of the city of Evansyil
. for the year ending September l, 1877
amounted to $244. 1856 20, and the I,
ceipts to $l73, 423 70; showing the e,
: penditures to be Sc, 1872 IS more tina
the receipts. The estimated expens'
for the coming year, according
} Mayor Buttcrfeld's estimate, wi
reach the sum Of 1859 $50. being .