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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

DEATH OF r. j. FERausoN.-Om
old friends are gradually going
away from us into the land Of the
leal, and no one has entered therein
whose loss from the circle in which
lie moved will be more regretted
missed, than viii our good and true
friend THOMAS JEFFERSON FERGUSON.
His age was about sixty-nine years.
His funeral viii take place to NOR
row from his late residence short
distance east from and adjoining
the city. He leaves a wife to mourn
the loss Of one of the best of hus
bands, and as honest and true hear
ted man as ever lived.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
A Gard frons M. Austin.


Ed. PAILADIUM:-1w wish to say
to the public that am not can
didste for City Clerk, at the ap-
preaching election-that I have al
ways been Republican in politics,
and was solicited by my Republi-
can friends TO submit my name to
the Republican nominating election
for that Office but declined doing
so, and while I am thankful to my
many warm personal friends In the
Democratic party for their partial.
ity, and fully appreciate the prof.
fered honor. ] cannot consistently
accept their nomination, and re-
specially decline.
Yours truly, W. w. AUSTIN.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
Another Retroactive Bill.


Congress at the last session pass
ed pension bill which was also
retroactive in its operation and the
people will endorse and applaud
the action. This bill increases the
pensions of Soldiers Widows Sc
per month, for each child under Is
years Of age, and dates the in
crease from July rs, 1866. This
will be highly gratifying TO ''claim
agents" who would soon have lost
their occupation ii some egislation
haa not been done to make bust
ness for them. 1t is even limited
that this numerous class Of public
benefactors to-wit claim agents |
were instrumental in having tn is
retroactive clause red, and
Congressman knew nothing Of it
until after the hill had passed and
= ceivcd the exec tive approval !;
that the disinterested (s) circulars
of these agents sent to widows ell
over the country called the aiten-
ton Of Senators and Representa-
tives to what they had done.
Whether it was done blindly or
with intent. the great mass Of the
people will rejoice that it is done !;
they will regard it as an act of
justice. The debt which the ma
ton owes to the loyal soldiers and
their widows and orphans can
never be fully paid. The accounts
for them haven't been fully settled.
Let the books be kept open and
whenever lis possible to do for
them a good turn, let it be done
literally and heartily.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

The Agricultural Department at
Washington, under the head of
sDiscouragcments and Their Rem
cdies," report: While it is perfectly
safe to assert, and an easy task to
Prove. that the past ten years have
constituted period OF average
prosperity, Except as to the di-
rect losses of the late war in the
theatre of its operstions,] with
which no similar period in cur his
tory can compare, it is true. as the
annual records ef prices have
shown, that for several years pact
fsrm valu have been receding
slowly from the high point attain
ed soon after the close of the war;
I'd i: is also true that wide fluctu-
alton in prices. still more discour-
aging in its influence, has resulted
rom failure to keep the proper
balance in variety OF production.
THE farmer lives in isolation
but not in idlencss; the non-pru-
Queer Of I>hmaelitish instincts,
standing outside OF the real neees-
stiles of legitimate exchange and
transfer, with his wits sharpened
by hungering for the bread Of 9th
ere, marks the producer for prey ;
and it is no disparagement to the
one, in the midst OF his unsuspect
ing and toiltulspre- occupation, that
he loses frequently by the consum-
mate arts OF tho ether. Scarcely
any other result is possible, when
the Ishm aclite is q wealthy and far
reaching continuation, pcryerting
q beneficent vocation into o scheme
of plumber =
The leading difficulty in the w est,
and prominent one in all sections,
is the bur den of railroad transpor
tations. which eat up the bulk OF
the farmers heavy products
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

The Indianapolis Sentinel has for .
score Of years been regarded - the or
gam OF the Democratic party in Indiana ;
it now claims to be the leading news
paper sustainc by the members Of that
party. On Tuesday the editor Of the
Sentinel discussed the relative merits Of
Morton and Blaine, IS presidential can
didstes, in the course Of which he uses
this language:
eMr. Blaine is shrewd incomparably
ehrewd--and can move men with con-
summate skill. Mr.. Morton is able,
enegetic, master full, tut without par
ticle OF moral integrity. He cane by
his methods legi,imately.-Bred in a
party whose main tenets were beyond
the pale Of moral recognition; he could
not be expected to shuff1s on = mo tai
coil Of principle. simply because ho ha
joined a party whose purposes were no
BILE, and consequently successful.
There is one sentence in the above
which will make old Democrats who
can understand it swear. They viii! not
relish the assertion that the main tenets
Of The Democratic party "were beyond
the pale Of moral recognition )" ard ye.
the Sentinel makes the asser ton, Mr..
Morton was bred Democrat Of the
strictest sect, and continued in that
party till 1864.
Some Of these old school Democrats
are not ''iiberal' enough to admit the
fact. so broadly stated by the Sentinel,
that the Republican party has been sue
cessful because its ''main purposes were
NOBLE" Of course we believe this is
truth, as we'll as the other candid adj
mission that the Dcmoc,atic party was
| destitute Of moral principle-at least
''bey ond the pale Of recognition" We
can see in this Statement the strongest
arguments for continuing the Republican
party in power. The purposes ard pro-
fessions Of the party are still noble; it
is only necessary to send into private
life all those who have been corrupted
with credit mo bilier swindles and back
action salary grabs. Mr.. Hendricks and
others Of his class, bred AMI nurtured
and pampsrcd in party whose princi-
pies ''are beyond the pale Of moral re-
cognition," 'could rot be expected to
shuff1s on mortal coil of principle
simply because" they turned their backs
upon The past and protested the doc
trines Of the 'party whose main purpos-
es were nob;e." They do not there lore
deserve success, nor are they likely to
achieve it scon.--Pe cru Republican.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
For the Palladium.
CITY ECONOMY.

Now is good time to begin to
look after the financial affairs of the
city, as we are about to elect new
set Of officers. The Mayors salary
for the last two years has been 81,
600 a year, exclusive of Office rent,
fuel lights, dockets, blanks and
other stationery; besides the fees
and emoluments of a Justice of the
peace. This salary seems to be
quite satisfactory, and should not
be increased, as We had large
number of candidates for the of.
fee, and of the very best men in
the city. AS most all the expendi-
lures, of money in the city, are
made through the council, we should
look to them fer strict economy
and hold them accountable for
every dollar unnecessarily expend-
ed. Gov. Joseph A. Wright once
said in speech to the people Of
one of our counties that, 'sif they
had any sharp, keen, shrewd, hon
est business men in their county;
elect them county commissioners
and if they had any left make town
ship trustees out of them; and, j,
there we're any fools in the county
send them to the Legislature, and
I viii take care of them l guess
he did. This rule will apply wei
in our city affairs. We should b.
very careful in our choice Of coun-
cilmen, and choose men free from
ssriDgs," and those who are homes
and have no axes to grind for an,
body or party, but win work to les.
sen ALL unnecessary expenditure
Of the city. e MORE ANON.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
rmE INDIAN PEACE POLICY.


The following correspondence between Mr..
L. l.. Crounse, Of the New York Times, and
the Secretary OF the Interior sufficiently ex-
plains itself:
WAsHlEGroH, April Is, 1873.
Hon. C. Delano, Secretary Of the Interior:
DEAR SrR-The excitement and exAspera-
ton Of the public mind growing out of the
treachery Of the Modocs, which resulted in
the death of General Candy and Com mis-
sioner Thomas, and the serious II not fatal
wounding of Commissioner Meacham, has
led, and will continue to lead, TO severe criti-
cism on what is termed the ''peace policy
Many observations have been made and are
likely hereafter to be made, Of > general ma
ture. cendemning that which Is not, perhaps,
we'll understood, and expressing general
opinions in regard to . subject upon which
the parties making such utterances are not
As we'll informed as they should be. All this
However, is SO natural IS to be anticipated,
and it must lie received with patience and
forbearance BY those who take calmer view
of the subject, and who ought to comprehend
it better than many Who are so free in their
expression of opinion. Would it not be well
however, TO enable the public to understand
anew snd distinctly what is meant by the
"peace policy" what its objects are, aud how
it is proposed to attain them BY executive
and legislative action.
hare the honor to remain. very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
L. l.. CROUNSE.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
Our friend, VIM. R. Thompso,


Our friend, VIM. R. Thompson,
who has been a fixture in G. w.
Barnes Grocery, for nearly a quar-
ter OF q oentury-[and he isn't very
old either and il now Mr.. BIS
special agent for the sale of his
glorious Sugar cured Hams, has
gone East. He will touch at
Cleveland and other points in Ohio,
whit Buffalo and other large cities
IN the State Of New York, a. we'll
- the city Of New York; and rusti.
csts awhile at Long Island We
wish him lots Of enjoyment and q
safe return back to his numerous
friends IN this city.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26


OUR old friend DR.. j. w. Salter,
for whom we labored as OUR candi-
date during the race for the Mayors
nomination, comes out in q neat
card giving in his adhesion to the
ticket nominated; but, at the same
time, he gives place to three or
four communications, very bitter
and virulent against the Republican
candidate for Mayor, Mr.. Walker.
We presume the Doctor can't get
out of the old rut he ran in during
the last Presidential election, of be-
ing. literally, all things to all par
ties-one-haf Democratic, and the
other fractions equally divided be-
tween the Liberals and Repubi
cans! But, seriously, the Doctor,
in his last issue, reminds us of the
opinion expressed by friend Of the
Maine Liquor Law, that he was Tin
favor Of that law but opposed to its
execution The Doctor says he il
in favor of Mr.. Walker as the Re
publican nominee, bnt the influence
Of his paper is peddled out to Mr..
Walkers enemies to beat him! Sc
we go!
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
" NEW INVENTION or THE

r. seems 10 M that those who
ore engaged IN the liquor traffic,
and those Who NJ under their in
Auencc, are dstermined to leave no
invention Of their master, the devil,
unh,ied 70 svAde thc. Baxter Law,
in procuring Lioense under it. A
maturity Of vcrzn in the ward or
Township mnst sign the application
before re applicant can enter into
the business Of selling the poison
by The dram At Indianapolis, we
are informed, by one who is in the
sscrets Of the '.ring, that the liquor
sellers and fheir customers have
determined to stay away from the
polls andlst the election Ego by de-
fknlg'-and thus reduce the num-
ber Of names, . majority Of which
must BE- had 10 their petitions to
mako them legal Look how nicely
II viii work; by figures: Here is
. ward that gives 900 votes; out Of
that number there may be $50 who
ere favorable 10 granting : license
now, these $50 stay away from the
polls and, consequently, only $50
vote and IL il only necessary for
the applicant to get 276 names TO
III pe6tioa in order 70 succeed in
peOouring his icenss. Take our
city On this programme, and three
wards out Of the Eve would grant
license. Some may think there is
no danger that the liquor men HERE
viii pursue . course like this-that
their party ties win impel them to
vote for the candidates Of their re-
spective parties; but those ties,
when - big monied interest is to
be subserved, e. the drunkard-
manufacturing BUSINESS, are like
ropes Of sand Thop engaged in
, It disregard every thing every tic
that binds humanity together, so
cial, sacred and divine-when their
craft il in danger. We warn every
good dtisen-every Temperance
voter-every voter who dislikes
drunkenness and the evils flowing
from these licensed dens of vice
and crime, against their inferna
vaccinations; and we urge them te
60 to the polls and vote for the mer
whom they think will best sub
serve the morals and we'll being O
society, and help swell the vote O
their respective wards SO largely
thst It win be an impossibility fo1
any one desiring to engage in tn.
devils work Of making drunkard,
to procure . majority Of voters OF
petition for that purpose.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
ECONOMY.

We have slways been the adyo-
cate Of economy in cur city's ex-
penditures, and in giving just pay
to our officers, and we invite our
readers to . brief communication
on the subject in to days paper. A
public debt is NOT . public blessing;
but . curse, rather-a blasting
curse, and it holds good applied to
. person e wen as q corporation,
and a. citizens we should do every.
thing IN our power, with debt Of
. quarter Of q million of dollars
hanging over our city, to keep out
Of power and place those whose re-
cord tends to extravaganza and
recklesmess in increasing that huge
p 10 Of debt that is 90 well calcula-
ted to weigh down the energies of
cur people, and convert them into
machines to pay taxes for the
mere carrying on of the govern
ment Of the city and to pay interest
leaving the principal of the debt
like . mammoth cancer, with it's
roots running all through society,
gradually destroying the life of our
city, absorbing its vitality-driving
out industry, and preventing out
siders from coming in and helping
us to enlarge our borders, and max
ing Richmond one of the most
Aourishing manufacturing towns
IN the west AZ she ought to be.
We call upon the voters of our
city to look well to the record of the
man. now presented to them for
their sufrages, who was placed by
his party on the broad platform Of
economy and reform" We refer
70 Councilman ELDER, selected as
the democratic candidate for Mayor
BY that party. He has shown every
thing else but q disposition to de-
crease our debt and has, with scarce
y An exception, given his vote on
every occasion, to add to our bur-
dens; and to leap the Climax the
sworn testimony of one of our cit
izens, duplicates him in selling his
vote to lease the G. r & TT. w. Rail
road, for ninety-nine years to the
Pennsylvania corporstion-wipine
out by that vote, al obig tons d
that corporation, ever to fill its con
tract for shops in our city! This il
economy, with vengeance, and
Mr.. Elder is . beautiful specimen
Of reform to place at the head O.
our affairs as Mayor, to-be sure!!
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
The Telegram charges the Tim

The Telegram charges the Times
of Connersville with s'blacking
Judge Wilson's boots!'' Sinks new
or was known to undertake q job that
he did not do it well; but, accord
ing to the last Independent" if
the Judges boots are any blacker
than Surfaces character for elon-
eating the truth and for black-mail.
ing, Sinks has beat himself in the
boot backing business, that's all.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

A Tennessee Exchange imperti,
nently says that when one young
woman asks another What are
your politics = she only means to
ask what newspaper she prefers
for hustle. The girls only want
to put thsir politics where they
will do the most good
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

The lark sweetly sings, while che
scars on high. but is suddenly si-
fenced when she falls to the earth
SO is the frame of the soul most
delightful and divine, while it
keeps in the views Of God by con-
temptation. Alas, we make there
too short a stay, fall down again
and lay by our music Baxter.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

A large number of horses are
being shipped from Monroe coun-
ty 10 the South.
The question to be settled in
Fort Wayne il, will the new 5000
fire. engine prove a paying invest
men:.
Gov. Hendricks denies that hia
recent visit to Washington and
the East was made in the interest
of any new political party.
This time it was in Benton coun-
ty. Mrs. Stanley was smoking o
pipe, and spark set the barn on
fire and burned 800 bushels of
grain and horse worth $500.
The Charlottesville Journal says
farm hands are so scarce this
Spring that farmers are willing to
pay $25 o month and board, with
harvest wages.
The Northern Indiana NJ. e.
Conference, at Logansport, was
we'll attended during the session,
Bishop Merrill presiding.
TIE Elkhart Union intimates
that the zeal early manifested in
the prosecution of suits under the
new liquor Jaw is tagging.
The all absorbing question in
Terre Haute is whether County
Commissioner Blake will vote for
Tom Bowling for the vacancy on
that Board.
John Flaugh, the dcfaulting
Trustee of Madison township. AL
len county, is on trial 10 the Grim
inal court, 1T Fort Wayne. The
case is expected to occupy sever
al days.
The Express Gays the work on
the Wabash Iron Company's works
is being pushed forward rapidly
It estimates the working force ol
the establishment will add 800 te
the population Of the city.
1
The Cannelton Enquirer objects
to the Senticel locating Canneitou
in Lawrence county That is bu
small slip to paper locating
Frankfort on The Main in Frank
lin County, Kentucky.
OF the fifteen Western States
Indiana. according to the latest cen
sus stands forth in point Of wealth
and population Ohio stands frst
Illinois second, and Missouri third
The use OF tobacco is q disgust
ing habit. It weakens the frame
benumbs the faculties. and what j
far worse, keeps up the price
Danbury News.
The Rushyille Republican say
the wheat fields in Rush count.
look remarkably well.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

Bay City is to have another dali
" paper. Il will be called the
Bay City Tribune. The business
men Of that city guaranteed $4,000
worth Of advertising.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
A dispatch from Rockford, u

A dispatch from Rockford, H.,
says: Gamma Dickinson has found
whats to Hinders' Two years ago
she disappointed q crowded hall,
and many who had driven from Bel
videre, by obstinately and offensive
ly refusing to be bound by the ac-
ton of her agents to deliver her
advertised lecture and insisting on
rer eating one which the Belvidere
party had heard the night before.
Her audience last night was accor-
dinghy the smallest perhaps, that
has greeted any prominent lecturer
here for years"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

The following sentence was die
tated by the late Lord Palmerston,
to eleven British cabinet ministers
not one of whom, It is said, spell
ed it correctly: st is disagreea-
BILE to witness the embarrassment Of
a harassed peddler gauging the
symmetry Of peeled potato"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
There IL : talk Of . third city
ticket in Terre Haute.

There i ! talk 81 third oily
ticket in Terre Haute.
R. W. McKeen has presented
Ashbury University with . check
for 81, 900.
One man shipped from Kewanos
week before last 1000 pounds Of
poultry.
Wheat sowing is proRressi ~
finely in Northern Illinois AID
many Of the farmers have already
finished. The low price OF corn
has induced farmers 10 SOW larg-
er area Of land to wheat THE year
than usual.
The First Assis.en Postmaster
General has issued a circular an
nonncing that Congress has pass
cd no law requiring prepay ment OF
postage on postage on papers sent
from a known publication Office TO
subscribers.
Est Saginaw is to have water
works on On extended scale ct once
and w. Z. Coats, Of Kalamazoo,
has received the contract for build.
ing. The contract is for the neigh
borhood Of 100000, and 10 per-
hsps one Of the largest that has
teen 1t in the city to ono person.
Upward OF sixteen miles Of pipe
are to be bought and laid, making
over 1000 tons, gross, Of iron.
This will amount to about $780,
COO.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26


The Commissioners Of FOunta in
county have fully determined upon
erecting new Jail.
John S. Petit declines the nomi-
nation for City Clerk Of Lafayette
on the Temperance ticket.
Henry county is determined to
enforce the liquor law. Tue town.
ship Of Spiceland alone has raised
$4,000 for that purpose.
Senator Pratt has purchased the
residence OF + T. Stephens, on
Market street, Logansport, for the
sum of Is 900.
OF the three School Trustees in
Vevay one is Jew, the second a
Baptist, and the third a Presbyse-
rian.
The Lafayette papers don't like
the way in which the crowd rushed
to the sale of tickets to Edwin
Booths entertainments.
40 avaricious Ohio man, who has
been holding on to his wool four
or five years for higher prices, had
twenty thousand pounds burned
up by lightning stroke, the other
night.
The young women Of England
have taken 10 flute playing and
the New York Tribune thinks that
the flute is even better instrument
than the violin for the exhibition Of
pretty arms and graceful motions.
Indianapolis has two hundred
and seventy-seven streets, in her
corporate limits, and seven hun
drcd aad twenty seven outside the
corporation, distributed among the
new additions.
| No less than fif.y-fve citizens
of Connersville are travelling in
the Summer show business, in vari-
Gus capacities, from peanut boy
down.
| The first Spring meeting of the
'rerre Haute Trotting Association
will commence at the fair grounds
course Of June 4th. The prem;-
ulns offered amount to $4,000.
/ No chairs or stools are allowed
to be placed in the aisles Ct the
Lafayette Opera House to accom-
modatc belated patrons. This is a
wise rule and should be adopted
everywhere.
There is in Fort Wayne a vel
IA feet deep which, until quite re-
cenlly, contained but six feet OF
water. 1t is now brim iulI and
running over With cold clear water
It is fed by new stream, Thirty
five feet below the surface.
The Lafayette Courier says:
, George r. Williams, Esq, Spe
cial Envoy to England from thu
Japanese Government, is booked
9 for a wedding in a few weeks Hi
intended is an American wido il
/ Paris, young beautiful and accom-
t plished. The h:ppy couple will
t visit Lay fay cite in June"
In New Hamsbirc the following
is posted on fence: .Nottis--
Know Kow is allowed in thes
meders. eny man OR woman lett
thare Rows run the rode, who git
inter my medders afore said, shel
: have his tail cut orr by me, Obadi
ali Rogers"
Il PATS FxPLANATroN.-"I say, Pa
I is it true that you have taken tn
Q pledge?" said Mike to his fr;ent
eIndade it is true, and I'm nc
ashamed of it aither," replied Pa
l. But Mike thinking himself We
6 qualified, sought to convert Pa
Q He ssid, aAnd did not Paul te
o Tinothy to take . little wine 4
9 his stomach!'' $50 be did," repl
It ed Pat, abut my names not Tim.
thy, and there's nothing the matte
eH
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26

SURPRISE "A pleasurable surprise
party met at the residence of Mr..
E. II. Strattan, on Thursday night
last, and, after enjoying themselves
with feast on the good things they
bro't with them, presented Mrs.
Mo1Ln STRATTAN pair of beautiful
gold napkin rings, in testimony of
their appreciation of her services
in giving the Choir of Good Tenn
plars music lessons at their rehear-
sails. 1t was an unexpected and an
agreeable surprise to her.