The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-12-20
FROM MILTON.


arranged for near here some time
ago, has been postponed for the
time being, owing the threatening
opposition shown by some of the
farmers women along the proposed
line of march.
The Methodist Sabbath School
gives an entertainment to its schol
ars, at the Methodist Church, on
Christmas Eve. in the shape OF
Christmas Tree, essays, declama-
tons. dialogues, instrumental and
vocal music-admission to which,
a Zoe will be charged for those not
teachers or scholars.
On Christmas night the Union
Sabbath School holds similar one
at the Union Church, and on New
Years Eve another school has an
oyster supper in one of the build
ings OF the Hoosler Drill Company,
the proceeds of each one to be ap
Piled in the purchase of books, pa
pers, etc, for their respective
schools.
At the stated communication in
this month, of Milton Lodge No.
los, f. & NJ, the following persons
were elected officers for the ensu-
ing year, viz: G.. S. Newman, w.
NJ; W. D. Jones, S. W.; Thomas
Hunt, j. W.; Mart. Brown, Treas'r;
+. b. Newman, Sec'y; j. NJ. Ward,
Tyler. The Lodge will hold a Fes.
tival at it's Hall on the 9th inst,
it being the anniversary of st john
the Evangelist; at which time there
will be a public installation of it's
officers. So it will be seen that the
arrangements here for the HOLIDAYS
are ample and varied enough to
accommodate all.
Last Saturday night, Sarah Davis,
(colored,) after lighting lamp,
thinking to make the light more
brilliant shook it, breaking the lamp,
the contents of which spilled on a
hot stove, and igniting instantly, en-
veloping the woman in flames. Her
mother seized bed comfort and
smothered them, but not until she
was fearfully burnt. DR.. sweeney.
who attended her, says it furnishes
another warning to be careful how
you handle lamp filed with burn
ing fluid as in this case if no one
had been present but the women
she would not only have been burnt
to death herself, but also a large
portion of the town.
One night last week party of
hunters, a short distance east of
here, went out a coon hunting. The
dogs soon set a coon up large
white oak tree, and one Eli P. Love
thinking to scare the coon down.
climbed up after him over forty
feet to large limb, out on which
MIR. Coon was perched, watching
the movements of his daring pur-
suer. Thinking he was coming too
near for his coonship's safety, he
turned to jump to another tree
standing near, but fell to the
ground. At the same time Love
lost his balance and followed rapid.
ly after, the result of which was
the coon escaped into hole near,
while Love had his thigh broken.
DIR. Daley who attends him, says
ne is cheerful and doing well, but
will no more coon hunt this winter.
Love says the air passed his ears,
on his way down, at lightning
speed, and with a fearful cracking
sound, that he hopes never to hear
again.
The Hoosier Drill Company have
erected tall bridge across Walnut
street, some eighty feet long, con-
Meeting the I'd story of the wood
shop with the I'd story of the paint
shop, by means of which machinery
can be conveyed from one to the
other without the labor and trouble
OF taking down and up either stairs.
The senior base ball club of Mil
ton, composed wholly of young
men, has, within the last week or
two, been playing some test games
with one at Cambridge, and also
one at Dublin, at all of which. It
came out worsted. 1t is charged
that some of its best players fell
down too]often while at Cambridge.
lcurlous to catch ball on the on
the fly or to make successful home
runs. How is it, Master Dad and
Rut' We also have a junior club
composed of small boys, and we
would advise the big boys to chal
lenge them for tilt, and possibly
they may be more successful.