The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-06-10

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The Paola News has changed to
quarto form.
John C. Filler has retired from the
Muncie Times.
j Brazil was laid out in 1912 by Owen
Thorpe.
There were 81 deaths in Fort Wayne
during May. ae
Muncy has organized public libra
ry association. -,~yg4~.r - nla
But few of the Clay county coal
mines are in operation now.
The new Methodist Church in Ken
dallville is to be completed. 4
There were three sail boats on the
Lake at Warsaw last Saturday.
The caterpillers are sweeping whole
orchards in Dearborn county.
Thirteen feet of tape worm have
been taken from q Warren county
man.
The license for retailing liquors in
Wabash has been raised from $500 to
$500. 49,
A new tile mandatory is about
ready to begin operations at New
Harmony.
More saddle trees are manufactured
in Madison than in all the rest of the
United States combined.
Thirteen divorce suits are docketcd
for trial at the present term Of the ST.
Jn4sPh County Circuit
The Rev. A. Marine has incurred
the displeasure of the Fort Wayne
Germans by reason of a speech deliv-
cred at Defiance, Ohio.
Professor Jno. E. carp, of Indiana
fAsbury University, will sail for Glas-
gov on the 9Th inst, to make the
European tour.
The only application for a permit
| to sell intoxicating liquors in COving-
ton was defeated Wednesday before
the Commissioners. IA
! The Mite Society of the Methodist
Chuscn of Bedford has over one hun
dred dollars in their treasury. which
is being collected to buy a bell for the
new church.
! Miss M. E. Campbell. residing in
Ohio county, r.cci,el a verdict in the
Dearborn Circuit Court last week. for
$50 dollars, against Charles Hamilton,
for breach of marriage promise.
| A young colored man by the name
of Ahab McMath, was murdered in
the woods near the colored settlement
six miles south oil Marion, on Sunday
night. 6flast week.
The young people of Vincennes are
cultivating high literary and must
cal ta> te, and society has been or
ganized which reflects credit upon its
members and the place.
On last Saturday evening Hugh III.
Burton, Of Bedford, was thrown from
a buggy and so badly injured that he
died. About ten months ago his sis-
ter was killed in similar way.
They have had good deal of fun at
/ Lafayette attaching an Indian show
for its printing and hotel bills. The
J Courier hitched onto the concern and
, kept the Indians in a car for twenty
: four hours.
: 4 liquor club has been organized in
Nashville. The club has rented a
3 room, and will purchase supplies ono,
, a month, each member contributing
to that purpose in proportion to the
amount of the beverage he used the
: preceding month.
!. Mrs. Lettia Hunter. of Warner
t county. h: quilt whicl, she made
( herself which has 8, 900 pieces, eacl
piece being three .fourths of an incl
square, and another which contain!
800 pieces, not two of which ar,
!. alike. Mrs. Hunter is an invalid, ant
: has been confined to her bed for thu
; last seven years.
The contract for the construction
of Benton county court house was, OF
G the % ult., awarded to l.. w. Leach
9 of Chicago, for the sum Of 81, 1884 dol
Il lars. There were nine bids, running
a from the lowest as above to G9,S7
uOitdES. lie SucCCSSIul OluucT u0
), signed the necessary bond, and vii
u commence the work at once.
Seymour now bears the laurels q
II authorship. DR.. j. B. Monroe ha
e published dramatic composition en-
q titled Argo and Irene, which the Gin
q cinnati Gazette notices in this wise:
: combines the elements of tragedy
= comedy, and broad farce, withou
j. slavish adherence to either class. 1t
q also noticeable for it's bold repudiatio
= of precedent and those rigid laws im
le posed by sixteenth century writers
N and SO slavishly obeyed by their sue
\ cessors in America as we'll as in til
old world, 1t has recently been claim
u ed for the West, that unlike the Eas
4 it darcs to think and act for itself. N
& pcntup Utica or English etMuet'
u contracts its powers; it's genius is ;
le broad, free and breezy as its bound
a less prairics. Mr.. Monroe, in vario:
i respects. shows himsclfa true child !,
:, the occident. Like joaquin Mile
~ his muse despises conventionalitic
q The use whose arbitrary sway" Il
d. poet tells us, words and the form
language must obey" is no more I'M
him than was the yellow primrose
n. Peter Bell. -
y ID The Indians. -
n General Sheridan forwards to q