The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-04-08

Eminence is suffering from the reign
of intemperanee.
Seymour has more milliners than
any town of its size in the STATED The
men should organize q crusade against
them
The Delphi Times says the farmers
of Carroll County ARE making Lrepar-
ations to put out tremendously large
crop of corn"
A saloonkeeper in Princeton, when
the ladies came to pray in his saloon.
insisted on reading the Scriptures for
them, and chose Mathew vi, SO.
indianapolis is considering the
feasibility of sinking the railway
tracks in the city, so that the streets
may be carried over them.
A young man in Perry township,
ten miles from Fort Wayne, has this
winter captured fifteen foxes, thirteen
of which were red and two were grey.
A branch society has been organized
among the colored men in Indianapo-
lis to assist in raising money to erect
a monument to Charles Sumner.
Two boys in Terre Haute had a
quarrel a few days ago in regard to a
sling, and one of them kicked the
other in the stomach, which caused
his death.
Specimens of iron ore from Law
renee County have been analysed by
Professor Cox, and found to contain
fifty-nine per cent. of iron, with trace
of sulphur.
The State Auditor, the Hon. James
A. Wildman, has prepared an elabor-
ate table showing by comparison with
other States that the expenses Of the
State fall below those of other States
similar in size and wealth.
While the woman's temperance
movement is getting under full head
way at Fort Wayne, the Germans are
preparing for grand demonstration
in opposition to it.
One of the most extensive fruit
growers in Southern Indiana informs
the Clark County Record that the
prospect could not be better for a
large fruit crop than it is this season.
A little girl in Lawrcnceburg
named Bartholo, to out do some OF
her mates, jumped the rope 351 times,
and fell senseless to the ground. She
died the next day without coming to
consciousness
Some vicious person placed pile Of
old rails under the Catholic Church
at Petersburg last week, and set them
on fire, with the design Of destroying
the building. The fire was, however,
discovered in time to save the church
The strike at the Clay County mines
still continues. The strikers have
made Intellectual attempts several
times to induce the colored miners to
join them, and thus bring affairs to a
stand-still again
In fight few evenings ago, over a
game of cards, Patrick Mann was
pounced upon by man named Baker
and stabbed several times. Baker es-
capped, and Mann will probably recov-
er.
A little daughter of ]. 7. Colds
bury. of Kokomo, has solicited and
received from the people 200 dollars to
save her father from prosecution for
forgery He was a sewing machine
agent, and had confessed the crime.
A Lafayette druggist has on exhi-
bition curiosity, being full-grown
mouse in a four ounce vial. The vial
was found in a box of straw, and it is
supposed the mouse crawled into ii
when quite small and could not get
out.
In Stockton, Owen County, the
measles are having an alarmingly fatal
run, attacking the adults As we'll as
children. In one family named Batty,
three brothers have died of the malady
within few days of each other.
The Ledger-Standard, OF Jackson
County, believes there is danger to be
apprehended in that county from vigi-
lants, as a strong attempt was made
to lynch Fleetwood, who killed the
boy Harris few days ago to get his
horse
The chrome business is now happily
done up for newspapers and periodi-
cal purposes. A Decatur, Adams
county, saloonkeeper offered "a beau
tiful chrome" to the man, woman. OIL
child who would drink the most beer
at his bar.
The last iquor-seller in Knights
town. Henry county, to surrender, was
an oddity. He claimed to be a tenn
perance man, and would kneel down
and pray with the ladies. He is said
to be a devout man, having morning
and evening prayers regularly in his
family.