The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01

ut New Castle, Ind, were totally de-
stroyed by fire last week. The total
loss is $4,000 dollars; insurance Is, 600
dollars.
II is stated that the Ohio Republic
cans will follow the course of the Re-
publican Convention in Indiana in re-
solving in favor OF stringent license
law, with local option.
The Pope has received letters urg-
ing him to quit Rome because his per-
son was not safe, but he declared he
would remain as long as God permit
ted.
Mr.. Parker Dresser. formerly of
Lafayette, has obtained judgment
against the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw
railroad for $50, 1882, for carelessly
setting fire to his grain elevator, at
Fairbury, six years ago. The matter
has been in the courts for the past six
years.
The postal law passed by Congress
on the 23d, fixes the postage on news
papers at two cents per pound prepaid,
but free in the county where publish
ed, and on magazines three cents per
pound. The law takes effect on the
first day of January next.
The late Sangerfest at Cleveland
seems to have been a feast of beer
rather than Of music. The Ciucin-
natl Volksblatt is very indignant be-
cause 1.-The temperance party intrigued
in a most shameless manner against
Al 90 ho
stage of the Fest Hall"
A gentleman who came several thou
sand miles to view the country with
the purpose Of purchasing, got large
sized red ant on him a few days ago.
and stranger as he was, he cavorted
around and used as appropriate Ian
guage as if be had lived here ali his
life. and moved in the best of society.
San Antonio Herald.
Missionaries who have visited the
southwestern portion Of the Indian
Territory say that the Indians have
greatly improved within twenty years.
More land is cultivated, and there is
more life and enterprise in the coun
try; this, too, notwithstanding the i'm
mense loss of cattle and property du-
ring the war.
There are few things more familiar
to the eye than the pace of the horse,
yet there is probably not one in a
thousand who could describe the mo-
ton and rotation of the animal legs.
This is not to be wondered at when
we find that few artists, even of those
accustomed to draw and paint horses,
have clear notions on the subject.
The retiring editor of Southern
paper boasts that he has never been
''horsew hipped, revolvered, knitted,
kicked, licked, bricked, pummeled, or
cussed for anything | have said. writ
ten, done or left undone as an editor,
and in ceasing to be one | am filled
with melancholy sadness"
There is woman living in Penea-
der Hundred, New Castle county,
Del, who has been married twenty
four years, and who last week gave
| birth to her twenty third child, which
makes her record one child per year
since her marriage.
The people have, seemingly, made
up tuelT miuuS uOI W NC tAClteo dtOut
the new Ohio Constitution. The Gin
cinnati Gazette says: 1T is our i'm
preston that an overwhelming major
ity of the people of Ohio do not care
whether it is adopted or rejected. 1t
| is probable that a majority of those
who take the trouble to 60 to the
| polls will vote for the Constitution,
| largely on the ground that it cost the
State 100000 dollars. This is not
complimentary to the gentlemen who
labored to get up the instrument, but
| so it is.
| During the storm Thursday after.
noon, lightning struck man at Cir.
cleville, Ohio, a woman at Hunting.
ton, West Va, two young men at kal.
amazoo, Mich, the Postmaster a,
Marion, Ind, and three persons neal
Fort Wayne, Ind. Henry Shopland
living in the south end Of Grund,
county, ILL.,, was killed.
The New York Herald informs tn.
public that Bayard Taylor has secured
the correspondence that passed be
j tween Joseph and Potiphar's wife
and intends to translate it. The full
correspondence may have the effect t.
unsettle Joseph's reputation.
Texas is in trouble. The State
financial agent in New York has beer
for months endeavoring to negotiate
100000 dollars in Texas bonds will
which to pay the floating debt of tina
commonwealth. He now writes tina
he cannot place the securities, nor cal
he sell them at any but ruinous dis
count.
An action was recently brought i
} dollars. Counsel had been employe,
and the plaintiff counsel was pro
ceeding to state his state, when tn
judge, throwing two-dollar bill +
the clerk, said, There's the money
each party pays his own COSTS Th
counsel objected on the ground that
plea had been entered, and the jadg
exclaimed: do you think l am goin
to sit here half day to listen to plea
, in an action for two dollars? Myti
is worth more than that Call til
, next case.
} The most approved style of crem;
ton has been invented by Leipsi
! professor. and is simple, pious an
cheap The corpse is lowered into
,, smoothly walled room where no otht
objects can be found. Nothing touch
> es it but the air, heated to viii,
l glow intensity, the oxygen of whic
I combines with the atoms of the o.
, ganic structure. Only the ashes r,
main, and these can be gathered u
: unmixed with foreign substance
The cost of burning body by tn
process is about two dollars. A
architect is engaged in constructing
4 cremation oven according to tn
! model in Dresden, and if the prospe
y Il. 1