The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-13
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A pair of zebras have been trained
| and broken to harness IN Paris.
| Gov. Moses of South Carolina is not
a Hebrew, as many have supposed.
The customs returns show that the
| use of tobacco is decreasing in Eng
land
Six years ago Senator Jones of Ne
vada was several thousand dollars in
debt.
A bill is proposed in Canada to linn
1t a lawyers power of abuse while ar
guIng III court.
Forty thousand cattle are said to
have perished in Utah and Nevada
during the winter.
Husbands and wives in Illinois, un-
der the new law, may bring civil suits
against each other.
When colored boy shoots his faith
er In Georgia the local papers call it
''disfranchisement.'
Texas thinks she is large enough,
and declines the anxious offer of
northern Louisiana to be annexed.
4 child in Holly Springs, Miss,
was nearly choked to death by attempt
ing to swallow a Mississippi Central
Railroad ticket
A boy fourteen years old named
Vagnier, living at Lancaster, Ohio,
was bitten by q vicious hog on April
%, and died in great agony on May
1st
The Tennessee negroes in convcn-
ting assembled have resolved that 1T
is their duty as men to arrange for the
perfect development Of posterity.'
One hundred and ninety-four inland
lakes of Michigan have been stocked
with white-fsh which are doing well.
The average number in each lake is
about 1000.
In the last two years forty English
steamers have entered Norfolk Va,
harbor, bringing 1850 English pass
engers and more than S5,OOO,O 600 of
wealth to the country.
Southern planters will persist in
though corn is scarce in Mississippi at
$l.o0 bushel, -four S12 barrel, and
potatoes 81 bushel.
The total number of Oranges in the
United States is 10,S62, and the total
membership 100000 The only States
IN which there are no Oranges are
Connecticut. Delaware, and Rhode
Island.
George Wilson of Adrian, Mich,
has colt three Years old that prefers
tobacco to oats, and exhibits great dis
tress if it is not supplied every day
with a certain quantity Of fine cut or
plug.
The City Council of Providence has
voted to save twenty-four cents a day
by stopping the ringing of the old bell
ancient religious structure in the city.
A London wine dealer was recently
sentenced to twelve months hard la
Dor for selling interior wine for the
best kind, by means of forged labels
and corks branded to resemble the
genuine article.
California juries are to decide in
capital cases whether the accused shall
suffer death or Imprisonment for life.
Two cases are on trial in that State in
which this discretion will for the first
time be exercised.
Nashville, Tennessee, is rejoicing
over Commodore Vanderbilt's addi-
tional gift of 100000 to the Methodist
University at that place. The money
is accompanied with the provisor that
it shall be expended exclusively on
buildings.
The town of North Providence,
Rhode Island, has only one pauper to
support. This individual has farm
all to himself, with carriage, horses,
and cattle, food provided by contract,
and poormaster and family to take
care Of him.
The Boston Advertiser says that
within the next few days there will be
u fleet of 200 vessels, each with seine
1000 feet long and $50 feet deep,
watching from Nantucket to the capes
of Virginia for the first appearance of
mackerel.
Henry Meiggs will return to Cali
fornia within six months. He has two
sons and two daughters, three in Cali
fornia and one in Chill, all grown up
and all of whom will accompany him
to the land he left so suddenly over
twenty years ago.
The Rev. John B. Brown, a Pres
byterian clergyman of Russellyille,
Ark. has been sentenced to three
years Imprisonment for counterfeit
ing He manufactured the Spanish
dollar, United States fifty and twenty
five cent pieces, and nickels.
A clergyman in Georgia finished
his sermon, made the concluding
prayer, gave the blessing announced
temperance meeting, and in conclusion
informed his congregation he had a
new variety of cotton seed for sale,
which he would sell at only one dollar
a bag.
Prince Edwards Island boasts of
pig which goes ahead of Indiana's pet
product The length of the champion
is nine feet six inches, girth seven
feet four inches, five feet around the
neck, height three feet eleven inches,
and weight over one thousand pounds.
1t is of Irish descent.
An exploring expedition under Ma
jor Warburton, which recently at
tempted to make its way from Central
Australia to the western settlements
of that continent, has succeeded In
eating all their camels but three. They
travelled through 800 miles of country
much before explored.
Confederate generals are fighting
their battles over again In the South
ern newspapers. Gen. Bragg says
that he had only 10000 men in the
battle of fChickamauga, and that the
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