The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-13

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The Terre Haute nail works resum-
ed operations Thursday of last week.
The population of Clay county was,
in 1880. 1916 is now over ~. 600.
camp Of the Order of Enlisted
men has been organized in Danville.
The vineennes High School will
give its first diplomas this year.
The Terre Haute hominy mills re-
Gently shipped 500 barrels of homlny
to Atlanta. Ga.
In pruning plum tree in Troy, a
few days ago, gardener found gold
ring imbedded in one of the limbs.
An establishment fos the manufac-
ture of maehinists tools IS being start
ed at South Bend.
Vineennes Is preparing for an old
fashioned Fourth of July celebration,
and big one
1t is estimated that over 1900
worth of cattle have starved in JAS
per county in the last two months.
A number of young girls, not over
ten years old, visited saloon in JEFF
fersonville, few days ago, and held
prayer meeting.
Movements are inaugurated at Jas
per, in Dubois county, to attract the
attention of iron manufacturers to that
place, and induce them to locate there.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Woman's Suffrage Association
will be held at Fort Wayne on the
9th INST
~ A wagon factory with a capacity of
2,tkn wagons per annum is to be start
ed at Logansport. Ia is branch of
factory in Racine, Wis.
Since the clearing out of dram shops
and gambling dens in Franklin, John
largely increased.
The glass works at New Albany that
have remained Idle tor some years,
have been purchased by wealthy
company, and are to be put in opera
ton.
Five thousand bushels of fax seed
have been sovn in Grant county this
summer. An average yield would
produce $500 bushels OF seed and
: 5.0oO tons Of straw.
The entire peach crop oc Monroe
county has been cut off by late irosts.
The value ol the peaches raised in
the county IS usually about equal TO
the value Of its wheat product.
Logan Grange of Tirpecanoe county,
has passed q resolution that ii stands
decidedly opposed to anything like a
political organization as opposed to
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A petition Is in circulation among
the grangers of Lawrence county, ask
ing an arrest of the dispensation to
Mitchell Grange, OF that county, on
the ground that it has persons no are
not eligible TO membership.
Henry . Meary was put off the train
near Goshen few nights ago, and
started west on foot. Getting tired,
he concluded to lie down on the track
and take nap. Enough of him has
not been picked up to start grave
yard.
In two years just twenty four per-
sons have been sent to the State prison
from Grant county, bat ont of the
number only three were residents
there, the balance being raseals from
abroad arrested in that county for
crimes committed within its limits
Dallas Firebungh is in Jail at Paola.
Orange county, charged with several
murders and other crimes. He be-
longed to the corps of engineers that
surveyed the line for the railroad be-
tween Nincennes and Indianapolis,
and was at that time highly esteemed
The business of the Indianapolis
post Office for April foots up as fol-
lows: Letters delivered. 1874, 117; pos
tai cards delivered, Is, 937; drop letters
delivered, 13,93S; newspapers deliver
ed, 66.449; letters collected, Ia, 153;
postal cards collected. 26.75l; news
papers collected, 1869.
An ancient Miami Indian. bearing
the euphonious name of White Loon.
has been visiting his friends in Fort
Wayne. He has reached the sabine
age of 105 years, and remembers the
events of ninety-five years ago dis
tinctiy. A reporter of the Sentinel
interviewed him, but he was living at
last accounts.
A boy was discovered few nights
ago IN Terre Haute coming out of a
window of warehouse with three
hams. The proprietor asked him why
he was stealing, to which he replied
that his mother was poor and starry
ing. The man followed him home
and found his story to be true, and
provided them with food.
A brute named David Christian, OF
Orange county, asked one of his little
children few days ago 10 bring him
a drink of water, and the little child
not moving as rapidly as the father
thought it should, swore he would
knock its brains out, and Selling a
club struck the child over the head
killing it instantly, and fled. The
neighbors found the murdered child
on the floor, and accused the mother
of the crime of killing it, and could
only get confession from her until
she was hung to post.
Elk Congressman John Morrissey is
at his old tricks. BEING worsted in
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