The Richmond palladium., 1874-07-22
NEWS ITEMS.

The fire in Constantinople, reported
involved loss of $2,OOO,OOO.
Blackberries are selling at Mitchell
for two cents quart.
Logansport is to have two new Sc, 900
school houses this season.
The Posey County wheat crop is es-
timated at from 10000 to 100000
bushels.
The fourth paper in Jackson coun-
ty has been established at Seymour
called the Star.
The St. Joseph Manufacturing Com
pany, at Mishawaka, have received
another prize from Spain for the Scho-
field corn-shellcr.
The Galloway county Changers have
adopted u resolution recommending
farmers not to sell their wheat, but to
keep it in the county for home con-
sumption.
The Associations of Friends held a
meeting in Lawrence, Kansas, on the
18th, and declared the Indians inno-
cent of any wrong; blaming the whites
for the present troubles.
The examination Of the young men
who received permits to report for ad-
mission into the Naval Academy as
cadet engineers, takes place on the
18th, 10th and 18th of September, in
stead of any time between 18th and
25th, as heretofore. This will be a
competitive examination.
General Sheridan has forwarded,
through General Sherman, a request
to be allowed to use the sixth cavalry
for offensive operations against the
Indians, and advocating generally an
offensive policy as more effective and
more economical than defensive
one.
The suspension bridge, nearly com.
pleted over Whitewater River, at
Harrison, built at the expense of Ham.
ilton County, Ohio, and Dearborn
County, Indiana, and connecting the
two States, fell into the river on the
18th, owing to incomplete anchorage
The Bridge cost $4,000. Loss and
damage by the accident $4,000.
| The Board of Underwriters ir
| Chicago declare that unless a radica
reform is made in the fire department
of that city, insurance companies will
be forced to close their Offices and re
fuse Chicago risks. Per contra, tn;
chief of the department says the water
supply is utterly insufficient for grea
fires. Evidently, somebody is t,
blame.
The recent exhibits made in this pa
per touching the comparative rates O
local taxation in the Democratic an.
Republic; counties Of this State
showing uniform excess of taxation
in the former, leads the Cincinnati
Gazette to remark that the same rul,
!, is found to prevail in that State. Sucl
remarkable coincidence in two grea
States cannot be the result Of chance
1t shows that there is a natural ten
dency in the Democratic party to ex
J travagance and misrule, and that thei
fine talk about economy, retrench
, ment and reform" is mere sound AM
nothing more. 1t requires both in
, telligence and honesty to administe
J government successfully, and expert
ence shows that these plants do no
J flourish luxuriantly in Democrat
soil.-Ind. Journal.
) A Reporter of the Brooklyn Argus
hearing that Joseph Howard, Jr., wa
preparinga statement in reference t,
the Tilton- Beecher imbroglio, wen
to see him. Mr.. Howard denied tina
there was any truth in the report. H
. said he was no more preparing stat
; ment of the facts than Mrs. Tilton-
, and for the same reason, viz: that h
. had no facts to state. He attribute
: Tilton's action to monomania and
love of notoriety. His opinion {
: Beecher could not be changed b
I anything Tilton might say. When h
!; lost faith in Beechcr he would los
faith in everybody and everything
Mrs. Tilton was sensible. amiabl
woman, whose great misfortune it VIZ
= ! to have married Tilton. He conclu
? ded by saying: THE only fault l hay
to find in this matter is that Mr.. Bee
!; cher is too -d-kind-h hearted, and
. . want you to use those words"