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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

GOING NORTH-Ineluding all places sup
piled from the Chicago X. r., and the Ft.
Wayne II. II. .,sclOses at 1890 q. IN.
GOING SOUTH--l. Including Cincinnati
and all points beyond, closes at 1880 a. m.
2. Including all places supplied from the
Cincinnati Railroad, 500 p. NJ.
GOING EAST-Including all places sup
piled from the Columbus II. r., and
all Eastern and Central States, closes at
1000 a. m. Via Dayton and Xenia Rail-
road, closes 500 a. IN.
GOING VEST. Including Indianapolis
and all points beyond closes 1000 a.. m =;
2. same as above, closes 1880 p. m; 3. in
cluding all points supplied by the Indi-
annapolis Railroad; also, Chicago and all
points west and northwest, closes 800
p. m.
TO Webster, williamsburg and Bloomings-
port, on Tuesday, Thursday and Satnr-
day, at 200 p. m.
To Cox's Mills, White Water, Bethel and Ar
ba, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
at 1900 m.
To Arlington, Clifton and Liberty, OH Mon
day and Friday, Mt 700 a. m.
To Boston, Beechymire, Goodwin's Corner,
and College Corner, on Tuesday and
Friday, at 1890 m.
a MAILS ARE OPEN
At 500 n. IN. from Indianapolis and Cincin-
natl and beyond.
At ll:0O a. m. from Cincinnati, way and
through mails.
At 400 p. m. from East via Columbus Rail
road, and Dayton and Xenia Railroad.
At TOO p. m. from North, via Chicago Rail-
road and Fort Wayne Railroad.
At 500 p. m. from indianapolis and beyond.
Office open from 100 a. m. to 1880 D: NJ
On Sunday, from 900 TO 1900 a. m.
Dec. 1874. B. w. DAVIS. p. NJ.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
Look After ,hc Eyes.


Multitudes of men and women
have made their eyes weak for life
by the too free use of eyesight,
reading small print and doing fine
sewing. In view of these things it
is well to observe the following
rules in the use Of the eyes:
Avoid all sudden changes be-
tween light and darkness.
Never read by twilight or on a
very cloudy day.
Never sleep SO that, waking, the
eyes shall open on tho light of the
window.
Do not use eyesight by light so
scant that it requires an effort to
discriminate.
Never read or sew directly in
front of the light of window.
It is best to have the light from
above, or obliquely, or over the
left shoulder.
Too much light creates glare,
and pains and confuses the sight.
The moment you are sensible of an
effort to distinguish, that moment
stop and talk, walk or ride.
As the sky is blue aud the earth
green, it would seem that the cell
ing should be blush tinge, the
carpet green, and the walls of some
mellow tint.
The moment you are instinctively
inclined to rub the eyes, that mo-
ment cease to use them.
If the eyelids are glued together
on waking, do not forcibly open
them, but apply salve with the
finger and then wash your eyes and
face with warm water.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
England's marriage. statistics

Englands marriage statistics
have been analysed to show the
probabilities of marriage for women
at different ages. Supposing the
sum of q woman's chances of mar
riage to be one hundred. she ex-
hausts between the ages of fifteen
and twenty years fourteen and
half chances. If she lives unmar.
ricd from twenty to twenty Eve,
fifty two more of her chances have
vanished into thin air. If she
remains unmarried for five more
years, she will turn thirty with
only fifteen and half chances out
of her hundred left. After thirty
five she has eleven and q half
chances, and at this point the sta
tistican gave up his calculation.
except that he assures us that
even after a women has lived
unmarried sixty years she still has
the tenth of a chance of getting
married out of the hundred with
which she is supposed to have
| started life.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

Never waste your time; waste some
body else's.
A corn-extractor that has never
been patented-The crow.
There are six George Washingtons
in the Pennsylvania State Prison.
When the thermometer falls, how
often on an average does it break?
King Koffee, who has been boiling
over lately, has settled down again.
Mrs. Goodale, Of Pequonic, Conn,
is 100 years old Good ale keeps we'll.
The London Lancet pretends to
know how a man feels when his head
is cut off.
A worn-out shoe is like ancient
Greece, because it once had Solon
(sole on).
It is good thing to be above-board,
but generally bad thing to be over
board
An Iowa Justice the other day ac-
cepted two bushels of the pungent
onion as marriage fee.
A Chicago actress calls avalanche
'avalank.' The educational advan-
tages Of that city are notorious.
Cheap and hungry dances" are a
Vermont institution. There are no
| refreshments, and the fun stops at IL
| o'clock.
half a million dogs keep the people
/ &C Nou- Moviao horlr Al
does them good they are welcome to
it.
A Frenchman intending to compli-
ment young lady by calling her a
gentle lamb, said: ''She is one mutton
as is SMALL
A New Orleans paper offers the
sentiment thus: George Washington
First in war, first in peace, and last
in getting monument"
We can't all be run over by locomo-
tives or killed by boiler explosions.
A New York man has just been crush
ed to death in corn grinder.
| The Daily Tokionichinichi Schim-
bum is rapidly displacing the other
| RdpC1S VI 1CuuU, duu HAS n ClTcula-
tion of 500. Now is the time to sub
scribe.
| 1t is singular that mineral waters
are only beneficial to the wealthy
We never knew a physician to advise
a. poor man to 60 to any watering.
place.
A Boston philosopher says that YOU
want to look at men's boot heels K
discover their energy. A slow, sloth
full man runs his boots over at til,
heels.
Without any desire to brag, the De
troit Free Press points to Michiga,
sunfower nineteen feet high. and re
spectfully inquiries after the health o
other sunflowers around the country
A Council Bluffs lawyer ate pea
nuts in court and was fined SO fo
; contempt. The Judge remarked tha
he was determined to uphold the mai
esty OF the law if it killed the entir
!. peanut crop of the South.
Detroit Free Press: The Millerite
nave settled on the 10th of Decembe
, as ascension day, but for men who ex
pect to be in heaven on the 2lst the
hold hay and oats up wonderfully stiff
and want their cash down.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
True love has its usual unpleasant

True love has its usual unpleasant
course in the bosom of woman in
the upper part of Evansville, Ind,
who loved not wisely but too we'll.
Her lover presented her with late
style set of false teeth to replace those
missing from between the lips where
his were wont to stray and steal the
dew of love. But GOODNESS finally
came, and he sought another object
for his affections. She, too, happen
ed to be toothless, and the lover had
recourse to her whom he had deserted,
and the teeth were wrested from her
and presented to the new love. No.
wants the assistance of the police to
recover the apparatus wherewith she
disposes of her usual pabulum.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

Presevere against all discoura ge-
ments. Keep your temper. Employ
leisure, study, and always have some
work in hand. Be punctual and me-
thodical in business, and never pro-
crastinate. Never be in a hurry.
Preserve self-possession, and do not
be talked out of conviction. Rise
early, and be an economist of time.
Maintain dignity without the appear
ance of pride; manner is something
with everybody, and everything with
some. Be guarded in discourse, at
tentive, and slow to speak. Never
acquiesce in immoral or pernicious
opinions. Be not forward to assign
reasons to those who have no right to
ask. Think nothing in conduct unim-
portent or Indifferent. Rather set
than follow examples. Practice strict
temperance. and in your transactions
remember tn final account.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
By a late decision of the United

By late decision of the United
States District Court On. Y persons
represented as stockholders in Ma
tional banks are held liable for its lia-
bilities even though they may have
transferred their shares. In other
words it is made the duty of stock
holders to see that such transfer is
made on the books of the bank. This
construction of the law will probably
annoy many persons who have trans
ierred their stock without relieving
themselves Of future liability.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

1t Is a strange anomaly in social
economy that strikes should be so
frequent when the complaints of hard
times are most general throughout the
country. At period when employ
ment even at any living wages is at a
premium, there are often thousands
of men idle in single city, as was the
case recently with the 'longshoremen
of New York. In nearly all instances
Of this kind, the blame for such a
voluntary. idleness rests with the
trades-unions, which profess to have
the interests of the great army of la
borers at heart. The dictation of
these bodies extends to members that
have no grounds of complaint what
ever. 1t makes no difference that
some employers may be willing to pay
the wages damanded, and she men
whom they employ anxious, personal
ly, to continue service; the orders oi
the union admit of no distinctions
and compel all to strike without even
as much as an excuse for so doing
Compulsory idleness, when there is
not shadow of principle to be Sc
cured by it, is. and especially in times
like the present, little less than q
crime, and rebellion against the ty
ranny of the unions would be the
most manly and sensible policy.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

The English Poultry Review very
consistently recommends an increased
consumption of eggs as food. 1t tsays,
excellent sandwiches may be made
of hard boiled eggs and brown bread
and butter; eggs spread on toast are
fit food for kings; poached egg
that is, one dropped from the she'll
into hot water-is not only clean and
handsome but a delicious morsel;
eggs are better favored without salt
VI pepper, little sweet butter being
the best dressing; persons who eat
eggs freely may live to the age of so or
80; and lastly, eggs contain much
phosphorus and the best food for
those persons who are deficient in
brains" This last idea is of the ut
most importance to many persons.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
A memher of tho T,auis1.tura e.

A member of the Legislature, from
a northern county, writes that it has
already cost him fifty dollars worth of
stamps in answering letters from ap-
plicants for Office in the gift of the Leg
islature, and he now swears that he
will not vote for any man who fails to
send stamp when he addresses him
and expects an answer. Messrs. Roe
and Lanham have not been subjected
to this tax.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, December s.
About $50 this afternoon, as the
Kansas Pacific train reached Muncie,
a few miles west of this city, five
masked men tagged and stopped it.
cut off the passenger coaches and
moved the engine and express car
some distance forward, and robbed
Wells. Fargo & Co.'S safe of about
$27 600 One can of gold-dust, for
Kountz Bros, New York, containing
5000 was also carried off. All were
large men and rode bay and brown
horses, anQIwere heavily armed with
Henry rifles and revolvers. The ex-
press company offers reward of $40,
600, the Kansas Pacific Railway Com
pany s., 900. and Governor Osborn s., :
500 for the recovery of the funds and
arrest of the perpetrators.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

II have come for my umbrella, :"
said lender OF it on rainy day to a
friend. Cant help that said the
borrower. don't you see that [ am
going out with it?' swell. yes" re-
piled the lender, astonished at such
outrageous impudence; yes, but-but
what am | to do?' Dor" said the
other, as he opened the umbrella and
walked off, ''do as l did-borrow one. y
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
RICHMOND,

successes, while it reduces him to vlr-
tual slavery. 1t was through the
negro, in slavery, that the Democratic
party retained power the last dozen
years of its anti war lite; it is through
the negro. deprived of the exercise OF
the right of suffrage. that the Demo.
cratic party expects to regain control
Irrational affairs. 1t follows logically
that the Democratic party is, by the
very force of circumstances, the foe OF
equal political rights. 1t hopes to
mount to place and power through
the practical denial of the right of
suffrage to the negro; once IN place, 1t
will continue to disfranchise him as
the guaranty of its retention Ofpower.
To those who decline to interest
themselves in the question OF morals
and humanity as entering into politl-
cal science and political practice, we
desire to put the question: How long
is the country likely to remain at
peace with the Democratic party raised
to power through studied violation
of the principles upon which the late
War against rebellion was prosecuted
to successful issue? With the
crushing out of the rebellion, Lincoln
thought peace would come, and come
to stay. 1t did come, but will it stay
if the principles for which Lincoln
strove, and the country strove, are
suffered to go by the board. This is
a question OF vital consequence to the
capitalist, the merchant, the banker,
the manufacturer, the farmer, the me
| oh fha Ia aUarvhnHv
For, when war breaks out, taxes rise.
War not only mows down men, but
unties the purse strings Of every cltl-
zen and robs him of a share of his
earnings. Is there any reason to be-
lieve that the country will suffer those
principles to be abandoned for the
preservation of which it SO recently
offered to sacrifice everything but
honor? If there is no doubt on this
point, then there is no safety in en-
trusting the conduct of affairs to the
Democratic party; no safety to the
honor of the n; tron, no safety to the
pockets Of the people. The Demo
; cratic party means reaction; IS the
country ready to take one backward
step? The Democratic party brings
to the front those leaders who, during
nnrS the rebellion were f ht the non m9st is pS,
country ready to support men nov
who were willing to see the country
go to pieces then? We think not; be
cause, morals and humanity aside, the
people cannot afford to do wrong il
politics even in a purely economic
point of view. w..-Inter-Ocean.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

Let US have peace. Ihe ChlcagO
Tribune very pathetically says:
Louisiana wants peace. The whole
country wants peace, and peace must
be had. If it be necessary to have
peace in Louisiana. that the State
should pass out of the hands of the
men who are in office, then let it be
So"
Vicksburg has found peace by
causing the city and county to pass
out of the hands Of the men who are
{were) in Office Peace was bought
with the lives of twenty or thirty
| lazy, worthless negroes" Peace
came on the heels of the resignation
of Republican officials compelled by
mob of Democrats. The magnanimi-
ty of the White Leaguers Of Vicks-
burg to the conquered negroes is beau
tifully exemplitied in the following
peaceful resolution adopted by mass
meeting of Democratic citizens of
Vicksburg:
Resolved, That while we are fully
satisfied that Peter Crosby has caused
armed negroes to march on the city,
and She uld therefore be held mainly
responsible for all the blood that has
been shed, we recommend all good
citizens tosabstain from infictlng any
personal violence upon him. and that
we will use still further efforts TO have
him removed from Office in some legal
manner.
OF course Crosby is responsible for
all the bloodshed, becasue he dared
to hold the office of Sheriff, and be-
cause he dared to protest against
being dispossessed by mob. But
, these magnanimous whites, having
, kicked Crosby out of Office, and hav-
ing slaugb tered twenty or thirty ne
groes because they objected to the
summary style of proceeding, caution
, their fellow assassins against lynching
, Crosby. The country ought to be
, grateful that Crosby's life is to be
spared. But the country should be
prepared to hear next that. with the
! merciful purpose of saving Crosby $
life, he has been placed under guard
. of assassins, taken into the bush and
shot by another party of rescuiing as
, sassins. Meantime, while negroes
! were being shot by the score in and
: around Vicksburg, the Presidents
I solemn declaration of his purpose to
! enforce with rigor' the provisions Of
, the Constitution was being transmitted
' from the Capital to the remotest
e quarters of the land:
/ While remain Executive, all the
f laws of Congress and the provision!
E of the Constitution, including thu
/ amendments added thereto, will b
: enforced with riger
:; 1t is perhaps not out of place to sa.
i that it is now quite evident tha
a neither the Constitution, nor th'
f amendments, nor the laws of Congress
v can be enforced in the commonwealth
/ of Mississippi through the mild infu
Q ence of State papers Inter Ocean.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

The great Hammond, revivalist,
can get up q bigger excitement in
less time than any man on the
continent. He began his work at
Galesburg, ILL.,, Sunday, we believe.
A dispatch this morning says that
the converts are now numbered by
hundreds and are steadily increas-
ing, while the crowds that flock to
hear him are something tremen-
dous.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

The St. Louis journal tells this
story, which will give joy to the heart
of every man who has ever taken a
trunk with him On railroad journey:
"A pleasing incident is told us by
clergyman who has just returned from
a health trip. He relates how bag
gageman on far Western railroad
was SO impelled by the force of habit
that he began to knock around and
kick and jam the trunk of an elephant.
a managerie company having loaded
| the beast on a fat car. The force of
habit in the trunk was also strong and
the heap of blood and bones beside
the track demonstrated that for once
in railroad encounter the trunk had
the best of it. As above remarked,
this incident comes from the lips of a
clergyman lately returned from a
western trip, taken for his health"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16
whisky, Beer and TObaccO-Ntne.
teenths OF the Internal Revenue.

The aggregate collections of Inter-
nal Revenue for the year ending June
Both, 1874, were $102, ga, 1868. The
Commissioners estimate having been
an even hundred millions. The total
receipts from distilled spirits were
$49, ,A4, 600. or nearly one half of the
whole. During the last year 700 dis
.illeries were registered, 665 operated
and 68,805, ,374 gallons Of spirits pro-
duced. The receipts from fermented
liquors, ale, beer, ETC., were $9, ,3O4, ,679,
and the total number OF brewers en-
gagged 2.554. The total receipts from
the manufacture and sale of tobacco,
snuff ahd cigars, in all their forms.
were s33, ,242, ,875,O2.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

Under the law now in force in
New York, when men get drunk in
saloon, and then break all the
glassware in the place, they cannot
be made to pay the damage, as the
seller of the liquor is liable for all
the injury done by the drinker.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

A fellow rushed into office one
morning with the interrogation:
What's the difference between the
mice that have just been eating my
greenbacks and the epistles of Paul?"
All present subsided, and he gasped:
They're both scripchewers!' and
then proceeded to the door.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-16

A most painful sight, one which
moved to tears several ladies who
witnessed it, occurred at hotel in
Portland, day or two since. A fine
ly dressed, gentlemanly appearing
man, stranger in the city, was stop
a bright appearing boy of seven or
eight years of age. The father had
evidently been on protracted de-
bauch, and on the day in question had
come to the dinner table with every
nerve in a quiver and his system
shattered. He had eaten nothing for
day or two, and the little boy, with
plaintive appeals, was urging him to
partake of food. He was so intoxica-
ted that he could not lift his saucer to
his lips, and the child, his little heart
almost bursting with grief, was
obliged to wait upon him as if he were
an infant.
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Brufn and the Shepherd Boy.

Not long since a Swiss shepherd
boy, only fourteen years of age. was
tending flock of sheep among the
hills in Canton Grisons, when a bear
made raid upon the flock, and seized
two of the finest sheep. The courage
Gus little fellow attempted to drive
the bear off by beating him with a
stick, but Bruin turned upon him,
and he was forced to run for his life.
The bear was gaining rapidly upon
him. and there was seemingly no es-
cape. Suddenly the lad bethought
himself of narrow ravine, three hun
dred feet deep, close by, across which
he thought he could leap, while he
hoped the bear would not notice it,
and fall to the bottom. Dashing on
half wild with excitement and dread,
he reached the edge of the precipice,
the bear close at his heels. The chasm
was upward of six feet wide, but the
lad cleared it by desperate bound,
aud landed safely on the opposite side
The bear, as he hoped, did not see
the ravine, ana fell headlone to the
bottom, where, bruised and bleeding
and unable to rise, the shepherd lad
found him.
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Henry Parker, of Dearborn conn
ty, died recently at the age of lO6
years. He was undoubtedly the oldest
man iu the county.
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for the Cure Of Drum.
II

There is curious prescription in
England for the cure of drunkenness,
by which thousands are said to have
been assisted in recovering themselves.
The recipe came into notoriety
through the efforts of John V. Hall,
father of the Rev. Newman Hall and
Captain Vine Hall, commander of
the Great Eastern steamship. He had
fallen into such habitual drunkenness
that his utmost efforts to regain him.
self proved unavailing. At last he
sought the advice of an eminent
physician, who gave him rrescrip-
tion which he followed faithfully for
several months, and at the end of
that time he had lost all desire for
liquors. although he had for many
years been led captive by most de-
basihg appetite. The recipe, which
he afterward published, and by which
so many have been assisted to reform,
is as follows: 'Sulphate of iron. 5
| grains; lnagnesia, 10 grains; pepper
mint water, II grains; spirits Of nut
meg, / drachm; to- be taken twice a
day" The preparation acts as ton
ic and stimulant, and so partly sup
plies the place Of the accustomed
liquor, and prevents that absolute
physicala and moral prostration that
follows a sudden breaking off from the
use of stimulating drinks.
The Spider-JOhnny's Composition
This is an insect that catches file!
in net like a fish. net. but not in the
water. The net is called a web, and
wen it catches dust instead Of flies il
| is cobweb. The spider knoes he i:
ugly, SO he stages agood deal at home
but ugly wimmen goes to church ane
walks in the street more than pretty
but they are both in the same buis
Mss which is trappin. In Californi;
they has spiders that scorns to spin
webs, but goes out and cetches game
like other beasts OF pray. They arr
about the size Of a girl baby, and 10
of pizener. These is tar antulers
When an injin has bit hisself with {
tar antuler he fills his skin full o
wisky and steals blanket to rap his
self in, and hunts a place where hi
body will be most in the way. Thel
he lies down, and if the pizen don
work all at once, he sings the deth
song of the brave, and that mock
him. We was tole this to our hous
by a travler who said he guessed h
knew tarnel site about injins an
tar antulers, though he hadn't neve
been to college. But Uncle Ned h
says it is best to git good edduca
tion first, and then thro in injins an
tarantulars accordin' to taste.