The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-09

delicacies of the season, together with
the more substantials, will be served
in the very best style. Come one,
come all. Admission free. Supper
80 cts.
The total State debt of Indiana on
the 31st of October was So, on ,53S 81
There are now over 10000 grangers
in this State.
The difficulty between China and
Japan has been settled without re-
| sort to arms.
Seven persons by the name of Viii
liams will strive to catch the Speak
er's eye in the new Congress.
Jerry Blacks idea of Democratic
duty is to put the amendments thro'
gradual course of extinction"
Gov. Hendricks has appointed Hon.
VIM S. Holman as the Indiana Trus
tee of the Antietam National Gene
terry.
Mrs Oren has managed the State
Library at an expense to the State of
only 5000 year. Her predecessor
made the expense S32, 900.
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York,
died suddenly on Monday week. He
was elected Mayor on the reform plat
form.
The Fl. Wayne Gazette and one or
4no ~ a, have boo.
ing the nomination Of Gen. j. p. G..
Shanks as Republican candidate for
Vice-President.
Merciful powers! Dave Gooding,
OF Hancock. announces himself a can
didate for United States Senator. Is
there to be no end to this madness?
Among the Senatorial possibilities
of the winter are: Israel Washburn,
of Maine; Cad. G. Washburn, of Wis
consin, and William d. Washburn, of
Minnesota.
The Legislature of Indiana will CON
vene at indianapolis on Thursday
after the first Monday in January
The session is limited by the Consti-
tuition of the State to sixty days.
McEnery, of Louisiana, has been
summoned to Washington before the
I Congressional Committee, and order
ed to produce the returns of the cleo
| tion.of 1872, which are supposed to
be in safe in Baltimore.
The Knoxville Chronicle says the
programme of the Tennessee Demo-
Gratis is to elect Governor John G.
Brown to the United States Senate,
''out Of sheer spite to Andrew John
! SON.
At Connersville, Ind, Hon. George
W. Julian is thought to be the most
available candidate for United States
Senator from this State. Bourbon
Democrats endorse him for honesty,
and always having been at the head of
the people in urging reform.
Spain knows how to do a pretty
thing when she has mind to. She
has Just appointed CASTELAR, to repre-
sent the government at our Centennial
celebration. Of all men in Spain Cas-
telar will be most welcome in America,
and We might say without extrava-
gance, that of all nations, Spain, per-
haps more than any other, OUGHT to
be remembered by our people in 1876.
| When called upon to be particularly
belligerent toward that old govern
ment it would be well enough to call
to mind her conduct toward us dur
ing the revolution, and be patient.
The long struggle for the possess
ing of the Fl. Wayne, Muncie & Gin
cinnati Railroad by the first mortgage
bond holders and officials, resulted on
Monday, November. 23d, in the de-
feat OF the latter. Judge Kibbey, of
Richmond, gave his decision continu-
ing the Receivership. From this de-
cision there is no appeal, and the Re-
ceivers will at once conduct the bust
ness in the interests of the bond hold
ers. 1t is likely that in short time
the road will be sold to satisfy the
claim Of the holders of the first mort
gage bonds.
The London Times, reviewing at
length the cause of the Democratic
success in this country, finds them
comprised in IAN unreasonable Gis-
satisfaction because miracles have not
been wrought (by the Republicans
and an unequally unreasonable appre :
hension of evils which have been con
iured up under the name of Caesar
ism !"
A Georgia paper says the combined
weight Of the entire nine members of
Congress just elected in that State
will not amount to 900 pounds avoir-
dupois. And it might very pertinently
have added that the intellectual pom
derosity of the delegation was of a
still more feathery and gossamar-like
character.-Pittsburg Commercial.
The parade of Knights Templar Dec
4, was a grand affair. The buildings
along the line of march were decorat.
ed with national flags and banners
and the streets scrowded with specta.
tors. The prize offered by the Loui.
siana Jockey Club for the best drilled
and disappearing company was award
ed to st. Louis Commandery, No. l.
The late election in Louisiana re-
vealed the fact that more than three
fourths of the voters in that State
cannot write their names. OF course
says the New Orleans Picayune. the
large majority Of this illiteracy be-
longs to the negroes, but in some sec
| tions of the counfrv tho whites ,,.E,