The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-30
STATE NEWS.

Cholera Is declmatlng the porkerS
in Clinton county.
A postofficc will soon be established
at Forrest, Clinton county.
Four prisoners escaped from the
Fountain County jail on Monday
night.
The hog crop of Wayne County is
estimated to be worth 100000.
The Crusaders oil Laporto ere deter
mined to fight it out on that line if il
takes all winter. .rr,r
The treasury of the city of Evans
vile is in state Of utter collapse,
and does not contain a cent.
What has become Of the Benton
County Herald? The Oxford Tri-
bune claims to be the only paper
published in Benton county.
Logansport has abolished the day
police. The City Marshal will here
alter constitute the only guardian Of
the municipal peace and dignity be-
tween sunrise and evening.
Half-past six clock is the rather
inconveniently early hour in the
evening adopt d by the, Terre Haute
highwaymen ior pursuing their call
ing in the public Streets
Wabash County contributes three
self-sacrifcing citizens to the numer-
Gus class who are willing. in ease of
emergency, to serve as doorkeepers in
the House of RepreSe ntatives.
A railroad from kokGno to Wa
bash is projected, which, in addition
to other more material benefits, would
shorten the distance between Indi-
annapolis and Fort Wayne.
The Lafayette Journal says Mr..
Aylward is the only person in Laiay-
cite engaged in packing dead hogs,
unmindful of the fact that porkers are
usually in that condition when
packed.
The inventive genius displayed by
the juvenile thieves ofTerre Haute is
something remarkable. Recently two
of them were discovered playfully
throwing each others hats down a
cellar way OF course it was neces-
sary to enter the cellar to regain pos
session OF the hats, and the easiest
thing imaginable to purloin such ar
ticlcs as We're found lying around
loose.
.Vigo County boasts Of a citizen who
is a practical school teach II, superin-
tendcnt of a Sunday school, road su-
pcryisor. school director, an officer in
the grange. !: grocer and provision
| merchant teacher of music, a tele-
graph operator, blacksmith, wag-
| on maker, an amateur printer and
spiritual medium 1t is perhaps UNI
necessary to state that he was former
| ly sewing machine agent.
The editor OF the Gosport Tribune
has got EN- bad, and the way he does
rave about women Of questionable
virtue who make night hideous
with their horrid orgies is a severe
tax upon the English language 1t
is said that some poor, demented
creature has really taken up her resi-
dence in Gosport, and that Coorer's
virtue, being of a susceptible kind, is
actually In imminent danger.
Tcrre Hautc has prominent citi-
zen who is the father OF large family
of girls, all of the most rigid respecta-
! bility5 save one. and her only failing is
| an uncomfortable appetite Tor liquor.
The pi'iable spectacle was presented
upon the street few evenings since of
this more unfortunate than shining
young woman being conducted home
by a policeman and her sister. in
state of helpless intoxicat,on.
| Two new suits, growing out of tie
| old New York ring operations, have
teen begun, to recover s525 900 for
the city.
N. R. Harper, colored lawyer of
Louisville, has sued the Louisville
| Commercial for libel, laying his DANA
ges at $4,000.
An explosion occurred at Bagnall
Hall Colliery, North Staffordshire,
England, on Thursday. Twenty mi
ners were killed.
\ fire in Pittsburs, Thursday
morning. destroyed the American
Garden Variety and Martins Variety
thcatcrs. Loss $25 eco,
The New York Tribune dollar SUBJ
scription tor the relief OF the Kansas
and Nebraska sufferers has reached
81, 500, which has been forwarded.
James Collins, the seducer Of the
girls Werts, of Greensburg. has been
| arrested at his home in Mianlitown,
|
Jail. a5
1t is stated upon apparently good
authority that Mr.. Potter, of New
York, will receive the appointment of
Supervising Architect, vice Mullett.
Mrs. Elizabeth Haldeman, mother
of w. n Haidcman. one of the pro-
prietors of the Couricr-J ournal died
in Louisville, yesterday, in her eighty
fourth year. tse
The suit of Josephine Mansfield
against the estate Of the late James
, Fisk, Jr., to recover the value of two
promissory notes with interest,
amounting altogether to S25, 900, re-
suited in favor Of plaintiff.
The principal topic of conversation
in Delavan, Wis, is rebellion among
the deaf and dumb pupils at the insti-
tute. 1t is rumored that they have
thrcshed their principal and his son.
Alleged cause. unfair treatment of the
pupils.
Paul Boynton, the ''man fish" is
training for his swim acroi s the Eng
lish Channel, from Dover to Calais.
! The shortest will may be perused
in Pennsylvania. This is all of it:
Emily R. Miner is my heir Sarah
| X. Miner"
! Miss Clarissa Johnston, sister of
the Late Gonfednrata Ganoral A lhart