The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-11-25

cures, equalizing pay, etc. The plan
includes all the Offices where the free
delivery system prevails.
The Oregon Legislature has passed
stringent act against gambling, one
of the clauses of which provides that
person losing money at the gaming
table shall have the right to recover
by law to the value of twice the
amount of his loss.
The Salt Lake City News is hope
full that change of the political com
plexion of Congress will work to the
benefit of the Mormons. 1t probably
thinks a sympathetic feeling will lead
the Democracy to deal lightly with
the twin relic.
When Paradise Lost" was pub
lished, the celebrated Waller wrote
this passage: THE old blind school
master, John Milton, hath published
tedious poem ON the fall of man; If
its length be not considered as merit,
it hath no other"
The docket for the November terra
of the Supreme Court is out There
are pending in the court S25 cases, az
increase of seventy-fve since the be-
ginning of the May term. The No
vember term commences ON the fourth
Monday in November, with the Hon
Samuel H. Buskirk Chief Justice.
A wise business man will get peo-
pie in the habit of reading and be-
lieving his advertisements if he only
advertises truthfully and makes his
offers good. No one should patro-
nize merchants who don't trade.
through the columns of their home
paper.
A pouting bride, on her first sea
voyage, writes home: The motion Of
a screw steamer is like riding gigan-
tic camel that has the heart disease,
and you do not miss single throb. T
know of nothing to compare with it
for boredom.
If the times are hard stop your pa
per. but do not shorten your allow.
ance for whisky or tobacco. A good
paper in family is great comfort to
the wife and children, but that is no
reason why you should provide them
with weekly luxury at the expense
of daily necessity.
An unknown tramp was recently
found hanging, head downward, on
the fence OF a cemetery in Uxbridge,
Mass. His foot had caught between
the pickets, and he had been unable
to extricate himself. The horrors of
such death, at such time and place
are unpleasant to contemplate
The York and Scottish Rite Masons
cordially united at Cincinnati. on
Sunday, in a reception rendered Hon.
Josiah H. Drummond, Sovereign
Grand Commander, of the order.
This determination of the two rites
was regarded with great satisfaction
by the members of both, as seeming
to indicate the breaking down of all
barriers to perfect brotherly feel
ing.
The Arkansas question will be lett
for Congress to deal with. The revo-
lutionists have repudiated the Consti-
tuition under which Arkansas was re-
stored to normal relations with the
Federal Government, and set up one
of their own in defiance of the terms
of reconstruction. Aside from this
peculiar feature of the case, which is
without precedent, the whole proceed
ing of the Garland party is without
legal warrant or equitable justitica-
ton.
1t was in a Massachusetts village
that an old scissors grinder, calling
on minister, made the usual query
ANY scissors to grind?' Receiving {
negative reply, it was the minister
turn, which he took by asking, Arr
you man of God?' Il do not under
stand you. Are you prepared t.
die?' The question struck home
Gathering up his kit and scramblins
for the door, he exclaimed. terror
stricken: 20 Lor'! 0 Lor! you ain
a going to kill me, are your
A Gentleman well posted says tina
the times will be harder in Jefferson
vile for the next six months thar
they have been at any time within
year. Last winter, when the pani
came on, mechanics and laboring mel
had had prosperous summer. an,
with the work they managed to secur
during the winter kept afoat. Thi
year the laborlng classes commence
idle. in manner, since last spring
What large number of worthy me
chanics are to do to make a liviD,
this winter is problem as yet unsolv
ed.
A young girl in Paris, named Mar
, guerite Belief, who had been unfortu
J nate in love affair, resolved to rom
!, NIT suicide. Before going to bed sh
filled Ler chamber with the mos
odorous flowers, and having complete
ly closed the room, covered up he
: head and went to sleep. She wa
found in an unconscious state abou
: noon the next day, and although b
great medical skill she was recalled t
life, her reason had fed She in
AGNES she has been transported t
the kingdom of flowers and has becom
] a marigold II remember that
| loved buttercup,' she murmuret
but he has gone away"
! A sad accident occurred at Sout
] Bend ON Saturday last, whereby tw
: men were instantly killed, anothe
probably fatally and three others sc
T riously injured The casualty hal
q pened through the falling of a sectio
: of one of the walls of the wagon work
of the Studebaker Brothers, in pre-
6 cess of construction. The wall w
. undermined by ditch excavated f
j sewer pipes. The men killed were
+ the ditch. They were not seriousl
y bruised, and appeared to have die
. from suffocation. a meeting of m,
= chanics and laborers assembled yet
. terday at the Opera House, passe
: resolutions of coincidence, and mac
= ARRANGEMENTS to raise relief fun
% for the benefit of the sufferers.
- The annual report of the Con
It missioner of Internal Revenu
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