The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-09-22


troit Post
II say, Paddy, that is the worst
looking horse you drive l ever saw.
Why don't you fatten him up?' Fat
him up, is it? Fsix, the poor baste
can hardly carry the little mate that's
on him now" replied Paddy.
The Pomeroy hoy wants to be
informed whether he is to be hung or
pardoned. He doesn't want to plan
any more raids on small boys unless
there is a prospect of his being re-
leased.-Detroit Free Press.
Over forty horses have been stolen
from near Fort Wayne during the
past month, and if the sheriff aud
constable don't gait playing checkers
there won't be an equine lett IN the
county when snow fies.-Detroit Free
Press.
IF you die in Milan you can be done
up IN the most approved style of post
mortem baking That city is about
to make permanent arrangements for
cremation. Grown people. five forms
in-law, gratis.
The celestial of the Pacific slope is
an adept at producing light ten-penDy
pieces. The Chinese is like US, evil
IDENTIFY, in his system of weights, at
least so far as having no seruples
about his penny weights grown.
A man was recently found dead in
Rhode Island with three pairs of
trowsers on. There is reason to be-
.lieve that he succumbcd at the end of
determined struggle to prevent his
wife from wearing the breeches.
It has been suggested that in order
:. to check the depredations of the cler
gymap OF the period upon his flock.
the regular article of diet for the
clergy should be raw onions. Few
| sisters incline fondly to a man who
has been eating onions.-St. Louis
Republican.
| Vindictive men think God il always
| angry. But the glory of the Christian
| religion is that it provides for Gods
/ forgiveness; the glory of the doctrine
| Of forgiveness is that the sinner comes
out with his sin wiped away, to begin
new life with hope and cheerfulness.
People haven't thought much of
Austria since Sadowa. but it may be
mentioned, as SIMPLE little deadly
| news item, that the Kropatchck rifle.
| with which the Austrian, will probably
be armed, 6res fifteen shots in ten
seconds, and has a mechanism with
| two short movements SO simple that
il can be set in motion even by fingers
numbed with cold.
| A man driving a wind broken horse
along Bridge street Saturday, was
| hailed by small boy who inquired if
the horse was for sale. The man
didn't know but he was. wall" oh
served the little rascal, they'd like
to git about such a critter up to the
/ church to blow the organ Sundays"
| Exit small boy-Lowell Journal
Two women have started a barber
| shop in Titusyillc. We saw one wo-
man start a barber-shop once She
| came In with a cowhide in her hand
and said she was going to horsewhip
the man who had been talking about
her; and eight men with towels under
| their cllins and lather on their faces,
| hustled out of the chairs and started
for the back door on a run.-Cincin-
natl Saturday Night.
A returned Enoch Arden was tear
| ing around and railing at q Christian
community that would allow a oman
| to starve nearly to death in the alb
sence of her husband. The truth is
| he left her in the days of hoop-skirts
looking like this o, aud on his return
found her pinned back and looking
| like this !! The impression that she
had starved was Observation-Disclosures
Sentinel. Fe.-as7a
The young lady who went into the
country making hay, with intent to be
a Maud Muller, has come home again.
The only judge she saw was a judge
of whisky and he was SO far gone that
a glass of water would have struck
him detd. But the skin is peeling off
her face with sunburn, her nose il
/ like banana, and she has the most
beautiful pair of swelled feet you ever
heard of.-Inter-Ocean-
Say. mister said soiled looking
boy on the wharf. do you ever give
| piece o watermelon to roor boz
whose father'n mothers both dead, \
who goes to Sunday school, n has got
a sore heel? The man Was deeply
touched and gave him large slice of
a rotten one.
Commenting on the Mississip,si
| massacre, the Cincinnati ENQUIRE
says:
The massacre and all that fol
lows, was the result of negro mar
shal of a negro town attempting to
take bottle of whisky from some
young white men, who had it on the
grounds for their own use, at a negro
political meeting. Such
events could not happen without ret
ribution. and it led to bloody retail
alton. The whites gathered together
and shot and killed many negroes.
This might have been expected.
Anywhere in the North, with the
same provocation. there would have
been the same result.
The Enquirer understands the true
inwardness of Democracy. Openins
bombshell with a red-ho poker or
robbiDg a lioness of her young is
child Is play compared with attemptinc
to take a bottle of whisky from q
Democrat. The negroes will learn
Al II