The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-04-21
;houeh I was earnest at times.

though I was earnest at times
Earnestness has no more relation
to anger than noise to eloquence
Neither of us was angry. Nh
Fullerton had duty to do, and dit
it. I had a paramount duty to do
and tried to do it. It was to helI
Mr.. Fullerton to get up all tn
facts in this case; no man in THU
Court desires them to come out sc
much as I. There may be those
who desire it as much as !, but nj
man more SO. 1 want ali of then
to come out, and to come ou
rightly and not obliquely. I have
q good memory for the results o.
things and a bad one for details
just those things on which a law
yer catches you mapping on crost-
examination. get dates on the
wrong side of documents, and the
like, but such things correct them
selves, and 1 have to testify as it ie
in me to do, and in my own way.
I want this trial to go on, land to go
on to the end. The truth will
eventually all work out. / have
nothing in this world to attend to
now but this trial, except my
church work. I am careful not to
let that slacken at all, and do not
mean that it-shall." 4 e. Z.
On Wednesday, April 7th, Rhode
Island held it's State election and
gave the largest Republican major
ity ever given in the State. The
Cincinnati Gazette summarizes as
follows:
We now have the results in three
of the New England States. With
a Republican gain in New Hamp
shire, large Republican gain in
Rhode Island, and the Democrats
barely holding their own in Con-
necticut, as compared with the
election year ago, we may inquire
the whereabouts of that reaction of
the Democratic party, which was
so loudly announced last year.
The Bricklayers Union in Indi-
annapolis have paid out over 5000
this Winter in aiding members out
of employment. According to the
rules of the union the money SO
advanced must be repaid as soon
as the borrower is able to do 50
from his wages. There is $4,000
in the union fund and 400 members
in the union.
Mr. Beecber told Mr. Fullerton
that his observations during the
trial of the ceremony of swearing
on the Bible had caused him to re
fleet on the subject and to prefer
taking the oath with uplifted hand.
Beecher has been something of a
kissing man, but he is not enamored
of kissing Court Bibles.
Treasurer Spinner has received
an autograph letter from the Presi
dent, accepting his resignation as
Treasurer of the United States,
and expressing for the retiring
official the warmest sentiments of
regard personally, together with
high appreciation of his well known
probity, patriotism and official in
tegrity.
The Philadelphia Press copies
from the Florence Italy] Touriste
an extravagant laudation of John
w. Forney, in which he is called
zone of the most eminent represen
tatives of the American press, and
q remarkable specimen of the class
of selfnade men, who are one of
the glories of the United States,
and honor their country in every
branch of art and industry
One of the coolest robberies on
record occurred at Boston last
Wednesday. Two men went into
the Hide and Leather National
Bank in company with several |
who called to collect |
their dividends, and managed to |
take from the Presidents table |
fifty four sheets Of uncut bills, So |
700 in all. The theft was discov-
cred almost Immediately, but the
men had fled.
The London Iron says, "Out of
every hundred seaman who die out
Of the United Kingdom, seventy
Ire drowned. Ten sailors are
drowned daily without legal in
luiry. Upwards of three thousand
houses of the poor are annually
lesolated in this manner without
ct or hindrance from the law
About a thousand of these are
washed overheard or otherwise
ost yearly, without loss of the
vessel, whilst upward of two thous
md are drowned in shipwreck. It
s only bubble Of the law as to
he nom production of the body
which refuses the corpner's aid to
he drowned sailor
The Prussians are about to with
lraw the State grants from the
Bishops. All accounts
rom trustworthy sources show
hat the Bismarck policy of warfare
lpon the pretentions of Rome is
by the overwhelming
majority of the German people.
The dissenters are furious, but
hey are not forcible.
A Scrap of History.
We have been permitted to copy
he following interesting letter ad-
Iressed by the late Chief Justice