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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
susan b. Anthony.

Can any of you gentlemen tell what
the 'B stands for in Susan b. An
thongs name?-St. Louis Republican
We never knew a bee to stand for
anything. They are always buzzing
about, too busy to stand or sit.-Rum-
nellsburg Demonstration
Az the "B" is after Susan, perhaps
it wants TO extract honey from her
iips.-Christian Observer.
But as the 'B' is before Anthony,
what can it be for?-Continental Dam
Builders Organ.
Perhaps it is to mark Anthony
Bungtown Banner.
IF that 'B" has been after SusaI
all her life, and we knew the longev-
ity of bees-but that may be going toe
far;rHaTper's +, Bazar,
perative mood, and command is ut
tered in this shape: Susan be An
thony, and never be anything else
Educational Journal
Perhaps the 'B" was intended to
show her abee -lity to sing.-The Scots
man.
Why don't you 60 to the lady's
grandmother and get the facts Of the
case?-Evangelist.
Katie King informs me that Susan's
maiden name was Brown, and that she
was once married to a Mr.. Anthony,
of Rome, who deserted her for col
ored girl called Cleopatra.-Robt. Dale
Owen.
1t is believed in Brooklyn that
Theodore Tilton is responsible for
that B. When somebody told her tc
get up out of his .lap, he remarked:
Let Susan B!-Brooklyn Eagle.
1t is an old saying, concerning
man who is fighty, that he has bee
in his bonnet, but this. of course, has
nothing to do with the question
chronological Record.
The Globe prints these opinions to
show what a vast amount of misfor-
tune can exist concerning simple
matter. 1t is consoling to know that
Susan Il. will continue to be long af-
ter these editorial bees have ceased to
buzz. The b. in her middle name,
according to the inscription on the
Moabite stone-but we cant think of
it just at this minute.-Boston Globe.
ton is in such a muddle. Gentlemen,
you all mistake the point. The young
lady was dissatisfied with plain Susan,
duu WISNC0 " - &Autuouy. uc
popularity of this particular B" is
that it is B-forc Anthony, Blind Su-
san and b tween both To effectually
dispose of this important question we
suggest that it be referred 70 the next
North American Bee Keepers Con-
vention Pittsburg Chronicle.
If You will let Susan "B," gentle
men, she will still ''B" Anthony,
which might ''B" more congenial to
her tastes than "B"-ing Bennett.
Brown. Beecher. or any other man.
Perhaps not ot-McKeesport (Penn)
Times.
We are satisfied to let Susan B. An
thony as long as she desires. She has
probably solved the question of ''To
be, or not to be" in her own way, Ions
sincc.-DetroitC Commercial Advertiser
Never a B. has bothered the brains
of our brethren like unto this B be-
tween Susan and Anthony. To ac-
count for its being there, we suppose,
like the author OF Genesis commences
sacred history, it got there s'in the be-
ginning" because she was so B-witch-
ing when Gttle.-Richmond Palladi-
nm.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

There was scene lately enacted in
a court room at Mons, Belgium, which
would have delighted White League
man. The accused considered him
self insulted by the prosecuting attor-
ney, and drawing a revolver pointed it
at him. The attorney left. The pis-
tol was in succession deliberately
pointed at the judge, jury, and specta-
tors, all of whom followed the exam
pie of the attorney. Then the accused
left, and has never returned.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
A Good Wife,

.?Rov. XI-16v. A gracious woman
retaineth honour; and strong men re-
tain riches.
XII-4v. A virtuous woman is a
crown to her husband; but she that
maketh ashamed is as rottenness in
his bones.
XIV-1v. Every wise woman build
eth her house; but the foolish pluck
eth it down with her hands.
XIX-14v. House and riches are
the inheritance of fathers; and a pru-
dent wife is from the Lord
XXXI-16v. She considereth a
field and buyeth it; with the fruit of
her hands she planteth vineyard.
17v. She girdeth her loins with
strength. and strengtheneth her arms.
18v. She perceiveth that her mer-
chandise is good; her candle goeth not
out by night.
20v. She stretcheth out her hand
to the floor; yea she reacheth forth
her hands to the needy.
25v. Strength and honour are her
clothing; and she shall rejoice in time
to come.
26v. She openeth her mouth with
wisdom; and in her tongue is the law
of kindness.
27v. She looketh we'll to the ways
of her household. and eateth not the
bread of idleness
28v. Her children arise up and call
her blessed; her husband also, and he
praiseih her.
29v. Many daughters have done
virtuously, out thou excellest them
all.
3Ov Favour is deceitful. aud
beauty is vain; but a woman that fear
eth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Civ. Give her of the fruit of her
hands; and let her own works praise
her in the gates. a.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
why She Wa. Happy.

Two ladies met on Woodward
avenue, Detroit, the other day, and
one inquired of the other:
"Why, you look very happy this
morning. What's happened?"
'tOh! I've just been having my
fortune told" was the reply, s.and
the woman says I'm to marry twice
more, have diamonds and camel's
hair shawl, and that can go to
the opera six nights in q week if I
want to-" 4n @
Dear me, I don't wonder that
you are happy. But you won't say
anything to your husband!"
''Oh, of course not. Poor man!
He's good to me, and it might hurt
his feelings to know that I'm going
to marry twice more. 1 think Til
tell him that TIM likely to dio first"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

One of those crimes which the law
has been powerless to prevent is that
of selling whisky to the Indians.
Traders have always found some means
Of evading all regulations to prevent
them fron supplying the red man
with his favorite fire water" Some
how the heavy penalties have been
easily evaded, and Lo has been abla
to get tight whenever be can get a
mink-skin to trade for whisky. In
view of this bad state of the case, the
Committee of the House on Indian
Affairs have agreed to report bill
still more stringent, in the hone that
this vile traffic may be exterminated.
We are fearful that it will not sue
ceed. Between the greed of the aver
age Indian trader and the appetite Of
the race of "the untutored mind y
there is little chance for either law or
gospel to make any favorable change
in this direction.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

''One of the pleasapte-t sights in
human nature, remarked Bijah as he
sat down, rs too'-He rose up sud
denly. became very red in the face.
and a he held an eight ounce tack up
IN his 6n GERS he hoarseiy whispered ::
Show me he wretch who sot me
dOwn on tn ere tack y There was
al aw u stiffness Some of the loaf
ers looked straight at the wall ahead.
and others looked down. while the
boys turned pale and crowded back
against the partition. Never mini, !"
continued the old man: Justice sleeps
.bnt never dies. I'll live hundred
years but what I'll have blood for
this 1!
The last captive brought out was
Jacob Hauser. You don't feel well
this morning. l see,' remarked his
Honor, as he took square look at
the prisoner
No, I'm pretty near gone,' sighed
Jacob.
=. Is i. eonss,u9mption. asthma. insan-
Yes, I think So"
DO you have pains in the head. hot
hushes, back ache, cold sweats,
nervous feeling, and loss of appe-
tite 2"
Yes, do, replied Jacob, blowing
his nose softly.
Can sleep niehts-no ambition to
run for office, don't care a cent wheth-
er schools keep or not p
'Them's the symptoms, answered
Jacob.
oh! we'll you can 60. IF should
send you to the House of Correction
and you should die there of Charles
Summers ailment or Napoleon's dis
ease. I'd never feel like buying an
Bijah said that was all, and the
driver of the Black Maria rushed his
vehicle around on gallop, and the
boys formed a circle, took off their
hats and Gang:
Fun and sadness mixed together,
Tears of woe and smiles OF hope;
Some get of, and some are boosted
Better stay outside the rope.
-TDetroit Free Press.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The Seymour Times says: I'll
there is any trash more fat, stale and
Improbable, than the proceedings OF
these teachers institutes we have
never seen it in print. These pro-
ceedings consist of fulsom eulogies
and compliments passed upon one an
other and the beautiful system OF
education, of which these teachers are
the ungrammatical lights" Without
endorsing this the Madison Courier
respectfully refers the criticism to the
teachers for their consideration.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The publishers of the Terre
Haute newspapers have entered
into an agreement not to publish
any legal notice of any kind, except
sheriffs sales, unless the cash &C
companies the advertisement, and
to forfeit the SUM of 500 for everv
violation Of the contract.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The Kansas State Relief Com
mittee authorize the announcement
that most of the leading railroads
have given notice that they will no
longer carry relief goods consigned
to individuals without the payment
Of freight at regular rates.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
the w.ND sroRM.

1t began in the morning at six, k
To blow with terrible force;
1t went back TO the enc, of the world
To get a good start in its course
1t came down like the wolves on the fold
With incredible speed; Ideclare
stone columns of buildings were bent,
And corner lots blown out OF square.
I'm sure that there never was seen
So much wind in the weather before;
II warped every well in the town,
And blew your teeth out by the score.
In walking down street, you would go
AT the rate of some miles in a minute;
Twas the thickest wind ever was known,
With never a shower to thin it.
1t blew the land off of the fields,
And the country it filled with alarms,
And the farmers next day with sad hearts
Went hunting around for their farms,
It blew the dirt clean from your face,
But it shoveIed it into your eyes;
In q minute 1T took Off our freckles
In a way that occasionea surprise.
The sunshine was blown from the streets,
The smallpox was blown out of town;
Mems words were carried much further
Than ever their words had been known.
It blew your ears clean from your head,
And the buttons clear off of your vest;
The armament darkened with hats,
And the point of the compass stood west.
1t blew the day back quite a week,
Disarranging all business affairs,
And people grew mad at the way
The weather was putting on airs.
It blew your boots Off of your feet,
And whistle it made of your nose;
It blew your debts out of your mind,
And the grease spots clear out of your
clothes.
You couldn't walk out without taking,
A club 10 keep the wind off,
And you had to hold fast to your head,
Or it would have gone sure enough.
'Tis surely an ill wind that blows
Nobody good fortune, they say;
Five men are at work on my roof,
And are making four dollars day.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The Superintendent of Springdale
Cemetery reports the eartl, frozen
harder and deeper down from the sur
face than he has known it during the
last twenty-five winters he has had
charge of the cemetery.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The Centreville Chronicle saws: "a
Mr. Pierson. of Indianapolis, has con-
tracted for the J. B. Julian property
in this place. We understand that he
intends building wafer cure estab-
lishment. We sincerely hope he NAV
accomplish the feat, as there is no
better place for it."
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
LET ALI, THE ENDS THOU AIMST AT, BE THY GODS THY
WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, MICH 3.
Washington Dispatch to the Clevelal
Leader


The Democrats are alarmed and
have decided upon another grave con-
sultation. Governor Hendricks. An
drew johnson, George III. Pendleton
and others have been telegraphed to
come and consult as to the propriety
of defeating the appropriation bills
and forcing an extra session of Con-
gress, under the pretense of guarding
AGAINST carrying out the suggestion oil
the Presidents Arkansas message.
The real cause of the consultation is.
however. alarm at the harmony in the
Republican ranks and the increased
backb bone of Republican leaders. Sen
ator Thurman, Fernando Wood, and
other Democratic leaders are terribly
alarmed at the certainty of the Re-
publican victory in 1876, hence the
teicgraphing for absent comrades for
a council of war.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The Indianapolis Journal settles
the sensation of the amiable spinster
correspondent of the Commercial
thusly: The law Of 1852 regulating
marriage, is either valid or invalid.
If invalid, it could not repeal the law
of 1S43, and that enactment must still
be in force, so they are all right any
way."
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03
Business Rivalry in Geerssa.

A singular story is this from the
Columbia GA. Sun. There aretwo
houses on upper Oglethorp street.
Business need not be mentioned.
One is more prosperous than the
other. The least successful hired
an old woman, who is reported to
be a conjurer. bringer on of good
or bad luck. as the case may be.
who WAS to cast ,lown the rival
and lift mp the employer. So she
goes to work and gets some ear.l,
from the graveyard mixes. it With
some kind of white powder. ard
throws it into the front yard. Tie
only result thus far is the killing nf
verbena. The branch. uf a
China tree which grew in one lot
overhung the house Of the other.
Some of the berries were gathered,
boiled with peculiar roots, incan
tations muttered and the rnt ss
thrown into the yard W.. a.e told
that this. nonsensical as it appears.
has really happened in Columbus.
We didn't think that ignorance
and superstition could extend that
far in our city. If bad and good
luck does come oi this, the hirer
will swear the copiuration was the
cause"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The President has appointed ex
Senator Thayer of Nebraska. to be
Governor of Wyoming, vice Jno.
A. Campbell, who is appointed
third Assistant Secretary Of State.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

1t has been clearly shown that the
result of the system is an annual loss
of not less than four millions of dol
lars, and that its convenience to the
public is no compensation for the
great expense to the National Treas
ury. 1t is, moreover, unfair and un-
just to tax the people at large for the
benefit of the citizens of eighty-seven
cities.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The Detroit Free Press asks, if Mr..
Bereh can send man to Jail for three
months for killing mad cat, we'd
like to know what he can do to boy
who feeds marbles to parrot?
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

The old time trotter, Flora
Temple, is still alive and, perhaps,
kicking. She is over 80 years old.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

Billiard tables have been intro.
duced into the gymnasium at
Princeton College.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

What is it which has a mouth
and never speaks, and a bed and
never sleeps? A river.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

A Chester county EPa FARM
killed a aChester white hog, weighing
LOST pounds i've weight, ami 964
pounds dressed.
A correspondent of the New
York Times reports q production
of 24O pounds of butter in eight
months from one COW without extra
feeding.
Coal tar, in which stone lime
had been mixed, freely swabbed on
birch, maple, and elm fence y SIS,
set out by F. r Elliott. in 1852.
was followed by these posts remain
ing sound for twenty years.
The Kansas Farmer recommends
that The meeting of the Kansas
State Grange be deferred one year
on account of the hard times in
that State. believing the executive
committee can transact all business
necessary to be done.
Wind sucking is habit arising
from the animal being confined in
the stable, without sufficient exer.
else. The only remedy is broad
leather strap buckled around the
throat tight enough to prevent
bending the neck.
Four "toddies'' down a mans
throat these cold days won warm
a man half 80 much as a single hot
punch on the nose
You may kindly guide the
prancing steed to the chrystaI
brook which babbles down the hill
side in the summer sun, but yo,,
can not eoerce him to stop and
slake his thirst in the silyery
stream if he be not willing to accept
your proffered kindness.
The State Librarian Of Ohio
hadn't been dead a week before
eighty two people asked to be his
successor.
Amateur gentleman saws an
old lady. lis pretty good descrip-
ton Of a certain class of young
men,"
The Ohio Legislature has amend
ed the liquor sale bill. SO as to
require ten days notice to tho cor
poration clerk before bringing an
action against q dealer.
The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks
that it is mistake to suppose that
education alone. unless j. embraces
some speciality. fits the possesscr
to secure the prize for which men
contend; and it thinks, furthermore.
that it could hire ten thousand
thoroughly educated men in t,e
United States at the present time
to work for $50 month. b:,t it
couldn t hire mechanics Tar thai
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

Five HumOre0 EmOuSaDO ears ago.
| The Nation condenses from an
English scientific periodical, some in
teresting specnlations from DR.. Alfred
Russell Wallace of the probable an
tiquity of the human species. They
may we'll startle. it says, even those
who have long since come to the con-
clusion that 5000 years carry us but
| a small way back to the original home.
! In fact DR.. Wallace's 5000 years are
, but as day He reviews the curious
attempt to determine the antiquity Of
human remains or works of art, and
finds the bronze age in Europe to have
| been pretty accurately fixed at 3 900
or 1900 years ago, the stone age OF
the Swiss lake dwellings at 5000 to
1000 years. ''and an indefinite anterior
period" The burnt brick found sixty
feet deep in the fine alluvium indi-
Gates an antiquity of 20 600 years: an
other fragment at seventy-two feet
gives 30,tOO years. A human skele
ton found at the depth OF sixteen feet
below four hundred buried forests
superposed upon each other, has been
calculated by DIR. Dawel to have an
antiquity Of $4,000 years. But all
these estimates are pale before those
WHICH hent 3 Tavern at 1TOQudy lcSu
innate Here the drip of the stalag-
mite is the chief factor of our compu-
tatiops, giving us an VI per floor which
divides the relics of the last two or
three thousand years from a deposit
of the bone of an extinct mammallia
and glutton, indicating an arctic eli
mate. Names cut in the stalagmite
more than 1000 years ago are legible
in other words, where the stalag-
mite is twelve inches thick and the
drip very copious, not more than a
hundredth of foot has been deposit
ted in two CENTURIES rate of five
feet in 10000 years. Below this. how.
ever, we have thick, much older. and
crystalline (i. e., more slowly formed)
stalagnlite, beneath which again, in
solid brecia very different from the
cave earth; undoubted works of art
having been found" Mr. Wallace
assumes only 100, O,OOO years for the up
per floor, 1000 for the immediate
cave earth by which he arrives at the
sum of half million years that have
probably elapsed since human work
manship were buried in the depth of
Kent's Cavern"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

TERRE HAUTE, February 24.-The
Wabash has risen fourteen feet in
twenty-four hours The steamers
Young America and Elk lying here
were swept down by the pressure of
the floating ice. The Young America
was caught six miles below in badly
damaged condition, and the Elk is
supposed to be lost. The steamer
Dolly Warden was sunk at her landing
BY the ice; A barge. belonging to the
Prairie City, was sunk. No lives
were lost.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

Rosters. says Josh Billings. are
the pugiiists among birds, and, having
ns suitable shoulder tn strike from,
they .trike from the heel. When a
rooster gits whipped, the hens all
msrch of with the other rooster, # he
amt haff so big or so hansum. 1t is
pluck that wins hen. Roosters, az
a class, won do emmy household work;
you kan git rooster tn pav emmy at
tention tew young oae. They spend
mast of their time growing aud
strutting, and ono, ID while they
find worm, which they make a great
fuss over. calling their wives up from
a distance. apparently to treat them,
but jist az the hens git thare. this
elegant cuss bends over aud gobbles
up the worm. Jist like man for all
the woridl
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-03-03

Kentucky, near Evansville; abolishins
the free bank department in the State
Auditors office; House bill incorpor-
ating bridge company at Evansville.
A committee was appointed to in
quire what legislation is needed to re
invest in the State titles to swamp
lands conveyed by Congress under the
act OF 1855, given to Indiana and other
States for the purpose of reclaiming
them by draining - SCI aa
HoUsE.-The House passed the
Senate bill, allowing the adoption Of
children, inmates Of reformatory in
stitrtions. without consent of parents.
Also the bill preventing the sale OF
deadly weapons to minors. @
The Wolf Lake Harbor bill was
taken up, vote reconsidered and laid
ON table .Tnes
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-08-19
AnecGote Of Mrs. Siddons:

The following amusing anecdote is
from Frances Anne Kcmblc's rcmin'
iscenses of her own childhood, the first
chapter of which appears in the At
lantic Monthly for August:
My next malefaction were met
with an infiction Of bread and water
which I joyfully accepted, observing.
Now l am like these poor dear
French prisoners that every body
pities.' Mrs. Siddons ut that time
lived next door to US; shecamc in one
day when l had committed some o.
of my daily offences against manners
or morals, and l was led, nothing
daunted, into her presence, to be ad'
monished by her.
Melpomene took me upon her lap:
and, bending upon me her controls
ing frown," discoursed to me OF my
evil ways in those accents which
curled the blood of the poor shopman
of whom she demanded if the printed
calico she purchased of him would
wash" The tragic tones pausing, II
the midst of the impressed and I'M
pressivc silence Of the assembled fam
lily, l tinkled' forth: "What bcautl'
full eyes you haye!" all my small FAC
ulties haze been absorbed in the
steadfast upward gaze 1 fixed upon
those magnificent orbs. Mrs. Sid
Gons set me down with a smothcrcd
laugh, and trotted off, apparently
uninjured by my great annt's solemn
moral suasion.
A dangerous appeal Of 4 higher or
der being made to me by my aunt>
most intimate friend, Mrs. F-,no;
very judicious persons, to the effect
Fanny, why don't YOU pray to God tc
make YOU BETTER" Immediately re
ceivcd the conclusive reply: so l do
and he makes me worse" Parent:
and guardians should be chary o
handling the deep chords upon whose
truth and strength the highest har
monies of the fully developed sou.
are to depend.