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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10
How to Conduct a Cour,.hip.

From the Territorial Enterprise. .
Don't be too sudden about it. Many
a girl has said mo" when she meant
YES" simply because her lover didn't
choose the right time and pop the
question gently.
Take dark night for it, Have the
blinds closed, the curtain down, and
the lamp turned most out Sit near
your little finger into hers. Wait un-
til conversation begins to flag, and
then quietly remark: ~
''Susie, l want to ask you some
thing
She will fdget around little, reply
Ives" and after pause you can add ::
Susie my actions must have shown
that is, you must have-I mean you
must be aware that-that-"
Pause here for a while, but keep
your little finger firmly locked. She
may cough and try to turn the subject
off by asking you how you liked the
circus, but she only does it to encour-
age you. After about ten minutes
you can continue:
II was thinking, as [ came up the
path the other night, that before l
went away [ would ask you-that is,
[ would breach the subject nearest
MY mean | would know my
Stop again and give her hand gen
tie squeeze. She may give a yank to
get it away, or she may not. In either
case it augurs we'll for you. Wait
about FIVE minutes and then go on:
''The past year has been very
happy one, but [ hope that future
years will be still happier. However,
that depends entirely on YOU [ am
here tonight to hear from your own
lips the one sweet"
Wait again 1t isn't best to be too
rash about such things. Give her
plenty of time to recover her compos-
ure, and then put your hand ON your
heart and continue:
"Yes, / thought as | was comi-o
through the gate the other night how
| happy [ had been and said to my
self that if only knew If / was only
| certain that my heart had not de-
ceived me, and you we're ready to
share"
Hold on; there's no hurry about it.
Give the wind a chance to sob and
moan around the gable. This will
make her lonesome and call up all the
love in her heart. When she begins
to cough and grow restless you can 60
on:
Before 1 met you this world was a
desert to me. L didn't take any pleas
ure in going blackberrying and steal
ing rare ripe peaches, and it didn't
matter whether the sun shonc or not.
But what change in one short year
1t is for you to say whether my future
/ shall be Il prairie of happiness or a
summer fallow of Canada thistles.
Speak, .sarest Susie, and say that
| that"
Give her FIVE minutes more by the
clock, and then add:
THAT you will be-that is, that you
wilt mean that F~you will-be
mine p
She will heave sigh, look up at
the clock and over the stove, and then
as she slides her head over your vest
pocket she will whisper:
You are just right will"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10
Flowers.

Flowers, of all created things, are
the most superbly complex playthings
for childhood; ornaments for the
grave, and companions for the cold
corpsel Flowers, beloved by the
wondering idiot, and studied by the
deep thinking man of science! Flow
ers, that increasingly expand to heaven
their grateful and to man their cheer
full looks-partners of human joy
soothers of human sorrow; fit embl1nis
of the victor's triumphs. of the young
brides bushes; welcome to the crowd
ed halls, and graceful upon solitary
graves! Flowers are in the volume of
nature what the expression God is
love" is in the volume of revelation.
What desolate place would be a
world without flowerl 1t would be
as face without a smile-a feast with.
out welcome. Are not flowers the
stars of earth? One cannot look close
ly at the structure of flower without
loving it. They are the emblems and
manifestations Of Gods love to the
creation, and they arc the means and
ninistrations of mans love to his fell
low creatures; for they first awaken
in his mind sense of the beautiful
and good. The very inutility of dow-
ers is their excellence and beauty, for
they lead us to thoughts of generosity
and moral beauty detached from and
superior to all sel6shness; so that they
are pretty lessons in natures book of
instruction, teaching man that he liv-
eth not by bread alone. but hath an
other than animal life
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

There is mystery about the Amer
lean lakes Lake Erie is only 60 or
20 feet deep; but Lake Ontario, which
is 592 feet deep, is go feet below the
tide level of the ocean, or as low as
most parts of the Gulf of St. Law
renee; and the bottoms of Lake HUI
ron, Michigan, and Superior, although
the surface is much higher, are all
from their vast depths on level with
the bottom of Ontario. Now, as the
discharge through the River Detroit.
after allowing for the probable por.
tion carried off by evaporation, does
not appear by any means equal to the
quantity of water which the three up-
per lakes receive, it has been conjec-
tured that subterranean river may
run from Lake Superior, by the HUI
ron, to Lake Ontario. This coniec-
ture is not improbable, and accounts
for the singular fact that salmon and
herring are caught in all the lakes
communicating with the st. Lawrence.
but no others. As the Falls of Mag
ara must have always existed, it would
puzzle the naturalist to say how these
fish got into the upper lakes without
some subtcrranean river; moreover.
any periodical obstruction of the riv-
er would furnish a not improbable So
luton Of the mysterious fux and re-
fux Of the lakes.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10
MONOGRAM HAM,
A RenHiniseenee.

A local correspondent of the Bos-
ton Globe relates this Renaissance of
anti-slavery times: In the year 1S49
or 1850 the Hon. Manlius Sargent,
writing over the signature OF Sigma,
in the Transcript, used in one Of his
articles very deprecatory language to-
ward the Rev. Theodore Parker, be.
cause of his advocacy of the cause of
emancipation. The next day manu-
mitted slave, whose wife and two chill
dren were still held in bondage in
Baltimore. and who had been sent
North with "a letter from their master,
stating that ii the negro could raise
5000 he would free his wife and chill
dren. called at printing Office to have
printed some copies of said letter,
which was itself somewhat iIlegible.
On receiving the copies the man asked
the printer if he could send him to
some benevolent person. That gen.
tleman, who had just read the article
in the Transcript, gave him the ad-
dress of Mr.. Sargent at Armory Hall,
where several wealthy gentlemen had
desks and were accustomed to meet
daily. telling him to say that Mr..
Theodore Parker sent him, with the
request that he would read the letter.
Did Mr.. Parker send you to me?"
said Mr.. Sargent. Yes, SIR" said
the man, who was as ignorant of the
joke intended as he was Of the name
of the party who sent him Well,
let me read it, said MIR. Sargent
Then attaching his name and putting
down S2O-.there, said he. tell Mr.
Parker that l bear the slave no i'll
will, but am as willing to do some
thug for him as he is. But stop," !"
said he, you may come back here at
l o'clock: there will then be three
other old covies here, and l will get
twenty dollars apiece from them" He
did so, and they each responded with
a like sum- The man then called up
on the printer, saying, CORY, Sir,
you can send me to somebody else!"
Mr.. Parker's address was then given
to him, with the remark that Mr.. Sar-
gent had sent him. Mr.. Parker was
surprised to see such names, and, un
der the circumstances, especially that
of Mr.. Sargent, and Immediately gave
him twenty dollars. The printer then
sent him to Wendell Phillips, and the
result of the joke for that day was
$12O. The man subsequently obtain
ed the sum required. and was soon the
legal proprietor of his wife and chill
dren. -
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

Many of our citizens have taken ad-
vantage of the cold weather TO trans
plant large naples from the forest to
the sidewalks in front of their resi-
dences. When the ground is frozen
solidly. by exercising care trees of
large size may be transplanted and
made to live. and thus, at a cost of
from ten to fifteen dollars, a tree may
be secured that it would require
twenty years to grow. In winter
transplanting care should be taken to
select trees from some open pasture
rather than from a dense forest, as
trees that have grown in exposed To-
cations are less lia BILE to be injured by
the hot summer sun. Most of the
trees now being transplanted will die
next summer, if not protected.
Colonel John G. New spent much
money in trees last winter, and lOst the
most of them durin the summer, from
neglect. "A board driven into the
gronud on the southwest side of the
tree, and protecting the trunk from
the fierce rays of the afternoon sun,
will answer the purpose. In trans
planting. though the frozen earth is
removed with the tree, the cutting OF
tue IOots necessarily entdilS OcHcIcuI
circulation OF sap for the first season,
and the southwest sun blisters the
tree on that side, and eventually kills
it. The safest protection, however, is
to make rope of hay or straw and
wind it closely around the trunk up
to the branches. By doing this, and
watering when needed. every tree re-
moved with ordinary care may be
saved,
Indianapolis is famous for its shade
trees, and we are glad to see so many
of our citizens planting more of them.
All who plant this winter will please
remember the advice of the Herald
when the critical time comes.-Ind.
Herald.
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Wa.htnxten t.u.tem..

Many years ago. when David
Crockett was a member of Con yress
and had returned to his constitu-
ents after his first session, ma
ton of them surrounded him one
day. and began to interrogate him
about Washington
ssWhat time do they dine at
Washington, Celonels' asked one.
"Why, said he, common people
such as you here, get their dinners
at one o'clock, but the gentry and
big une dine at three As for the
Representatives. we dine at four;
and the aristocracy and the Senate,
they don't get their victuals till
five"
"Well, when does the President
fodder?' asked another
ssOld Hickory exclaimed the
colonel, attempting to appoint q
time in accordance with the dignity
of the station. <-Old Hickory!
we'll, he don't dine till next day."
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A Couple of SehOOl.Boys' Comp0-
SJt1OmA.

We give below couple of school
boys compositions, said to be just as
written by the boys presenting them.
Here is the first one
JoHNNY's ESSAY ON THE ToDE.''
Todes is like frogs, but more digni-
frogs is wetter. The warts wich todes
is noted for can't be cured, for they is
cronick, but if couldent git wei Ide
stay in the house. My grandfather
knew tode wich some body had
tanned till it was folks. When its
master WISHED it would come for flies.
They cetches 'em with their tung,
wich is some like red werm, but
more like litenin. only litenin haint
got no gum onto it. The fiji will be
standin rubin its hipe legs to gether
and a thinkin wat a fine fl i it is, and
the tode settin some distance away
like it was sleep. Vile you are see-
in the fiji as plane as you ever see any
thing, all to once it amt there. Then
the tode he looks up at you sollem,
out of his eyes, like he said watts be-
come of that fiji? but you kno he ct it.
And this is the other:
WHY DO GO TO SCHOOL
60 to school to learn to read and
rite and sipher and SO forth to slide
on the ice and trade of an old nife il
l have one, In summer to pick wild
flowers and strawberries and to get
out of work hot days, some boys has
to 60 to school and get out of their
mothers road, but / would rather
stay in winter than go to miles and
set by cold stove and freze my tose.
| like to go to school to see the teach
er scold the big girls when they cut
up. some goes to school to fool but l
60 TO study when we are old we cant
60 to school and then we will feel
sorry that we fooled when we was
young and went to school. / don't
get no time to tool any way for l have
enough to do when it comes. to my
geography.-Detroit Commercial Ad-
vertlser.
The Milwaukee News gives its read
ers this bit of reasonable advice:
Getting up in cold room to make a
fire is like getting up in life. II ysu
crawl timidly out of bed, go on tip-toe
to the stove, and allow the shivers to
get control of you before the klndling
starts, your fire will be failure, and
you will probably. half freeze to death
in the operation. But if you jump
out bravely, hustle around, pull on
your clothes, knock over chair or
two, and pitch in the stove wood. you
will probably be too warm by tie time
the fire gets to burning, and you will
have to open a window. So in life.
Attack it timidly and you will fail.
Grapple with it, hurry up things, stir
around. conquer fortune and you will
be success"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

Much excitement prevailed a
mong politicians in Washington ON
receipt of the news announcing the
election of President johnson to
the United States Senate to sue
ceed Brownlow. The Democrats
did not relish the news exhibited
no manifestations of delight at the
sending of johnson to the Senate
The Republicans are far better
pleased than the Democrats, and
express satisfaction that an unre
pentant rebel, who served in the
confederate army was not elected.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

Whatever you try to do in life,
try with all your heart to do well;
whatever you devote yourself to.
devote yourself completely; in
great aims and small be thorough
" in earnest Never believe it
possible that any natural or inn
proved ability can claim immunity
from the companionship of the
steady, plain, hard working quail
ties, and hope to gain it's end.
There is no such thing as such
fulfillment on this earth. Some
happy talent and some fortunate
opportunity may from the two sides
of the ladder on which some men
mount, but the rounds of that lad
der must be made of stuff to stand
wear and tear; and there is no SUBJ
stitute for thorough going. ardent
and sincere earnestness. Never
put one hand to anything on which
you cannot throw your whole self,
never affect depreciation of your
work, whatever it is- These you
will find to be golden rules
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10
DON'T CROWD.

Don't crowd, the world is large enough
For you as well as me;
The doors of all are open wide
The realm of thought is free.
In all earth's places you are right
To chase the best you can
Provided that you do not try
To crowd some other man.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart
By fostering all that's bad.
But give to every virtue ROOM
The best that may be had;
To each days record such one
That you may well be proud;
Give each his right-give each his room,
And never try to crowd.
CHARLES DICKENS
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

YANKToN, January 30-In the
WintermGte case to-day, after argu
ment in behalf of the prisoner, the
court rendered decision dischargine
Wintermute, and then ordering him
in charge of the sheriff to await the
further action of the grand jury.
There is now little prospect that Win
termute will be punished. His friends
are elated and General McCook' s
friends correspondingly depressed.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

A man in Michigan procured a
divorce from his wife, intending to
marry another woman. The latter,
however, got tired waiting and
married another man on the day
the divorce was granted. Then
the fellow hesitated whether or not
to try and make it up with his wife
again, and while he Was hesitating
his wife married another fellow.
This 10 what would be naturally
called getting left ell around.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

A little girl four year old created
q ripple by remarking to the teach
er of her Sunday school class
.'Our dogs dead. 1 bet the angels
was scared when they saw him COM
ing up the walk. He's cross to
strangers. IL Rome Sentinel.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

The Upton Advance. requests, as a
special favor, belief in its story of a
dog taken to Kansas last fall which
recently footed it all the way back to
that county, making the trip in six
weeks. ezg
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

The laws OF Minnesota will not al.
low a man to whip child who is over
sixteen years old, but he can beat his
affectionate spouse as long as he
chooses.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10

Labor troubles have thrown one
hundred and twenty thousand miners
out of work in South Wales. At this
time of a year it is frigid piece of
information.
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STATE NEWS.

Greeneastle homes after an opera
house.
Frankfort is talking of new s16.-
600 church.
Nathaniel Shawcross is Brookville
whisky thief.
The Charlottesville Journal harbors
a wood engraver.
Miss Jenny Tyler is the handsomest
girl in Covington.
Shanklin, of the Evansville Courier,
is seven feet high.
A Congregational church is to be
established in Brazil.
Elder Black is engineering great
revival at Shelburne.
A Upton farmer harvested 8.567
pounds of honey last season.
A Charlottesville blacksmith made
$3.50 in one week shoeing horses.
| Infants of tender age are dropped
like cats in Columbus, as we learn
from the Democrat.
Frank Brewer, fiddler, and as drunk
l
county graveyard.
Mr.. Price, Randolph county. climb
ed over the fence, gun in hand, and
shot himself through the heart.
We suggest to the Crown Point
Register that it won't do The beast
business was played out in Benton
| county.
! Mr.. Burns, of Evansville, under
took to thresh his dog, when that ami
NAL, a large mastiff, mangled his good
right arm.
Nj. D. Emig, lawyer, is fugacious,
and in good request at Columbus,
where he forged 5000 worth of Col.
John A. Keith's name
Lew. Moore, prescription clerk in a
Winchester rummery, has decamped
with his employers horse and buggy.
and 800 in money.
The Wabash Free Trader offered to
| buy arsenic enough for a tramp printer
named Wilson to shuttle of, but he
spurned the proposition.
| In Huntington, Mr.. London didn't
| know it was loaded, and playfully skot
| away the top of his brother in law 9
| head.
jeff Wolfe, OF Liberty, has ''schwore
of, and publishes card warning all
liquor dealers not to sell him any of
| the damnation called liquid.
During the last tive months, I. III.
! Montgomery has purchased 10000
| bushels of corn at Tipton. and paid
out the sum of $15 600 for the same.
Jim McColly. gentle student in a
Jasper county school, caressed his
teacher with brick, cutting open her
scalp and breaking one of her wrists.
The Brazil Miner has the following
apology for a Personal" column just
started by it: well. we have got to
| do it-all of our first -class Indianapo-
lis papers have Personal column,
and we are bound to 10 SO. too. It's
very easy for an Indianapolis editor to
do" up his friends and foes in this
pathetic manner, surrounded as he is
by the elite, wisdom, beauty. fashion,
rumholes, churches, faro banks, assig-
nation houses, chimes and dilapidated
State House of our imperial city; but
in the rural districts, where folks arc
staid, stationary, pious and virtuous,
it is mighty tough at all times to find
enough people sloshing round to justi-
| fy an editorial assault"
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That ardent patriot. Mr.. Kenned,

That ardent patriot, Mr.. Kennedy,
Of Marion, exclaimed eloquently in
WAS wal . Bill Baxter a r'ss when p our fathers
fought, bled and died for our liberties?
He was bounding over the plains with
a red coat on his back, upon the tail
of which you could play marbles, fee
ing from our fathers who were in pur-
suit of the liberties we enjoy" This
is very vivid picture of revolutionary
times, but, considering the fact that
Mr.. Baxter is lame, and is a Quaker,
the scene of his war-like retreat must
be credited entirely to Mr.. Kennedy's
poetic imagination. By the way, the
less said about 'sour forefatkers in
this temperance debate the tetter,
considering that the forefathers Of
more than one class of our citizens
were hired out in the uncongenial pur-
suit of slaughtering the revolutionary
patriots at the rate of shilling day.
State Sentinel Feb. 4.
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Mail rine Table.

Mail Tine Table.
piled from the Chicago 3. r., and the Fl.
Wayne r. R.,sclOses at lO.o0 a. m.
GOING SOUTH Including Cincinnati
and All points beyond, closes at 80 a. q.
3. Including all places supplied from tie
Cincinnati Railroad, 6s0o p. m.
GOING EAST-Including all places sup
piled from the Columbus r. r., AMI
1000 9. m. Via Dayton and Xenia Rail-
road, closes $50 a. m
GOING VEST. Including Indianapolis
and all points beyond, closes 1880 q. nl.;
q same as above, closes 7:50 p. M; B. IN
cluding all points supplied by the lndi.
points west and northwest, closes 500
p. m
To Webster, williamsburg and bioomlngs-
mort on Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, at 200 p. IN.
To Cox5s Mills White Water, Bethel and Ar
ba, on Monday, "Wednesday and Friday,
at 12.0O m.
To Abingdon, Clifton and Liberty, on Nom
day and Friday. at 700 a. M
and College Corner, ON Tuesday and
Friday, at 1880 M
MAILS ARE OPEN
At 500 a. m from Indianapolis and Cincin-
natl and beyond.
At ll.O0 q. m. from CINCINNATI, way and
through mails. ~
At 400 D. m. from East via Columbus Rail-
At 200 D. IN. from North, via Chicago Rail-
road and Fort Wayne Railroad
At 500 d. IA from Indianapolis and beyond.
once open from 7,e0 q. m. to 7-5O p: m.-
On Sunday, from 900 90 N-00 a. M
Dec. 1 1874 b W. DAVIS. r. M.
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The next House of Representatives
will be practically under the control
of ex-rebels, The total number of
this class in the next Congress is said
to be eighty-fre of whom five will be
in the Senate and eighty in the House.
That is to say, out Of 292 members of
the next House, there will be eighty
who either served in the rebel army
or held civil positions under the Con-
federate government. The total
Democratic strength in the next
House, as it now stands, with seven
teen members to be elected in the
spring, is l61: SO that the ex-rebel
members constitute just about one
half of the Democratic strength. No
person at all acquainted with the po.
litical history of the country and with
the aggressive character of Southern
men can doubt that this element will
control the Democratic party and
shape the legislation Of the next
House As all appropriation bills
and bills for raising revenue must
originate in the House of Represen-
tatives, these men will hold the purse
strings and control the finances of the
goyernment-Ind.J Journal
The Smithsonian Institution has
received an ocean telegram announc-
ing the discovery of new planet at
Berlin, in right ascension twenty
three degrees; declination eighteen
degrees twenty-slx minutes north,
twelfth magnitude.
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As soon as discovered, take some
spirits of turpentlne. in cup, dip the
finger in it, and then hold the hand
near a hot fire till dry; then dip it in
again, and repeat for fifteen minutes,
or till the pain ceases. The next day,
with sharp knife, pare off the thick
skin, and you will find something like
a honeycomb filed with clear water,
open the cells and the fellon is gone.
If the felon is too far gone for turpen-
tine, oil of origanum, treated in the
same way, will cure If too far ad-
vanced for either to cure, the felon
will be benefited, as it will be less
painful Never draw it.-[Ex.