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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05
The Reason oft.


We find the following in recent
issue of New York paper: New
York is crowded with rich unmarried
men, afaid of the expense of support
ing these gilded butterflies. There is
a bachelor at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
whose income is $4,000 year, and
still he says he can t afford to get mar.
ried. He is proud fellow, and says
as a single man he can have the best
horses, best room, and best box at the
opera.
"If 1 should get married." he said,
Il should have to stint myself or over
draw my income"
"How is that" asked a friend.
well, now, come into the parlor
and I'll show you. You see, ladies
are extravagant nowadays They dress
SO much more than in Europe. l
mean, they don't wear rich diamonds
like the women of Florence and Mi
Ian, but they wear such rich dresses,
laces, shawls and furs. , Now, I'm
proud, and I would not want my wife
outdressed, so l have to keep out of
the marriage business. Do you see
that lady there?'' he said, pointing to
fashionable caller.
Yes"
"Well, she has on a s4OO panniered,
wattaued, polonaised, brown gros
grain dress, and l wear $50 coat
She wears 81 200 camel's hair shawl,
and $500 set of sable, while 1 wear
$40 overcoat She wears a $40 bon
net, while I wear an 50 hat. She
wears 5000 worth of point applique
and point augile, while 1 wear a Sc
shirt. Her shoes cost SIS, and mine
Sl2. Her ordinary morning jewelry,
which is changed every year, not
counting diamonds, cost s4OO; mine
cost $50"
well, how does it foot up?"
why, the clothes she has on cost
1925, and mine cost S206, and that is
only one of her dozen outfits, while l
only have-say three. The fact is, +"
said he, growing earnest, Il couldn't t
begin to live in a brown-stone front
with that woman, and keep up appear
ances to match--carriages church
dinners, opera and seaside for $50, ,OOO
I'd have to become a second-rate
man, and live in an 18 foot house, or
withdraw over to Second avenue, and
that I'll be hanged if l do!' and he
slung his fist down into a nice silk
hat in the excess of his earnestness.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05
1875.

One of the great Quaker poet
sweetest metrical gems, "Schoo
Days" is devoted to showing the re
gret of brown eyed New England
girl at having spelled down
THE little boy
Her childish favor singled
I'm sorry that spelt the word
hate to go above you.
Because'-the brown eyes lower fell,
Because, You see, 1 love you.'
"Still memory to gray haired man
That sweet child face is showing;
Dear girl, the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.
'He lives to learn in lifes hard school
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her---because they love him."
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

A Delaware man fastened knob
on the bureau drawer the other day.
after delay Of eleven years since his
wife first asked him to.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

The Woman's Journal puts an ar
gument in this shape: In the town
OF Concord one-fifth of all the taxes is
paid by women. The town has voted
to expend 5000 upon this celebra-
ton. In other words, the men Of
Concord have taken from women of
Concord 5000 without their consent,
and have spent it in celebrating the
principle that taxation without repre-
sentation is tyranny"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

"Grace Greenwood" (Mrs. Lippin-
cott) will spend the summer in Eu-
rope.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

Several years ago, a slab-sided,
awkward printer boy. from Maine.
found his way to Washington in
search of IAN easy place. Tom Ew-
ing was then Secretary of the Interior
He was the uncle of our Gawky place
hunter. To him the youngster natural
ly applied for assistance in getting the
desired situation. This was the en-
couraging answer he received from
Ewing
Il will not get you a place In any of
the departments. Moreover, If you
find place and go to work. l will use
all my influence to have you dis
missed. l want you to get out of
Washington. am not going to have
you made into a limp and helpless
nonentity. if l can help it. Go any,
where else; 60 to the devil, If you like;
you shan't stay in Washington
This inspiring counsel drove the
printer youth back to Maine again.
Had Ewing found him the desired
place, he would to-day be tying tape
around bundled documents. or stick
ing official stamps on somebody else's
letters, in one of the departments. an
inert human routine machine. But
the uncle sensible brusqueness was
the nephew's salvation. The name of
that discouraged young applicant was
James g. Blaine.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

Nasty is going to California for his
health.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05
The POstmasteF.GeneFal Putting n
Stop to Small StealfngS.
WASHINGTON. April %.

For some years there have been
charges that the waste-paper at the
Capitol was disposed of In a very curl
Gus way By order of the Postmaster
General. Special Agent Henderson
recently investigated the charge that
such material was conveyed to junk
shops in the United States mail sacks
On Monday he discovered the fact
that one fudge, an employe at the
Capitol, hauled matter away by the
cart load to a junk-shop, where it was
disposed of for little or nothing. Mr..
Henderson questioned him as to what
he received for Mondays load. and
fudge replied about seventy dollars.
He asked him if that was one of his
perquisities, and he replied in the
negative, saying that he turned the
money over to the clerks, doorkeep-
ers. &C., and they gave him fifty cents
per load to convey the waste paper to
the junk shop Tin Government wag-
on). Mr.. henderson informed him
that, SO far as the use of Government
wagons and mail sacks were concerned,
the business must be broken up. when
fudge grew abusive, and denied the
right of the Post office Department to
interfere with transactions at the
Capitol. Henderson finally took him
before the Postmaster General, who
rcprimanded him sharply, and gave
him plainly to understand that the
practice of carrying on his operations.
so far. as it involved Government
property belonging to the Post office
Department. must be stopped at once.
Henderson found large number of
United States mail sacks at the junk
shop. 1t is but just to say, in behalf
of the Seargeant-at-arm of both
Houses Of Congress. and the clerks,
that they disclaim all knowledge of
Tudge's transactions, and ask the De-
partment to break up similar opera
tions.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

Mail rinne Table.
GOING NoRTH-Including All places sup
nlied from the Chicago r. r., and the r I.
WAYNE r. h, ,::closes at lO:0o q. IN.
GOING SOUTH Including Cinclnnati
and all points beyond. closes az .a ~ Z; ,f r..
Cincinnati Railroad, 500 p. m. sSI
GOING EASr-Including all places sup.
plied from the Columbus Il. r., ana
All Eastern and Central States, closes al
1000 g. m. Via Dayton and Xenia Rail-
road, closes 500 a. m.
GOING VEST. Including Indianapolis
and all points beyond, closes I0OO a. m;
q same as above, closes 7:3O p. M; 8. in.
cludin9 all points supplied by the lndi.
annapolis Railroad; also, Chicago and all
points west and northwest, closes 5ap
Pm.
To webster Williamsburg and Bloomings-
pOrt, ON Tuesday, THURSDAY ana Sasut-
day, at 200 p. m.
To Coxs Mills, White Water, Bethel ana Ar
ba, on Monday, Wedne sday and Friday
at 1890 m. 8F - f8
To Arlington, Clifton and Liberty, on Mon
day and Friday. at 100 a. m. E
To Boston, Beechymire, Goodwin Corner.
and College Corner, on Tuesday anu
Friday, at 1890 M -,
MAILS ARE OPEN
At 500 a. m. from indianapolis and Cincin-
natl and beyond.
At HOO a. m. from Cincinnati, way and
At 400 o. IN. from East via Columbus Rail-
road, and Dayton and Xenia Railroad
At 100 D. m from North, via Chicago Kali
road and Fort Wayne Railroad
At 500 p. m. from indianapolis and beyond.
once open from 200 a. m. to 730 p: M
On sunday, from 900 TO 1eo9 kIis 2, M pM
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05
ASHLAND'S POOR PASTOR.

His ParishiOners AstOnished After
the Funeral.-TheR Remarkable Life
and Death Of the Son OF q Chief
Justice of Nova ScOtia-A Fortune
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

RichmOmd and Chicago Division.
Nov. 30, 1874.
GOING NORTH
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24
Frozen Mines.

The remarkable fir, zen mines nl
Colorado aro described by Mr.. r.
Wciser, oI Georgetown in that terri
tory, in communication to Siliman'.
journal. Ono uf them 10 the Ste
! vcns ml'r, at ~. height ur twelve
, thousand five huudrcl feet above the
! Lowell of tho sea, in Clear Greek coun-
ty. At u depth Of from sixty to two
hundred fe.t, tho lode or vien Of
silver pro, as we'll as tho surrounding
rock, was fouuu to be frozen solid
"Ihere aro no Indications Of II thuw
bummer Or winter the whole frozen
teri tory il surrounded by hard
massive rock, and the lode itsoll is as
ha'd aud solid as tho rock. The
miners being unable TO excavato tho
frozen material by pick or drill, to
get out the orc, found tho only way
was to "kiudle largo wood-fro at
night against tho back end of tho
tunnel, aud thus thaw tho frozen ma
terial, and i'll tho morning tako out
the disintcgruted ore. This has boon
tho mode Of mining for moro than
two years. The tunnel is over two
hundred feet deep, md there is no
dlminution of the frost it seems to
be rather: increasing.' The writer
connect account for the occurrence
"i this frozen mass 80 far undor-
ground, except on tho hypothesis thnt
tho frost penetrated to that lcpth
during the glacial epoch, and has re-
lnalpcd there ever siuce. 1t could
not have found its way thithcr from
ho outsid while tic region was sub,
|ect to any such climate as now pre-.
walls there.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24
4 Queer Document.

a friend has enclosed us what
he calls y !Mrertatim, ct Htcrqtto', Ct
punctuatira:, COPY Of ~ letter sont to
p'esident,Gr by Wm II. McKin.
psy, Of McDowsIl county. The old
man, our fri,n'l writes us, is on
antitmissionary Bap ist minister, and
replied to p. S. White, in Shelby,
during tho tour Of tho lataer through
North Gar9lina, in 1851. The fol-
lowing Is the LETTER: :,
:. =, j .uuary 2Oeth 1873
Datod di,ertriNe Mcdowell county
North Carolina to Mr. us Grant
president Of the united states Dear
sir walk iu the ways Of thy hear: and
in the sight of thine syes but know
thou that f"r all these things Gud will
bring thee into Judgment and ohall
DO thare TO here the trial.
x ~ W. ii. McklNSEr
N, B, l., request YOU to lay thi.
undor your, head eyery night for ono
mouth if God ehoould spair your lifo
that long. rnW, II, sle,
Charlotte OjScrrG.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24
How LOngtO Sleep.

low mnch'sleep Is necessary to ro
new The cxh~ uat,d enc,Sies Of ,h,
brain, and fit it perfectly for its .wor!
must DO determined by individual
| experience but as to children it ia
safc 20 say they ought to be iudulgcd
to the extont Of their incliiatious.
Thry reHuirc mere sleep than alul,s,
aud old people, if their slum bers are
sound, incline to sleep at shorter in :
tervuls than persons in the prime Of
life. The diitcreuce in iniividua!s
IN this respect il very great. Dr.
G"ch mentions j nun who sleeps only
hftjen minutes " duy aud enjoys govd
health.
Blaine, in his "Medical Logic"
speaks Of some missionaries in Cuba
who reduced their sleep to minimum,
that they might purs 10 their labors
with tho least possible :intorruption.
W kon toi ccd to rest they throw them-
selves en couch with bras, balLin
baud over brass basin. The mo.
ment they lost their cutsoiJ,snvss tho
ball dropped from their fsgers, and
ringing Oh tho basin, wakod them
anu this. sleep they. found afforded
htl tho lYcruit that mature dem >u,lcd.
Se"cca declares that Macenas pussvd
three years without sleeping single
hour, and l5oerhaavu uiiirms that
he passed six weeks ut ono time with.
out sleep; but neither Of these state.
meats ~ crodibic.
blaine WAS Informed by Gen.
VIchegar!that during his active cam.
l'a'gn IN Ivllaud lie never for Il year
slept more than ono hour in tweuty-
tour; aud the same is reported Of
Charles Nll., uf Sweden, during hin
wonderful career. jeromy Taylor,
during part of his life, tlopt ouly
thIoo or four hours in tho twenty
four and Napoleon slept only four
or live .houls during. his military ca
reor but ho was able to fall aslecp |
ut a"y time in the midst Of hia work |
when he felt drowsy. j. John Hunter, |
tle great surgeon, slept four hours ut
night and one utter dinuer. r.,
Sir Jokn Sinclair gives the history !
OF man who had reached the ad- |
vanced age Of uiuety one, aud all
MS life had slept but fonr hours in
the twcnty-lourS Sir Walter Scott
said that he was not entirely himself |
IN Gas he passed seven hours in total |
unconsciousnt sa. Southoy required
ten hours, going to bed at ten and |
rising ut eight. Sir William Jones
laid down the rulo Uf liz, f,r students
/" tho couplot,
"Seve" hours to looks, TO pleasant |
alumbers seven. .l -.
Ten TO the worlds nllot aud all TO
heaven" -. %.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24
Scraps.

EdgefeId is tranquil. Judge Mack.
ey Strengthened out things generally.
Court adjourned in Columbia,
Saturday, after satisfactory term Of
threo weeks. .
! Tho State lax will probably DO
higher this year than last. And this
! is reform -
Tho libel suits of Bowen against
the News and Courier will DO tried
before Judge Reid at All extra term in
April. .:,,
Cadot Melton was expelled from
tho Naval Academy for .hrashing tho
colored Cadet who had insultcd his
class.
Frank Moses is said to DO running
Faro bank IN Columbia. His man.
sion will DC sold under mortgage. 1t
contains about $4,000 worth Uf
furniture, none of which is paid for.
The private calender has not yct
been reached in the house, aud there
is no telling when tho legislature
will adjourn. Legislation is impcd.
ed because there is 10 acknowledged
leader in the Legislature.
~ new election has bccn ordered
Ia Lancnstor to fill vacancies caused
oy tho conviction Of the chairman Of
County commissioners for drunkod.
ness and the resignation Of tho probate
Judge on being iudictod for tho same
Utlcnce.
Some timo since, tho County Com.
mssioncrs of York Issued bonds
payable in twenty years for tho
hcrcht Of tho Chester and Louoir
K. IL. A bill has passed the egis-
l"ture TO pay these bonda in six yoars.
~ dcputation from eastern York has
gone down to petition tho governor
to voto tho bill.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24
:
Bankrupt Matters.

"'Sambo, wh"ts your 'piniun OBJ do
bankrupt lazy z" .,..' . 3.
'E,pk ut fus.rate, Pompey.'
II imply, for the appellate ION myself.
Jdstsplain yim's principals
'Wby, you s.e here, now, just lend
me dut half dollar you got for white"
washng.ra se en1 ,j.t.g.,a. u,s g,
Pompey hands him the +. money,
and Sambo deliberately puts it int
his own pocket N'' .". '''1% ."
} 'Dero den, now, 1 owes de- shoe.
maker three shilling, and you halt a
dollar, besides tho grog shop, bill.
Now dis balf dollar am al1 dc pro.
perty I got. [ divide with bini nc"
cording to do debit .." Of y
'.'Sambo, 1 takes dat half dollar
sambo, with amaze eut. you
tink dis ohile greon ? You eits
your share wild do oder creditors"
Sambo was quitet az horost a
some others.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24


And now We have. it that the, lie.
public cans i,nGaugress propose TO re
vive the iron.clad test . ,th, in order
to prevent iity.thrce members .f
!, the next Congress from taking their
aeats. Thi sia QUO Of the desperate
devices suegestcI to proIong the
miserable existenve Of the Radical
party aud prevent reform which
is Inevitable. II is the old story
about Mrs. Paitington over again.
s. duey Smith tells us that there was
n groat storm at Sldmouth. a great
flood bad BOT III upon the town, the
tide rose to- an. Incredible height.
the waves rushed 10 upon the houses,
and everything was threa,ehed with
destruction. In the, midst Of this
sublime nnd terrible sosue, Dame
parungton', who lived ,npon the
beach, was Seen ut tho window Of her
;h9usc, mop in hand, tr9Adllng her
.mop, squeezing out tho sea wate.
and vigorously pushing back the At,
laptio QceaD. The Atlantic was
{rpusod and SO was tho spirit of Mrs
Darlington, "She was excellent a.
at . sloR Of q puddle," adds tn.
greet reformer, "but she should no
have nodded with the Tempest
Tho moral. applies to Congress a
we'll as it, did 20 the British, Parlia
| mont. Mrs. Partington will bo agail
beaten. ,.. ..s.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24
Chester Beats It.

Tho y;ork;vilge, Enquirer Of last
week rises and brags over tho fact
that only $4,000 of, the taxes Of that
county are unpaid. The books Of
the Treasurer of Chester county. sho "
that all but 1890 Of. the tax levy
of this; county has beon, paid. So
that, if there. be any virtue and any
praise in tho prompt payment OF
tsTes, the Chester "banditti", are on
titled to their share. ---Hepor!er.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24

1t now comes out that lion. j. II.
DoOlittle was tho manipulator by
whose magic power the. contest for
-Uuitc Il Statos senator an , Wisconsin,
terminated 80 sudlcply last week in
tho cho!ce OF Angus Cameron as
Matt. Carpenters successor. Judge
Doolittlc spent II day or two at Madi"
sonas peace maker aud compro-
misor, AID it was ho who consolidate.
edthe opposition .lemeuts on Mr.
Cameron. 8f,.u .... r'I.'. i,1
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24

ID "Pretty bad under foot, to day.
said ono citizen TO another, as they
m"t inn the street the other day
"Yes, bot IFS fine overheao," r.s-
punded the other. "Irue enough )
said the irst, "n''t then very tow 40
goinC that way"
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24

An interesting discovery Of n lire-
sized female bust in puro silver haa
lately been mndo at lIcrculaneum
The work; according to an account
given in tho Iiuhte, is in state Of
excellent 'preServatiin, and ia tho
only specimen Of its kind which has
been found during tho course of ex-
oavation. ....O '...
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24
A Discouraged Boy.


touching Thanksgiving stcry aLou
the chap who ran away from hom
when boy and went to sca aud VIA
,ot heard of for years und ) ears
aud how on Thanksgiving day th
mother sat II plate for the waudcror
nd Kept seat at tho table,. an,
low the gray haired sire, when h,
'tfercd bI.~sn.g, prayed. for hi,
aywaid son-p'ayed that he might
'eturn in safety to the patcrua
oof. "a g., g..
| Aud thon one Thanksgiving da,
9hen they had about givou hi.n up
Or dead, although tho plato nnJ
acant chair told the story u, II
"othcr's undying hopes, just az tho
| frmlly had sut down to tho Thanks
living dinner, there came a rap ut
he door. "Coms in!,' crcd the
'ire, aud in bounced tho boy in y
sailor jacket aud tarpaulin hat
just. home from "a whaling voyage.
Such r joicing as there Was in that
'use. How his father shook bo, Ii
his hands. and how his mother wept
over him aud embraced him, aud
now all the brothers and sisters,
'unts aud cousins hung aroun his
neck and tugged at his sailor jacket.
1t w's worti, brav:ng tho daligers
Of the sea to meet with such Il vel.
como on his return. lie sat at the
east in the chair that mot hers
icathlcss love. and bopo and @rcrol..
lection had always placed for him,
aud. never was there II happier
Thanksgiving since that cheri he'd
anniversary was inventel.
Cratapplc's boy wept over that
story every time he rea, 1t, and he
got to wondering whether, sucli "a
'uss would bo made OYER hiM shcull
he run away from homc and then
tu,n up again some Thanksgiving
day. Il.
He thought about it SO much that
he iuaIly determined: to tc,t the
business, anyhow. lio you'd soc
now the people would att when hs
played the prodigal's return. So
about u week befo.e Thanksgiving
ho ran away from houe. liz didn't
70 to sea, beo, use the s,a wss Zoo
far off, and he couldn't make much
of voyage in a week, anyhow. lie
got u job in Il tan yard, grinding
bark, which answered all the pur.
poses, for he could imagine his clark
was Oil the sea-" as he rode the old
horse around the circle. lie called
the mill the world, and imallued
himself sailing around tbs world at
every revolution.
With q beating heart he appr oach-
ed the paternal mansion. lie look cd
in at the window and saw the folks
just sitting down to tho ThaLksyiy-
ing supper.
A chill Of disappointment .o,ept
over him as ha. saw there was 10
vacant chair and there wa>n't an idle
plate Oh the table. Ilo listcued at
the door as the blessing was asked,
but although several prophets were
honorcd with Gattt ring notice, his
inamo wasn't mentioned. This was
little hard OIL the boy who had run
away from home aud was liable 10
turn Qp on any succeeding Thanks
giving day. i" -. >. .I,sr &C.
Recuiicclions Of him didn't seem
to cluster around the hcar,llstpua to
sany very great extent.
RcpI esslng chilling forehoding
ih"t Il osc III, his Lrea,t, he hung
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24

A Young woman in Detroit, oh re-.
Cd with assault and battery, upon be.
ing asked her occupation, said she
was all artist. The evidence oonolu-
siycly proved that she had been paint,
ing mans eye, uSiog a soda watoc
bottle for brdsli. .......
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24

Germany has adopted q law by
which tho holder Of RAILROAD ticket
may stop at any point on his journey
for any period, tho ticket remaining
socs Until used.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-02-24

Tho snow drifts in SONG parts Of
Scotland about the bcgining Of tho
year were twenty"foet i'll depth.
Tho thaw has caused the rivers to
overflow their banks In all direo-
tions, and vast tracts of land arc
under water. u........