The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-12
THE PALLADIUM
WEDNESDAY. MAY 12, 1875.

he gives him costs that
When Julia was told that John
was a teetotaler, she suddenly
found that her own fears were dis
sipated-
The late Mrs. L. b. Conway was
the daughter Of q Connecticut
clergyman.
Donaldson is to get $4,000 if he
makes his aeronautical trip to
Europe in three days, and $4,000
if he gets there in two.
When Florida Indian is likely
to die, his friends place him where
an alligator can take him, and thus
save burial expenses.
During the first three months Of
the present year. there were 1,733
business failures in the United
States, the aggregate liabilities
amounting to S38,S73, 222.
A New York sporting paper
states that there are in the United
States fifteen hundred thoroughly
organized base ball clubs, having
an aggregate membership of 25,-
900.
A Texas woman has learned to
use the lasso SO deity that she
can stand in the door and haul the
hat off the lightning rod peddler
while he is unfastening the gate
Free Press.
Here's where you get your sec
ond Daniel: Henry Watterson, of
the Courier-Journal, predicts that
Governor Allen, of Ohio, will be
the next President. Ryes up,
William Allen.
The late election in ST. Louis
must have been a peculiarly excl
ting one OF the three candidates
for Mayor of that City, the success
full one has since died and the other
two are lying dangerously i'll
The oldest Fourth of July orator
in Massachusetts is Benjamin Hos
bart of Abingdon, now ninety four
years Of age, who delivered the
Grafton On Independence Day in
that town in the year 1905.
''Do you think that souls sepa
rated here are united hereafter
asked pale, emaciated pietist of a
friend. Il hope not" was the
chilling reply, sit cost me pretty
good figure to get a divorce, and
when I invested that money 1 in
vested it for time and eternity,
too"
If you ever stole a hog, cheated
a poor widow or orphan, misspelled
a word at match; if there is any
negro blood in your veins, if your
grand mother was cross eyed, your
father INDUCED in too much juni-
per berry tea, don't for your own
sake, ever run for office, for it will
come out on You sure.
A widower in this city who has
taken the trouble to ''count up,
says there are just one hundred
and seventy five widows in this
city and only fifteen widowers, and
thinks that there should be some
means provided to reduce this
number of widows at least fifteen.
He ought to start the ball by re
ducing the number one.
Mrs. Elizabeth futile, of East
Boston, now in her one hundredth
year, in reaching her sleeping
room ascends two flights of stairs,
and dresses and undresses without
aid. She never has a fire in her
bedroom, and positively refuses to
have one, even in the colde ST
weather. She is going to have a
high old time celebrating her one
hundredth birthday-February 25.
"a Georgia Republican writes
TO the New York Times: No intel
ligent man can remain long in the
South and not learn that the ''irre
pressible conflict has not wholly
ended. It is o great mistake to
suppose that the leaders of the
slave power will not attempt to
control the labor of the negro be-
cause slavery has been abolished.
The name has been abolished, but
not the thing.
The Philadelphia Press says
there never was time when the
Democratic party deserved less to
be trusted than it does now. In
order to secure the permanence
of the Union, and to preserve the
integrity of the government, the
White House and the United
States Senate must not pass into
the control of the men who believed
in the vindication of Southern
1ights-must not be occupied, the
one by majority of Democrats,
the other by man in sympathy
with them.
A new rendering of now you see
him, and now you don't: To be a
lawyer, jurist and statesman, one
must do something to encourage
the chances of the Democracy to
overthrow the Republican party.
When Senator Christiancy spoke
and voted against the admission of
Pinchback, he was endorsed by the
Democratic press as a lawyer, jurist
and statesman of the highest or
der. When he voted for the reso
luton approving the course of the
President as regards the Louisiana
difficulty, the Democratic press had
nothing to say about him.