The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-09-01

RICHAOND. IND. SEPT. l.. 1875.
1t is estimated at Terre Haute that
one million bushels of corn were min
ed by the overflow Of the Wabash.
A helping word to one in trouble is
often like switch on railroad track:
but ONE inch between wreck and
smooth rolling prosperity.
We do believe Immortality because
we have proved it, but we forever try
to prove it because we believe it.
Mrs. Sarah A. Oren, late State Lii /.
brarlan, has been elected Assistant
Professor of Mathematics at Peru
University.
st. Louis Globe Democrat saws:
Cassius NJ. Clay takes two hours to
tell why he left the Republican party.
We can tell it in less than two min
utes: Because the President would
not re-appoint him Minister to Rus
STA"
Strange as it may seem. the thieves
VINO stole 2 package of money from
the United States treasury come
months ago have been arrested.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Such things were strange once; but
Grants administration has been
marked by the exposure and punish
ment OF all violations OF public trusts.
Wisconsin has just taken a State
census and finds her present popula-
ton to be 1.237, 166. against 1 ,O54, $50
IN I87O-a gain of 182, 476, or over
seventeen per cent.
twenty years ago the taxes in New
York City amounted to So per head
OF the population. This year they
foot up 81 80 per head. AT the same
time the debt, which in 1855 was
$zS.6 per head. is now s111.41.
The defeat of the Democratic narty
IN Ohio and Hamilton County this
tau IS in the air and the water, and
the whisky and water, and above all,
IN the beer. Sound it through the
land.-Commercial.
The Montgomery Advertiser and
Mail 10 going to reprint a long letter
from Africa to aa English newspaper.
just to show the negroes what they
escaped IN their own country when
they were made slaves In this" By
way OF supplement, suggests the Cieye-
land Leader, it might print a few
chapters from '.UncIe Toms Cabin
just to show the negroes what thew
escaped in this country when Abra.
ham Lincoln signed the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation.
The Indiana Farmer gives the fal-
lowing items of Grange intellieence in
this State: TIE treasurer of the State
Grange reports 81 .626 SO on hand.
Forty oranges have consolidated. and
thirteen have dissolved, the numbers
going to other oranges. Tweaty- fiye
the State since November. Total
number to date 2,O25. The secretary
OF the State Grange reports the order
more prosperous throughout the State
than at this time last year. For the
first quarter of 1874 there we're 30 375
members. for the FIRST quarter OF 1878
there are 65.374 members reported.
The Republicans Of Greene County
met In mass meeting at the Court
House In Carrollton on Saturday.
Speeches we're made by b. b. Hamil-
ton, X. u. Saekett. E. j. Pearce, Cap
taiu Ward, aud others, all urging uni
ted action on fIse part of Republican
A central committee was appointed
and convention will be held in
short time, when straight Republi-
can ticket will be nominated Greene
county Republicans are determined
TO stand up fairly and ssuarely for Re-
publican principles.
The scandals IN Maryland politics
beat all others. It is said now that
ex Governor Groome, Who was a can
'didate for Governor before the late
Democratic CoDyeation, and very re-
luctantly withdrew ia favor Of John
ice Carroll. will soon be made Presi-
dent of the Chesapeake aud Ohio Ca
nal, at salary OF $4,000 per year.
Furthermore. he has a promise of
seat in the United States Senate four
years from now. The Republicans
charge that the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal ring controlled the convention,
and that Governor Groome had his
price. Honest men should remember
that Maryland is banner Democratic
State. ba