The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-17

The silver mines in Massachu-
sets viii amount to something
after all.
Germany will not allow American
potatoes to be landed on her shores.
A pssdent fear of the bug probably
dictates this extreme prohibition.
Williams, the colored Senator of
Arkansas, was buried on Wednes-
day. The same tribute of respect
was shown as is shown to white
members.
The first train was run through
the Hoosac tunnel on Tuesday. It
consisted of three gravel cars and
a box car filed with one hundred
passengers.
Several shocks of earthquake.
causing some alarm, especially up
on congregations in churches, but
doing no damage, occurred Sunday
in San Francisco.
In the Lower House of the Ohio
Legislature, on the 5th, bill abol-
ishing capital punishment was de
feated, "A to AZ.
The President has appointed Sc
cond Assistant Postmaster General
Cohn l.. Routt, of Illinois, to be
Governor OF Colorado
The West Virginia Senate has
passed bill removing the capital
to Wheeling. It is thought the
House will pass it at an early day.
The Kansas Legislature has pass
ed a bill authorizing individual
counties to Issue bonds for the re.
lief of the grasshopper sufferers.
Senator elect Eaton, of Connec-
ticut, has been appointed by the
Governor to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by Senator Buckinhaln's
death.
Clara Louise Kellogg tells un-
truths. She says. for instance, she
wouldn't marry the best man in
America. It is a joke, however.
She knows we've been married a
number of years.-Rochester Denis
ocrat.
Il hate anything that occupies
more space than it is WORTH says
William Hazlitt: 81 hate to see a
load of bandboxes go along the
street, and hate to see a parcel of
big words without anything in
them"
Vice President Wilson has kept
an autograph album in which he
has obtained the signatures of all
with whom he has sat in the Senate,
accompanied by the dates of their
birth, and the number is now two
hundred and sixty, embracing many
of the greatest and some of the
worst of the public men of this
eventful generation.
A general order has been issued
from the War Department carrying
out the provisions of the act of Feb.
10, 1875, for the relief of grass.
hopper sufferers.
A1van Clark. the noted telescope
maker of Cambridgeport, Mass, is
about to manufacture a large tele.
scope for the Austrian Government,
and has also opened negotiations
with the trustees of the James
Lick estate for the erection of an
instrument in the new university in
California.
Conkling, in his last speech, said
Schurz was standing, as it were,
in the ashes of his ambition"
There is a man in the condemned
cell in Paris who cannot be guillo
tined until the authorities ascertain
his name. He was condemned by
q name since found to be false,
and there is no precedent for the
execution of a man whose name is
not known, SO he must wait.
If any doubling Thomas, has
been harboring the delusion that
the advocates ard friends of tenn
perance had wearied in welldooing,
a change of heart would have been
experienced had he attempted to
enter the Academy of Music after
the opening of the mass convention
yesterday. The assemblage was
one of the largest ever held in the
city, the spacious room being crowd
ed almost to suffocation, while the
exercises gave evidence that those
who are fighting the good fight had
but fairly commenced the struggle.
Journal, Feb. Is.
Senator Thomas w. Ferry, of
this State, is prominently mention
ed for the position of President
pro tenn. of the Senate in the
Forty fourth Congress. to succeed
Senator Carpenter, whose Senator
rial term expires on the 18th of next
month. The fact that Vice Presi
dent Wilson is from the East is
recognized as good reason for the
election of President pro tenn.
from the West. This. with Senator
Ferry s acknowledged qualifications
for the Office, will be the reasons
urged for his preferment. With
Senator Ferry in this position, and
an able jurist as his colleague in
the Senate from this State, Mich
igan will undoubtedly retain, and
exceed, all her old influence
in the councils of the nation.-De
troit Advocate.
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