The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-12
A State Convention of the Woman S

n State convention OF the w oman
Foreign Missionary Society of the NJ
E. Church will be held in New AL
bany commencing the 18th inst.
A Vermont woman. who recently
followed the remains OF her late 1rreg
ular husband to the grave, remarked
that she had one consolation, she
knew now where he slept of nights.
A Kentucky young lady. who prom
ised her grandfather never to marry a
certain young man on the face or the
earth, went through the interesting
ceremony in the Mammoth Cave.
Attorney General Buskirk has de-
cided that the money obtained for
liquor licenses must be distributed to
the various school corporations Of
each county in which licenses ale OBJ
tanned.
| The Indianapolis Herald says that
Cutler S. Dobbins, of Martin county,
is writing a Fourth of July Grafton.
His diet is grated horse radish aud
sulphur cocktails.
A destructive fire occurred in New
Harmony last Saturday night week.
Buildings and property amounting to
$4,000 were consumed and number
of families were made homeless.
There were S,226 acres devoted to
the culture of tobacco in the counties
of Dubois, Spencer and Perry in 1874,
which yielded 3, 975, 900 pounds of the
weed. that sold for 1857 $50, making
an average of 1880 per acre.
The Shelbyville Republican says
that hundreds of acres of wheat is be-
ing plowed up, and the ground will
be planted in corn, all on account of
the late freeze.
1t is going the paragraphic rounds
that year old baby has been forward
ed by express, in New Hampshire,
which is not remarkable, as the baby
hadn't learned to talk, and, of course,
| couldn't express itself.
+; A foppish fellow advised friend
not to marry poor girl, as he would
find matrimony with poverty uphill
work" Good said his friend; Il
would rather 60 up hill than down
hill any time
| An old man by the name Of An
/ thony Gossen, was found dead in a
tannery in Mt. Carmel, last Monday
I night 1t is not known how or when
he died, and when discovered his face
and hands were badly eaten with rats.
He was an Incorporate man and it is
supposed he died in drunken spree.
Another temperance sermon.
The case of John Bull, of Louis
vile, should be a warning to all
young men who contemplate swear
ing off from tobacco. John had
been an inveterate smoker from his
youth up, and frequently used as many
as fifteen cigars-a day. About two
weeks ago he gave up smoking, and
two days thereafter gave up the ghost.
Gibson county has an organized So
ciety for the protection of birds. All
persons are warned, under certain
penalties, not to shoot birds on the
premises of any of the members of the
society. Every county in the State
should organize similar societies.
Who will move in the matter in
Wayne county?
The revisers of the Bible have
reached Isaiah in twenty eight ses-
sions' This is very slow work. Old
Whaxem, school master, reached
Isaiah i'll one session. Isaiah was in
the act of placing a crooked pin on
the master s seat at the time.
Dan" said little four-year old.
give NE sixpence to buy a monkey"
house now. replied the elder brother.
who is it, DAMP" asked the little
fellow.
You was the reply.
Then give me sixpence to buy the
monkey some nuts.
The brother could not resist.
Randolph county is out of debt and
has $780, 900 in her treasury 1t is al
most needless to add that Randolph
gives about 200 Republican majority
every time-Exchange
Look on that picture and then on
this. Knox county is in debt nearly
100000 and has very little money in
her treasury. but mighty bad ring
about it. It is needless to add she
gives over six hundred Democratic
majority.-Vincennes Times.
The Graphic of the 18th inst, pub
lished striking cartoon at the ex-
pense of the New York Herald--the
secular organ of the Pope in the Uni
ted States. 1t is an extravagant por-
trait of young James Gordon Ben
nett barefooted in priestly robes that
are of Herald papal editorials, ency-
clicals, and-so-forth, inscribed 1.-The
Papal Bennett-dic ton. Bennett
stands with his back toward mirror,
which reflects the head and ears of a
jackass.-Dayton journal.
One OF the meanest acts ever per-
petrated was the change of the postal
laws, made by the Congress at the in
stance and for the benefit of the ex-
press companies, for the purpose of
excluding merchandise from the mails,
which has the incidental effect of
doubling the charges upon transient
newspapers. magazines, pamphlets.
and miscellaneous literature. The
postage upon this sort of matter is
made so oppressive, that its circula-
ton will be much reduced, and there
will probably be a loss of revenue
The measure was struggled through
Congress IN an appropriation bill, and
the gentlemen concerned In the trans
action will he called to an account by
an outraged and indignant people
Winchester Journal.
To all of which we say amenl
1t should not be forgotten that I'VE
three men '-Beecher, Bowen, and
Tilton-are able editors. At the
time of their solemn covenant they
had charge respectively of the Chris
tian Union. the Independent, and the
Golden Age Bowen was sweet on
Beecher until Beecher became his