The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-10
Ineane Asylums.

Insane Asylums.
just now, in the Indiana Legis
lature, there are effo, ts being made
to erect TWO asylums for the in
sane. and q bill has already been
introduced locating one at Evans
vile and another at Logansport. A
large committee of our citizens,
headed by DR.. J. F. lIibberd, are
now at Indianapolis, and hopes are
entertained that Richmond may I've
selected in lieu of Logansport, it
being the most healthy of the two.
Greennount is the site spoken of
here. Best in the State.
Satanic Practice. sssfs.4
during the last election the Demo
cratic orators and the press in the in.
fueuce Of that party were iteratiDg
and reitcrating that. for electioneering
purposes-to arouse the hatred of the
people against tyranny and injustice
and thus assist in uniting the Repub-
lican party, tie stories of murders.
cruelty, and political tyranny and pro-
scriptions, were invented, and a uni
ted effort Of lying and misrepresenta-
ton was resorted to in order to effect
this object. And now, when proof
positive has been adduced that the
truth was then told with only half of
its terrible reality, the same lying
spirits-worthy agents of the devil
are still busily engaged in branding
the truth as falsehood, and avering
that 'ssuch men as Butler and Morton
have guaded the Democrats Tin Con-
ess)--provokinR them to indiscre-
tons of speech" and. by that means
have succeeded in. uniting the Repub-
licans there. SO that partizan legisla-
ton Civil Rights Bib may be secur-
ed! .ei4 fa14,s.es.r5zr
On our FIRST rage, from an editorial
in the Cincinnati Commercial, will be
found sufficient in the conclusions of
the editor of that journal, to justify
every honest man in the land in de-
nouncing the "banditti" Democracy
and murderers of the South, and
their aiders and abettors Of the North,
in beftting terms of truth and sober
ness, for crimes committed and aid
and comfort rendered. When devils
band together, good men should unite
City Printing-I.aw DisreEarded.
At the meeting oil the City Council
on the 81 inst. the following petition
was presented, which explains itself:
To the Mayor and Common Council of the
City of Richmond:
PETITION OF BENZ. W. DAVIS, PUBLISH
Err OF THE PALLADIUM.
GENTLEMES.-In pursuance of
due notice, received from the Clerk |
of the City of Richmond, and at |
the time specified in an Ordinance
passed and approved on the 18th |
day of December, 1872. ''to pro
vide for letting the City Printing
by contract, to wit; ten days pre-
vious to the first regular meeting |
of the Council in January last i
s.for one year. the undersigned
submitted his bid for said ssPublic
PRINTING!" at tho following rates,
to-wit: For advertising. eighteen
(18l cents per square, of 10 lines, |
for each insertion, and thirty (30) i
cents per 1000 ems for compost
ton, and thirty 1907 cents per
token of $50 impressions for press
work for job printing.
As the said Ordinance made it
the duty of your City Clerk. Peter
p. Kirn. to issue said notices to
the publishers Of each of the
newspapers. or the proprietors of 1
other printing establishments III
the city. the natural conclusion
would necessarily follow, that the
said city Clerk would be the proper
recipient of said '.sealed propo-
sails Hence the undersigned. as
he invariably has done heretofore
las he did last year when the print
ing vas awarded him when sub
hitting q IBID for the Public
Printing, directed it las will be
seen by reference to the envelope)
to .sPErER p. KIRN, CRY CLERK
he being sworn officer of the City,
and the accredited channel through
whom communications inviting
s.bids," should properly come to
the City Council for investigation
made so by the Ordinance above
referred to; aud the undersigned
respectfully submits the point, not
withstanding the extraordinary
conclusion arrived q. by your com
mittee on prin ing at the last meet
ing of the Council, to whom said
bids we're referreil that said com
mittee collectively, or individually,
had no legal or moral right to
open the bid of the undersigned,
and that no one, excepting the
officer to whom it was addressed,
was duly authorized to open it.
No charge of s'traud o. '.combina
ton was either made or sustained |
against the Clerk for opening said
s'bids could there be, from
the fact that HE is not an interested
party in any way and, besides, the
parties bidding, if tho Council de |
sire to satisfy itself, will both aver
that their bids, after having been
opened by the said Clerk and were
in possession of said committee,
were unaltered-unchanged in any
nd met 90 khav yvara |