The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-12
FROM MILTON.
MILTON, IND, May 10, 1875.

Our NJ. d. 5 report but two cases of
sickness in town at present, and they
are convalesccnt
Arehart Kesslcr, for many years
past resident of this place, and for
some of his ways, not entirely unknown
to community, died on Saturday night
of dropsy Buried at Conncrsvilie,
| Indiana.
A Mr.. Penny, with large force,
has broken ground on the lots of Ma
than Spencer, in the suburbs of town,
for two brick kilns, each to contain
one hundred and eighty thousand
brick.
I. l.. Commons & Co. have COM
furniture factory, and intend to rapid
ly push it to completion. The plan
includes the erection of wareroom
and other outhouses, separate from
the main factors- building.
Warren & Gard have moved into
the new store room, just completed
by B. f. Wilmer & Co., with large
stock of dry goods, and in the arrange
ment Of their show cases and fancy
goods, exhibit a taste for tidiness
equal to city merchants.
The Hoosier Drill Company employs
the present year III hands. and has
orders for 5000 corn planters, an equal
number of wheat drills, besides sew
eral hundred other machines The
company is making arrangements to
greatly enlarge it's working and pro-
ducing powers the coming fall, by ad-
ditional shops. machinery. etc Its
capital stock is being increased, also,
every year.
A locomotive attached to freight
train coming up on Friday night, on
the Valley road, undertook, few
miles below town, to run over a wood
en- elut that some reckless, if not
wicked person, had placed on the rail,
but in SO undertaking was Knocked
from the track, making complete
wreck of five cars aud their contents,
but fortunately not seriously injuring
any one.
Saturday night last, the 9Th, was
one of furious drenchiDg rain and
storm in this vicinity continuing un-
til next morning, accompanied with
incessant flashes and peals of natures
heaviest MISUNDERSTANDING and tliun-
der. 1t looked and sounded as though
the elements of fire, water and wind,
had combined in one desperate attack
tiers that have so long been holding
hna ii MI nd TOT
son. Next morning the rain ceased
the sky cleared, the sun shone out
warmly, and while fences, bridges and
culverts were gone, our streets were
scrubbed and the foliage of our yards,
shrubs and trees, seemed to dance
with delight at. the sudden though
violent opening of spring.
The wheat crop In Washington
township will be below the average
yield, and this partial failure presents
some strange freaks for the curious
Last fall j. T. Gard, farmer on the
north of town, sowed two fields ad-
joining each other, with equal care
and nearly of equal area. Now one is
as bare as the pavement in city,
while the other pres cnts AS fine a
prospect for large yield as was ever
seen.
On last Saturday evening John
Warren, one of our butchers, bought
two very large fat hogs, for which he
paid a large price, intending to work
them up for sale. He put them in
pen at his slaughter yard, not far from
small branch that runs by and emp
ties into the river mile below. That
night the rain and food came, and
next morning he wentto his slaugh-
ter yai and found that both pen and
hogs had gone down the branch.
John has been gone ever since, also,
and the last heard of him was from a
farmer, who saw him searching among
some drift. down the river, calling
"pig-oh!' as if he wanted to feed
swine.
Mart. Brown, one of our grocery
merchants, wishing to vary his sum
mer employment, has concluded to
try his hand at farming again, and
has leased some ground Of his father,
(no other person being willing to let
him have any, to raise potatoes. cab
bage, and onions. He is very partic-
ular about lnquiring for good seed, as
he says that what he planted last year
produced more weeds than potatoes.
He has already frozen his fingers
while planting onion sets.
A few days after our recent corpo-
ration election fish monger from one
OF our neighboring towns, applied to
member of the town board for Ii
cense to peddle fish for month with
in the corporation limits. Said mem
Der issued the license, and it is said
took the price, $500, out in fish, and
feeling so elated over his recent cleo
ton that he, divided them equally
among his fellow members, and no
account has been made of the transac-
ton to the town Treasurer We men
ton this item on account of the talk
and feeling it has made, and to let all
concerned remember that it will be
remembered at the next election.
A short time since foreman in one
of the departments of the Wooden
Mill factory having some spare cash
on hand thought to speculate some
by buying geese; have his wife dress
them for the feathers, and he ship
them to Cincinnati After he had
got large lot on hand he met two
dealers who were in the general poul-
try trade, but shipping to Now York.