Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1881-09-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

fEhSONAL AND UENEhALs
The sugar crop of Louisiana for this
year is the largest since the close of the
war.
-Joshua Draper, hat manufacturer of
New York city and Middletown, New
York, has failed with liabilities of $780,
900.
The death of the President soon set
tied the question of the Mrs. Garfield
fund, which now promises to greatly ex-
coed the original amount called for.
-Guiteau shot with truer aim than
he knew, since it is revealed that the skill
of the best physicians and surgeons in
the world could not have saved the life
of the President.
The will of the late Justice Clifford,
of the Supreme Court, gives his law Ii
brary in equal shares to his three sons,
aud the residue of his property to his
wife,
Elder Isaac Evrett, of Cincinnati,
and Elder Herman Jones, of Mount Yer
non, Ohio, will officiate at the funeral of
the late President at Cleveland next
Monday.
New York Tribune: Two things to
be grateful for to-day-that the assassin
was not Southerner and not Democrat.
The Nation mourns with its whole soul,
and there Is no murmur of sectional or
fsctional dissent anywhere.
General Rusk, strong, representa-
man, and one who will no doubt be
elected and do honor to the State and
great credit to himself, has been nomi-
mated for Governor of the State by the
Republicans of Wisconsin.
Two diminutive brothers named
Sparlin :, have just entered Hillsdale Col
lege, Michigan. Christopher, the older,
is eighteen years old, is 393 inches in
height and weighes 37a pounds. The
other, Edwin, is fifteen years old, weighs
499 pounds and is AT inches tall.
Postmaster Starr, of Deadwood, has
made written confession to the effect
that he had been making false reports
showing the arrival and departure of the
mails was on schedule time, which he
states he did for the benefit and accom-
of the Star Route contractors.
The fear is expressed that United
States Senator Ben Hill. of Georgia, who
is troubled with a cancerous affection of
the tongue, and upon which one or two
surgical operations have already been
performed, will eventually loose the
power of speech in consequence thereof.
The old home st Mentor is being |
for the reception of the family |
If the late President Captain Rudolph,
his brother-in-lsw, is overseeing and di- |
,ecting the work, but whatever may be |
lone, however much it may be beauti- |
led and adorned, it can be said, "The |
Did home is not what it used to be-"
The Army of the Cumberland during
is recent reunion at Chattanooga, Tenn,
lected the following officers: President
General P. b. Sheridan; Corresponding
Secretary, General Henry NJ Cist; Record
ng Secretary, Colonel John Steele; Treas
lrer, General J. s Fullerton, and Vice
President from every State and Territory
having resident members of the society.
Thursday, September %, was eman-
ipation day, and large delegations of
olored people from various cities
throughout the West observed it in an
appropriate manner at Springfield, Ills.
\ visit was made to the tomb of Lin
DIN, where memorial services were held,
nd at the cid home of the first martyr
d President the procession was halted, I
There the band played solemn dirge,
nd DR.. Wendeland, who occupies the
ouse, made few appropriate and feel
az remarks
The friends and neighbors, at Men, ,
or, of the late President, are greatly dis
ppointed that his remains should be