Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1881-09-10
Navigation has ceased on the Ohio

depth of only too inches. Look out
for another rise in the price of coal.
The poison of bee sting may be
forced Gu. by pressing the barrel of q
small key firmly for minute over the
wound No wound or swelling will re-
suit
The loss by the burning of Libby,
McNeill & Libby's beef packing estab-
lishment In Chicago, day or two since,
aggregates $3.50, 900, mostly covered by
insurance.
The bandits who recently robbed the
train near Independence, Missouri, secur-
ed from the passengers about $50. 900 in
money, jewelry, and watches. The plum
Ger filed q two-bushel coffee sack.
| Portions of the forests of Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey are being devastat-
ed by fire. Thousands of acres in those
two States are burning, and the air is
filed with smoke for miles and miles.
The London Truth says that Canada
is an incumbrance upon the British gov
eminent, and that Ontario, the only de-
sirable part, is bound by its position and
business relations to become, in course Of
! time, one of the United States.
Lieutenant Flipper, of the Tenth
cav airy, the only colored graduate of the
q. 8. Military Academy, is to be tried by
court martial at Fort Davis, Texas,
charged with the embezzlement of 81, zoe
of government funds. The court will
convene Thursday, September Is.
For the week ending Thursday, Sep.
tember 9Th, the real estate transfers in
Chicago, amounted to $e12,841. There
is evidently great boom in Chicago, real
estate, property is rapidly advancing in
value, while rents are corrapondingly
high and vacant houses scarce and hard
to find.
The oldest missionary in India is the
Rev. George Pesrce, of the English Bap.
fist Society. He arrived in India in 1926
consequently has spent fifty-five years in
the service. The Rev. J. p. Rottler, who
died in 1886, spent sixty years in India
q longer term than any missionary in that
country.
The new gait recently introduced
and used, more especially by young
women, when out on the promenade, is g
sad commentary on the vanity of the
modern miss, and shows to what q grea,
extent they are the slaves of fashion. II
is worse than the Boston dip and much
more distressing to behold.
Miss Adelaide Eugenia Tlden
daughter of the late Moses Y. Tilden, OF
New Lebanon, N. Y, and niece of Hon
Samuel J. Tilden, was married at the
latter a summer residence, near New Y orb
city, to Mr.. Robert Douglas Buchanan
of the latter place The wedding WA
strictly private.
-Guiteau was forty years of age
Thursday, September 9Th. His birthday
was not celebrated, and to his intimatiou
to one of his guards that it was usual to
| give presents on such occasions, the
guard suggested spider in his dump
ling" He is in good condition physic-
ally and could stretch piece of hemp
beautifully.
The cottage occupied by the Presi
dent at Long Branch is large, roomy and
airy and is the property of Mr.. G. g.
Franklyn, of New York city, and who
was at one time agent in that place OF
the Cunard line of ocean steamers. The
house, grounds, servants, etc.. were
placed, free of all charge, at the disposal
of the distinguished patient by Mr..
Franklyn.
The longer Dom Pistt, the we'll
known newspaper correspondent lives,
the more bitter and sourer he becomes.
His last letter contains the following very
hopeful sentiments:
at may be that in fighting the Quit
eaus, Pig iron Kelly, Dawes, Conkling,
ct al, may fail; but God will not fail.
and in good time all these fellows will
| be hung. am not vindictive-not at
| all-but hope to be spared to see them
| all dangling, when my eyes will close in
peace, with the full assurance that the
Lord iveth."
1t Is said that DR.. Tanner il putting
himself through q process of fattening
with the intention of entering upon an
other fast 1t is the poor and lean per-
son who should fast. A corpulent man
living twenty or even forty days without
food, proves nothing except the power of
sustaining life by absorbing his own fat.
If Alexander 81. Stephens, for instance,
could survive fasting ordeal. such -
that undertaken by Griscom, at Chicago,
there would then be some reason for en-
couraging the business.
of Vice-President Arthur, ex-Sena-
tor Plat says: "He is . very different
man from the popular impression of him,
and especially in the West, where have
found persons who regarded him a. =
kind of political hummer. The contrary
is the fact. He is q level headed, edu-
Gated New York gentleman, of peculiarly