Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-10-15
CALIFORNIA THEArR1cALs.-The Sacra-
mento Theatre is closed for the summer in

i CALIFORNIA THEATRIcALs-The Sacra
mento Theatre is closed for the summer in
terval.
The Metropolitan Theatre, on Montgome
~ street San Francisco is progressing rap
idly and will be ready for occupancy abou
the LIST OF November, and will be the fines
dramatic establishment on the Pacific.
Mr.. Murdoch made his first appearance
at the American Theatre, San Francisco
August %. The prices were raised, a
which the public were indignant.
HIS engagement was only partially sue
/ Mrs. Sinclair, after concluding very
satisfactory engagement of three weeks Al
| the American, is resting in San Francisco
favorlng her admirers with occasional read
Iings. The first battalion Of California militia
gave Mrs. C. ~ Sinclair a complimentary
benefit. She had given series of success
full readings for the benefit ofthe Mercantile
| Library Association.
The Rousset Sisters arrived on the Cortes
and were soon to appear. -
The Pacific Musical Troupe are preparing
tor another season in San Francisco.
7 The new Stockton theatre was soon to
open, with Mr.. w. B. and Miss Caroline
Chapman, and a portion ofthe San francisco
troupe.
/ At. Downieville, Mr.. and Mrs. Walker
were still playing, supported. by good
company One thousand and seventy-five
dollars was paid for the first ticket to Mrs
Walkers benefit
The Spanish and French companies occu.
py the Adelphi Theatre, San Francisco, for
two evenings every week, Tracy's Serena.
ders holding soirees on the other nights.
| Catherine Hayes is giving concerts at
Valparaiso with success.
The CRIPPLE's FARM.-At the mass-meet-
ing of farmers, in Concord Mass, in March
last, Hon. John w. Proctor gave as an illus
tration Of what energy and perseverance
can do, under the most .dscouraging and
unfavorable circumstances for improving,
at one and the same time, the soil and the
mind,
IA few years SINCE" said Mr.. Proctor,
"Simeon L. Wilson, of Metheun, sent in his
statement to the committee on farms, of the
Essex Society, which, when the facts came
to be known, awakened much interest. Ii
appeared that this cultivator of the soil had
been cripple from his youth, with no COM
mand of his lower extremities whatever, and
only able to move from place to place, as
moved by others, or IN the little go-gig that
his ingenuity had constructed. He had
come in possession of about an acre of what
was deemed a acorthless bog, situated by the
side of the way; for years claimed by no one
and had contrived to drain it. and to cover
it from the adjoining knolls, SO that he grew
thereon nursery of more than twelve
thousand fruit trees, and a variety of fruit of
fine quality IN considerable abundance. In
fact he so managed as to be able TO sell
enough to support himself and his mother
from the products of this reclaimed acre.
thereby saving the town one hundred dol
lars year to which they would otherwise
have been properly subjected"
What lesson for those stalwart farmers,
with great farms AMI healthy sons, TO study
and put to practice in retaining their wet
lands and irrigating the dry ones upon their
farms! GA word to the wise is sufficient"