The Lincoln County herald., 1873-06-04
STATE liens.

StSlo IteDS.
Il is said that the grape crop abou
Herman, Gssconade county, will be .,
entire failure this year, With the sxcep
,ioo perhaps Of the Concord grape, whicl
fortunately &itbstoud the -:gors Of tn
past winter.
Tie Lou,.iau., Mo-, bridge will b.
20sO feet long, which is 500 feet longe
than the bridge a. Hannibal. The cos
will be between eight and niue hundre,
thousand dollars, aud it Is to bs com
ple'ed BY the fret Of December next.
On Saturday evening last, . small
stable standing just south Of the square
in this city vas struck by lightning snt
entirely consumed. The house VA
the property Of Mr.. Richard Tanning
whose dau. .h'er "a. iu the stable feeding
some calves ., tho time the bolt struck
She VAS unirjured.-fulton Press.
Tvs brothers. named james and B, q
ismin Payne, each of whom had long
believed ,he other dead, met BY sppoint.
ment 10 Columbi, one day last week
after . SCI arstion Of more than City
years. Benjamin lived in Illinois and
90, long since heard Of his brother 10
Boone eoaniy: = eorrespopdepce .trsng
ap aud joyful meeting wss ne result.
A son Of Mr. DAVID Heuet Of Jones'
burg, ssop; eleven years old. jumped on
. train while it w,s 10 motion st the depot
10 ihs, place on Wednesday Of last week,
and slipped and fell urd.r the wheels
shlet dragged hin some distance and
Int,c,ed s frigh;ful fe.h wound on one
Of he highs He would have been Gu,
into BY the wheels exeep, tbs, they we're
locked tDi ru.hed him on the track 10
stead Of passing over bis body. Dr..
Pi;iuau dressed the uo1nd and il 10
hoped The boy u,ll recover 1i,hou, fur.
tier aouble.-Mon,gomery Standard.
A cotton factory i. about so,og into
operation q. Springfield, 10 this state.
The town ha. slrssdy several large usn.
uf,e;uriog establish men's. amorg which
are wagon and agricultural Implement
factory and no town 10 the West of the
.sme size, i. enjoying . greater degree Of
prosperity. Good substantial factories
will build up any town. And they are
the institutions tha. Paris is lacking, and
for the requirements Of which, the best
energies Of our citizens should be directed,
and without which We cannot expect to
prosper and grow into importance. Paris
Mercury.
The beauties of the criminal code have
been exemPli6ed 10 Jefferson City. A
negro named Lewis Richardson was com.
mitted to Jail for stealing chicken worth
twenty, five cents. 1t cost Cole county
thirty dollars to keep him until be died.
He died Of smallpox or vari6loid, and
there we're fifteen other prisoners in the
Jail, and they we're exposed to the ihfec-
ton. Burying the deceased cost the
county fifteen or twenty dollars n ore,
and if the other prisoners catch the dis
ease, the cost can scatcely be computed.
as there is no law authorizing the sheriff
to remove . ptlsotsr in such case:
Alfred Valinoourt, a young man Of St.
Louis, sumbitted himself to the care Of
the surgeons iu that city, one day last
week, to have an operation performed on
his jaw. As the operation was likely to
prove q painful one, 1t was decided to
administer chloroform. This was done
under the supervision of Drs. Lankford
and Love. The young man had not
fully gotten under the influence of the
till hs was observed suddenly
10 cease breathing. Artificial respiration
and the galvanic battery were fesorted to
but to no effect. He was stone dead.
Mr.. L. Natz, Of St. Charles, caught
Two cat hsh in the slough near that city
me day last week, one Of which weighed
% and the other $50 pounds. They had
gotten into shallow water, and Mr.. Natz
discovering them sent his dog after them,
he mud being too deep for him to wade.
When the dog had brought them within
'each Mr.. Nats mounted one Of the fish
md had quite a ride on bis back. A
ish was caught at the mouth Of the Oar.
]enne, IN st. Charles county, about the
'ame time, that weighed 463 pounds.
On Tuesday morning Of last week,
Henry Shacklstt, . brskssman on q
freight train Of the St. Louis, Kansas
City & Northern railroad, met with .
horrible accident at the tank, one mile
'ast Of Ceutralia, which resulted i'll bis
1eath. He was coupling the cars, when
he fell and was Immediately run over by
The train. Seventeen cars passed over
his leg, mutilat,ng il horribly. From
The knee down there vas not bone au
nch long-his whole limb being mashed
into q jelly. DR.. Arnold of this place
was sent for, but psrceiving that death
vas inevitable did not amputate the leg.
The unfortunate man fingered until
Wednesday morning about 10 O'Clock,
Whsn be died. He was formerly from
Illinois and about 10 years old.-Colum.
bia Herald.
A. Mr.. John Powell and lady we're
quietly jogging along to church. i short
lime since, their horse became frightened
n aotno mon and hov. ubo ..-o uoll-