Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-10-18
GENERAL BREyITIES.

Two women will occupy seats III the
next Wyoming Legislature.
LONG ISLAND CRY is four years old and
has impeached its mayor and two judges.
BosToN reporter found package of
$4,000 the other day, and he refused the
50 which the owner rendered him.
THE Chinese of the Pacific slope are OPP
posed to the introduction of the national
currency there. They say tits ''too thin
nee."
The baby which took the first premium
at the Page county, Iowa, fair. was the
tweDty-second olive branch of MIR. and
Mrs. Jacob Simonton. T
THERE are 10000 drunkards in Connecti-
cut, and fifteen out of every forty-one men
who have attained their majority and 0ed
during the last five years were drunkards.
The story that Connecticut father had
offered $4,000 to any one who would
marry his cross-eyed daughter, brought
about eight hundred strangers into the
town in about one week.
THE Supreme Court of New York has
Just decided that man can pick all the
fruit from tree growing on his own land
though it hung over on neighbours land.
The question is ali old and oft-disputed
one.
The new monastery at Mellory, near
Dubuque, Iowa, is rapidly approaching
completion. 1t is fine stone building,
1000 feet i'm circumference. The brothers
have 1000 acres of fine land. stocked with
Durham cattle, Cashmere goats and large
herds of swine. Fifteen acres are devoted
TO garden and nursery.
AN exchange noticed and commented
upon the ''pungent odor" emanating from
one of its valuable exchanges-the Shreve-
port Times. Whereupon that paper says
'For his benefit we will state that each
copy of the Times is carefully stewed in a
pot of asafetida, and dried by rubbing
down with dry mustard before mailing.
We venture to assert that yellow fever will
steer clear of that editor" Est.
THERE is gentleman in Dubuque who
was at one time during a past age the be-
trothed of the gentle Susan b. Anthony;
another, an unrequited lover of Anna
Dickinson, both at the present writing
hale and hearty, and as able to take a
square clearinghouse meal as though
they had never loved mot wisely but too
we'll"
LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER, who sent
cargo of warming-pans to the West Indies,
bias an imitator in the British Admiralty,
which recently sent out a cargo Of rice
from Portsmouth to its colony on the coast
of Africa, which is besieged by the Ashan-
tees, only to find, when it was too late,
that rice was the. only article of food which
abounds in that country.
THE PEANUT AS A SOCIAL AGENT.-Mr.
James Parton was one of the speakers at
the Salisbury Beach Mass.) picnic, He
declared emphatically in favor of peanuts,
saying that: whether you regard the
peanut as mitigator of seaside hunger
while you are waiting for the clans to be
done-and it takes long time for them to
do when large party are waiting for
them-or whether you consider them in
the light of promoters Of friendship and
conversation, they are equally admirable"
The reporter of Nashville paper, who,
mentioning a young lady's decease, touch
ingly alluded to her as 9 one Of the bright
est jewels that ever glittered in the diadem
of an earthly home one of the purest stars
that ever CLEANED upon the frontlet of our
social sky; one of the sweetest flowers
that ever bloomed in the garden of earliest
association" has had his salary increased
to four dollars month, half cash and the
balance in cOrd-woOd.
LIEUT.. WHEELER's astronomical and
surveying parties, which have been at
work this season in Colorado, Utah, Wyo-
ming, and New Mexico, have ascertained
that a remapping of all that vast territory
will be necessary, that the various noun
tain ranges will have to be located anew,
and that the Rocky Mountain range, in
stead of being the backbone of the con-
tinent,. is a separate range, of and in itself,
with clearly defined base lines. The opera
tons of the survey take in the whole Pa
cific coast, and the area which will be
mapped during the coming season will
cover p 900 square miles in Colorado, 3D.
600 in Arizona and New Mexico, and from
1000 to 5000 in southeastern Utah.