The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-05-13
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drops of the oil Of cinnamon is add
cd the taste of the castor oil cal
scarcely be recognized.
AT suit ON trial in Boston
twelve lawyers are employed. The
four parties interested, petitioner
assignee, creditor and mortgage
having three lawyers apiece.
The Rev. Mr.. Bates of Chalses
meant to advertise that he would
preach about Crock, Rod, and Water
for ALL" but it was printed, Crock.
Cod and Water for ALL"
In New Hampshire they value
SKINNED milk at two cents a quart
for feeding pigs. The Courier-Jour-
nal says that in Louisville ten cents
quart is paid for the same thing to
feed babies with.
The Dresden Democrat says:
major John II. Glass, of Trenton,
was over here last week to pay 81 900
for negro man that he bought sew
enteen years ago. He executed his
note payable when the young man
became of age, which event occurred
a few days ago"
"A basket full of human bones,
found by a roadside, was enough to
set Newport wondering. 1t turns
out, however, that two boy bone
CATERERS had found them on the
beach and filed their basket, but
had fled with rising hair when they
saw human skull grinning at them.
A Boston target company, made
up of twelve young ladies, went to
Dorchester Heights on an excursion
the other day, carrying q target in
the usual way. Their shooting was
good, and gold medal rewarded
Miss Lizzie Flynn, who hit the bulls
eye three times in succession.
Reuben Smith of Mortified, VT,
wanted to die because he thought his
wife was unkind to him. He took
morphine, but the wife was prompt
enough with restoratives to keep
him alive. So he watched for anoth-
er chance, escaped to the barn, and
there hung himself
In Truckee, Nevada, the other
day, a group of five able-bodied in
dividuals were conversing about fire.
arms. One offered to wager the
drinks that there were not three re-
volvers in the crowd. The bet was
taken, and the result was six revol-
yers, three derringers, and horse
pistol.
"A Keokuk paper tells story of
how clergyman at Keokuk married
two young people in Bonaparte on
last Thursday by telegraph. The
parties assembled in the telegraph
offices, the questions and responses,
service and benediction were licked
rapidly off, and the happy pair left
the office, one flesh, welded by
lightning.
The late Countess of Loudoun
in her will, which has just been adj
mitted to probate, after expressing
wish that her funeral may be as quiet
as possible, says: Il further wish
my right hand to be cut off and
buried in the Park at Castle Doning-
ton, at the bend of the hill to the
Trent, and a small cross or stone
over it with the motto, II hyde my
tyne"
"A fire at $40 Washington street,
Boston, was kindled in this way:
Patrick Flannery was the night
Waterman. He went to sleep on a
bench, as usual, with his lamp be-
side him. His hat fell off and upset
the lamp. That started the fire, and
the Waterman slept soundly until
his clothes were scorched. The pro-
prietors have lost confidence in
night watehmen.
The experiment of cultivating
coffee from the native plant, so album
dant in the foothills of the Sierra
NeVadas, is already begun in earnest.
A gentleman who is already familiar
with. the coffee plant, and with it's
cultivation in Costa Rica, as any of
horticulturists are with the apple
tree and the cultivation Of the apple,
has purchased a place containing a
large number of the coffee shrubs,
and has commenced the work of pru-
ming and cultivation, and expects to
gather his first crop Of coffee next
fall.
On the occasion Of the recent ex1
eavations in the neighborhood of the
Porta Stabiana in Pompeii a house