The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-07-12

| and struck on the stones, fifteen
| feet below. His rate of travel is
twenty five miles a day. rain or
shine, hot or cold. He wears a
red flannel shirt and black panta.
looms. A broadbrim straw hat is
pulled over a face that is red
with tan. The wheelbarrow is
ornamented with miniature flags
and a windmill bnilt over the
wheel serves as a fan. He sells
pictures of himself on the route.
Potter is 400 miles behind, but
still pressing on, with the same
hope entertained by the rest OF
world-that FedermeAer may
break his neck before he gets
across the Delaware.
The walking Widow Potts, who
proposes to pad all the way from
this city to New Orleans and Ie-
turn in five months, has reached
Mount Airy, Ua., bound south.
She left here about forty days
ago. AS far as can be learned
the widow is not walking OH
wager, but just for the fun Of the
thing. When a crowd of boys
trotted out Broad street with her
| in April she was fresh from the
| band box, and so in passing Clles
ter, Wilmington aud Maryland
. points she game: the admiration
of the spectators by the peach
. like bloom upon her cheek. Now,
if the Mount Airy correspondent
. of the Augusta Chronicle may be
g believed, the widow is less pre-
3 possessing. The correspondent
n SAYS: "She was dressed in a
cheap gown belted with Il cloth
belt, in which she had Il watch;
had on IL straw hat, with.a pink,
: white aud blue band around 1t
S she didn't have on baby shoes by
any manner of means her shoes
- were common morocco, about No.
5.s-hat heel. Has false teeth,
u eagle gray eyes, saffron hair, bad
4 ly sun. burned, bold looking. She
O. says she has no fear OF being mo
$ Tested. | guess not, for people
> in this country have some TASTE
The widow is said to think that
II the eyes of the world are upor
/. her. When she shall return tt
,e this city she expects to challenge
y Weston. or whoever may hole
y. the Ashley belt, to a 6-day, 6O.day
or 6OO>day walk tor the champion
ship. With this thought sh'
III sings:
rs jog on, Jog on. the foot-psth way,
And merrily hent the silica;
RI. A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in q mica.
Henry st. Patrick Tudor, whei
OF last hear! from, a few days ago
was crossing the Red river il
n Louisiana, still bound south. Tn
e public will bear in mind that MI
Tudor is on his way to Patagonia
whittier he will be borne on tn
ly back of a faithful steed. He lef
New York some time last Febru
AIRY. with the design Of elevatin|
49,. James Gordon Bennett, of th
" Herald, to tue purple Of Patagc
RI MIA. In swimming the Red live
an alligator swallowed him, o
Ill rnhsr his lert leg. With grea
'g Ire sence of mind st. Patrick si]
ne ped out of his lett boot, an
If while the alligator made hi
meal on leather, the gallant pill
grim escaped. Such, at least i
er the story told by the local paper
es which seem to be painfully una
% preciative of the explorers worth
The little boat ''Uncle Sam,
Z" bearing Capt. Goldsmith aud hi
CO wife from Boston aronnd tn
,r. globe, swung off from this cont
es nent on Wednesday aud is nov
fairly out at sea. Capt. Col
smiths plan is to visit the Balti
and Mediterranean seas and t
move from the latter by way
lat the Suez Canal to India. Theme
he will skirt the coast to Hon
Kong and strike boldly out acros
=. the Pacific. The Uncle Sam i
not larger than the ordinar
pl' river yacht and unless ON mil
acle i%nterferes we are relieved
one crank tor good.
William Van Colt who lei
New Rochelle, Conn.,, somethin
et- like a month ago. to paddle t
Boston in a tub that weighe
twenty eight pounds, has eithe
been lost, or giving up his tasl
9el sneaded into the background
tie When last heard from he was d
South NorwaIk tub tossed Oh til
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