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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22
Old.Time Superstltions.

In 1474 the May bug became verv tcsA I
lesome in the neighborhood Of Bsr.s ]
Switzerland, and the people, after tryirs
in vain all other means, called upon ~
Bishop of Lausanne, who solemly exco1,
municated the insect as an irrationS5 I.
imperfect creature, whose kind WA -
er enclosed in Noah's ark The M
were warned to disappear in six daya g
if they did not, to appear for triaj =
Wivelsburg on the sixth day 1t n
o'clock. Neither command was obeve5
as a contempory chronicle says, 4
cause of our SINS" In the Tyrol, in 161e
30, a civil suit was actually beon
against the field-rats! One Simon III
a peasant, entered formal comp|uIrt
before the Judge, William of HasslinrQ1
that said field-rats were doing great dsn.
age in the parish. Fliss chose SchWn'4
MING as his attorney, and the Con-
showed its fine sense Of justice by M,
ing Hans Grinebner to defend the ca.
of the rats. But the witnesses were =
on the side Of the plaintiff, and the dec1,
ion was rendered as follows: !" After y.
cusation and defense, after statemer
and contradiction, and after due conf,
Grafton of all that pertains to justice, ithk1
this sentence determined that those N
ious animals called field-rats must, Wiz
two weeks after the PRONUNCIATION Of u
judgment, depart and forever remainir
aloof from the fields and the Meadow Z
Stiff. But if one or several of the animah
are in delicate health, or unable on =
count of their youth to follow. then n
shall enjoy, during further two weel1
safety and protection from everybodx
and after these two weeks depart
Whether the rats recognized the authQI
ty of Judge William, and emigrated =
obedience to his orders, is not stated; -
the probabilities are that they gave s'stu9
bond' and appealed the case-as . m
many rats do now-a-days.-N 7. En-
in0 Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22
How the Women Voted In Massachusetts,.

Miss Louise M. Alcott, in q letter to
the Wohan's Journal about the Concord
Mass election, at which women voted
for the first time for School Committee,
thus describes the scene and reports her
impressions: "The Moderator (who is
also the Registrar, and has most kindly
and faithfully done his duty to the wom-
en-, in spite of his own difference of opin-
ion) then announced that the ladies would
prepare their votes and deposit them be-
fore the men did. No one objected, we
were ready, and fled out in good order,
dropping our votes and passing back to
our seats as quickly and quietly as posi-
BILE, while the assembled gentlemen
watched us in solemn silence. No bolt
fell on our audacious heads, no earth
quake shook the town, but q pleasing
surprise created q general outbreak of
laughter and applause, for scarcely were
we seated when Judge Hoar rose and
proposed that the polls be closed.
The motion was carried before the
laugh subsidized, and the polls were
closed without a mans voting-a per-
fectly fair proceeding, we thought, since
we were allowed no voice on any other
question. The business of the meeting
went on, and the women remained to
hear the discussion Of ways and means
and see the officers elected with neat
ness and dispatch by the few who APP
peared to run the town pretty much as
they pleased. At five the housewives
retired to get tea for the exhausted gen.
tlemen, some of whom certainly looked
as if they would need refreshment of
some sort after their labor. I was
curious to observe, as the women went
out, how the faces which had regarded
them with disapproval, derision or doubt
when they went in, now smiled affably,
while several men hoped the ladies would
come again, asked how they liked it
and assured them that there had not
been so orderly meeting for years.
One of the pleasant sights to my eyes
was flock of schoolboys watching with
great interest their mothers, aunts and
sisters who were showing them how to
vote when their own emancipation day
came. Another was the spectacle Of
women sitting beside their husbands,
who greatly enjoyed the affair, though
many of them differed in opinion and
had their doubts about the suffrage ques-
ton. Among the new voters were the
descendants Of Major Buttrick of Con-
cord fight renown, two of Hancock and
Quincy, and others whose grandfathers
or great-grandfathers had been among
the first settlers of the town. A goodly
array of dignifed and earnest women,
though some Of the first families of the
historic town were conspicuous by their
absence"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22
THE LOTTERY TICKET.

Painsted was in state of excitement.
There was gossiping by the roadside
and over early tea-tables.
Innmerablc voices had uttered the
EXPLANATIONS, do telr' and Il want
To knowr' but all that had happened
was the quietest wedding possible.
Two people in their Sunday clothes.
ACCOMPANIED by two friends also arrayed
In their best, had walked over to the
church, and there the minister had pro-
nounccd them man and wife.
Even at Painsted people sometimes
married, and many more important per-
sons had been made one than Sally
Corkindahl and Simon Wheeler; but
somehow Painsted was excited.
Sally Corkindahl was a young woman
of thirty, without beauty, but wonder
fully neat and industrious.
Ever since her fifteenth birthday she
had gone about from house to house
making dresses and children's clothes,
known everywhere as a good, pious
young woman, but never considered at
tractivc.
Her work was good and slow. In the
course of these fifteen years she had laid
by nifty pounds.
She always had black alpaca, a clean
linen collar, and checked apron; but
whether they We're the same or were oc-
casionaiiy renewed no one could tell.
simon "heeier was a very pretty
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22
A Curious Plant.

That curious plant, the Rose Of Jer-
icho, often sold as q curiosity, has re-
Gently been correctly and well described
by the veteran botanist, Mr.. j. Smith,
ex-curator of Kew Gardens, London, in
a little work entitled "a History of Bible
Plants" After detailing certain pas
sages of the Scriptures which are sup
posed tn refer to the "rose of Jericho"
he proceeds to say, at is an annual,
having tap root from which numerous
branches are produced, forming a cir
cular disk about foot in diameter, at
first lying nearly fat on the ground. It
has small leaves, and small white how-
ers at their axes. When the seeds are
perfected, the stems become dry, hard
ened and incurred, their points meeting
and forming q skeleton hollow ball,
which in time (by the power of the
WINDY loses hold of the ground, and, be-
ing blown about, rolls and turns like q
wheel" This plant belongs to the nat
ural order Crucifer@, and has been rem
dered famous by the peculiar hyglomet-
rio properties of its stem and branches.
1t affords very interesting example Of
the means by which nature effects the
dispersion of seeds. The fruit is small
roundish silicle with two woody valves
each, each of which terminates at its
apex in an acute point. During the dry
seasons these plant balls are scattered
far and wide by the winds over the
sandy tracts of land extending from
Syria to Algeria, and ON the return of
the rains the branches spread out, the
diminutive silicies burst and release the
seeds, which speedily terminate in the
damp warm soil. This alternate closing
and expanding of the branches continues
for many years. Concerning the strange
manner in which these singular plants
are scattered, the traveller. DIR. Thomp-
SON, has written Is follows: When
ripe and dry in autumn, the branches
become rigid and light as q feather, the
parent stem breaks of at the ground,
and the wind carries these vegetable
globes whithersoever it pleaseth. At
the proper season thousands Of them
come scudding over the plain, rolling,
leaping and bounding, to the dismay Of
both horse and rider. Once, in plain
north of Klamath, my horse became quite
unmanageable among them"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22

The wealthy miser lives -
man here, but he must give 5000
rich man in the day of judgmenH
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the virtue Of
humanity, one can neither be honest in
poverty nor contented in abundance.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22

One life, . little CLEAN Of 90 -
tween two eternities; no secono
to us forevermore.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22

Keep your mouth shut and your
'yes open,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-05-22

trepidation, and returned home trem-
bling; he had spent the last pound of his
poor wife's hoard!
He had bought his fiftieth ticket in the
Gumbo, and for the first time his heart
failed him; he had always expected q
prize before, now he only looked for o
blank.
He went into his small room. Sally
sat at her table sewing. She looked up
at Simon as he entered, and her eyes
filled with tears.
Husband" she said, 1--we got to
ask you about the bank book. hoped
to leave the money lie and then add to it.
You've got it safe, suppose"
"Yes, the book is SAFE" said Simon,
with dreary expression.
"rd like to see it, if you don't mind"
said poor Sally. alt seems as if it would
be sort of comfort"
Simon took the book from his pocket
and handed it to her.
She opened it and glanced at it.
Then her face flushed and she began
to cry.
"Don'tr' said Simon. Don't, Sally!
don't cry. meant it for the best"
If you needed it, you were welcome.
1t belonged to you as much as to me-"
said Sally; " but you might have mem
toned it. I'd have been prepared"
81 was so sure" said Simon. $50
sure"
$50 sure of whatr' asked Sally.
"Of the fifty thousand pounds" said
Simon; 81 expected it long ago."
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
,....I fnr ihe Brakeman.

II ~ man may be considered Al
mt 20 take care Of number one IN
n..aog danger Il is the brakeman on
S-a;.bt train. The mortality statistics
nrove that during years service ne
INNS a greater risk than the soldier VINO
COOS into a great battle. He Is CON
s,sn,iv EXPOSED, overworked and, con-
s;derine the extra hazardous character
Of his employment, not overpaid. Ihsre
are in the country a good many thon-
sands Of them, and II the practical pniI-
anthropist who devotes so muoh eno,'
20 relieve the discomforts OF the turtle
- the nig or to give aid and comfort 70
tbe condemned murderer were to put a
mat value on the comfort and lives o.
human beings who are not criminals
there would long before tits have oeen
an active society for the prevention oil
crrsItv to brakemen. There is real
need of public sentiment throughout Tue
country which will compel the grea'
railroad corporations to combine IN Tue
use of uniform cars provided with sell
couplers and with the air brake. Dur
inc the last year accidents to freight
trains, which might have been avoided
have caused damage enough on many
roads to pay for the required changes
Hartford fConn. CourGnt.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
From Washington.

The total reduction of the debt last month
was $l2, OPT, 1879. The total debt, less cash
in the treasury, is 81 ,924, 500, 074.34. The
cash in the treasury is $l96,66S 1882 .23.
The total amount OF coinage last month was
S6,849 500 OF which 81, $50, 400 was gold and
W. 2o3 600 was silver. Copper cents to the
number OF 100000 we're also coined.
since tho passage OF the silver bill there
have been coined 1858, l89,750 in standard
silver dollars. OF this amount $40 1856 443 is
in circulation. The balance, $48,3 ,304, is
in the treasury vaults.
The custom receipts for last month were in
round numbers, sl9 GOO, 900, against $l7 ,00O,-
600 in july,
The Treasury department is considering the
advisability OF renewing the circulation oil
fractional currency. The facilities afforded
by the new system OF registering packages by
mail, Tor making purchases OF small articles
from distance, make 1t very desirable, says
Washington dispatch, that there should be
in existence some circulating medium of
smaller denomination than the dollar, which
may be sent by mail. Major Power, chief
clerk OF the treasury department, proposes
meet this demand by issuing greenbaoxs o.
the denomination of o1es and twos which may
be divisible into halves and quarters. His
plan is to have the face oil the note printed as
al present. The back he would have divided
into four sections, each bearing separate
obligation on the part Of the government for
its redemption. These may be issued 90 they
are called Tor, and may pass In their complete
form until the holder finds occasion TO cut
them tor the purposes OF change, when their
tendency will be toward the treasury for re.
demption as mutilated currency. BY an
order OF the treasurer, issued by MIR. Spinner
the regular greenbacks now current are 10,
deemab!e when cut in two or more pieces
the amount being proportionate to the size o.
the pieces presented. If Congress should au
thorize the adoption OF M ,jor Powers promo
! standing practice.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
An Enthusiastic Endorsement.

GoRHAM, N. H., July Ia, 1913
Gents-Whoeve you are, 1 don't
know; but l thank the Lord and feel
grateful to you to know that in this
world of adulterated medicines there is
one compound that proves and does all
it advertises to do, and more. -Four
years ago had slight shock OF palsy,
which unnerved me to such ON extent
that the least excitement would make
me shake like the ague. Last May |
was induced to try Hop Bitters. / used
one bottle, but did not see any change /;
another did so change my nerves that
they are now as steady as they ever
were. 1t used to take both hands to
write, but now my good right hand
writes this. Now, il you continue TO
manufacture as honest and good an
article as you do, you will accumulate
an honest fortune, and confer the great
est blessing on your fellow-men that
was ever conferred on mankind.
TIN BURCH.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
Ice and the Stomach.

The use Of ice as a luxury, in the form
OF ice cream or of iced water, is becom-
ing more and more prevalent in this
country. Used in these ways they are
generally taken, especially by the young,
recklessly, without q thought of any
serious, possibly fatal, results that may
follow.
An average stomach has great deal
to do to digest three full meals day !;
especially when, as is frequently thecase
it is disturbed end irritated by food that
is indigestible because of its quality or
quantity. Let it be remembered that
there is nothing in the body-blood,
muscle, membrane, bone, tendon, nerve,
brain or secretions-which has not come
of the contents of the stomach. Neither,
is there thought, feeling, an emotion,
volition or an act which has not de-
rived the material force back of it from
the stomach.
Such an organ must, therefore, be
highly organized. 1t has countless ar
teries, veins, nerves and glands. II is
lined with delicate mucous membrane.
as much so as the air tubes.
1t is studded all over with glands
which elaborate and pour into it that
wonderful fluid, the gastric juice. Its
coats consist of different thin layers of
muscles arranged crosswise, and these
are constantly.at work, giving it that
peculiar rolling motion by which the
food is thoroughly mixed with the
saliva. Every organ and muscle when
in action must have a special supply OF
blood. This is especially true of the
stomach.
Food, therefore, fails to digest if the
blood is withdrawn from the stomach
as, for instance, to the brain by study OF
close thought. or by anxiety Immediately
after eating. {
Now, it is the nature of cold to con
tract all blood vessels and drive bacl
the blood, and to paralyze, more or less
all nerves. OF course the flow of gastric
juice is checked and digestion is arrested
and the proper motion Of the stomach
interfered with, by an ice-cold fui,
introduced into.it.
Further, when the reaction sets in, tn
blood vessels become over distended
producing often dangerous congestion
and an increased thirst, with longin,
for more ice water, thus inducing
"vicious circle !"
From what we have said any reade
can see that iced water, or ice crear
should not be taken into the stomac
at the same time with food. Seriou
consequences will often follow a disre
gard Of this physical law Youths Con
pGnion.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
What Shall We Drink?

The editor of Science discusses at
length the value of the different articles
of food which generally enter into daily
consumption. Chocolate, he SAYS,
from its large proportion of albumen,
is the most nutritive beverage, but at
the same time, from its quantity of fat,
the most difficult to digest. It's aro-
matte substances, however, strengthen
the digestion. A cup of chocolate is an
excellent restorative and invigorating
even for weak persons, provided their
digestive organs are not too delicate.
Cardinal Richelieu attributed to choco-
late his health and hilarity during his
later years. Tea and coffee } not afford
this advantage. Albumen in tea leaves.
and legumin in coffee berries are repre-
sented In very scanty proportions. The
praise of tea and coffee as nutritive SUBJ
stances is, therefore, hardly warranted.
Tea and coffee, though of themselves
not difficult of digestion, tend to disturb
the digestion of abuminous substances
by precipitating them from their dis
solved state. Milk, therefore, if mixed
with tea or coffee, is more difficult of
digestion, than If taken alone, and cof-
fee alone without cream promotes diges-
ton after dinner by increasing the secre-
tion OF the dissolving juices. The
volatile oil of coffee and the empyreu-
matte and aromatic matters of chocolate
accelerate the circulation, which, on
the other hand, is Gained by tea. Tea
and coffee both excite the activity OF
the brain and nerves. Tea, it is said,
increases the power of digesting the inn
pressions we have received, creates q
thorough meditation, and, in spite OF
the movements of thoughts. permits the
attention to be fixed upon certain sub
ject. On the other hand, ii tea is taken
in excess, it causes an increased irrita.
bility of the nerves, characterized by
sleeplessness, with general feeling Of
/ restlessness and trembling of the limbs
Coffee, also, il taken in excess, produces
: sleeplessness and many baneful effects
/ very similar to those arising from tea.
! drinking. Coffee, however, produces
J greater excitement and sensation O
: restlessness and heat ensues. For throw,
ing off this condition fresh air is th,
best antidcte.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
A Husbands Testimony.

NY wife was troubled for years with
blotches, moth patches and pimples on
her face, which nearly annoyed the life
out of her. She spent many dollars on
the Thousand infallible (p) cures, with
nothing but injurious effects. A lady
friend, of Syracuse, N. Y :, who had had
similar experience and had been cured
with Hop Bitters, induced her to try it
One bottle has made her face as smooth
fair and soft as q child's, and given hel
such health that it seems almost 6
miracle.
A MEMBER OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15

a.,.r,mep, Of agriculture IS about 20
my -, ;nvestiqntion into the orkis -, =.
49, Si-....,. ,,nenmonia in American cate.e: -
49, ,,,,,u, also in,is q disease au0e,ans -, -
s. Ia ,ao1,b existing among tho sheeP VI
the eoan a,nsr which Ieft Liverpool the other
,sv Tor New York had on board sii M', ha;o.,
converts bound for Utah, most On 'heAh 0's
English, Scotch or Weicn' .-,...a =, I.m.ic.
Further reports irom the lsIanu u, S,,j,,g
chow that nearly fity lives Ne,e tG isi.ad III
~ ,,.sione In the villages OF tie Island al
~ si,,,rcbes and nearly all the residences "ee
,Io,vn down and the ciops destroyer. -.
o,s hundred and my houses have oeeh
.,S,-,,,,,,d hI fire in the town OF SerihaguI
Ito The disaster involved some IosS u
i;,e aud many persons were IN uteu' II
NV William ri. Greenwood, an Amencan TAIL l.l
.oa5 snrvovor. has been murdered IA MeAi0o'
Foreign News
Fifty harges and boats were reoeusy WA,
with about s, OOO, 600 ieet oil iuihoei ~
Canada for the American uia , Noe, 10. oearod
0'' a citizen Of Chihaahuain Mexico has oneteo
| 90 ooO Tor the Apache Indian Chiei Nic'olm
81 and $3.50 for that OF any oil his wari ioIs
| " !. 20 ana his band plundered and mutusre
~, tho borlers of the United States ana Nc
100 Tor long time, aud have gwen the au' ',,.
;t;.s nj both countries great deal oil 'r'uule '
IA Avoob Khan, the Afghan leader has e Se
sign .lly defeated by General Roberts Us dm
Afghaps lost twenty-seven guns ana "ei' o"'
perse1. II dar,ase was don
in King. ton, Jamaica. by the reeent os', ,Dor
Nearly all the houses and shPPins 81
Isiond Weio Hnined, the people are wi'nou
lood and a famine is feared. -, - ~
Two attempts have boon discovered 70 III y,
dermine and blow up train upon which IN
Emperor Of Russia had embarked Tor Lvadi,
In one instarce the mine contained lOS pouno
Thirty persons we're killed by the explos $40
IN the V6lga river in Russ a of floating re-
ervoir containing a thousand tuns oil kerosen
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
Western and Southern stato..

vt6TTernor st. Jonn anl Iufr Stats EGSst. M
Three young children OF Charles Wilson, a
farmer OF Surry county, Va, were killed by
eating the berries of the deadly nigh'shsde.
At the Nebraska Republican State conven-
ton IN Omaha Governor Vance and the other
State officers we're all renominated by accla-
nation.
Constant and heavy rains which have pre-
vailed over nearly the entire u est have en-
injui ous TO the still unsecured wheat crops
During the absence OF the iilor OF the Gin
ton county jail at Dewitt, Iowa, eight pris-
oners overpowered the turnkey and escaped.
Stephen Richardson, (colored,) was hanged
at Wilmington, N. c., for the murder oil his
mother-in-law, Lucy Phinney, last July.
Joseph Wade and Mrs. Brown, convicted o.
numbering the husband OF the latter, have
been sentenced at indianapolis to be hanged
October q.
AT Washington Corners, Cal. :, grain ware
house containing 100000 sacks OF wheat was
destroyed by fire, entailiDg q loss oil $3.50, 600
Two stages which run between Louisville
Ky, and the Mammoth Cave were stopped by
| highwaymen and all the passengers robbed.
A dispatcn from Ga ena, ILL.,, General Grants
home, says he positively declines the presi-
dency oil the San Pedro gold and silver min
| ing company OF New Mexico.
Twelve wr,c ks are reported along the
Florida coast by the same cyclone in which
the Vera Cruz was sunk. The wrecks com.
prise two steamers and ten smiling vessels
he coast for 100 miles is strewn with goods
Of all descriptions from wrecks.
Here is the report of one days criminal
record at Bodie, CAL: George Watkins killed
police officer named Whitaker, and died
shortly after from the effects OF wounds in
| aicted by that officer. A Spaniard killed
John blackwell, miner, in saloon on &C.
count OF H. ckwells beating a waiter girl, and
John Raum killed man named Costello, the
trouble growing out Of the same occurrence.
A fire at Mobile, Ala, destroyed several
large brick business houses, causing an asgre
gate loss OF about $3.50, $50.
Three colored men were drawn as Jurors in
acriminal case in Louisville, Ky a few days
ago This is the first time in the history O
the State that coiored men have acted as jury
| men.
1t is stated that the recent storm utterly
destroyed the Florida orange crop. 1t is est.
mated that the yield would have BEEN one
million boxes and that the loss will reach
| al 60O 000