The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-12-25
GENERAL.

6ENEBA1s
LIVERPOOL and Manchester have been
connected by telephone, and London
will soon be taken into the circuit.
A JUDGE at Durham, England, de.
nounced the defendant in . case before
him a. "a fool and an ill.conditioned
vagabond."
JANIS A. GARFlELD viii be the third
President Of the United States who BE-
gan life - . sch00l.teacher. The 9th.
ers were Willard Fillmore and Franklin
Pierce.
The Mexicans Of chihuahua call up.
on the United States to help pay the OF.
fercd reward Of q, 900 and e22 per scalp
for their determination of Victorio and
bis band of Apaches.
THE distance from San Francisco to
New Orleans, by way of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, will be about the same
as the distance from San Francisco to
Omaha. ..-.
In . recent suit brought by . girl
against o man for breach Of promise, the
jury decided on the evidence that he was
so mean scoundrel that she ought to
pay him for not marrying her.
SO many persons commit suicide by
jumping of the three bridges across
the Fiber at Rome that a philanthropical
society keeps boatmen at each bridge in
order to rescue the unfortunate.
The Philadelphia Times says that
twenty years ago cigarette smoking was
comparatively innocuous, since all cigar.
cites then came from Cuba and were
wrapped in rice paper. Now, however,
they are for the most part Of bad tobac.
CO and common paper. and, besides
having an OdiOus smell, IRE very injuri-
oas to tens Of thousands Of the youth
who consume them.
: AGENTS sent out by railroad officials
to look for lost cars have seen rolling
stock put to some strange uses. On the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Scranton
road, in Pennsylvania, . car was found
on ! side track tenanted by . family Of
Indians who had made II their wigwam
for about five months, and II, New
Hampshire an unused car was divided
into two compartments, one for Q gran
sy and tho other for hog pen.
IN field near Sheerness, England,
that has been IN cultivation for centuries,
the foundations OF the convent for sew.
enty nuns, founded at Minster.in-Shep-
by in the year GO, have just been dis
covered. The extensive buildings were
many times pillaged and destroyed by
the Danes, and were finally rebuilt in
1850. Objects Of interest in good pres
ervation have already been brought ia
light. .3.
NICHOLAS BONIyAs's wife deserted
him and went to San Francisco, where
she married again. He followed hel
and begged her to return to him and
her children. She refused. They ha(
a final interview in. her house, and il
ended with his shooting her four times
Neighbors ran in on hearing the report
UHU lOUUU LCI OlOuCs CuC "ssS ia lAot
tai agony, and was told by the doctor
that She could not possibly recover
They asked who had shot her. - dom
kpow," she replied; "he vss . strange
Il never saw him before" l'us her q
1 fort to shield the murderer Was useless
for his body was soon found IN che becl
ward, where he had killed himself.
THE Irish journals recount with gle
that noble Lord in the neighborhOo,
of Belfast had announced his intention
to pass the winter in Ireland. Th
prospect was not pleasing to Milady'
French maid, so she forwarded threat
ening letter to his Lordship, who at ono
"ordered his carriage. drove to the sta
ton, and flew off to London" journey
ing from his residence to the station
"with q revolver primed, capped, AM
loaded by his side, two other friends &C
companying him with loaded rifles in
side the carriage, while gallant Col
Onel, armed to the teeth, sat on the BIO,
by the coachman," the French maid il
q rumble behind laughing internally +
degree fatal to corset-laces. -