The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

james G. Fair, the mining million
aire, is now travelling in China.
Some of the questions which will
be brought before the new English Par
lament are in reference to home post
age of one halfpenny, an ocean penny
postage, sixpenny telegraph service,
and . universal money-order system.
The people of Spencer County. KY.
believe that there is q huge snake. eigh-
teen feet long, in their midst, and there
is a tradition that such reptile escaped
nom circus in that county many years
since and that it still lives.
The toadies to be most recently
fooled by bogus English lord are those
of Columbus, Ohio. He called himself
Lord Arundel, and he was welcomed at
once to fashionable homes, though he
was plainly an uneducated cockney. He
was invited to the floor of the Legisla-
ture, and the women dotted on him.
After borrowing all the money possible
he absconded.
More than one hundred years ago
Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston, owned
large tracts of land in Maine, and three
towns were named after him respect
lively Harrison, Gray and Otisfield. The
citizens of Otisfield intend TO hold q re-
union next August. to which are to be
invited all persons who have gone forth
from the town and their descendants.
The disappearance of the British
training ship Atalanta has given rise to
a suggestion in the Pail Nall Gazette
that every seagoing vessel should be
compelled to carry at least one of the
so-called "sea-messengers." The sea-
messenger is a cask made in various
sizes of copper, in compartments. and,
according to its size, letters, dispatches,
ships logs, jewelry and other valuables
can be inserted in it. The cask can be
Theoretically sealed so that no water
can get in, and may then be thrown
overheard with the assurance that it
will remain afoat for long time.
Hear what the unjust Judge saith
in Hungary: Some time a Ego man died
bankrupt. and though he did not leave
his widow single penny, he bequeath-
ed her very large unpaid bill at local
public-house. His creditor did honor to
his memory by bringing an action
against his widow for the payment of
her husbands drinking account. She
proved that he was absolutely penni-
less, but the Judge condemned her to
pay the bill with costs, on the ground
that by her evidently capricious and inn
practicable temper she had driven her
late husband to the public-h0use, in or
der to find there the comfort and peace
~ hin, A. hcunot
The great influx of Europeans to
this country, while gratifying in the
main, is not without disagreeable feat
ures. The discovery has been made III
New York that not only are many OF
the immigrants destitute, but some Of
them paupers within the legal meaning
of the term, and that these paupers are
being sent here at the expense of the
authorities of their native country. The
Government of Bavaria, it appears from
investigations made by the New York
Emigration Commissioners. has been
guilty of this disgraceful practice. A
party of eighty adults and large num-
Der Of children arrived at Castle Gar
den last week, their passage having
been provided for by the Bavarian
Government by contract with q shipping
agent at Aschfifenberg. These people
were q burden on the state and were
sent to America that the State might be
relieved of the expense of providing fol
them. From the statements of the
paupers it appears tina. the Bavariar
Government contemplates~ Kidding it.
self of others of its helpless citizens in
| the same manner.