The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-08-14
MISCELLANEOUs.

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The Boston Courier diuoovi 4 Z:
the man who is appointed % ~
After- dinner speech is nervous ,r3
sent minded and that he dos - d.
his dinner.
Letter found on a CalifuuI. q,
eide: &c In this sheltered nook / r.. y. g
down to die. When man outlic5 h.
usefulness / think he ought + ~
I have done so. Adieu."
The dealers in Italy say IL
competition of American cere1I, II
crushing to their own produceus ~
can grain being better than theIr 7,' &
cheaper, and unlimited in resper< p
supply. ~. !, q.
Policeman Max shot and killed :,
rowdies in Philadelphia and / CO.
jury decided that the act was ius1i6 ~ q
but he was not acquitted by hh q ~;
conscience and remorse has driven 8
insane. 81
I'm thohardware stores at N,s1<'
Italy, a large assortment OF din
stilettos is always kept on ir<
and when customer inquiries r. &
knife, the shopkeeper invariably -. s
'.one that is sure to kill be desired D
The strip of earth betwes. q
Mississippi River and Lake Concoei
above Natchez, is fast cavine - n
now appears to be matter a :
short time before the lake win -
itself into the river.
Mrs. Katherine Kahley, ! bffd. :
seventeen, ended her honeymocn ~
ney very sorrowfully at Cincj;Sc1
where her husband stole her fortu,1 =
$1,000, for which he had marrfo3
in Germany and absconded. He e11E
took away most of her trousseau. a
The announcement that IL
press of Russia died alone, unaafp1 &
by any member of her family ana
ing even the absence of the one go
who was in her room during the RI
has given rise to much commo1|
England.
( The housemaids of HambuFr. = /.
seemed to be always in the street. &
very pretty. They wear the tiuion
lace caps on the backs of their e 9
and their dresses are made with
pulled sleeves, leaving the arms y
almost from the shoulder.
-Lightning-rods did not ssv5 h
First Methodist Church at Altoonn; 4
for thunderbolt doubled them ui \ s
reeds, knocked hole eighteen -
in diameter in the first knee Of tke 4
tower, and broke off one corner q E
brick walls of the church.
Some ten miles to the nortA
of Grantsville, New, is a mountain \ I:
is covered and filed with agAtes, NJ
rough agates are in the form Of ~
and generally hemispherical in -
When these geodes are broken 49,
of them show beautiful forms ItQ
bling photographs of pine trees,
ranges of mountains and the liks.
The public whipping post 4
eigh, N. c., has disappeared. Uo|&
few days ago it stood next the O. Z
House, and has been used. of III
hitching post for country ron1
whose masters had law bus(nG6
hand. Before 1868 it was the ooc
whipping post. The stocks md =
pillory which stood beside it wen II
moved long ago. but the old pa -
manned. -.
John Degner was shiftlou ~
Francisco shoemaker. The family III
became entirely empty and 81 T.
said: +" believe you could get WoIk4
you wanted to, and if you don't f.
will commit suicide. Go out an
don't come back by six O'Clock =
me you've got q job you'll find NJ q
when you do come" He return 81
seven and she was dead. IL
Some of the French journal
very flattering accounts Of the pm
of the preliminary work on the q
which is toconnect France and n
1t is stated that the shaft is sunk y
stratum in which the tunneli is 10
and that those engaged in the vof
about to sink another shaft and .
er the machinery for boring unde<
channel. The work on the tunnel1
pected to be finished in two OK & <
years. IS - III