The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

I
"A free ice-water fountain in opera.
ton under the wing of the Post-office,
New York, during the first week was
used by twenty-five thousand people.
Already it is reported that the tipping
places in the vicinity have pecuniarily
suffered because of this fountain. This
brief experience comedies with that OF
London in the same matter.
"A Philadelphia swindler opened q
store in Arch Street, stocking it with
bottles of what he called Club Sauce,
and advertised for " a partner with $3.50
in prosperous business" He aver
aged for some time about one new
partner every week, for the dupes
would drop out quietly on. ascertain;ng
that the business was sham and leave
their money behind.
The Rev. DIR. William M. Baker
tells in the Christian Iateiligencer about
the persecution of a young woman and
belligerantly adds: when l think of
her story my first and strongest feeling
is not SO much admiration for her as an
almost intense desire to give the man
who so pursued her thrashing. Very
likely myself would be the one thrashed
but Icould atleast enjoy doing my best. |"
Fishermen engaged in the Green
land fishery say they never experienced
anything like the terrific ice blockade
which now extends down to the fifty
second parallel of latitude. The field
of ice lying to the eastward of New
foundland, the southern extremity of
which now bears 120 miles distant from
st. Johns, is of the heaviest foe de-
scription. Thousands of icebergs are to
be seen.
The Mormons are still pegging
away at their new temple. 1t is now
twenty years since it was commenced;
81, 200, 900 has been expended and it is
completed. The building is
being constructed of Utah granite, and
when finished will be the finest church
edifice, if not the finest building of any
kind, in America. 1t will require $685.
600, 900 to complete the temple.
Jefferson Davis has presented to the
city of New Orleans, in compliance with
the request of the late Mrs. Sarah A. |
Dorsey, who left him her estate, a
painting representing Anne of Austria |
exhibiting the portrait of her son, Louis |
XIV, to the French people. The artist
was Pierre Mignard, Court painter to
Louis XIV. The State of Louisiana was
named after " LIE Grand Monarque."
"A recent decision in the Ohio SUI
oreme Court upsets sale of land in
Cleveland, in 1858, for $500, now worth
ully 100000. The lots had been as
signed to two brothers Forseman, in
business at Piqua, for debt due them
many years ago, and the title remained
until after the death of both
# them, when the trustees made a sale,
nut by proceedings now declared irregu-
ar. There are now five heirs to divide
he new-found estate.
james Morton got married clan
lestinely in Pittsburg, and took his
wife to Detroit, where they had their
rst quarrel. In order to frighten her,
e declared that he was going to desert
er, and then went away from the hotel
IN the following day he returned to
nd thathis plan had been most effective.
irs. Morton had swallowed morphine,
nd neither his lamentations nor the
octor's efforts could save her life.
The champion rat story of the era
told by the San Francisco Examiner.
says: "a remarkable occurrence
Itely took place on our northern coast. ,
fore-and-aft schooner, while living in ,
safe harDor. as was supposed, and /
aving no crew on board on account of !
he safety of the position, was boarded I
rats in such numbers that they ate !
way all her standing rigging, including :
ead-stays and also the jibs, foresaiis 3
nd mainsails. All were DESTROYED be- !
ond the possibility of repair"
The Home for Old and INDECENT t
ctors, to which Edwin Forrest left g
Early the whole of his fortune, is a a
andsome country house, with beautiful n
lrroundings, near Holmesburg, Pa. r
here are only five inmates, the number ii
ing restricted by the unproductive- t,
'ss of the Forrest estate; but the trus-
es have just come into an income
hich will enable them to conduct the
arity in accordance with the plans of
e dead tragedian. The Forrest man "
IN in Philadelphia has been purchased n
the School of Design for Women. 9,
"A notorious desperate. for whose Ii
pture $500 had been offered, was II
ught in 0. egon by two constables. t.
ley had to convey him a hundred fe
lies in wagon, and, knowing his a
ckless character they tied him to the Of
at. On the way he tried several de-
,es to escape, but in vain, until he hit In
on the desperate one of firing a key OF
powder that was in the vehicle. This IL
did by covertIy throwing lighted m
itch into it. He crouched as low as di
ssible, and shielded his face, so that b,
was not seriously injured. One of ia
constables was killed and the other w
rned SO badly that he could do MOTH til
to prevent the prisoner from getting fiji
ay. /"
The woman who made up her mind ul
walk from Omaha to San Francisco ps
arrived at her journeys end. The dc
mp occupied three months When su