The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-01-17

course of erection at Lancaster, Pa,
which will employ about 200 hands.
The lead mines near Phenixville,
Chester County, Pa, are again to be
put in operation after having been idle
for ~ years.
The new beet-sugar works at River
side Station, Del, are now running day
and night. They have not been as busy
as at present for a number of years.
Three million more postal cards
were issued at the Holyoke, Mass,
agency in October than was ever sent in
one month before. The amount was
So, 100000.
Rye straw is as valuable as the grain
in Pennsylvania in the manufacture OF
paper. With the increased acreage of
the season just closed $500, 600 bushels)
the yield is not equal to the demand.
DIR. Geo. Little, the State Geologist,
says that yield of $40 ,000, 600 worth of
bullion might be produced in Georgia
every year without exhausting the ore
within this or the next generation.
Not only silk spinners from Maccles-
field, Coventry and other English towns
have emigrated to Paterson, N. j., late
", but there are large additions from
the French and Swiss silk centers. Over
1000 operatives have been added within
the year just closing.
The Canada Gazette contains a no
tice of application for the incorporation
of the Winnepeg and Hudson's Bay
Railway and Steamship Company, with
power to build railway from Winnie
peg to Hudson's Bay, and run line of
ocean steamers IN connection Herewith.
According to the returns of the De-
partment of Agriculture, dogs cause a
direct loss to the sheep-owners OF the
country of million dollars a year.
Reports from 500 counties, representing
about one-quarter of the sheep of the
Western States, show that 9,285 sheep
were killed in 1874, in some States the
loss being from to IL per cent, of the
value of the sheep kept.
Foreign Notes.
The sale of valuable art objects that
belonged to Plus TX. has been author
lied by the Vatican authorities. French
museums are negotiating for them.
The British Government has
granted annual pensions of $1,000 to
the wife and $500 to the mother of Cav
agnari, who was murdered in the revolt
at Cabul few months ago.
-Calcraft, for 46 years hangman in
England, is dead. He was the most
noted man who has filed that Office,
both from his duration of service and
the number of unfortunates who have
suffered at his hands the extreme pen
atty of the law. He retired from the
service several years ago, and was sue
ceeded by William Marwood. Cal
crafts Office followed that of headsman,
the last of whom died in 1861.
The Duchess of Marlborough, wife
of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
writes that she intends to start relief
fund for the sufferers in Ireland, and
appeals for contributions. She says
while the present distress, actual or pos
sible, is not for moment comparable
to that of 1S47, still undoubtedly, in
parts of Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Mayo,
Roscommon, Donegal and Cork, there
will be. extreme misery and suffering
among the poor.
Andrew Carnegie, citizen of the
United States, has offered the corpora
ton of his native city, Dunfermline,
Scotland, 5000 for the establishment
of free public library and recreation
room. The corporation is divided about
accepting the gift, and in the absence Of
knowledge whether Carnegie intends to
provide for permanent maintenance of
the library the Provost declines to give
the casting vote.
Emperor William, though SO wears
of age, is still passionately fond of the
chase, and is out hunting whenever he
I finds it possible. There is great deal
of sham and humbug about his Males
tvs shooting. Etiquette demands that
he should kill more game than any body
else, and TO make that certain, other
shots must refrain from hitting the
mark, and sometimes it is even neces-
sary that half-tamed deer and smaller
animals should be adroitly, yet imper-
ceptibly, driven from neighboring re-
serves into the royal huntsman's path.
The result of these exploits is always
published with much care, particularly
in the Empire and State Bulletin, as
though it we're matter of national
concern.
Odds and Ends.