The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-07-30
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1860 the seventeen-year locusts and the
thirteen year locusts appear in this
country simultaneously.
The Superintendent of the census
has been requested to look over the 5O.-
DOC, 600 names on his book By a Southern
who wants to fad the residence
Of her lover who left her some years
since.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has left |
London for the Sartoris country seat
Gen. Grant, is anxious to gather his chill
drcn about him this summer at Long
Branch, and Mrs. Sar,oris contcmplates
making the visit very soon.
The San Diego Tichborne claimant
proves to be fraud named Charles O.
Ferris, who once appropriated the funds
of the Vallejo Home Guards and after
wal d was run out of town because of
swindling his neighbors in some bogus
land schemes.
"A French cook, who lately returned
to Paris from tour Of inspection in the
United States, was asked his opinion in
re gard to the American kitchen and re-
piled: ella Cuisine Americaine est un
vrai assassinat!" American cookery
is murder in the first degree.
"A carman. says the city Press, re-
Gently driving at an immoderate pace
along Fetter Lane, London, ran against
truck that was standing by the pave
ment; the truck spun round and caught
a ladder standing against u. house; the
ladder fell and hit dog; the dog ran
foul of lady who was passing at the
moment, whose foot WIS trodden on by
a passer by, and she had to be pat into
an omnibus and sent home. 49,. j.
Canada has unwittingly gone into
an arrangement by which the United
States gains population at the expense
OF the Canadian treasury. The Gov
ernment made bargain with steam
ship company running to Montreal to-
pay twenty-five per cent. of the fares of
all emigrants who intended to settle in
Canada. This reduction is commonly
taken advantage of, it has been diseoy-.
cred, by persons really bound for this
country.
AT the beginning of the thirteenth
century the ports OF England ranked:
London, Boston, Southampton, Lincoln,
Lynn, Hull. Eighty years later, Boston,
London, Hull. Toward the close Of the
sixteenth century Lynn was the most
important port; then came Hull, Var.
mouth, Exeter, Bristol, while Boston
had gone down to number ten in rank,
and Newcastle was looming up. Fifty
years later Bristol was winning the race,
to have her nose put out of joint in on
other half century by Liverpool.
A St. Petersburg correspondent
writes that in the latest budget of the
Russian empire, the division allotted to
the household expenses of the late Gar
includes fifteen hundred roubles for pro.
viding birch brooms (Ruthen besen) fol-
cleaning the Winter Palace. Estimating
the cost of each at the retail prices in
St. Petersburg, he finds that no less thar
eighteen thousand of these brooms have
been used every year for the Winter
Palace! Nearly fifty must then havl
been worn to the stump every day in tn
late reign.
In olden times English tramp!
prayed for deliverance from He'll, Hull
and Halifax. This is explained by th'
chronicler Fuller, who relates that Their
was . peculiar 'Gibbet law Offering
special facilities for the hanging Of i'll
and dishonest in Halifax, while the,
avoided Hull because it was ''terribl'
unto them as town Of good govern
ment, where Migrants meet with punt
tive charity" "Punitive charity" j
good, and might be applied to advantage
in this erring and straying season i,
many other places outside Of Hull.
An English peer and some friend
were returning from the races. In tn
adjoining compartment were eight sport
ing men, who, cleaned out by successive
failures, were travelling without tickets
hoping by . turn of good luck to escap
payment. At last one of them struc
upon brilliant idea. Pulling his ca
down over his eves and buttoning hi
coat he went to the carriage Of the nobl
lord and his friends, and, assuming q
official air, collected all their tickets
These he distributed among his friends
and on reaching London the noble lor
narrowly escaped seeing himself and hi
friends taken into custody for attemptin
to defraud the railway )mpany. ltws
only by paying their fare 4 second tim
that they escaped from the clutches ,
the railway servtnts.
The authorities At Clinton IN. 7
Prison are rejoicing in the return
Richard Henry Th0rntoR, the h0rs
thief, inasmuch as The owner Of that in
posing name IS renowned for hi, ma,
, agement of pigs, Of which there q
about 200 in the prison yards. Ehornte
is sixty.nine years old and was first So
. fenced to State Prison fifty ye.rs az
During this half centurs Of ceiime he he b
! worn the prison garb forty.one year
having served twice, he sflirms, as hir,
subytttate TOR others who we're guilt
:, once from Hudson and once from Sch
1ectady. The prison now seems to hi
: Ike . home and Ne takes H., litsle brt
in seeing it we'll kent IN all respects. I
!, took back with him on his lstest ret,I
. four dozen eggs, by means of which
= y hopes to improve the breel Of {
.. Warden's fowls.
n AS soon as the death of the ;ate +,
% press Dowager was announced in Chi
% the mandarins and all high officials
!. the Empire put on garments q: pu
n white, and these were worn for tw en-,
# seven consecutive days. The re;,ul
e tons which prescribe official mournil
& also require that the red buttons ua
}, their caps shall be replaced by blue 3,
e tons. On the twenty-eighth day til
h put on black clothing, which must
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