The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-08-27
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+, -Four survivors Of the English
prison,ship I" Dartmoor are living at
Marblehead, Mass, all Of them nearly
ninety. ~ !" ''''''. '7..' .''' .''''
4-Mexico has'voted away $4,000, 900
IN the last four years in forty-three rail-
road grants. ), No Mexican railroad has
ever paid its stockholders = profit, Il
in the vicinity of Big Hole, NJ. T..
the bears unearthed 9 large number OF
Indian skeletons, and have strewn the
ground with bones. 1t is probably the
scene of an Old battlefield. ''' f''"7
Capt. Reub.t 'Kolb, of Eufala, Ala,
pulled from his sixty.tive acre water
melon patch one day recently 10000
melons, the largest number that was
ever pulled froma single. patch in one
day in the State. Of Alabama, if not
the entire South. ''i'''' No.
The United States ARMY, of $4,000
men, has medical staff of about 200.
The NAVY, with 5000 men, has medi-
cal staff of about 1000. The Marine
Hospital service, which has about $4,000
patients annually, has but thirty five
medical officers and the same number Of
active assistant surgeons.
"A story 'c6mSs Yr6m Bloomington,
Allegany County, Md, to the effect that
a few days ago . freight engineer on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad had fall
ing QUIZ with his sweetheart, who lives
at or near that place, and that the dam
sci in revenge oiled the rails on the track
in front of: her swain's train which was
struggling up. the seventeen mile grade.
It. is, said to have taken the locomotive
proper, the t'helper'I' and several tons Of
Sand to overcome The effects of the girls
strateSeni.I f'aS"a hni y'S'''"'17'' D.
King Kalaka.ia is married, and his
Queen is held in high favor by the
Hawai;ans as. veil as the foreign resi-,
dents. The Hing i said to be intensely
jealous of her popularity. He has two
sisters living, the elder being married to
Mr.. Dominis, ison Of AN American ship.
mas,er. Mrs. Dominis . is m educated,
aNiable Yoman,, She acts as Regent of
|, the Kingdom in her brothers. absence,
1t is. understood that Kalafaua has
chosen her as . mis- successor to5 the
throne:@ The Youngest Sister IS thewife
7 Of a Scotch 1herchantof Honolulu!tR :"
Ii'1--In the Sehthof France Gagged decoy
birds hare their eyes put sout, and they
sing to the rays Of the rising sum-. which
they feel but Gan, not, see, and they at
tract free birds, from the woods. The
latter Observation-Disclosures, nightingales, lih-
nets, swoodpeckers, 'rohfns, blackbirds,
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, and iarks-are merci.
Assly shot, twenty or thirty at, a time,
and, are Qsad for foods, There is. also
much netting. Of these birds. Insects
are increasing in number. An effort is
being made to stop the slaug hter of the
birds. 7!j tiEii!Evr ~ !" .fD't"iqmi -
|'''-A favvtite sport in Brazil and the
WestiIndias consists in hunting num-
ming BIZ d.. The natives arm themselves
with blow,guns made of reed, perhaps
only, | fourteen Or fifteen INCHES long, and
take pellets of cotton wool;' with these
they SO stun the little creatures that they
I fail an easy prey to their pursuers, and
their beautiful plurlage ,is uninlired.
! Travellers in countries where the hum.
ming bird ebounds form themselves into
parties for this sport, and use common
table salt as Shot. Penetrating the skin
and yet hot spelling The" plumage, such
Z charge RiNs the bird, and great num-
bers, IRE secured in this manner. al
tds--General Longstreet recently, in re-
Spouse to the question 'sW,ho MAS your
greatest soldiera", responded: sin many
respects, General Lee. :, As | have said,
he, was q noble character, but he was
not q perfect Held marshal. He was not
railways cool ID the heat iof battle, and
| hati%rsally the greatesttestof q com.
mandsr's powsr.sa General, Stonexall
jackson not only had perfect,cQatrol of
his nerves in battle and out Of j, but he
had the additional merit Of besng able
IL move his troops with great ptompt!
hess and of executing Ms' plans with
|tmarvelous decisiont, jackson ,hvas a,
ugeat field marshal. ..sli.arda,.n II
In the general passenger. office of
! the Union Pacific Railway at Omaha
|otheze is an,otject which attracts consid-
} cradle, attention and commensurate IS 4
SECTION 9t mountain 1A pipe ,tyea, aabout
~ 9r - inches in diameter ne! into which
the bqxes 81 We held ala ffe eHd 81 one
|iihorn'6f d1vefy large mountain sheep
have RtowA,il The%hotns' hssga. over q
Iiinb, thssenr four inch ea,thiah, which
evidently, lWas, dead, when the, section
was cut from the tree-probably killed
! BY the weight Of the animals horns aud
HEAD. The section VI t ut sk feet from
I the t6tvs of'ths tree land much specula,
ton d ihdnlgsd in 'as, to how tho ami.
mails head got, unto 1.-The, haai al that
height. The horns, which are AxtraorL'
dinarily large. have evidently hung upor
the small limb, thirty. or forty years, bot
are in a go9a 4tate pt ,preserYati9n. The
tree. 10 which they were found stood
nearthe present site of. the Rams Horn
Mine, near Challis, Idaho, and gave the
fiK8me to this discd very, and tie supto.
sitiot IS that TN Indiah Shot the beast
and hung the.carcass. apSnt Ae' tree, in,
tending " return for it, butNas, Not able
to find his way back ITO tho spot after;
MADE fs49s hy hi sap3it i T SIS
IfiA6spatif1fh v ~ dYdnt, M IA nnoysu
Etm about two'yeatJ sgo, 'xnd hundreds
have called 10 Zee it.Gnce IL 1asse up
in,thegeaeral. pAssspgss oaics.,eis'
|ad, nj fsw asa ai1at-. IS Il asoi,'o =.
nj, doubtless ituoNla ~, impossible, even Ven
H,it,N6{e 3dsskahIss to S1y. aaytl hing dew
aboat thlSs hoaleaK recently Kal sFsiEea aM
now btzNng pl the pane. Il has ptottR
' m6th' an Teshh yaid.s said Aid Oh lsn.
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