The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-07-02
GENERAL.

-Caterpillars in masses have ap'
peared in Southern Oregon and are rap
idly consuming all vegetation.
"A Georgia farmer, removing to Al
ALBANIA, took his cow with nm. Inc
other day the cow wandered back to her
old home in Cobb county, a distance OF
ninety miles. |
Mrs. Cassie Watson, of New York,
wife of Albert Watson, law clerk, suea
Hermann NJ. Meyer to recover Sl'ooo
for stolen kiss. She made out a case'
and the jury awarded her six cents dam
ages.
The City of Boston opened Its pup
lie baths on the lst of June. The season
lasts four months, the baths are 10 IN
number, and last year Gl6,2O0 males
and 245, $50 females ava!led themselves
of their advantages.
NORTH Cardinals outlaw Chief,
Henry Berry Lowery, man OF many
romances, recently was reported dead.
The RoJesonian, published in that state,
now says Lowery is alive; that ne lett
the mountains aud North Carolina ABOUT
the time of his reported death, being
carried in a tool-chcst through Char
lotte and across the border. He went
West, enlisted, and is now leading the
quiet life of a Sergeant in the United
States Army. ,,.-.
The Salem (Mass.) Gazette is 11S
years old, and very sedate, but it tells
the following story: "a Salem mother
has daughter who so closely resembles
her that the one is frequently taken for
the other. The other day the mother
walked up to her own reflection in a
large mirror in dry goods store, and
putting forth her hand, said: why,
Maria, when did you come home? l
thought you were to stay at your uncle 8
a week?' A broad smile rippled round
the store as the mystifed lady touched
the glass; .:,.
"A correspondent of the Manchester
| IN. H. Mirror asserts that the crow is
exterminating the singing birds of New
England. He SAYS, "Few are the nests
that escape his vigilant search. and
fswer still the young birds that do not
10 to satisfy his ravenous appetite and
fiji his capacious NAV. have watched
and cursed them for years. l have seen
them pounce upon the nest of the lark
and of the plover; I have seen them
leaving the nest of the robin with the
young in their beaks. For several years
1 had watched the return of a pair OF
robins to an old apple tree near my
house, where they had built their nest
and reared their young. One morning
heard the piercing cry of the old birds,
foreboding danger and distress. l ran
to the window just in time to see a crow
fly from the tree with a young robin ir
his mouth. In less than five minutes
the crow returned, dived into the tree
and this time the last OF my four half
grown pet robins was borne away"
Old Nell Giles is . negro fortune
teller at Augusta. Ga. She lives in {
cellar, in the midst Of weird things, ant
is q hidpous bag. The negroes believe
she is a veritable witch. Joe Stevens
went to her from Edgeteld to get 9 cur
for his rheumatism. She performed
some mumnery over him, anOinted hi
rheumatic arm. and the pain ceased
She assured him that he had been ''con
jured" by some secret enemy, and tina
he could not be permanently cured unit
he shed some of that persons blood
Her directions to Joe for discovering tn
guilty one was to shake hands with al
his acquaintances, noting whose ham
he held when q twinge came into hi
arm. Joe went to church, and did {
great amount Of hand shaking befor
} the services began. His arm gave tn
warning when Andy Richardson shoe
it. Joe went home, procured lon
knife, hid it in his sleeve, returned t
the church, and plunged the weapon in
to Andy's heart. Whether this woul
have brought about the cure promise
BY Old Nell cannot be determined, 10
the patient has been hanged.