The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-12-31


The heaviest man at the annual Fat
Mans Clam-bake in Massachusetts, this
year weighed 1856.
HALF century ago Emons Rudge OF
Hartford, Ct, was fined $40 and costs
for selling ice in the summer. The traf-
fic was alleged to be dangerous to public
health.
A MASSACHUSETTS man recently o.
fered school prize for the best essay
on " Honesty" Of the % responses re-
ceived, a large proportion had been
stolen, and one, poem, was stolen en-
tire.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Dundee Id
rertiser says in a careful review OF
Scotch farming that since 1852, when
farmers were to some extent forgetting
their losses by rinderpest, there has
been but one crop, 1874, which paid its
way.
Mrs. BARTLETT, wealthy Georgia
widow, AGED SO years, recently married,
after a three months widowhood, one
of her late husbands employees, John
Childrews, aged % years, and she is
now giving the young man thorough
education at college.
CHRISTIAN X. Ross, father of the
lost Charlie, paid visit to Supt. Wall
ing, of New York, the other day. Mr..
Ross's faith in his son existence is un-
shaken, although the only glimmer In
the mystery of the boys disappearance
was the shooting of his supposed abduc-
tors at Bay Ridge, N. T., Dec. IA, 1874.
MRS. DAVIS sold her dwarfed sons to
to Snowman, in Knox County, Ohio,
"a years ago, and has seen them only
once since. On that occasion, having
repented of the bargain, she went with
q Sheriff to recover them; but the show
man tucked them under his arms and
fled to the woods. They are particu-
larly wanted at home just now to look
after some property that has been left
for them.
THE hallelujah bands of the English
manufacturing towns print some queer
religious advertisements, but we have
people in this country who can surpass
them in oddity. Here is the advertise
ment gravely put forth by church in
New York City:
viii be when the mortgage on the Forsyth
Street Methodist Episcopal Church is lifted,
says the Rev. DIR. Morehouse, the beloved
pastor; Buy ticket for Saturdays benefit
excursion.
REV. H. B. SIXTH of Stoughton, Mass,
had wife Is years his senior. They
Had endured marriage misery for eight
Years, the severity of Mrs Smiths
tbngue being the chief difficulty. They
DE now at peace, owing to the decree
d divorce which has been granted. After
the settlement of the divorce business,
Brother Smith was SO happy that he
tainted, and was carried in a condition
of insensibility to the house of neigh
boring deacon.
THIS was what the Chattanooga Health
officer found pinned to the curtains Of
berth No. 5 in q sleeping coach: " Dear
Sir: do solemnly assert, first, that
I'm well. Second, that / have been in
Nashville month, and came there direct
rom Chicago, Ill. Third, have never
1een in Memphis or any other yellow
fever district. Fourth, don't want to
90 there. w. H. Goodrich, berth No.
5. ST. have large dog and spring
gun here in my berth. Please don't
wake me-"
AcARELEss telegrapher caused a panic
in domestic circle in New York City
one evening last week. Ayoung woman
telegraphed from Philadelphia to her
mother in this wise: Shave received
NO letter. Am worried" The message
received by her mother was this: " Have
received no letter. Am married." The
mother was surprised at this sudden an
nouncement, and she gave the daughter
a large piece of her mind. The operator
had mistaken "worried" for mar
ried," no doubt thinking the meaning
was the same, and had wired the mother
the surprising intelligence.
AT recent birthday party at New
port the guests we're selected with a
view to having, as nearly as could be,
the young hostess and her guests of the
same age. They were limited to II, the
number of summers Miss Violet had
seen. The young lady wore awhile silk
dress adorned with apple blossoms,
painted on the robe by hand. On Ia
BILE in the refreshment room was large
cake lighted by IL diminutive candles,
one of which was blown out by each
guest rs he or she entered the room, etc.
ENGLISH women are the wisest and
most sensible of their sex in the matter
of dress. They have distinctive cos
TUNES for different occasions, and for
out-of-door wear adopt the. plainest and
most durable of articles. They have Sc
cured something like indestructibility in
the hats they wear for travelling. They
are made Of serge without any wire OF
net lining, the shape being given by run
ming an elastic around the crown and