The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

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berland will cost 100000.
A fifth OF the population of Paterson,
N. j., or say 10000, consists OF the girls
who work in the factories there.
The old parsonage house occupied
bv President Arthur's father at Green
witch, N. Y, was sold recently for $40.
1t is great discovery, if as claimed,
they have found how to serve any num-
her of subscribers on single telephone
wire.-
The Rev. Mr.. T.ayelle is the promo
ter of lottery in Montreal. with %l,ooo'-
600 capital, which has received the aP-
prevail of the local government.
Jesse james, the outlaw, says ne
will kill twenty men before he is TAKEN
and every detective in the West seems &c
fear that he may be counted one OF the
twenty.
A card was sent to President Ar
thur recently asking prompt admission
on the ground that the applicants wiie
was an intimate friend of one OF the
Presidents grooms.
-Forty-seyen million dollars were pun
into new buildings in New York CITY IN
1881. We thus see how little Mamma
Symptoms dire prophecy affected om
business life.
John McAuley, one of the toughest
and toughest bummers OF New York.
lately experienced religion, and has
gone to work as a missionary in the
toughest and toughest parts OF the city.
The arch itect of the new Metropoli.
tan Opera House at New York says that
it will have the largest auditorium oil
any theater in the world, even exceeding
that of La Scala, at Milan, which is now
the largest.
The London Lat0 Journal is of the
opinion that a Judge should have the
power to remove prisoner from the
courtroom and proceed with the trial,
if Justice cannot decorously be admins
tered in the prisoners presence.
The wife of Engineer Melville of the
Jeannette has been married to him
seventeen years, four of which she has
| enioyed his presence with her. The rest
| of the time he has been in the ice packs
of the frigid zone.
John Ballard of Columbus, o., died
recently at three clock in the morning.
At that hour, his friend, Henry Ward,
at GAINESVILLE, awoke, called for his horse,
saving that Ballard had called him
and he must go; and in two hours he was
| dead. fftN-
1t does not require mine in order
to start mining company. The tleeced
ones, however. find that even the Wild
est companies do have a mine. The
officers demonstrate to them, after a
time, that what was yours is now mine.
Boston Transcript.
Joseph Smith, of Oswego, rushed
home the other day to shake hands with
his wife and bid her farewell, as he felt
| that he should die at once. To her in
duiry he said he felt well, but was sure
that his time had come. In fifteen min
utes he was dead.
"A correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune says: ut is fact that no one
will be found to dispute that we have in
Chicago at the present time entirely too
much crime to the square mile" About
how much crime would be the correct
thing.-M y Graphic.
Acknowledgement leaves, of Maine,
in his annual report, favors the restora-
ton of capital punishment. He says the
convictions for murderin the first degree
during the present year alone exceed the
number during the three years previous
to the abolition of the death penalty, and
are nearly equal to the number occurring
during the three years following.
Baroness Erlanger. wife of the bank
err, ordered her carriage to take her to
the Ring Theater in Vienna the night it
was burned. Accidentally the coachman
arrived fifteen minutes later than ordered
and the Baroness escaped the horrors of
the fire. Strangely enough, like delay
prevented her intended visit to the Nice
Opera House on the evening it was burned
last March.
Senior Zamacona, the Mexican Min
lister, gave farewell ball in Washington
recently. The Washington Star says:
1.-THE decorations within and without
the two houses they occupy have never
been surpassed here. All the projections
of bay windows, doorways and cornices
of the buildings were brilliant with lights,
showing the red, green and white OF the
Mexican national colors. The name
Mexico and the coat of arms of that re-
public blazed in gas jets. On entering,
tropical plants and cut flowers were seen
grouped in corners and adjoining man.
tells and tables. The stairways were also
entwined with green. Smilax trimmed
chandeliers and mirrors. The vista
through the rooms terminated in the en-
closed garden in the rear, which was
brilliantly lighted and its walls lined with
tall plants. The large picture of the City
of Mexico still covers the wall in the rear,
and on the balcony by which the ballroom