The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-06-17
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in five days recently on their way from
Arizona and New Mexico, from which
they had been driven to some new des-
tination. Chicago Herald.
"A British barkentine, lately arrived
Mt st. Johns, reports having passed
large number of floating cattle. Must
have been the bulls of the stock market;
they are said to have been ssall at sea-
Lately. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
-Longfellow's ear was so keen and
his memory of sounds so true that on
his visit to France in 1869 he observed
how not only the French language, bat
the manner of pronouncing It, had I'M
dergone a marked change since his for
mer visit in 1829.-Boston Post. 81
The Oxford Il. T.) Enterprise la
ments the scarcity of manageable wom-
en- in Idaho territory, and has decided to
vote a column to aid the bachelors in
getting wives. 1t solicits advertisements
from women everywhere who wish to
marry, and promises to use its efforts to
find them suitable husbands. n
LHortense, Kittrell was appointed a
clerk in the Nevada Legislature. Henry
H.. Welch. the chief clerk, at first object
ed to the presence of a woman in the
Office. But his objection has been over
come during the present season. Miss
Kittrell is now Mrs. Welch.-St. L0gis
Globe.
-Of a party of forty which left CAMS
teo, N. T., four years ago, to work ON a
railroad in Brazil, the last one to return
is Charles Forbes, son of a doctor living
in Alfred. He describes every discour-
agement rs being encountered, and his
experience is like that of most northern
workmen who have gone to Brazil. He
believes there is only one man of the
party left alive in Brazil.
The fashion of wearing jeweled gar
tiers, the New York Sun says, is spread
ing rapidly. All jewellers keep them
and say the custom is 100 per cent.
: greater this year than last. The cheap
est pair at one jewelers. cost forty-six
dollars, and. the dearest 81 200, which
were made to order Curiously enough
the cheap ones do not sell well.
An Ohio sutton, unable to make the
young woman say yes, threatened to
shoot himself in her presence. There
upon sne reienteu. Dut next uay' nav
ing considered the matter carefully, she
wrote to him that she would not keep
the promise made under coercion, and
that, while she strongly advised him
against suicide, she should feel no re-
sponsibility about him. He blew his
brains out.--N, Y. SUM- e
-Bostonians who are Dragging that the
city possesses the deepest artesian well
In the world (z,zOO feet) labor under a
great deluslon. The well on the grounds
OF the st. Louis Insane Asylum reached
depth OF 5,1oO feet' the only trouble
about II being that the water which
flowed fromlt was salt oucn a disap-
Polntment did the latter TACT prove that
d. Louisians cook 70 peer LOT consoiauon =,
anu now Inoy aae no. soi1 .1as INC wen
was MANURE 'o0Ssy" 1"9se's
Tim Poffenbarger was not suspected
ofany tendency to insanity. He was in
successful business at Gallipolis, Ohio,
and social favorite. Yerhe committed
suicide because he discovered, as he be-
lieved. that he was losing his mental
faculties. He wrote: " My, mind has
become so confused that / am not capa-
BILE of transacting my business. and my
life seems to be burden to me, and my
memory so ane s 'I las scarcely s Know
VIVA. nasn .n p' uon ps,.a .ol seV 'e1
i''on''lS. ~''o'' TITO Z 'e's'
That mystic organization, the Rosi-
crucians, under whose auspices last De-
cember's charity ball was given, have
just contributed another noteworthy
charity to the people of st. Louis. The
gift this time takes the form of drinking
fountains, ten of which are soon to be
placed in different localities in the more
thickly settled parts of the city. The
fountains are simply inscribed: Gift to
'the thirsty. from the Rosicrucians. "
81. Louis Gio6e-Dens0crot. ns ~
Wilmington was coming up the channel,
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