The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-09-01
NEWS ITEMs.


Spavins on horses cured by Kendalls SPAWN
Cure. Read their advertisement.
good medicinal tonic, with real merit, is
Browns Iron Bittors. SO all druggists say.
Gen. Butler has given $4,000 to
Williams College for a gymnasium.
A man breathes abut eighteen
times minutes, aud uses 5000 cubic
feet Of air per honr.
Something over fourteen million
bnshels ofwheat and corn have been
received at New Orleans since the
first OF September, 1882.
The GreeEsburg Gazette entered
upon its fifth volume last Saturday.
The Gazette is good paper and we
wish it continued prosperity.
John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia
dry goods king, sank 5000, 900 in adj.
veTtiSing last year, but succeeded in
gathering crop OF profits valued at
$1,O0ODOO,
Ex.Attorney Simeon Belden, has
offered TO prosecute the Gas Compa.
ny in New Orleans, free of cost, If
the city loses the suit. Ii it wins,
they are to fix the compensation.
The new Republican paper, the Standard
proposes ito tilla want long felt" by giving the
colOred people an organ to promote their in
terests and defend theirrights. This all sounds
well, bat we hardly think he will find the col.
ored man interested enough to subscribe
fire. Press
Nearly twenty seribes are employed by the
United States Clerk in making a transcript in
the celebrated MYra CLARK Gaines suit. 1t
will take over 30, 600 pages Of manuscript paper
toconplete tho transcript. Iteosts thirty cents
per page for transcribing.
Mr.. James McCaeken, 1.-THE handsome roung
man from New Orlelns)has been spending the
summer with the Irawiok boys leaves tonight
for his home in New Orleans, Now young la,
dies don't cry fer Jim will be back, sfwhen the
clouds roll by."-[Crystal Springs Meteor.
The Agents Herald for August,
published by I. Lum Smith, Phila.
delphia, gives quite lengthy list
of the frauds, Advertising and Mer.
camille, throughout the United
States.
The Capitolian. Advocate consid
ers it amongthe possibilities that, AT
no very re mote period, a bridge will
span the old Father Of Waters at
Baton Rouge.
Gen. Leon JaStremski, editor and
proprietor of the Baton Rouge Capt.,
tollan- Advocate, WIS elected Grand
Chancellor of the. Knights ofPythias
of Louisiana at the session of the
Grand Lodge held in Baton Rouge
recently.
In the suspension of tie st. AL.
bans (VermOnt) National bank, we
are treated to the unusual spectacle
of u bank president voluntarily rem,
dering himself and his family penai
less in his efforts to protect depos.
itors.
sYou must battle regularly said a
Springfield physician grayely, as he
looked at the patients tongue and
felt his pnlse. "But, doctor, l do re.
turned the sick man. ~ gOln swim.
ming regularly every Fourth of
Jnly.'
1t is estimated that the aggregate
assessment of property in Texas for
the present year will exceed that o:
list year by $60,OOO,00O. The Wa.
Xahaehie Enquirer says that the in
crease in Ellis county alone is over
$4,000, 900.
Mr.. Malone Wheeless, of New
Orleans, hasrecently invented very
ingenious machine for reporting, by
which he claims he is able to report
over two hundred words a minute.
He has SO arranged the language that
any combination of sounds can be
instantaneously produced by the
mathematical permutations repre-
scented on the instrument.