The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-03-22
MISCELLANEOUS.


OF six hundred car loads of exhibits
ut the Louisville Exposition, but one
hundred were shipped back by the
owners Louisville Couricr-Journql. /.
Nellie, the Oldest horse in .Connecti-
cut, died a few days ago at Hamden, on
the farm of her owner, Thomas CORN
ley. She was thirty-nine years old, and
was literally in harness up to the last,
Tor on the day of her death she and her
son Glenwood, aged fifteen, pulled a
light load into New Haven, distance
of seven miles. - Hartford Post. .sis't ai
"A good old citizen of Dale County,
South Carolina, was fined eighty dol
lars, including costs; at the late session
OF the United States Court in Mont
gomery, for cutting wood OFF of Govern
ment land. He had no money with
which to pay the fine, but rather than
mortgage his land, he concluded to
serve out the fine in jail.-N @. Plea
yunc. ..s
AT the recent opening of new
commercial exchange in New York, the
President stated that the annual value
OF raw sugar imported and produced in
the United States considerably ex-
ceeded our imporfations Of tea and
coffee, with silk, hides, hemp and rub
Der added. The figures for sugar were
stated at $3.50, 000, JON Y. Times.
John +. Emerson, a miner on
Douglass Mountain, near Georgetown,
Col, was partly buried by caving in
of the tunnel he was drifting, and his
legs were pinioned and crushed by the
rocks. As there was no help within
hailing distance, and no hope of escape
from his terrible sufferings,. he cut his
throat with bis pocket knife.
Work has been begun on the great
canal that is to irrigate the San Luis
Valley, in Southern Colorado. The
canal is to be seven miles long and at
the bottom six feet wide, and there are
to be many lateral canals from it-all
to irrigate 100000 acres of land now
almost worthless, Several colonies are
to beiorganized to occupy this land. 80
"A number of members of the pres
ent House have received large fortunes
with their wives. Among these are
Hit, Of Illinois; Abram S. Hewitt. of
New York, whose wife was daughter
of the late Peter Cooper; Wadsworth,
also Of New York, whose wife is a
daughter of "Bilr' Travers, the great
stock speculator; Bayne, of Pennsyl-
vania; Stewart, of Vermont, and Frank
Hiscock, of New York. Mr.. Hiscock,
however, has fortune independent of
his wife. Washington Star. II, !. ~
F-sI know a man'-General Comfy
said to Cincinnati Enquirer reporter
who had 18. 900 sheep on one Of the
Hawaiian Islands, for which he had
been offered a dollar head. He re-
fused the offer, expecting to do much
better with them; but there was a
drought, and every sheep died for want
of water. There was absolutely no
possible way of saving them. There
are places on the islands where enor-
nous piles of bones mark the spots
where cattle had been in the habit of
drinking. The fountains dried up, and
they persisted. - s rs
The Charlotte, On. CO. Observer
says: 1T is not generally known that
there is gold-mine in Stanly County
owned by the late President James A.
Garfield. The mine is known as the
Flagtown mine, and was bought by the
President shortly before he was assas-
sinated. President Garfield not only
bought the mine, but established at the
mine q post-o lice called Flagtown.
The mine has been lying idle, but the
man in charge of the property has re-
ceived q letter from Mrs. Garfield stat
ing that she intends to visit the mine in
person next summer and make ar
rangements to have it properly worked -