The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

motel. who was prevented from suicide
by the timely arrival of the proprietor,
broke lamp over his head.
The Mormon missions in the Sand
witch Islands have published report
Claiming membership of $780, The
church owns large sugar plantation.
a Danish emigrant who arrived a..
Castle Garden the other day brought
with him blanket upon which were
neatly woven portraits OF Hancock,
fairfield and Arthur.-M y Sun.
Pat was quite right when he said
that it is great blessing that night
never comes on in the middle of the day
to interfere with an honest mans work,
but always when the days works over
and fellow is all tired out.
"A baby" says the New York
Journal, sis the oasis of married life."
The journal neglected to state that it
was locatedi in '.the vale of tears" and
subject to fearful squalls. with an occa-
sional eruption. Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A driver in the employ of the Cit
liens Coach Company, of Philadel-
phia, accidentally hit man in the eye
with his whip, destroying the sight.
The man sued for damages and recov-
cred 5000 from the company.-PailG-
deiphia Press.
"A young woman of Dayton, o.,
eloped with married man named
Haynes, few days ago, and in let
tersto her parents, telling what a lovely
ocean trip she is having, asks to be re-
membered to Mrs. Haynes.-Ioiedo
Blade.
The band of dirty gypsies which
have been travelling through New York
with dogs, bears, monkeys, etc., are
said to be from Austria, where they are
known as Indians. They were sent to
America by their queen to beg aud
} learn something of the American In
Indians. N " Times.
A gentleman of Santa Barbara,
Cal, has in his cabinet of curiosities
several sets of false teeth, exhumed
from the graves of aborigines on the
Santa Barbara Islands. They are
formed each from shell, which is fash
ioned to fit the roof of the mouth, and
could be adjusted outside of the gums.
The teeth are perfectly formed and
easily adjusted.
Mrs. Rose Rich has been arrested
for stealing ribbons from O'Keil's store
in Eighth Avenue, New York, where
she was employed, and it has been dis
covered that she did these things at the
command of brutal husband, who
then compelled her to support him and
whipped her if she came home without
her daily plumber. About six weeks
ago she refused to do this any longer
and the internal scoundrel exposed her.
M Y. Tribune.
An old gentleman from New Jer-
sey was in the Common Pleas Court
room in New York the other day at a
time when Jay Gould. Russell Sage and
Cyrus w. Field were all present. For
two hours the old man watched the
faces of the millionaires with the closest
attention. II can go home satisfied
pow," he exclaimed, as he left the
room, ''for / have seen three men
that's got money enough to buy the
whole of New Jersey. IN. T. Nescs.
William Andrews, an old farmer
living in the suburbs of Saco, Me-, has
in his cellar nearly fifty barrels of wine.
He will not drink it. sell it, give it
away, or throw it away. As he made
1t all himself, its sale would not only
conflict with the State laws. but with
National ones, and the property keeps
improving in quality every year, to the
evaporation of Mr.. Andrews fellow
citizens. Some of it is already more
than twenty years old.-Boston Herald.
Charles Green, of West Virginia
loved, or thought he loved, Ella Foster.
The parents objected, which made
Charley very sure that he loved Ella
and that he could never think of living
without her. He got two friends to
steal her out of the house one night
and roust out a preacher. When it
came to the point, however, Charley
weakened before the awful consumma-
ton and said he didn't believe he'd
marry for a month or so. The fellows
who had purloined the girl were too
smart to get married themselves, and
not being willing to shoulder the re-
sponsibility of their share of the fun,
quietly covered the recalcitrant bride
groom with their revolvers, when he
went through the ceremony as cheer
fully as men generally do nowadays
Detroit Post
"A case parallel to that of Charley
McComas came to light recently at
Sabinal. Mexican town above Socor-
TO, N. NJ. Three years ago, when Vic
toria's band of Apaches held sway in
this section of the country, three wood
gatherers were overtaken in the La
drone Mountains and all supposed to
have been killed. A boy nine years of
age was in the party, but his body
could not be found. A great Joy was
manifested in the town the other day by
the temperance of the boy after three
years. He was dressed in the garb OF
an Indian, but was at once recognized
by his father. He relates that when
the others were killed he was permitted
TO live and was carried away to Modi-
oce by Victoria, where he has been ever
since herding cattle in the Sierra Madre
Mountains. He was in the party
brought back by General Crook, and
has begged his way back from the San