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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20
LIBERAL DAMAGES.
Why . Judge Instructed the Jury in Favor
of the Plaintiff.

Why Judge Instructed the Jury in Favor
of the Plaintiff.
Aman who had been arrested, charged
with misdemeanor, brought suit for ma
licious Imprisonment. When the. case
was brought up for trial the Judge
asked:
upon what, sir, do you base this
suit? / understand that you did commit
misdemeanor.
''Yes, Jedge, / don't deny that
s'Then how could the imprisonment
have been maliciousp''
"Well, you see, thar was a circus in
town the day / was arrested. WANTED
to go to the show but the officer cheated
me out of it. just as the elephant and
the spotted boss come along, the officer
showed me into Jail. Why didn't he
wait until the show was over before he
arrested me?'
"Your point is very strong one"
said the Judge. 1.-THE inherent right.of
an American citizen is to see the circus.
The jury will please assess liberal DAM
ages. "-Arkansasc Traveller.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20
FOX AND FOWL.
Cute Reynard's sagacity in the Role Of an
Undertaken.

Cute Reynard's sagacity in the Role Of an
Undertaken.
A pleasing incident, that adds to the
fox's reputation for shrewdness that is
somewhat better than cunning, appears
in the Liverpool Courier. A Scotch
correspondent writes to that journal:
Zone of the stalkers in the deer forest
here has young fox which he caught
when quite a cub, and which he keeps
chained to kennel near his cottage
The other day he gave the creature a
dead crow, thinking he might like the
amusement of eating it; but Reynard,
after careful consideration, thought the
birds condition rather called for decent
burial, and therefore he dug with his
forepaws large enough hole in front
OF his kennel, and when finished he put
the bird into it, laying it on its back,
with its claws in the air"
The stalker, who was watching the
animal, saw him then scrape the loose
earth over the bird SO as to quite cover
its body; but the legs still stuck up in
the air. These legs seemed to annoy
him good deal, and he tried to press
them down with his nose. Failing in
this, and after evidently turning the
matter over in his mind, he bit the legs
off, laid them fat beside the bird and
then covered everything over with
earth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20
A Widows Wit.

A Washington widow who had re.
ceived marked attentions from very
popular and gallant physician found
herself suddenly deserted. Her Escu-
lapius, aged fifty-two years, was COM
pletely enthralled by beauty of eigh-
teen years, and on Christmas morning
the wedding took place with all due
pomp. Norwood for the widow!
She swallowed it bravely, wore an un-
daunted front, and was among the first
to offer hurried congratulations to the
happy pair. The conversation turned
upon Christmas gifts, and the bride
said, laughing gayly: "All my we'd
ding presents were sent Just before
Christmas, SO on Christmas morning I
had not single gift" "Ah! my dear,
that is cruel; you had me-" said the
bridegroom, reproachfully. Before the
pretty bride could answer the widows
eyes grew dangerous. and, swinging
slowly her Large fan, she murmured:
Surely, my dear Mrs. X, you should
be more than satisfied, for you know
antiquities are all the rage" In the
awful silence following. the widow rose,
carefully arranged her draperies and
bowed her adieu in stately serenity.
DR.. x. and his bride never returned
her call Boston Herald.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20
PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

New York is manufacturing canes
rs big as baseball bats to keep the
dudes from blowing AWAY. r. Sum-
We don't Just see why woman
should like her mirror better than a
man, for the man will flatter her and
the mirror won't-N. Y. Journal.
Darwin says that the monkey can
!, blush. He certainly ought to when he
sees the way his descendants are cut
ting up.-Peck's Sun.
We doabt If the inquisition pos
sessed any combination for torture sur
| passing a toothache and new pair Of
boots. Lowell Mass. Citizen.
He +" You don't sing or play.
Then / presume you write or paint
She--"O, no; I'm like the young men
we meet in society. I simply sit around
and try to look intelligent. p Ha,per'sI
Baxar.
1t is the easiest thing in the world
to write fun. All you've got to do Isl
to sit down and think of it and then
write it. We could write columns of III
Iii we could think of it, Gsicaqd
Ledger.
There was man once on a time.
who thought him very wise. He posi-
lively affirmed he'd never advertise.
But the goods were advertised ere long,
and thereby hangs tail. The ad was
set in nonpareil, and headed ssSherif's
Sale. IN r. Mail.
"A Justice in Georgia recently
undertook to marry two couples At
once and married both women to one of
the men before he was aware of the
fact. He afterwards got the matter
Strengthened out to the satisfaction of
the contracting parties.-N. Y Sun.
"A Harvard student searched for a
leak in the gas-pipe with q lighted
match. He Will never do It arain.
There is this to say in favor of q col
legiate education: When man learns
anything he learns it so thorourhlv
that he never forgets it--Boston Iran-
script
"A pedantic writer complains that
there is too much bad grammar in the
newspapers. This are evidently mis-
take. If there was bad grammar in
the newspapers we would have saw il.
Perhaps newspapers does err in those
respect occasionally. in the hustle and
hurry OF going to press, but they don't
60 for to do it.-Norristoscp Herald.
why on earth, Keziah," asked
Squire Jones of his sister, Mrs. Larkin.
Ibid you give your boy such an ever1
lasting hard nameR It's as long as q
string OF dried apples" well,
brother, boys are so particular when
they grow up, and always want roman-
tic and fine-sounding names; and so i
told my husband we would call the
child Peleg Zerubabel Kish Elkanah
Habakuk, and when he gets old enough
ne can take his choice" The Squire
thought 1t would be hard picking, but
ne did not tell her 50; and Mrs. Larkin
went on with her knitting in state Of
serene satisfaction.-Bost0n Budgse.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20
DANGEROUS MONKEYS.

they Amuse Themselves by WreckinG
Railway Trains.
Between place called Niddivunda
and Herebully there is large tope
which is well known to be infested with
lot Of monkeys. Having no other
mode of occupying their dull hours.
they are bent upon trying to destroy
the Thinker Line. 1t would appear
that these animals, about fifty or sixty,
form themselves into two patches; they
range themselves systematically, one
half on one rail and the other half ON
the other. They begin by first remove
ing the earth from tie sides of the rails.
Then they arrive at the difficulty Of
nuts and bolts, which, though they ex-
aiming them very infinitely, they can
not get over.
On the approach of the up or down
train they wait until the engine is with
in few yards, when. with the utmost
GOODNESS. they simply jump on one side
till the train has passed. and then re-
sumo their work. A remarkable in.
stance occurred on one of these occa-
sions. As the engine was approaching
the monkeys made their usual jumps,
with the exception of one, who per.
sisted in remaining on the line, the en-
CINE by this time being very near. Five
or six monkeys, seeing the danger one
of their number was in, made sudden
rush and dragged him off, some laying
bold of him by the tail, others by the
legs; anyhow. they saved him. They
are now styled the Niddivunda gang.
men by the guards and drivers. Md
~0s M0i2.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Tn the college at Yankton, D: T.y
there is strip of slate blackboard Wv
| feet long. a.. mis-
.;orsr;es With bio families are wanted
in Africa. They can dig and teacn' no0
and preach. Chicago Herald.
1T costs $1,000 a year to keep up
.ho Vale boat club, $4,000 year ZOE
tho hall nine. and $1,000 year for
Football team.-Ncso HdUen Register
A Lodi. (Cal.) schoolma'am wrote
tn the trustees of Butte County schooi
asking for position, and if there was
no vacancy she requested them 70 asSi's
her in sousting some OLD FOSSIL
Chicago Times.
ST. Peters Cathedral, just finished
at Moscow. has five cupolas, ana wv
pounds of gold were used in OVERLAPPING
them. The doors of the temple cost
$50, 900, and the marble floors SLOW,
900.
The Rochester Baptist City Mission
has already succeeded in erecting three
mission chapels and three more are
projected. It has eleven mission sum
day schools and these number about
two thousand teachers and scholars
Baptist Weekly.
The Jewish Association for the
Diffusion of Knowledge has adopted
the revised version of the Old Testa-
ment as the basis for new edition OF
the Scriptures which is about to Do
issued for the use of the English-speak-
ing Jews.-N. T. Tribune.
"A church is to be erected in the
venerable town of Speyer, the capital
of Rhenish Bavaria, in commemoration
of the protest of the six princes ana
the fourteen free cities, that in 1913
espoused the cause of the Reformation
The Osseycatore Romano states that
it results from the estimates made by
the various nIissioners that the total
number Of the members of the Roman
Catholic Church throughout the world
is between 5000, 900 and 800, 900, O00-
Rev P. M. Rudra, of North India,
says, as the result of tour in South
India: s.From what / have both seen
and heard, the prospects Of Christianity
in South India are so encouraging as to
lead me to hope that in no very distant
time the whole country will be brought
to the feet of Christ.
Evolution has been accepted by the
Virginia Presbyterian synod as being
in harmony with the Scriptures. 1t has
sustained Prof. Woodrow, Of the
Charleston Theological Seminary, who
was removed from his position because
of his views on evolution. Chicago
Journal
The HARVARD Crimson notes that
England, with population of 25,000,-
600, sends 5000 students to her two
universities; that Scotland, with
population of Zoo, 900, has $500 uni
versity students; that Germany, with a
population of 48, 000, 900, sends 23,60O
to her numerous universities; that New
England, with population of 4, 100, 900,
has 1900 students in her eighteen uni
versities and colleges.
Careful Investigations have been
made in Denmark, both by educators
and the Government, as to overpressure
in the schools, and the conclusion has
been reached that not enough attention
has been paid to the preservation of the
health of children by intelligent regula-
ton of their hours Of work and by the
maintenance of proper hygienic sur
roundings. One investigator found that
one-third of all school boys were suffer.
ing from chronic complaints.--N r
Independent.
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miles beat them into the nearest sta
ton. The treasure-box, so Bret Harte
said, contained $685. in gold dust.
Now II you can find man that can
ride horse bareback over mountain
road, and hold box weighing 1863
pounds, and, thus handicapped, beat
two well-mounted men fully equipped,
I'll back him to whip Sullivan. I'm
afraid that Bret didn't figure the
weight of the coin down very fine when
he made the horse and driver do such a
trying feat"
''H gold is so heavy. silver must be
trying to handle"
1--WE don't handle it. We wouldn't
accept deposit of 1000 silver dollars
from anybody, and we never take silver
from strangers. OF course, customer
may bring in a roll or two to make q
good round sum, but we never break
it, and pay it out in the same packages
in which we receive it. Every deposition
is required to write his name on such q
roll, and if the party we give it to finds
it stuffed with lead pipe. or short piece,
all he has to do is to bring it back
with the wrapper, and the depositorb
signature holds him good for it. We
can refuse silver at this desk, because
we make no charge for deposits. In
fact, the bank just keeps me for orna-
ment and accommodation; for unless q
deposit remains here for a sufficient
length OF time to be put out at interest
it never gets cent for my work"
"Are worried much with counter
feits?"
Not large ones. There used to be
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20

Some $50 former residents of Massa.
chusetts now living in Minneapolis have
formed q Massachusetts, club for month
ly sociables for themselves and their
families. A condition of membership
is a former residence in the old Bay
State of at least year.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-02-20

They have vaccination bees" in
Canada In this country bees are NOT
mechanically 7. Graphic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-02

PoULTRY-Hens &c; young chickens shippers
paying Sc 10 ROSTERS. 3l9c; ducks per rs; geese,
80 " doz for full feathered, $3.50 for young or
picked hen turkeys &c ~ 10; toms. &c per g.
WooL--Medum, 23024c; one-fourth blood, 21O
23c; braid, lS021c; bury, Cotswold and black, a
Zoe less. We quote prices farmers lots; large
lots slightly higher prices are paid.
PROVISIONS.
WHOLESALE PRICEs-Prime lard z. 25c; short ribs.
6.20c sweet-pickled shoulders. in market
hams lie.
JoBBING PRICEs-SmoIed Meats-Sugar-cured
hams. ID fbs average. 12aaO13c; 17Io fbs average,
12l4012sac; 20 lbs average. 114O12l4c; % to %
lbs average IL 12O12c light 10 to II lbs do. IL "a
IL 4c cottagehams, 712OSc California hams, Sc; En-
giish cured breakfast bacon. 9l2O1Oc; sugar-cured
breakfast bacon 912c; English shoulders 84c: dried
beef 1907 1ec. Bacon. clear sides. light medium
weight &c. bellies, hghtor medium weight 84c backs.
light or medium weight. 7ac Dry-saited and Pickle
Meats-Enghsh-cured clear sides (unsmoked), 7l0c;
backs or bellies (unsmoked), &c; clear pork,
" brl 200 Tbs, $11.50; ham pork, ~ brl 200
lbs, $lO Lard-Pure leaf kettle-rendered,
chilled Sc: in q brls and 50fD tubs, SEC advance
on price of tiercesi 2O-b pals SIC advance; Sob
cans in 100 n cases. lee advances 20ib cans in SOtb
vance; 81 cans in Cob cases, 5sc advance; 81
in Cob cases, SIC advance.
SEEDS
Prime clover $45005 - bu prime timothy.
81 25025O o. bu; extra clean blue grass 81 a
LIS ~ bu; red top, 75c0$l " bu; orchard grass
81. 50O2 " bu; German nillet, S1.25 % bu;
common milet, ST. " bu; faxseed, selected, $1.100
LAO ~ bu: seed rye, Toe " bu. saes
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Farn Notes.

Attending cattle sale is serviceable to nov
ice in cattle-breeding from an educational stand
point. -
Charcoal and sulphur are both very excellent
Ingredients to mix occasionally with fowl feed,
either for young or old birds, but both should be
used with discretion.
Professor Shaief says there are $4,000 square
miles of territory east of the Mississippi now
covered by swamps, which might easily be
drained and turned into fertile lands.
A big weed near tomato plant, or hill of
squash, or big tussock of, crab grass, will, in
week, take out of the soil enough of the plant
food to make peck of tomatoes or squashes.
Good tillage is the strongest weapon VITA
which the farmer can fight hard times and
gain success. Imperfect culture the other
hand, will scarcely enable him TO gain a living
from the richest soil, and the soil will deteri-
crate rapidly in quality from such treatment
besides.
Save all the manure. A quarter of century
ago many Western farmers dumped their ma
nure into the rivers, not surprising that manure
or fertilizers would ever be required but the
question of fertilizers is now being discussed as
we'll as the best methods of restoring fertility.
The guinea fowl is great forager. and de-
stroys many insects that the hens will not touch.
They do not scratch the garden, and, though
not easily kept near the house. they make known
the places where they lay by peculiar noise.
which enables one accustomed TO them to find
all the eggs they lay. They really cost nothing
to raise, and when roosting the house Gre
ate an alarm when intruders make their appear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-02
Hardness of Russian AppIes.

Prof. W. Saunders. in his Report on Agricult-
ural Colleges, states that when at Iowa College,
Professor Budd showed him a collection of COM
mon and Russian apples, and the effect of the in
tensely cold winter each. The orchard of
common varieties contained ]. 200 trees. planted
five or six years ago, and embracing 1lS varie
ties. and including the Oldenburg. originally
from Russia. The other orchard had 1000 trees,
all Russian. The result of the unusually severe
winter was that three-fourths of the first men
toned orchard we're killed, but conspicuous
among those which escaped was the Oldenburg
In the other orchard, composed entirely of Rus
sian sorts of over one hundred varieties, not
single dead tree could be found Those who are
NOT acquainted with the Russian apples should
not, however make the mistake of supposing
them to be valuable, except III localities where
the winters are severe as to kill our common
and much better sorts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-02
Elsewhere.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-The Drovers' Journal re-
ports: Cattle-Receipts, 12OOO shipments 1000.
$50 to 1900 TBS, $3.5o04.9O; stockers and feed
-ers, $203.5O; cows. bulls and mixed, $1.25 a
3.25; bulk. $2.2O02.4O; through Texans, SO. Is;
cows; $2.2502.6O; Western rangers, common almost
unstable; natives and half breeds. $28504 cows
$2.5002. rs; wintered Texans $2.7O03.15.
Hogs-Receipts. IL, 600; shipments. $500. Mar
$50: packing and shipping, $4.8O05.1O; light,
So; 1904, IS; skips, S2.5O036O.
slow; natives, $2a4; Texans, $1.75@225 lambs,
$405.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.--Beeves-Rece inelud.
ing II carloads export steers 1876 carloads.
to prime native steers sold at $4.1O05.35 few of
the best at ;5 Asa so; Texas steers 50 5a3. 20;
Colorado half breeds. $404.4O; bulls dry COWS and
rough stays, So. 1OO3.7O. Exports 40 beeves
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts. ~, 700. Firmer and
afraction higher for good stock and nearly all sold
Sheep ranged from $3.50 to $4.75 per 100 lbs;
lambs lam 5S62o prime selections going at So 80
Hogs-Recepts, $50. A shade frmer for live
hogs, but not quotaby higher; extremes, $4.7505
per 100 pounds.
Gator reports: Cattle-Receipts 800; Shipments
none. Only choice corn-fed steady Others dull and 50
Ioe lower; good to choice, So 500 4.5oi common to
medium $330O38O stockers and feeders, So 500
3.25.
Hogs-Receipts, $780, shipments, 600 The m ar
good to choice $4.65 04.sO; common to medium
ST. 1O04. So; grassers and pigs, So 5O04.
Sheep.,Receipts 1900: shipments, none. Market
good and steady; good to choice 81 03 common to
medium $1.5002.25.
ST. LOUIS, Sept 1.-Cattle-Recepts, 440O
shipments 100. Market weak and lower; good to
choice shipping, $41504.65; common to fair
$3 90 "a butchers, steers, $3:5004; cows and
heifers, $2. 25 so; Texas and Indian, 81. ESQ
800 Some choice Indian cattle brought 3d. 5.
Hogs-Receipts. 4, 500. shipments, 1,400 Mar
knt firm and abonr h,1fn haoA
heavy, $4.9095.15; mixed packing, $44O04.S5;
light, 81. 1OO4.7O.
Sheep-Receipts, 200; shipments, 1900. Market
a shade lower at So. 1904.
BUFFALO, Sept 1.-Cattle-Receipts 1876. None
on SALE
Sheep-Receipts. 4,4OO; market steady fair to
good lambs So 1904; Western lambs steady with a
fair demand at -$4.2504.62le; Canadian lambs
scarce and firm at So rs. IS.
Rogs-Recepts, 5 500. Market dull and unchanged;
light pigs. $39O04.15; common and light $4 ESQ
LAO; selected Workers. $4.5004.60; selected medium
weights. $470@480 coarse mixed heavy ends,
So. 10; market closed weak.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-02
Cotton.

NEW YORK, Sept. &c. L. Green & Co.'S re-
port cotton futures says: "A slight improve
ment in cable advices started the market here some
what higher but with very little real demand and the
recently created long" commencing to take profits,
there reaction with the close dull and fraction
under last evening in some cases. The private ac-
counts from Liverpool quite slack and crop re-
ports improving. which checks demand without in
creasiug desire 10 sell.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept 1.-Cotton dull; middling
87sc; low middng, 8 7-16c; good ordinary, 7alc
net and gross receipts 10 bales; exports coastwse
1882 bales sales, $50 bales; stock 10 $50 bales.
LIVERPOOL Sept. l. Cotton firm; middng
uplands, 5lsd middling Orleans. 316d. Sales of
10000 bales including ]. 900 bales for speculation
and export, aud 2, 400 bales American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-02
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.
Yesterdays Quotations on Produce at the
Two Great Centers.

Yesterdays quotations on Produce at the
Two Great Centers.
NEW YORK, Sept I-Flour-Receipts, IA,
no brls exports 4l6 brls and 1885 sacks;
ather weak but not quotably lower; Sales %,
100 brls.
Wheat Receipts, 162, $50 Blu; exports. 243,O67
bu; cash lots 10lc lower, but moderately act
i've and closed steadier; options opened shade
easier, later advanced b04c, afterwards de-
clined gc, closing steady, with recovery OF
40lc. Sales, 8. ga 900 bu futures and 26S 900 bu
spot No 2 Chicago SEC; No. hard. Gle; No. l
y rthern, 884c November ungraded red 81 %
9Je; No. red, S54 a85ac: steamer NO. red,
S64c; No. 2 red, s64c in elevator &c {. o. b.,
81 087kc afoat; No. ] rd 92c: No. white,
SIC: No. 2 red. September. 86I 087 7.l6c, closing
at S6ac; October, SS 0s8bc, closing at 88ac; No
yembsr, s9s 090sc, closing at 9Oc; December