Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-12-25
TER RMS---S2. 90 PER YEAR
HERE AND THERE.

A few elk have been seen on Fishers
range, near Mountain City, Nevada
lately.
There Is fish famine in Vera Cruz,
s,exico, and much suffering among the
booer classes has resulted in conse-
quence.
There are only thirty Cinnamon in
Truckee, Arizona. owing TO the anti
Chinese agitators One year ago there
were 5,367.
London chimneys are relieved OF the
presence of fifty thousand tons OF soot
every year, for which the sweeperS re-
ceive about S200O,0OO.
"a monster bear came down from the
mount aims near Tullahoma. Teen, one
day last week and created great terror
amongst the cOlored people.
r The Cascade mountains. near south
ern Oregon. are being penetrated py
a huge tiinnei. Two thousand feet are
the result of the work up to date.
The Goldfish catch on the Pacific coast
amounted to | 1923, 900 during the past
season. Eleven vessels, employing 3l9
men, are engaged in the industry.
The striking craze has reached Frank
fort on the Main, where the fashionable
women have combined and refuse to
| buy articles of French manufacture.
The woman suffrage law recently
passed by the lower house of The YER
mont legislature required that female
/ voters should own $3.50 worth of prop
! erty.
4 Woodland, Cal, paper gives the
fhat tba rnn6 tn
! Hells Half Acre has been graded aud
graveled and is now in passable con-
| dition.
The father of the forest" in Tulare
county, California, is the largest tree III
the state. 1t is $50 feet high and
measures 1873 feet around the trunk.
1t is a chestnut.
Mrs. Cora Brown, of Shrub Oak. n.
Y, is IA wears old, and has been mar
ried one year. She still wears short
clothes, although she is the mother OF q
2-months old baby.
Coyotes are causing much apprehens
sion among the sheep-owners near
| Ukiah, Cal. They are as thick as
flies, and have already begun their at
tacks on the ilocks of sheep in that VI
cinity.
A gentleman in Culpeper, Md, has
been regularly paying taxes on three
$1,000 bonds which he supposed he
owned, but which, it has been lately as
certained were stolen by his agent
several years ago.
A Boston artist bought dirty can
vas. which proved to be Gilbert
! Stuart, mt recent auction sale I'm
Bromfield street for Sl3. He was inn
mediatelv offered $500, but wants
$1,000 if he sells it.
The Mormon church has nearly eleven
hundred missionaries scattered in the
south. and large number OF convarts
are reported. At SpartansbTg, ;. g.,
there are a number Of elders, and large
meetings are held nightly.
, Ayoung man in Lancaster. Pa, before
going to bed the other night, hung his
, pantaloons upon the gas-jet. The
weight of the clothes opened the stop,
letting the gas out. and the young man
I was found dead the next morning.
, A number of prominent women OF
5 New York have inaugurated crusade
. against the slaughter-houses. bone
D boiling, fat-rendering. kindred estab-
4 lishments. They want pure air around
their homes and intend to have it.
During the summer a swarm OF bees
took possession of pumpkin growing
on q farm near Santa Maria, CAL, and
when the owner went to chop 1t up fol
cattle feed one day last week, he fount
r seven pounds of the purest honey.
Grapes are now recommended rs
! remedy for obesity. A pound OF grapes
@ is given the patient to be eaten the mrs
a day, and this amount is increased I'll
he can eat five or six pounds day
=" Other food is gradually lessened, AM
10 tie diet at last consists wholly of grapes
e A bin of bitumnous coal i'm New Ha
Is ven. Conn, 200 feet long. 80 feet wild
~ and IA feet deep. and containing abou
1000 tons, caught fire from spontaneou
10 combustion, and smoldered for wee|
II in spite of all the water poured upon II
20 Then workmen shoveled the coal ou
. TO cool it of.
- A swarm of bees, for some unat
! countable reason, have pitched thei
~ headquarters in the Baptist church spir
Y in Gibson, Ga. The hive is in the sma
part of the spire, about sixty feet froI
the ground. and the bees can be see
pS by any one of good eyesight comm
u ~ and going continually.
20 A new trick in pocket-picking M
. been discovered in Atlanta, Ga, wheI
y, Hon. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta, WI
~ ~ robbed in crowded hotel elevator b
a Young man. who said: Excuse m
- =" sir, but my watch-chain is caught in OF
~ of your buttons" 1t was in straign
~ ~ ening out the pretended entangl
-, ment that the larceny was committed
nj The Indian on Yaquina, Oregon.
b. their fishing wholly from canoes, al
n. in about $50 feet of water. No bait
Il used, but the Indians have the shank
II their hooks covered with block tin, q
ed glitter of which attracts the fish. 81
mt the hook does not reach the bottom b
,,- fore it is seized by fish. There a
generally two Indians to each cans
W. The beauty of this system to the fis
to canning establishment, says The 81
Francisco Alta, is that there can be
n great loss. If an Indian or a can
av goes down, all that is necessary Is to
h. up to the reservation and get anoth