The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.


Senator Beck and Senator Evarts
are the names given to two recently.
discovered mines in Rye Patch. New.
Columbus, Miss, has an ordinance
which prohibits more than two persons
walking abreast in the streets.
-Winnemucca, New, has had an In
dian murder trial before jury of
twelve bucks. The accused Indian was
acquitted.
The trade in patent medicines
amounts to about $50, 100000 per an
mum. There are five thousand kinds
in the market.
"A farmer in Salinas valley, Cali
fornia, recently shipped one hundred
and fifty sacks of potatoes to San Fran
cisco, and after paying commission,
freight, etc., the whole lot Melted him
twenty-four cents.
Despite Vermont's stringent fish
protective laws, some scalawag depop-
ulated one of her lakes the other day
by exploding quantity Of dynamite
underneath the ice Every fish appar
emily was killed. Rutland Herald
The most valuable postage-stamp
known to collectors is said to be one
issued by the postmaster of Brattle-
boro, VT, in 1847, which was sup
pressed after few weeks. Aspecimen
is now worth six or eight hundred
dollars.
"A fight occurred in a farm-yard at
Stanley, N. j., day or two ago, be-
furoan r,,oro and hull Incr The
mare finally killed the canine by falling
on it, but had to be killed herself after
ward on account of the injuries she had
received during the encounter.
"A shipwrecked sailor, after cling
ing to the keel of a capsized boat near
the mouth of the Columbia river for a
long time, attempted suicide by cutting
his own throat. but in doing SO his feet
struck bottom and he changed his mind
and walked ashore.
The Emerald ASSOCIATION of Brook.
lyn sent Mr.. Beecher an invitation to
attend ball to be given next month for
the benefit of the Roman Catholic Or
phan Asylum He replied as follows:
never learned to dance and am too old to
learn new tricks of that kind. But IL there
are younger feet which can beat out dollars
with dancing for the orphans. shall be glad
to have some good nimble dancer work out
one tickets worth for me. Yours in the
bonds of kindness for the poor,
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
There are six different establish
ments for "homeless children" in New
York City. During the past year they
have cared for 13, PIP different boys and
girls. Most of the Institutions are par
tally self-supporting. Of 246,S75
lodgings during the year, only 80,
were free, and of 324,4 95 meals all
were paid for except 64,943. During
the time the children were encouraged
to save their pennies, and deposited in
the savings bank S7,246.41.-M Y
Tribune.
The Indian wife of Warm Spring
Johnny" white man, who since his
childhood has lived with the Indians,
died near Albany, Ore, recently, of
lung fever. The husband, whose. real
name is unknown, was well known in
the early days of Oregon as an Indian
scout, and also served in the United
States army during the civil war. He
He was captured when child by the
Indians, and with them has even lost
his own name. He has lived for many
years with his Indian wife in q little
cabin near the Calapoola river.-Chi-
cdgo Herald.
"A diamond broker arrived at Wash
ington recently with $4,000 neck
lace, ordered from him long ago, and
the stones of which he has been years
in collecting. The necklace has forty
one blue-white stones and it is said to
be the largest collection of absolutely
perfect gems that has ever been made
in this country. The central gem, and
the only odd one, is seven carats in
weight and cost $1,000. The rest are
all exact pairs, of graduated sizes, and
the smallest ones cost $500 each. The
broker who made this collection sought
the world over for the stones, as his
contract stipulated that each one should
be absolutely faultless, and he says that
he has examined $10,000,000 worth of
jewels to complete the selection
Washington Post.