Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-10-16
HERE AND THERE.

\ crippled boys brush making
shop is New York institution.
Bears are more numerous in the pro
vince of Quebec this year than ever be
fore.
An S-year-old lad is under arrest in
Louisville, Ky, on the charge of wreck,
ing train.
California fruits have taken the place
of southern fruits in the markets oil
Richmond, Va.
Baltimore. Nd, Masons will try tc
raise $500 for the benefit OF the
Charleston, S. c., sufferers.
A party of fat men living at ROTOR
Point, Conn. will next week hold their
twentieth annual clam-bake.
There are three thousand mill opera
tives out of employment in Amsterdam,
y. Y. All the mills are closed.
In Charleston. S. c., the scene of the
recent earthquake. there live $3.50
colored persons and 27,60j whites.
A Portland, Me-, farmer found a
SO note stuck to the tire of a wheel on
his buggy after he had returned from a
|
A large meteor fell on the streets Of
| Portsmouth, Va, Wednesday. and
broke into fragments. The pieces were
too hot to handle comfortably.
A watermelon weighing ninetv-six
and half pounds is on exhibition at
NISalia, Cal, and competition is chal-
lenged from the rest of the state.
Il - tbouoht tIot h.,
ance at the New York city public
schools for the coming session will be
100000. Last year it was 136, 900.
Youngstown, o., is without IN official
organ published in the English Ian
guage. Inability to pay the price de-
manded by the printers is the cause.
Preparations are rapidly being made
for the humiliation of Stone mountain.
Georgia. Huge wells have been bored,
and carloads of powder emptied into
them.
A woman near Caseyville, Ky. while
walking about in her garden Tuesday,
stepped on humble bees nest, and the
bees stung her SO badly that she died
the next day.
1t is now the fashion in Louisville,
Ky, for young ladies TO make visits IN
company of a chaperone instead of
gentleman, rs has heretofore been the
custom in that city.
A Presbyterian church built from
pctrified wood in Aliens creek is one
Of the curiosities of Mumford, n. Y.
Leaf and moss fossils are to be plainly
seen in the stone.
The prize of a gold-headed cane for
the winner of fat mans race in Pitts
burgh last week was carried of BY Il
butcher who tips the beam at 3j0
pounds. No person weighing less than
2O5 pounds was allowed 10 contest.
The following terse note was recently
left behind by an clipping couple in one
of Hampshire's hill towns: We've
eloped. Forgive us if you can, and il
you can't, what will you do about tip
A fire broke out Sept. 10 in Bristol.
New, and consumed the best port on of
the town before the flames could he got
under control. One man named J. y.
Gregory was killed. and Il loss of $l35,-
OUU was occasiOned.
The hackmen of Buffalo. n. Y. are
bowling mad because liveryman, c. |
w. Miller, pays license on four car
riages when he has forly-nine, while |
every mothers son of us must pay a |
big tax for everything we own or do"
When Captain Lawton and his COM
mand arrived at Fort Bowie with the !
Apaches they looked like a party of |
tramps. Capt. Lawton had the rim of |
his hat left and IN undershirt and a |
pair of overalls on, his feet beng en-
cased in rawhide.
A young married lady of fashion at a |
party recently given ut
White Sulphur Springs, Va, is said to |
have pulled off her slipper, which she |
filled with wine and gave to 4 young
lawyer in the party, who eagerly quaff-
ed its contents.
The principal land office in Vancou-
yer, British Columbia, is situated in a
hollow tree forty-four feet in crcum-
ference. In one section there is ia
bic twenty-seven feet long and four
feet wide, made out of a solid board
taken from the tree.
A prominent Catholic priest of Gin
C'uHdll III tu lHlctNIc" with Il reporter |
Of The Times star says that an effort
will be made to pay of the archbishop's
debt within the next five years. The
pope is said to have issued an order re-
Iuiring that the debt shall be liquidated
in that time.
A Morden, Manitoba. dog is said to
have escaped from his collar one day last
week, after which, fearing a whipping.
he refused To return home when called
by his owner. The next night. howev-
n, he went back to his kennel, and by
some means inserted his neck into the
collar and in the morning was found
securely fastened.
The Schumacher boys of Conestoga.
Canada leaned their tish-poles against
IN apple tree in the garden. with the
ines dangling. As their mother was
walking in the garden the wind blew
one of the lines toward her, the hook
taught in her nose, and she suffered
or an hour before the doctor came and
ut it out.
A white convict recently escaped from
/ gang working on the Georgia Midland
A bloodhound was put on his
rail and afterward found manacled to Il
| tree with the convict's shackles. Two
new dogs were started after him, and
when they caught him he made friends
With them, and traded them to q negro
woman for his dinner. He has not been ;