Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-01-14
TERMS--S2. 90 PER YEAR
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range, near Mountains Citys sNeva1s,
lately.
There is a fish famine inNera Cruz.
Mexico, and much suffering among the
poorer classes has resulted in conse-
quence.
There are, only thirty Cinnamon in
Truckee, Arizona. owing 70 the anti
Chinese agitators. One year ago there
were 5,367.
London chimncys are relieved of the
presence of fifty thousand tons OF SCOT
every year, for which the sweepers re-
ceive about $20OO,OO0.
A monster bear came down from the
mountains near Tullahoma, Teen, one
day last week and created great terror
amongst the colored people.
The Cascade mountains, near south
ern Oregon. are being penetrated by
huge tunnel. Two thousand feet are
the result of the work up to date.
The Goldfish catch on the Pacific coast
amounted to l 1928, 600 during the past
season. Eleven vessels, employing 3l9
men. are engaged in the industry.
The striking craze has reached Frank
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women have combined and refuse to
buy articles of French manufacture.
The woman suffrage law recently
! passed by the lower house of the Ner-
mont legislature required that female
voters should own $3.50 worth Of prop
erty.
4 Woodland, Cal, paper gives tho
, pleasing information that the road TO
| Hell's Half Acre has been graded and
graveled and is now in q passable con-
dition. -
1.-The father of the forest" in Tulare
county, California, is the largest tree In
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 years old, and has been mar
ried one year. She still wears short
clothes, although she is tho mother OF o
2.month's old baby.
Coyotes are causing much apprehen-
sion among the sheep-owners near
Ukiah, Cal. They are as thick as
flies, and have already begun their at
tacks on the hocks of sheep in that vi
cinity.
A gentleman in Culpeper. Md, has
been regularly paying taxes on three
J $1,000 bonds which he supposed he
owned, but which, it has been lately as
certaned. were stolen by his agent
several years ago. II
A Boston artist bought a dirty can
vas, which proved TO be a Gilbert
Stuart, Mt a recent auction sale in
Bromfield street for Sl3. He was i'm
mediately offered $500, but wants
800 if he sells it. srFi
The Mormon church has nearly eleven
hundred missionaries scattered in the
south, and large number of converts
,. are reported. At SpartansbWg, 3. q,
.. there are 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
= was found dead the next morning.
, "A number Of prominent women oi
) New York have inaugurated crusade
, against the slaughter-houses. bone
, boiling, fat-rendering, kindred estab.
| lishments. They want pure air around
their homes and intend to have II.
During the summer swarm of bees
took possession Of pumpkin growing
on farm near Santa Maria, Cal. and
y when the owner went to chop 1t up FOL
cattle feed one day last weeks he found
r seven pounds of the purest honey.
Grapes are now recommended rs
remedy for obesity. A Apound of grapes
q is given the patient to be eaten the firsl
: day, and this amount is Increased I'll
. he can eat five or six pounds day.
Other food is gradually leeened, ant
the diet at last consists whollypf grapes
Q A bin of bituminous coal In New Ha-
$ ven, Conn, 200 feet long. 80 feet wide
e and IA feet deep, and containing apoH'
\ 1000 tons, caught fire from spontaneous
Q combustion. and smoldered for week
r in spite of all the water poured upon It.
o Then workmen shoveled the coal oui
: to cool it OF.
5 A swarm OF bees, for some unac'
countable reason, have pitched their
headquarters in the Baptist church spire
in Gibson, Ga. The hive ism the small
! part OF the spire. about, sixty feet from
the ground, and the bees can be seer
by any one of good eyesight coming
=. and going continually. 4 -
; A new trick in pocketpicking hai
been discovered in Atlanta, Ga. wher'
:, Hon. Patrick Walsh. OF Augusta, wa
= robbed in crowded hotel elevator b.
!, Young man, who said: Excuse me
. . sir, but my watch-chain Ia caught in on
y y of your bnttons'' IL was in straight
: ening out the pretendeds entangle
= ment that the larceny was committed.
a The Indian on Yaquina, Oregon, d
!. their fishing wholly from canoes. an'
!, in about $50 feet Of fwater. No bait
used, but the Indians have the shank
! their hooks covered with block tin, tn
i glitter. of which attracts sthe fish. ant
!, the hook does not reach the bottom be
: / fore it is seized by a fish. There ar
generally two Indians 70 each canoe
The beauty of this system to the fish
q canning establishment says The Sa
Francisco Alta, is that there can be n
great loss. If an Indian or cano
. goes down, all thatis necessary is to 8
1p TO the reservation and get anothe
a one. t-
: Tons Of diseased ana unwholesom
salmon are being shipped daily to A
toria, Washington territory TO be can
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