Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-07-25

SANTA CLARA camp, in lower Califor
MA, abounds in strongly-marked indi
vidualities and notable life h stories
Une OF the most striking figures here is
, that OF tall, graceful girl, known as
winchester Nellie" from the remark.
able ability with which she handles q
winchester rifle, being by all odds the
best shot with that weapon in camp,
There is . mystery about Nell that no
body has yet been able to fathom. She
Is, apparently, about twenty-three years
OF age, and she gives her name as Nelly
smith, but when questioned as to hel
former home, her antecedents and the
whereabouts Of her parents she resolute
~ declines to answer. She has stakec
on = claim, and is working it with excel
lent results. She has the respect O
every man in camp, andis made FRIEND
and companion by oil the best women
There il not miner who would dare t.
offer the slightest familiarity to Nell
iof there is an indescribable something
~ her manner which tells one instinc
lively that it would be dangerous te
presumS upon its frank cotdiality.
HERE are two startling snake stories
rom Maine. The first comes from
Waterville, whore the post morton ex-
animation OF horse that died from un.
known causes revealed in its stomach a
snake four and one half feet long, with
head and eyes perfect, six inches in cir
conference, and the color of blood with
the exception Of white stripe on the
back. Another snake came from the
stomach of Mrs. Frank Kenny, of Ports
mouth, N. H., who was in Biddeford
under medical treatment. In August.
1856. at camp meeting in Alton Bay,
she drank water from brook, and af-
forward became ill. She was treated
TOR cancer Of the stomach, but stoutly
insisted that something moved within
her. The other day, by means of q
powerful drug, - 1ight-colored snake
twelve and three-eighths inches long
was disgorged from her stomach, and
she has gone home happy"
A QUEER little insect, the Texas flee.
Abaving killed out the quail in the vicini-
ty OF Albany, Ga, has turned it's atten-
ton to the poultry. They are particu-
larly fatal to ducks, fastening them
selves only upon their heads and eating
their way into their brain. They at
tack no other part of their body, and
are very difficult to get off as they bur-
row at once beneath the skin. They
are similar in appearance to the COM
mon fieas, but are only about half the
size and do not hop. It is supposed
the destructive little pest was brought
upon the burros and bronchos brought
in such numbers from the Lone Star
State. They are proof against insect
powders and insect drops, carbolic ONT
ment being the only thing that will de-
stroy them. From being one of the best
poultry markets in the State, Albany is
becoming one Of the poorest.
GENERAL A. G. P. DODGE and wife,
the latter niece of Senator Voorhees,
Of Indiana, entertained the elite of Dan
vile, ILL.,, at their $50, 900 mansion on a
recent evening, Miss Cannon and Miss
Mabel Cannon, daughters of Congress-
man J. G. Cannon, being among the
guests. During the dancing, after the
refreshments had been served, the house
was discovered to be on fire. The
flames had made considerable progress
unobserved by any one, and the first in
timation the dancers had that the house
was on fire came in the shape of o stream
of molten lead that burst through the
ceiling of the large hall. Many of the
dancers were despatched by the liquid
metal, receiving severe burns. Ladies
screamed and for while pandemonium
reigned. At last those who had been in
the ballroom succeeded in getting out,
leaving their wraps and hats behind.
Betting on the rainfall is carried on
with SO much energy in Bombay that
the local Government have tried to set
down the practice as unlawful gambling.
A shed erect, d near certain tank is
fitted up with two large rain gauges,
called Calcutta" and "Lukda" and
with numerous stalls, whose keepers
register the bets on the rainfall to be
determined by the gauges. Sometimes
1900 persons crowd round the shed for
the "bursat ka-sutta," or rain-betting,
and all pay the stall keepers small
commission. The authorities sought to
declare the shed q common gaming
house, and accordingly coming under
the provisions Of the Prevention of
Gambling Act; but the Bombay High
Court decides that rain betting does not
constitute game, as there is no instru-
ment OF gaming used.
M. ToPMARD has been making q sta
tistical inquiry into the colors of the
eyes and hair in France. And from his
$50, 600 observations he deduces many
interesting results, one Of the most curl
GUS being that where the race is formed
from . mixture of blondes and brunettes
the hereditary blond coloring comes out
in the eyes and the brunette element re-
appears in the hair. To this tendency,
probably, is to be attributed the rarity Of
9 combination of light hair and dark
eyes. Several observers have asserted
that the American people, who are per-
manently . mixed race, are becoming q
dark-haired and blue-eyed nation, and, if
this be true, such development must be
owing to the working Of the law formu-
lated by M. Topinard.
A CONTEST in the jackson County
(Mo.) courts over . will and valuable
property reveals somewhat complicated
romance. Hezekiah @. Harrison in 1850
married the daughter of Col. Owens.
Shortly before the war he went to Colo
RADIO, Tidings Of his death having
-o.ch~1 his v1fa abe in 1855 married