Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

President Arthur pays taxes in New York on $285,000 worth of proporty. A 100-vkar-old gentleman recently deposited his first vote at Kensington, Ct, A Jersey calf ten inches high, and fourteen inches long, is the attraction of Brooksville, Ky. The cotton and sugar crop of the South this year is estimated at about half that oi 1882. During the past four weeks 2,500 negroes have left South Carolina for Arkansas an<! Texas. Italians at work near Roanoke, Genesee county, N. Y., having caught a largo snake, cooked and ate it. i A Chinaman with a Spanish wife and four bright little Celestials left Ban Francisco, Cal., recently, bound for China. A snake seven feet,and five inches long with thirteen rattles was recently killed on an island in Lake Winnepiseogee. During last year 18,300 vessels of ali nationalities entered and cleared at Chinese ports, of which 14,337 were Brltlsty. The North Nebraska Methodist conference has resolved that any member who has fallen into the use of tobacco ought to desist. The pastor of Salem Refcfrmed church, Allentown, Pa., has preached twenty-six funeral sermons in the last two months. Foreign capitalists have just bought a large tract of land in Southeastern Arkansas, said to contain 460,000,000 feet of timber. In Dewitt county, Tex., a [local paper says a live snake, twelve inches long, without eyes, was found imbedded in a solid rock. Alexander Willis, who claimed oo be 113 years old, has died at Savannah, Ga. He voted for Washington at his second election. A Mexican planter employed 200 men to kill locusts for him. Their wages amounted to $296.38, and they killed 317,000 of the insects. A Minneapolis man has paid $3,000 for medical treatment on account of a bite by his dog, and yet has not sought satisfaction by billing-the beast. They say that Carlyle’s ghost, arrayed in white, haunts Chelsea at the twilight hour, and recently asked a little girl for “ a ’penn’orth o’ tobacco.” A party of Minnesota young women have gone to the Argentine Republic to teach school, and they write back that their first impressions are pleasant. Eleven days after a girl babe had been born to a painter’s wife in Hazleton, Pa., she resumed her household duties for a day, and then added a boy to the family. Washington Territory is excited over the appearance of a wild woman who appears in the forests near small settlements occasionally. She has long streaming hair, and Is clothed in rags. “Ckiiro Gordo” Williams Is a model “bulegrass” farmer.. His tobacco crops always commands ihe highest price in the Louisville market, turning him a net profit of $25,000 to $30,000 a year. A St. Louis jury required only five minute* to find that shaving is a work of necessity, and that the barbers who had been arrestot on the charge of violating Missouri’s Sunday law were not guilty. While removing the old Catholic parsonage to Liberty street, Batavia, N. Y., recently, the workmen found a rat’s nest made o: about S2OO worth of “ shinplasters ” in a pretty good state of preservation. a" young gentleman, fresh from the other side and wearing his knees and elbows in the letter A style, remarked, in the Museum grounds in Central Park: “ No, I don’t care to look at the beasts. They are so beastly, you know.” , A w*ld pig, found in tho woods near Lytle Station, Ky., was, after considerable difficulty, so trained by his finder that he would follow his master as the historic lamb fob lowed Mary. Whenever his master sits down to eat, the pig will lie down by his side, and eat and drink whatever his trainer hands him. James Wilson, who dwells near Thamesville, Mich., drilled several holes for water, and his 2-year-old son fell through one of the holes into a cave twenty-five feet deep. A rope with a loop was let down, and after repeated efforts the loop was carried over the child's head and under his nose. He was drawn out. •.; In the neighborhood of the old copper mine at Phefiixvilie, Ga., George Fennel stunned a snake with a blow from a stone, and then ran and jumped on him. The snake revived, and, coiling itself about his leg, snapped it like a pipe-stem. A friend came to the rescue and beat the snake off, when it retreated down an old shaftrhotei. It was fifteen feet long.