Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, May 26, 1883 M.W. HOFFMAN, the live clothing merchant of St. Mary, was in town on Thursday last. Billy is a first class business man and believes in the virtue of printer's ink. See local advertisements elsewhere. We learn from one of our exchanges that Dr. BRAHAM has purchased a residence in Bonne Terre and will soon make that burg his permanent abode. The name of the place is suggestive of a lucreative business in the Bonne Terre line. A.F. SHEARLOCK, formerly of Ste. Genevieve county, has had thirty-five acres near Crystal City laid of (out?) in town lots, of which he sold forty two lots within a few weeks. He names the town Derby City. We hear that the Progressive Band of Ste. Genevieve is practicing on the Limburger Cheese waltz. We could not learn if it is imported ot imitation, but would at any rate beg the boys not to play too strong on it. A party of excursionists from Chester landed at this place Thursday, just in time to participate in the picnic of the Progressive Band in ROZIER's Grove. Mr. J. F. SCHUCHERT and his band were of the party to "drive dull care away with music's sweet strain." ST. LOUIS TO CHESTER From Springfield, Ill., under date of Apr. 30, 1883, comes the news that "articles incorporating the St. Louis & Chester Railway Co. were filed with the Secretary of State, by David T. TRIPP, Spencer TOMPKINS, Charles C. CHASE and Thomas N. CHASE, of Waterloo, Ill., and John C. ORTGIER, of Carondelet, Mo., and Peter BAKER of Sparta, Ill., who are also the first board of directors. The capital stock of this company is $600,000, and the principal office is to be located in Waterloo, Monroe Co., Ill., until July 15, 1884, when it is to be rremoved to East St. Louis. The object is to build a railroad from East St. Louis throught Monroe and Randolph counties via Chester to Carbondale, Jackson county, on the Illinois Central Railroad, with a branch to Ste. Genevieve, Mo." Farmers and others who have casks belonging to the "Cone Mills" are requested to return them by the 15th of next month (June) positively. J.B.C. LeCOMPTE, Superintendent A false report is being circulated to the effect that Mr. George WEHNER , until recently the head miller at the Cone Mills, was discharged from his position. The fact is, Mr. WEHNER quit the mill of his own free will, and not at the instance of his employers. We can substantiate this by the most impeachable authority and make the statement in justice to Mr. WEHNER, who, it is well kknown, was both faithful and efficient during his long stay at the mills. A severe frost was experienced in Ste. Genevieve and vicinity on last Tuesday morning, and though some reports sound rather incredible, considerable damage seens to have been inflicted in young plants of a tender nature. Mr. THURMAN tells us that all his sweet potato plants were destroyed; a total loss. From the Plank Road we hear that in some places the Irish potatoes, wherever they are out of the ground, are nipped, and further, to the N.W. even the wheat is said to have been injured. One young farmer came to town Tuesday morning with the startling report that the mud on the road was frozen so hard that it would bear a man on horseback which he proved by his appearance in body, the mire having failed to swallow him up. Later reports from the Southern part of the county are even more disheartening, the garden vegetables, as potatoes, &c. and even corn having been destroyed.