Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, June 2, 1883 The whooping cough is raging in French Village. The German Lutheran Church is going to buy a new organ. 27 boys and 29 girls made their first communion at the Catholic church last Sunday. A.C. HERTICH was elected City Attorney by the Board of Aldermen last Monday with only one dissenting vote. Dr. BRAHAM has changed his mind about buying the FLOWERS property at Bonne Terre, and paid a hundred dollars forfeit. Several farmers in the western part of the county have plowed up or pastured their wheat fields. The best looking fields promise but half a crop. We learn that Tom FLOWERS has sold his photography gallery, on Merchant street to Mr. HENRIOUD, the jeweler, and intends to shake the dust of Ste. Genevieve off his shoes and try his fortune once more at Perryville. Our friend George NAUMAN of Farmington was in town this week to take home his little daughter who had been attending the convent school. He reports the wheat crop in St. Francois county in a worse condition than ours. S. Henry SMITH the founder of numerous newspapers in Southeast Missouri and proprietor of as many more, has sold his job office in Fredericktown to the Plaindealer and bought the Benton Express, Scott county. This is almost as bad as the wandering Jew. Killian GRIESHABER tells us that the field of wheat on which he raised his finest wheat last year, looks very miserable this summer and he gives the reason for this change that the field was plowed but once and received too much seed. A thorough cultivation is the first requirement for a good wheat crop. Nicholas YAEGER, the worthy miller of Perryville, was a passenger on board the Ste. Genevieve last Sunday and paid our city a little visit during the stay of the boat. He was on his way to St. Louis to bring back his wife, who has been under medical treatment in the city for some time. Mr. YAEGER reports everything all right in Perryville at present. The slur thrown upon Messrs. Geo. WEHNER and Fred. BOHLE in the last issue of the Fair Play was to say the least, a mistatement, commonly called a lie. Will the vindictive editor hereafter please to investigate more carefully before he hands the copy to the compositor? Very Respectfully, Nicholas WEHNER Misfortunes never come single handed, so a great poet has said and so I surely believe. Last week Vallee HAROLD, editor of the Fair Play, bounced Messrs. WEHNER and BOHLE from the mill, and immediately on the heels of this, Mr. HAROLD lost a lucrative position in the City Government, being entirely ignored by the Board last Monday. Nicholas WEHNER Mr. Editor: Permit me to reply, through your valuable columns, to an article that appeared in the Fair Play about me and my children. The fool introduces his article with the words of the poet that "Misfortunes never come single-handed." In answer I would state: it it no misfortune whatever that my son quit his place in the mill, as it has been, for some time, his intention to build up a business of his own. Neither is it a misfortune tohave him discontinue my paper, as I paid for the paper and have a perfect right to do as I please, though I do lose, as he says, a highly-moral instructor and advocate of the due observance of the law. Poor man! ask yourself who is most in need of learning morality. Christ said: "weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children." So take your red bandanna and dry the tears that you weep for yourself. I have frequently been asked why I kept such a piece of waste paper in the house as the F.P. and my invariable reply was that the paper always does come in handy, even in the back yard. If Vallee HAROLD has any business to transact with me, he ought to let my children alone. I am man enough to take care of my own affair. Nicholas WEHNER