Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, June 2, 1883 The county assessor, Frank J. HUCK, will commence to assess next Monday. For the benefit of the tax-payers who are not familiar with the law; we give an extract of the assessment law. Tax payers should further, rather than hinder the effortsof the assessor to get a correct list; a correct assessment is of benefit to everybody. (NOTE: Anyone interested in the assessment laws, let me know and I will post them to the list - sjr.) For safe and reliable Insurance on your life, property, or accidents apply to your local agent who can see that your loss is properly adjusted. A.C. HERTICH Local Agent A young chap, who calls himself John BROWN says he is one of the surviving passengers of the "Cimbria" was placed in the lock-up here on Monday evening, because he had borrowed a suit of clothes and walked off with it on his back without asking the owner's leave. He says the German Society of St. Louis had sent him to Crystal City to look for work, but having failed to look for any, he wandered off into the country, lost his way and came to Geo. SELINGER in the western part of this county, where he commenced work. the first Thursday after his arrival being Corpus Christi, he expressed his desire to go to church but deplored his poverty which was the cause of his being too poorly clad to go, and asked for some better clothes. They were loaned him, and he started for Punjaub, but seems to have changed his mind, or musthave lost his way again, for he did not return. Whatever BROWN may be, knae ot simpleton, his movements were not calculated to deceive those who were looking for him, for any length of time. He showed himself in several places, for instance at Val. SCHAFER's in Punjaub, where he changed the borrowed coat for SCHAFER's, at Charles WEISS's, where he had a dinner for God's sake, and at the Southern Hotel, where he had another dinner for God's sake and was told that he could get work at Joe FALLERT's place. He went there and obtained work, but didn't work very long before the sheriff nabbed him and put him into the iron jug. Those who saw him are in doubt of what to make of him; in one place he could speak no good English, in another no good German, sometimes he could speak both and when asked how he had aquired the language so fast, he would say he had learned it in the old country. Tears also seem to be at his command, which he showed when the iron door closed behind him. If that chap wants to make a good living as a knight of industry, he will probably be obliged to get up a little earlier in the day. At any rate he don't know the 11th commandment. (NOTE: The Cimbria, was a steamship, of the Hamburg-American line, that was reported as being sunk by an iceburg in the North Sea, on Jan. 19, 1883, with 340 hands and passengers going to the bottom of the Atlantic. It was actually the steamer Sultan that struck the Cimbria and left the passengers and crew to their fate, sailing off after the two ships collided. Only 56 people survived the accident. -- sjr) FOR SALE 400 acres of timber land, nearly all arable. The timber is chiefly young growth with occassional patches of old timber. For terms apply to S.B. DONZE, New Offenburg, Ste. Genevieve Co., Mo. The school board of Hillsboro elected as teachers for the coming year Mr. SHELTON as principal, the Misses MURPHY, MORTON, MUMMERT, PINSON, THOMAS and FITZGERALD, and Mrs. RANKIN, as assistants. The county court of Madison county has put the dram-shop license at $550 - less than ours - and that of Mississippi county amounts to the trifle of $1550. Joseph BLECHLE of Perry has a curiosity: 4 kittens grown together. Simon JACOBSON of Frmington is going to sell his residence, store house, and stock of goods.