Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, June 16, 1883 We have fair prospects for a railroad, glass factory, steam ferry and a new flour mill. Verily, Ste. Genevieve is "booming." This we know, that our future depends on our present, therefore strike while the iron is hot and do not defer to subscribe to the glass factory, if you mean to do it. A GRAND 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION! A grand Picnic and Festival will be given at St. Mary, on July 4th, for the benefit of the Catholic Church, to which all are cordially invited. As the 4th of July is approaching and also the time when the Downing high license bill will be a thorn in the side of all honest liquor dealers, I am determined to sell all my stock at St. Louis wholesale prices. Whoever wishes to buy cheap and yet good whiskey may get it at Chas. ROTTLER's On Main street. We understand that Tony SAMSON and Geo. LASOURCE, the engineer, have purchased a steam ferry, and will, on July 1st, be able to make connection between Illinois and Missouri for the accommodation of passengers and teams. A ferry boat is of great benefit to Ste. Genevieve and we hope the two gentlemen will have better success than their predecessors; they deserve it and Ste. Genevieve needs it. C.A. HERTER has just secured the services of a first-class Cutter and is now prepared to furnish men, youths and boys with well-fitted garments. Our Deputy Post Master was fooling around Mr. J.B. GUIGNON's bee hives the other day. The bees went to work on him with their business end and now Peter carries one of his eyes in a sling. Just as we go to press we are informed that during the thunderstorm which raged Friday afternoon, one of Mr. Wm. SKEWES' horses, which was standing in the yard at the time, was killed by a flash of lightening. Our young friend John HOGENMILLER, who returned from the Cape recently, has been employed as clerk in J.L. BOVERIE's store. John is an industrious young man and will undoubtly make a first-class salesman. He will begin work in his new situation on July 1st. A small deluge poured down in the night between Monday and Tuesday, with due accompaniment of thunder and lightening, and the South Gabouri roared like a cataract. In dropping down the garnered fullness of their fruitful stores, the clouds have, of late, been somewhat overdoing it and might as well stop for a while. When we saw John DALLAS last week with a smile on his face, we could not help thinking that he had received good news, and it was so. He had just come from the post office with a letter from his son Peter whom he suppose dead but who is now working at LaGrange, Texas, about 100 miles east of San Antonio and situated on the Colorado river. Farmers are invited to call and see the celebrated "Whitney Improved Platform Binder," the best binder in the Market at H. LUECKE'S. Young married men have ceased to emigrate to Iowa. The state produces more twins than any other State in the Union. A servant who dprided herself on living in a genteel family, being asked to define the term, said: "Where they keep a carriage, have three or four kinds of wine and never pay a bill the first time it is called for."