Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Feb. 24, 1883 The peach crop prospects for Perry county are said to be not bad. A barge loaded with ice was seen floating down the river on last Monday. Jack COAL claims that he discovered the place where the ferry boat ought to be. We hope that the Co. Court treated Vallee HAROLD to a glass of beer for his munifidence. Our barkeepers are studying up the amount of the next installment, due at the May term of the Circuit Court. Last Saturday morning the report spread in town that the ferryboat was floating down the river, but it turned out to be only a part of it, the hull having sunk at Little Rock. Father HUETTLER of Bloomsdale honored the HERALD's office with his presence last Monday and made the printer's heart rejoice. The Rev. gentleman, who is every inch a gentleman and of winning manners, seems to be well satisfied with his situation. Christ. BAUMAN saw a ghost the other night near Theodore GRASS's place and felt much excercised about it. Next morning it was discovered to be a bundle of straw stuck up in the middle of the road. Moral: Whenever you see a ghost, walk up to it and try its combustibility with a match. Mr. Emile GUIGNON, one of Ste. Genevieve's enterprising young men, who has for the past 5 years been engaged in the Western Union Telegraph office at St. Louis, visited our city this week for the purpose of encouraging our citizens to contribute in the erection of a telegraph line from here to Chester through St. Mary, to connect with the Western Union office in St. Louis. He says this enterprise will cost our people not more than $3000. If such a nominal sum will secure us to this great advantage, then our citizens would err materially in not urging it's completion. A festive crowd gathered at Mr. ROTTLER's residence last Sunday afternoon and evening, the occasion being the christening of the little orphan that Valentine has, with such Christian charity, taken under his hospitable roof. The ceremony was performed by Rev. F.X. WEISS at the Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, Mr. WEHNER and Mrs. MOTZEL, acting as sponsers. The infant cause of this festivity looked with an air of a sturdy little Republican at the proceedings and took his name "Robert Garfield" quite as a matter of course. The numerous guests enjoyed themselves in a manner worthy of the occasion and many lingered until a late hour.