Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Dec. 30, 1882 HAPPY NEW YEAR! The E.C. Elliot made a trip again this week. We hear that Rev. GROSHOLZ of Lawrenceton has left. Leon HERZOG bought a fat hog of August GISI this week and paid just $25 for it. A friend want to know what we think of a man whose father was a count. If the man himself is no count, his father won't make the case any better. Next Tuesday is Ste. Genevieve's day. The fact that Ste. Genevieve is one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi is no reason why she should not celebrate the day of her Patron Saint. Our friend BABB was in a tight place last Thursday morning, having been called upon to prove the age of a young lady, we presume, for matrimonial purposes. A young lady's age is hard to prove under any circumstances, but when a modest young man like Frank is called upom to do it, it becomes almost an impossibility. A report circulated in town last Saturday that Fritz KRUSE had been shot and killed. Mr. A.C. HERTICH who had seen a letter, written by Jake KRUSE to his mother, tell us that the letter stated that Fritz had got into a difficulty with a young man at Cairo, was shot in the head and not expected to live. No news has been received since. Another of our German farmers is going to bid adieu to old Ste. Genevieve. Gotfried BASLER has sold his farm for $3700 and will move to Salisbury whither his neighbor Joe HUCK preceded him last year. A man hailing from Jefferson County and giving his name as ECKENFELS, shot at a dog in town last Saturday night. He was taken before His Honor, the Mayor, who fined him $5.00 as a loaded pistol was found on his person. Frank BABB was going to fix himself up for Christmas and for that purpose ordered a pair of extra fine boots at Frank KLEIN's shop. But man proposes and God disposes. Somebody else thought he needed a pair of boots for winter, entered the shop at night, and took them for a Christmas gift. Nobel SHAFER was arrested in St. Louis last week upon a warrant sworn out against him by Pat. CUMMINGS. Pat then came down and informed Sheriff NAUMAN who went up to the city on Saturday last to secure the bird and place him into jail here to await his trial. SHAFER is charged with having set fire to Pat CUMMINGS's house. A party of high life gentlemen is reported to have had a very merry time of it on Christmas Eve, yea so merry that, when they sought their respective domiciles towards morning, they thought the streets of Ste. Genevieve entirely too narrow and swore to sue the city for damages. Several have their faces ornamented by patches of court-plaster. Our young friend, Bern. JACOBS had helped kill hogs at A. JENTZ's Thursday last week and was engaging in trimming the meat for pickling, when his knife slipped and entered his leg just above the knee. He was so exhausted through loss of blood that by the time the doctor came, the poor man lay like one dead. It is thought that his limb will be stiff for life as several tendons are cut.