Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Feb. 17, 1883 Our Co. Court will listen to no outside influences; the influences are all on the inside. $84 were sent to St. Louis from this office yesterday morning, for the relief of the flood suffers in Europe. Mrs. HUBER's little boy Eddie, while going to school in the German Settlement the other day, fell on the ice and sprained his ankle. Simplicity never dies out. The costs of a suit over a sow and five pigs in the Jackson Common Pleas Court amounted to $160, exclusive of lawyer's fees. The weather has been as miserable as miserable could be, and, Prof. VENNOR is the fault of it, we hope he has by this time been duly marked by numerous bumps and a broken nose. We hear that a gay sleigh party in the Settlement some time ago, came to be left by accident; the horses having been left alone, probably thought that a sleigh without its cargo was an improvement and took it easy. A large and commodious Country Store with a lot of about 5 acres situated 8 miles South of Ste. Genevieve, on Perryville Road, is for sale at a reasonable price. Inquire at ANDREW SIEBERT's. Mrs. BELTRAMI was thawed out of her house and home this week. The lot being lower than third street or any of the surrounding lots, the water accumulated in her cellar until it reached the floor. Joe VORST is the champion hog killer of Ste. Genevieve. He killed 5 - shoats he called them - of less than 10 months old, which pulled an aggregate weight of 1,452 pounds. They yielded 78 gallons of lard. Dr. MERIAN, the veterinary surgeon, whose card see in another column, is making himself at home and seems to know his business thoroughly, by the way he slashes around among the four footed domestics. The welcome whistle of the E.C. Elliott was heard again on the river last Wednesday morning. Several of our merchants received goods that had been ordered before, in expectation of the long looked for opening of the river. Joe. FITZKAM had a slide last Wednesday. It wasn't himself that slid it was the ice on the roof and it struck him in the back of the neck, just as he was looking out for a customer to shave. It nearly shaved his head off, but he is all right, nevertheless. A cow belonging to Joe VEIT, who lives in the extreme Northwest portion of this county, went on a coasting expedition on the ice, down a rather long hillside last week and when landing below, broke her backbone, which settled her sliding proclivities for all time to come. Our Legislature at Jefferson City has so far done very little. The principal occupation of the solons seems to be to bring in bills, of which the tiniest portion will ever be debated or passed. However, as long as they don't do any mischief, let them draw their pay in peace.