Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Jan. 27, 1883 The people of the counties of Wayne, Scott and Dunklin are not very aesthetic when it comes to names. They have villages which they call by such names as Crack Skull, Dog Walk, Toad Suck, &c. Just to be neighborly, we would mention that Ste. Genevieve has a street called "Cow Alley". Wm. SCHMELZLE who lives at present on the SCHERER farm, nearly had his house burned down last Monday. The opening in the wooden partition, through which the stove pipe passes being too narrow, the light combustible caught fire and it required great exertion on the part of Wm. to put out the fire, especially as water seems to have been scarce on the place. To-night, at Union Hall, commencing at 8 o'clock, there will be an interesting entertainment, consisting of Shakespearean recitations from the famous tragic drama of Hamlet. The elocutionist, Dr. J.W. BRAHAM, our well-kknown dentist, is quite a clever amateur, and he is sure to please. Ladies are especially invited. Admission, only 10 cents. An exchange has it that Ellen HENNESSEY, a baker's wife, who broke her leg on a defective pavement last September, recovered $300 damages by jury. We will lay a wager, that she would have recovered as many thousands or ten thousand if her husband had been a millionaire. A leg is a leg, but the pocket of the owner makes a vast difference. Surprise parties are quite frequent at present. The latest we have heard of were given at Mr. SCHULTZ's, and at Mr. VORST's. All of these entertainments were grand successes in every respect, as the young ladies and gents who took part in them, avow that they had the hugest fun, and one return of the compliment after the other is to be expected. Dr. Nick's old mare "Lady Constance", al. "Little Mousie", al. "Pole Cat", came to an untimely end last Sunday by strangling. Doc. calls it an accident, but Jack COAL calls it a clear case of suicide. A coroner's jury was not called to decide the point, and so it is probable that the mystery will never be cleared up. She was expedited by way of the Miss. to give her, as Doc. expresses it, a chance to attend Mardi Gras at New Orleans. It is reported that a farmer of the German Settlement in company with his neighbor hunted three robbers last Tuesday, the whole afternoon, and that the pair came home in the evening, tired, hungry and thirsty, and looking rather the worse for wear, to find to their chagrin that the three young fellows whom they had taken for knights of the higher branches of industry, were wedding guests and not the least bit dangerous. Arkansas can do no better than yield the palm to Missouri for mineral springs, medical springs, magnetic springs, miraculous springs or any other springs that an adjective can be applied to. There is one near Bismark, St. Francois Co., called Monteflumina Springs, which is situated 2,000 feet above the sea level and has, of course, wonderful virtues. The prospect is that in fifty years more every farm in Missouri will be provided with a medical spring and the state can laugh at prohibition. Wendelin HOGENMILLER writes to us that when he and Raymond KETTINGER came home from a hunting excursion one night this week, at a rather late hour, they heard a terrible noise, apparently the voice of a panther, which seemed to come from Adam RUBSAM's field at a distance of about three or four hundred steps. He said that Joseph KARL heard the same noise.