Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Dec. 16, 1882 L.D. THURMAN is in the Christman tree line. He has 500 pine tops at the landing, waiting their shipment, which was delayed by the ice in the river. Mr. THURMAN has been out in the pinery again this week to gather more which he intends to ship by the Iron Mountain R.R. from DeLassus. A. SCHMELZLE, one of the men who helped at the new graveyard road lost one of his horses one day last week. A subscription list was made up for him, which was in a very short time covered with names of benevolent people who were willing to contribute towards indemnifying the poor man for his loss. Porkers have a hard time of it at present and butcher knives are in great demand. What is the matter with some of our street lanterns? Egyptian darkness reigns at every return of the new moon. The ice harvest was going on quite lively last week. Messrs. VORST, NAUMAN and others gathering with all their might, for fear of being left in the lurch by the mild winter predicted by Gen. HAZEN. The Perryville Sun says it wasn't Mr. JAEGER who was robbed on the Perryville and St. Mary road as was stated in the Herald two weeks ago, but Mr. James MUNSON claims to have been robbed of that sum near St. Mary's Seminary, Perry Co. Louis MOSER while sawing ice for Mr. Nauman last Saturday, near BANTZ's place, broke through the rather thin crust and took and unwilling bath in the chilly water. A kind neighbor having furnished him dry clothes to go home in, he wended his way home rejoicing that no further harm was done. Will ABERNATHY, the young fellow who is so handy with the harmonica and no less so with taking and selling other people's horses, was caught in Claryville, Mo., opposite Chester, last Monday night, brought to town, and lodged in jail. His music sounds better than ever and his wily tongue runs smoother than ever to the judge by the pity with which the boys supplied him with dainties, through the bars and took in the stories he invented for them. Jerome CULVER was riding down Main Street Monday night, when his horse shied at the light shining from Chas. BIEL's store. Unaware of the circumstance that one of his bridle reins was broken, he tried to check the horse and pulled the animal rather abruptly to one side, bringing it down on the body of Lewis SKEWES, who was passing near, hurting him severely. As far as we could hear, Mr. CULVER is not to blame for the accident. Last Friday week, when Joseph BUEHLER was playing with his big watchdog around the back porch of the house, the animal ran at him with such force as to knock him down. Unfortunately, he fell with his leg under him and broke it near the knee. When the doctor set the fractured limb and secured it in splints, Joe bore it like a little hero, never muttering a groan. The grand-jury of St. Francois county has pronounced the county's rickety old court house unfit and unsafe to hold court in. Each Co. in South-east Missouri that intends soon to build a new court-house should come and take a look at old Girardeau's splendid and imposing capitol building - the finest south of St. Louis. It cost thousands of dollars to build. -- Cash Book. Won't our County Court go down to Jackson, Cape Girardeau co. some time and take a look at that capitol, or, if they must be saving, get a photograph of it?