Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Saturday, Jan. 3, 1885. LOCAL NEWS. List of Letters Remaining in the P. O. at Ste. Genevieve, Mo., Jan. 2, 1885. Burnet John Fry Caty Hoog Mary McClure Mary Maybery James Amster John Girard Louis Jokerst Mary Millen [Miller ?] John Schaefer John Tucker Bten [Ben ?] Persons calling for letters in the above list will please say "advertised". Augustine Menard, P.M. ---------------------------------------------------------- HOTEL ARRIVALS FOR WEEK ENDING JAN. 2. MEYER'S HOTEL. John M. Doss, W. H. Leavenworth, St. Louis; H. C. Bequette, Ste. Genevieve; R. L. Evans, H. H. Cozens, Avon; Phil. A. Robinson, New Offenburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Wheat, 68. -- Write it "1885." -- "Mud, mud everywhere," is the complaint of the farmer. -- Our "quid nunc" has left us in the lurch this week, and local news is almost as scarce as mail matter. -- We learn with pleasure that our friend Xavier Eckenfels is rapidly recovering from his attack of sickness. -- Flannels, Yarn, and other Woolen Goods, very cheap at MRS. J. FALK & SON. -- Our esteemed contemporary calls it "durned cussedness." You are mistaken, brother, it's a highly developed "Sense of the Humorous." -- The clerk in charge of the meteorological department evidently made a mistake; our local weather prophets are vindicated; the winter is an open one. -- Water and snow-proof boots warranted, on hand at C. BAUM 'S. -- "White Christmas and green Easter" is an old saying. If the latter don't last any longer than the former, greens will be scarce by Easter time. -- Heavy warm rains at short intervals from Saturday morning till Monday morning made the snow and ice disappear in a marvelously short time. -- Big bargains in heavy Underwear, Gloves, Mitts, Neckwear, Silk Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, White and Fancy Shirts at C. W. HAMM 's. -- Our assessor, Mr. Frank J. Huck, had more holidays than he had bargained for, the closing of the river having delayed the arrival of his assessment book. -- Mr. Joseph Sucher has rented the farm of Mr. Peter Lalumendiere, on the Little Saline, for a term of three years. We hope he will have better luck than he has had for the last few years. -- Cashmere Suits and Overcoats for men and boys at very low figures at C. W. HAMM'S. -- We remind those of our readers who receive the American Farmer, that the publisher of that paper is a strict businessman, and stops the paper as soon as the subscription has expired. Those wishing to renew should do so promptly. -- Men's and Boy's heavy Undershirts at 25cts at C. W. HAMM'S. -- Several boats tried to make their way to St. Louis this week, but one of them turned back South in disgust, and the other got caught in the ice near the point in the Big Field, where she has lain since Thursday. -- The thanks of "ye editor" are due to the guignolee (?) led by Messrs. Felix Govro, Gus LaChance and Louis Dell for their gentlemanly behavior and the skill with which they executed their performance on their visit last Wednesday night. -- Kilcullen, the well known commission merchant of St. Louis, is said to have failed. Several of our merchants, who have had dealings with him, will sustain losses, if the rumor is correct. The severest loss will probably fall on Mr. George Messinger, of Quarrytown, who sent his whole barley crop to him last summer and is still waiting for the money. -- One of the gang of boys who, as is usual on Christmas night, sought their fun in carrying off gates, pulling down swinging signs and twisting them out of shape, and committing other "deeds of valor", managed to make a regular spec out of it this year. The morning after Christmas he presented himself before the owner of one of the gates he had carried off and offered to find and bring back the gate for 50 cents. Knowing exactly where the gate was, he collected his half dollar sooner than was agreeable to his dupe.