The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-11-20
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PoMrrIl. Nop. Sd. 1853.

ED NeMEr-- Dear Sir Your IL
Illustrated edition Of the Comet has
just been received in this city The
Pompeii literary Depot has been jam
med for the past week BY persons de-
siteing copies, who fairly run over one
other In their eagerness to patronize
the enterprise, and encourage, the best
pictorial paper, in the southern coun-
try. BY no means let The enterprise
fail, either for want Of Capital, or on
account Of opposition. Your friends
in pcmpeii ore with you If you want
Banking facilities, come up here. and
buy some Of the beautiful bonds Of the
state---thefe are some In this market.
Before going farther with your enter
prise you should send up to Pompeii,
one Of your best artists to take some
drawings. The Puupeii Free Bank
Is nearly iihislied--that Is tho plan.
II Is to be d kind Of composite Dorle---
Gothic building stuccoed, freseoed and
bas relieved from base TO apex. The
railroad buildings THAT are to beg
might engage the attention Of your
artist and when il comes to remarks
bic men Though | say it inyself) |
think we have some Of tie best ppeei-
mems extant-4-tIat Is II taken III the
.toute eD semitic. Cant yen send up
a Daguerrean with good chemicals and
large and liberal plates. u take sone
Of them iatNti? This way Of taking
heads Of the people and calling
them likeuesses, is not the taing---it Il
an insult upon the lower exttdinitiesl
Send up good supply Of your next
illustrated edition 5000 will not be
too many for the Pompeii market
Allow me Dear Comet, TO wish YOU d
continuous flow Of prosperity--and in
my private devotions to remember
Jour ------ virtues; and believe me
now and then--past, present and fu-
ture your friend. JtNGO.
sotppERsoNe GRAPE.--The safest
and only period for pruning this vine,
is just at the time when it has been
disburdened Of its ripe fruit. / have
come to this positive result, not only
by logical reasoning, that the sap must
be least abundant when IT had gone
through the most exhausting process
that the vine is capable Of, that ofre-
production, that by actual experiment
upon them every month in the year, !
have come to the demonstration Of
this discovery; and ii is equally Ger
tain, as general experience has estab-
lished before, that to attempt to prune
it at any other time, the vine dresser
is sure to kill the stock and ruin the
vine.
Tuesday afternoon, during the
+" steeple Chase ut the Hippodrome
in Cincinnati between female equestri-
ans, a horse on which one Of them was
seated, while coursing around the track,
fell and threw the rider with great
force to the ground. She was taken
up in lifeless condition, and carried
from the arena.
The saine day, ar Geo. Deval was
engaged in caulking the hall Of the
steamer Prairie City, at the foot Of
Sycamore street, the engineer raised
the mud valve" and a jet Of steam
came through the outlet with such
force as to throw Mr.. Deval out Of the
yawl into the river. He reached the
shore with much difficulty, when it
was discovered that his entire left
side, from head to foot, was sealded to
d blister .---LouisDille Duly CoNrj-
or 4h inst.
EE~Rev. Eleazer Williams the sup
posed Dauphin, has been appointed
missionary to the Indians Of Caughna-
waga, by Bishop Wainright Of New
York, with the consent Of the Bishop
Of Montreal Mr.. W., will continue to
preach, as heretofore, to the Indians
Of New York State along the st. Law
renee.
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A CosvERr.--The Catholic prints
announce the conversion Of the Rev.
Mr.. Pope. an English clergyman, at
present residing at York, and nephew
to the Archbishop Of Dublin, and two
of his sisters. Mr.. Pope has gone to
the Jestlits College, Stonyhurst, to pre-
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