The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-10-23
BATON ROUGE, La, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER %, 1859

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| 70 Our friend Guy Manuaring
writing from Wesfover 10 the Delta, !
Of date The 9Th inst, saysin reference
b the CULTURE If Sugaf.
One thing 10 certain. and mapy old
citisens now lire To testify the fact,
that some twenty-five or thirty years
aeo. when there WAS but little sugar
inadc.it the United States. sugar was
very high, Il oould not be had Il r less
than fifteen or twenty cents per lb.
What has caused the immence reduc.
ton In price WHY, Of coirce.. The
great snpply--the home Inanufactory
Now break up the sugar estates Of this
country--drive the sugar planters In
10 cotton, or hemp, or tobacco, and
what then would be the price Of sugar?
II must 20 up according to the eternal
laws Of supply and demand. / have
many neighbours Who wish TO SELL
who are determined to sell, even At
4 sacrifice and quit the saceet busi-
ness. | knew OF no sugar estate be.
ing opened, no new sugar house being
built, for no prudent man will now
irvcst one dollur in the further culture
If sugar with the gorgon head Of
FIRE trdHe staring him full In Tie face,
'hrre cents per ID. in glaring figures
footing up his account sales. ~
ter
u A)Nr Pocock has invented a
kind Of kite 80 arranged with the in.
itation Of d bird, as 10 mislead grouse,
and pariridges. The sportsman goes
out with his kite, and fires 1T the birds
froft, ambush. The kite ia said to be
an admirable arrangement, aud viii,
il is said, wipe ont the ancient
sport Of Hawking With birds trained
for the purpose ia eh
Among the revolving exhibitions in
the thrifty village Of New York is d
woman that weighs ovor 700 pounds
Her keepers charge couple Of shil-
lipgs for sight Of this shocking mass
Of obesity---unhealtby bloatsd woman,
who ought 70 be kept oht Of sight Of
ali save her plysicians. A lhdy with
a heavy mass Of board upon her facc---
All unnatural ard unfortunate bunch
Of hair, IL also exhibited. She, too,
should avoid public exhibition Of
her misfortune. II indeed she be o
woman; Bdfnum Claims that she Isl
and We presume that his word will
not be questioned in ease like that
Another sight is sleeping inan Tint
canhot be awakened--a poor. feeble,
eniacinted Creature who should be
carefully nursed and hot exhibited
The people should fruwn upon oil ex.
bibitions in which the n,isfortunes aud
diseases Of human beings are set up
for specializing purposes.
ret ----a..Aasae.S-A----+. W e f
Nor so looR AS | Lo0K.--One
day as Judge Parsons was jogging
along Oh horseback over desolate
road. he came upon log hit, dirty
smokey and miserable. He stopped
to contemplate the too evident poverty
Of the scene. A poor, half.starved,
fellow, With uheombed hair aud un.
shaved beard, thrust his head out
through a square hole which served
for window, with-"1 say, Judge /
ain'i 40 poor as you think me to BE-,
for don't own this ere land" >t'
II Is proposed ID the Kentucky
Legislature, to have the nose Of the
prisoners dyed BY some chemical
means. so that it will not wear off
for long time. The application Of
the dye is to be suspended near the
time Of the prisoners release, 20 that
he may % forth to the world without
auy physical mark ofdi-grace.
r-We are informed thtt Mis-.
Ford has been appointed telegraph
operator at the Village New-marke' ,
Canada. II
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PERsoNAL-The Boston Trans
cript Of the 9Th. says" A brilliant
levee was given last evening at the res
dence Of one Of our citizens who has {