The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-11-05
LArAyETTE-~-T There is, or was


ish Of Jefferson, called lafayette. no.
1--WE believej more than an llnnIrod
miles from New Orleans There is q
Post Office there, and if The occupan
is n Wing, some enquiry should be
made, as to how chat important, If NOD
dignllicd position, Is occupied Th'
Louisiana SUE Republican Is pup
lished there weekly and We si,oaIo
like tSknow by what route il noes te
get up to this rim! 1t is never less
than two weeks old, when il gets here
and We most generally receive three
at a time. There Is gentleman in
the aforesaid place, called "Iafayetfe
who writes letter Of abuse at u, BIZ
weekly for not getting the Comet
and all we have to say il, what has
been said, before, we mail it 10 him.
True, it may be urged that papers
nowadays are Of little value un|oss
for patent medicine information for
the people but letters arc some
times mailed ut the aforesaid place Of
Lafayette, in the Parish Of Jefferson.
The history Of one VIC woL of, is some
what remarkable. A gentleman,
wrote to gentleman, that bis uncle
was dcnl, to come down. The gen
t|omnn got The litter, after two weeks
yoyagc--went down found his uncle
buried and bis estate wound up in The
very tightost nanner---tho tibleau
was filed and the account homoli gated
II il needless 70 say, that after settl-
ing his estate, in this expensive "F,st
PLAN that there was not many frag-
ments lctt.
7Nc NeW Or/cnHg Mr. ich Mr. .
The November Number ef this month
", is before us. The medical news
contains very Interesting matter to the
general reader. Our talented fellow
citizen DR. SAMUEL Cuorr1N, Demon
strator Of Anatomy in the University
Of Louisiana, il ono Of the editors.
SENTENCE FoE kErrtNG A CAV
,NG HousE-1,eorgc $. IIoughton,
Of East Baton Rouge, convicted Of
keeping 4 ganing house, was sonienc-
ca topay fine ofsIo and costs, 70
suffer four months imprisonment at
hard labor ID tho House oil Correction,
aud to give surities in 500 not 10 Vi
olate the statue Of 1878, chapter .il3,
for three years to colne.---T. Dnu.
Who IS George S. Iioua,'on We
have lived here twenty year, and
never heard ofGoorgo $. lIoogbtQn
before. The claims local haDitaIion'
here, we should Ike to Laow what
kind Of business he was engaged in,
and where
D-The English quid-uu1ceS are
specializing upon the somewhat singu-
lar fact that the initials Of the two
royal couples in France and England,
now united in so close an alliance,
form the word Neva, the river Oh
which St. Petersburg stand Tie
names, it VIII be remember, are Ma
poloan, Efugenio, Victoria, Albert.
----Hse corr
TIE PopE's Bull ENptHa ~
SMoB E-The interference of the Cath
Ole Bishops Of Central America with
matters which did not concern them.
aroused, sometime since, the in1igna
ton Of Gen Bermuda, President of
Honduras. He arrested them in their
usurpations, and the Pope took UNI
bragg at it and communicated the
General. When the Bill was received
at Honduras, the General assembled
an immense intercourse of people, i'll
GLIDING the chief dignitarles, civil and
military; proceeded to the arsenal
Che himself heading the procession)
and having taken cannon of the lar
gest calibre. they DRAGGED it to the