Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-10-14

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Miss Ann Farrell, . young lady OF
Columbus, Bartholomew County, In
diana, was riding in buggy with Q
gentleman, on Saturday last, whom
the horse ran away. The young lady
tried TO jump out but her, hoops
caught on she buggy and she was
dragged about half mile. The horse
then ran into mill race and the
young lady was drowned. fs
Professor Lowe, who has been max.
ing short balloon asoensions from the
New York Central Park, has in pro.
cess of construction bridal car, and
announces that the next sensation will
be the performance of the marriage
ceremony in the clouds. r ~
| The cars Of the Central Pacific
Railroad are now running to Colfax,
80 miles from Sacramento. The com.
pany hope to reach Dutch Flat by the
end Of the year. The stages for Neva-
da left the new terminus, for the first
time, September 5th.--Sazt Lake
| lidette, September 18th. a.
4 French reviews has an article
on American women not at all com.
IpIimentary to our fair danes and
damsels He thinks their intelIects
are too developed, and does no tlike to
hear girls arguing on politics, or talk
ling of bales of cotton like broker.
Al ingenious Frenchman has made
a mosaic landscape composed of in
sects. 1t contains more than $4,000
beetles, besides big and little bugs of
various hues. ...
ltis stated that the Pacha of Egypt
was who the first to run away from
his dominions when the cholera broke
out, has, since his return, been oceu-
pied in furnishing those of his officers
who followed his example.
Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne, assisted
by Manager Potter's troupe from Ida
ho, was at last accounts playing four
nights a week in the Salt Lake Thea.
tire, to the great delight of Brigham
Young and his families.
The latest fashionable" arrived
10 New York is that of Partisan
lady, who calls herself an artistic in
nails and eyeblows, and is prepared
to put the finishing touches to any
fair American lady's beauty.
casa Hartz" Major Mcknight,
formerly Of New Orleans, has become
one of the proprietors and editors of
the North Carolina Times, published
I Ia Newbern.
| We see statement that the deficit
of grain in Great Britain and ireland
this year will be upwards of 72,OO0,.
900 bushels.
At a masked ball in Norwich,
Conn, a young lady was completely
dressed in newspapers. She is said to
have made good impression"
The Mobile Aduertiser and Regis
ter (4th) says Lieut.. Gen. Scott, who
is residing in New York, is represent
ed by visitors as quite well, and as
straight as an arrow. He intends, it
is said, to spend the winter in New
Orleans. .t .... ..4......
The New York Daily Neaos an
nounces at marriage, St. Peters
Church, Brooklyn, on the evening of
the goth of September, of Maj. John
G. Stokes, late Of the Confederate
army, to Helen NJ, daughter of Gen.
II. sibley, late of the Confederate
army. a. .a.sH.ft =....-
Secretary Stanton returned 10
Washington on the Gath September
During his absence he visited Boston.
and while .here, had q protracsed in
terview at Fort Lafayette, with ex-reb-
Q. Secretary Mallory, the latter having
urgently requested it.
The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle says
that greater steamboat facilities are
needed ON the Savannah river. The
boats now employed there usually
make from $4,000 to $4,000 the
round trip.
In one village in the Delta Of the
Nile, celebrated for the cultivation of
watsrmelons, tho whole of the inhab.
itants died during the recent prevail
ence of cholera. Being unable to sslI
their fruit they ate it themselves,
Great curiosity has been excited, ID
is said, at Cherbourg, by small yes.
selpropelled by electricity with great
speed. The inventor, a French en-
ginesr of talent, has shown his dis.
oovery to NJ. de Chasseloup Lauba.,
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