Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-14

GEM NERAL N EWs.

The population Of Wisconsin is $4,000.
That Of lows is770,o00.
John Welsh, rich Pottsyille miner, is
dead He kegan with pickaxo and left
Of with an income Of &614,9e3.
One dry goods Arm In Chicago did n
business Of ts ,7e4i 900 last year.
The Ohio Bolters' Convention In Ohio,
which nominated Alexander Long for
Governor, consisted ofbixteen individuals.
Lord Lyons, formerly British Minister
NJ Washington, is TO succeed Sir Henry
Bulwar No British En- mbassador TO Constan-
tinopls.
The crop Of benrs In Aroostook county
promises we'll this season. The children
who got after berries along the margin Of
the woods are often frightened by them,
and tracks are frequently seen along she
by-reeds leading to and from the back
settlements.
The Italian Government has ordered
tour-ironcladB.
Tho English have completed 5000 miles Of
railways In India.
PayiaasteF u. W. Eddy,who was among
tho lost on board tho steamer Brother
Jonathan, was on bis way, Of tho time,
with 100000 iu Government funds TO pay
of the troops in Dragon and Washington
Territory. His clerk was also lost.
Tho Japanose mbassadors now in Eng
land have been struck OF heap by the
steam plow. Fourteen or fifteen Of them
would get upon the engines at once and
travel over the ground, and they seemed
never tired of the amusement.
The Utica Herad says daughter of the
| old Duko Of Wellington, whom her father
disinheritad for marrying against his
wishes, passed through thRt place with her
husband on Monday. Tbs lady is q
blonde, and endeayors 10 add 10 hor bsauty
(they say by coiofing her eyebrows. Tho
coupls are just from Saratoga.
Mira. Lewis Washington, whoBs husband
is u rebel and relative Of George Washing
ton, IL appealing for the restoration OF her
property which has been conflscatsd.
IL IL said Gen. Grant and the military
authorities generally, favor o military trial
for JEFF Davis, but the Administration iii-
cincs to civil tribunal.
Considerable excitement has been caused
among thh Feniana at St. Louis, by an
edict Issued By Archbishop Henrick, for
bidding the nBe Of q Catholic Church for
the funeral Of Head Center Mccarthy, or q
4 Catholic csmstTy for tho burial.
The exodus Of the French rural popuia-
ton from the eastern townships, says d
Lower Canada Journal, not only still con-
fiuues, bnt seems 10 assume something
fuarfal In its proportions. The reason IN
4 high wages offered by tho Now England
factories, which are doing heavy business
and arc short Of hands.
The Mile heats Race at sarntoga was won,
Handsomely, by Lexicon. The age ofthat
noble auimal Ii not given In the Report ba-
fore na; but We take him 10 be alright
4 Lexicon of YOUTH referred TO by Richeiiau
80 containing "no such word IA fail, ,"---
MRS arundy.
A Western paper speaks ofa wild turkey
'shot by D sportaaGn a0stgAfag tsosnsy- three
gopnds.h That must have been worry
large turkey or very small sportsman.
A French chemist has invented for sum
mer use fuel Of this description: Ground
charcoal four parts, starch one part, made
into paste balls which arc dried. When
kindled. they will burn without smoke or
famo long tims, with intense heat. A
four-ounes cake will boil one gallon ofwa-
tor, jG In stated.