Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1869-03-02
"Old Pluto" is Brownlow's pei
name in Memphis.

name in Memphis.
Gen. A. M. West is mentioned
as the next governor of Mississippi
Rollins must be sick-he hasn'
rendered his resignation for a week
Inc loveliest half of animated
creation affect the capital as lob
byist.
The third annual State Fail
commences in New Orleans or
April 9Th.
The property OF ez-King George
OF Hanover, has been swallowed
by Prussia.
The New York Herald calls Fisk
Whe intellectual porpoise Of the
Erie Railroad"
The remains Of a large mastodon
have been discovered near Peba-
luna, California. :
Louis Napoleon is engaged in
writing a history OF the French
Republic Of ls4s.
Lopez, Of Paraguay, is said to
weigh 800 pounds, and to be only
s feet 5 inches high.
Why are the letters "oz" ike an
advertisement? Because they are
for announce
A beggar was arrested in Mont
gomery, Ala, the other day with
over 81, 500 on his person.
The "Agitator" is the name of
new woman's suffrage paper that
is to be started III Chicago.
A Washington special says Rev.
j. p. Newman vii doubtless be the
next chaplain Of the Senate.
A Virginia paper calls Parsou
Brownlow Plutonian note at long
date, paying an enormous interest.
A citizen of Warren county,
Mississippi, is cultivating sparrows
to be used in destroy ing the cotton
worm.
Outing the past eleven years
1883 American vessels have been
wrecked, involving a loss of over
100000, 900.
An Australian physician has
4 led the bite Of deadly. Sc, pssAs
e sssa.s- saw B, - -,
veins Of the patient.
A lady in Tennessee received IN a
valentine a thousand dollar U. s.
bond. It was love token that
could be appreciated.
Ferdinand's modesty holds out
against the candidacy for The crow Il
Of Spain, and there is strong OPP
position to Montpensier.
There are Is cotton factor .es in
North Carolina, rrnning 2I,112
and turning out 5000, 900
pounds Of spun cotton yarn.
The Knoxville Ladies Memol. al
Association are inclos'ng that por-
lion Of Bell Cemetery, in Knoxville,
Tenn, in which the Confederate |
dead are inferred.
John Cochran, Of New York
The man who gave President
Lincoln military information not
agreeable to Gen. Burnside-wants
% 60 into the Cabinet.
A gentleman Of Natcbez, Mss,
to start a broom factor
I some person or r srsons will plant
,nough broom-corn to justify the
ERECTION of the needed machinery.
james Allen Pearson, who is in his
LO6th year, passed through Jack
ony.lle, Ala, few days ago, from
mississippi, on a visit to relatives
4 Alabama He was accompanied
y his daughter, aged fly years,
he youngest Of sixteen children.
Nhe New Zealand massacre has
eveNped some latter-day martyrs !
,r religions sake. The natives ]
aptured by the Maori rebels were
ffered their lives if they would
ow down to the Hanhan god, but !
aey refused and fifty of them were
ut to death. II
A negro boy aged seventeen (
ears, blind and entirely uneduca- I
ID, who, by some mental process, ;
Dives the most difficult arithmet-
al questions that can be pro- .
ounded to him with the rapidity t
thought and unerring correct a
ess, is on exhibition at Rich b
lond, Va. !
Mr.. Brecdinridge maintains
riot silence in regard to political
FAIRS, and declares that he never p
pain viii mingle in politics. To c.
% his own words II ceased to Il
que the matter when the strug- h
9 took the sterner shape, and :.
,wthe battle is fought and lost, q
cannot zee what influence / can q
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