The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-06-18

r Alabama pays S"Io'UoO'Oo0 amt
ally to the Northwest for corn.
IL Mrs. Woodruff is reported fire
from suffering, and is gaining strength
TT The cotton worm is reporte
among the fields of Victoria county
Texas.
E~ A child with a frogs head wa
born in Washington county, Va, q fey
days ago.
~ A reward of $4,000 is offered 70
the CAPTURE of Horton, the bond Iaise
and forger.
cg The Government pays $500
per annum for fuel for the President
house.
ry Theirs has retired to private life
He considers a party government IL
France a mistake.
EB7 Counterfeit ten cent notes are il
circulation. The counterfeit is wei
engraved and printed.
= E It is stated that the French Gov
ernment will erect a splendid palace il
Washington for its Minister.
w Friedrich Pinckney, for, last five
years Deputy United States Attorney.
died in Baltimore on the 18th inst.
II Four Italian girls have been adj
mitted to the University of Rome. The
example will be followed at Turin.
IT. Stokes has been granted a new
trial. $4,000 persons have visited him
since his confinement in the Tombs.
LIZ 1t is rumored and generally be-
loved in Washington that Captain Jack
will be tried by the Supreme court.
n The caterpillar has r%eappeared
in the cotton fields Of North Mississippi,
lin more formidable numbers than ever
before.
~ A dispatch from Berlin says En-
pcror William continues in a very weak
condition, and that he requires absolute
quiet in order to effect the restoration
of his health.
EB Almost daily attempts are made
to throw the construction train Of the
Matches, jackson and Columbus Rail
road from the track, at the bridge which
crosses a bayou A0feet deep.
~ We see that Proctor & CANDLES
Extra Olive Soap is becoming very popu-
lar in our city; its quality we know is SUI
perior, and being nicely perfumed, we are
not surprised that consumers pre- er it,
and that it, has a large sale.
EB An Indiana paper speaks of seeing
p. G. WanSlyke, Esq, of Vermilion
parish, Louisiana, on its streets. Mr..
'VanSlyke is an energetic and enterpris-
ing gentleman, and no doubt his visit to
Indiana will be the means Of placing a
number ofgood, honest and Industrious
farmers in Vermilion parish.
TT A special from Boyles' camp,
June IL, says that Capt. Bancroft and
others, with Bogus Charley, returned
from a visit to'the Lava Beds yesterday.
They examined some of the remarkable
caves, never before visited by whites,
and found Indian tracks. 1t is supposed
the FIVE Indians who are still out are
hiding there.
IL Our friend, JolIey, of the Attaka-
pas Register, gets off an original idea,
something after this fashion:
The 'local" of the Cotton Boil, Vermil-
i~Onville, has been presented with a bottle
of buttermilk. We had supposed that
jim had served his time sucking milk, as
he is rather large.
Stacking? Who ever heard of suck
ing buttermilk !?
" Newspaper publishers are be-
ginning to prepare for tho changes
which the recently enacted law of Con-
gress has made concerning exchanges
and postage. The law says that "all !
laws and parts Of laws permitting the /
transmission by mail Of any free matter s
whatever be and the same is hereby re-.
pealed from and after June so, 1879" ,
After that time, postage N weekly :
newspapers win be FIVE cents per quar- {
ser, and on daily newspapers, thirty I
cents per quarter. The postage may I
paid quarterly in advance, either at L
he Office where mailed, or at the Office S
where delivered. a
~ "A horrible murder was committed =
bout Eve miles below New Iberia, last a
friday night. Lanet, a Frenchman, a
nd Alexander Snaer, a colored Justice !
( the peace, doing business together, :
rero bratally murdered and their store
urned to the ground, Their bodies
ere buried to a crisp. 1t seems they :
ere simultaneously struck - their p
oads being beaten to a jelly. Robbery 9
as the object, as the money deposited d
their safe is missing. The act was "
admitted BY three negroes of the CT
,ighhorhood.
LATER.-We learn from one Of the =,
age drivers that four negroes we're y
rested for the above mentioned muir !
i, and that last evening, about sun.
wn. 1 party of citizens took three Of ~
EN- from the jail, in New Iberia, and III
them to a tree. The fourth one's III
D was spared, from the fact that he so
the information which led to la
} arrest Of tho other three. tic