The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-05-07
u A Georgia paper says, "thl

E A plumber of deaths from choler
occurred in New Orleans last month.
EB The Pope has had another re
lapse, and ia again confined 10 his bed
L. The woman who wrote, I'm sad
dest when l sing" was foolish if sh'
sang much.
IT, A young husband handed Lii
wife a dozen buttons the other day, an(
asked her to put a shirt to them.
D@Seventeen more bodies were re
moved from the wreck Of the Atlantic
at Halifax. last Friday.
e" The Danbury News proposes t.
apply the Westonhouse brake to Geo
Francis Train, as a final test.
g The New York detectives have
finally concluded that Goodrich killed
himself.
D Eleven thousand bales of cotton
have been shipped from Austen, Tozas,
this season.
II The St. Louis Savings bank was
sWindled out of So 500 last Monday, by
IAN elegantly dressed man.
u 1t is reported that General Par.
tillo has refused to command the Span
ish forces operating in the CInco Dis
trict.
rg The Prince of Wales has reeenG
ly been installed as Grand Master of
knights Templar of England, Ireland
and Scotland.
D A New Jersey t~obacconist ad-
vertises 'tIshall continue TO keep on
hand imported cigars of my own manu-
facture."
~ Rev. William Il. Gross, the new
ly ordained Catholic Bishop of savan-
all, is only thiIt y SIX years of age-the
youngest prelate in Americs Of the
Catholic Church.
a General howard Having urged
that citizenship should be conferred on
the indians, a western paper suggests
that Captain Jack would make q cheer
1ful citizen-at long range.
III The extensive window glass and
hollow ware glass works of Warrack g.
Stranger. near Glasboro n. j., were
burned last Saturday night. Loss sup
posed to be about $50, 600.
~ 1t now seems probable there will
10 further strike among the eoopers of
New York. Only two shops still hold
out against fine Crispins, and it is ez-
peoted these viii soon give in.
" A Modec picked up a she'll which
had been thrown into bis lava he'd, and
thinking it was a water-mellon, under
took to pull the stem out with his teeth.
lie is now in the happy hunting ground.
IDr. w. Il. M'Guffey, professor of
moral philosophy at the University Of
Virginia. and author Of the well known
MoGpiFey's school books, died in Char
lottyille. Va, last Monday, after.a long
illness.
~ "A steamer with six keels, flat
bottom and straightsides. is being built
at Dover, England, for crossing the
channel. The expectation is that she
will not roll, and sea sickness be thus
avoided.
/
ES Three cars were thrown down an
embankment of thirty feet near Montre-
als last Saturday. Cause-spreading
of the rails. A great many persons
we're frightfully hurt. Most of The pas,
sengers were Americans.
~ Gen. Sherman, in conversation
on Modoc affairs, shows that he fully
appreciates the situation and has en-
tered upon the subject with characters
tic spirit and energy. All reinforce-
required will be sent to Gens
Schofield without delay.
t. Justices Joseph Bowling and Ed
ward Hogan. Superintendent James q,
and the late Superintendent Jng.
Jourdan, Mr.. Morgan Jones, Mr.. Wa.
Miner, Captain Mcdonald, and the iui~
actor, Barney Williams, all
started Ia life as New York newsboys
Er The smallpox has broken Eat
among the prisoners in the Jail in st.
parish. The sheriff and jaior, /
he Sentinel says, abandoned their
and the prisoners all broke but !
uIadau thuiE ssoaFU. Il is now WUH =
to utilize the Jail by making a /
hospital Of it. 9
lT Lieut.. John Z. Worden, array :
.Ecer stationed at Madison Barracks, :
isekett's HORROR, committed suicide q
ast Sunday morning by cutting his '
hroat. The death of his wife some :
months ago is supposed to have de-
his mind. He was a SON of Ad-
liral Worden, who commanded the
in the conflict with the ram
IerrimaCk. c
To- This is one Of the stories revived l
pom George Francis Train since bis t
olnntary incarceration in The New i
.ork bastile. T. be il fond Of calling the
1isome Tombs. Train attended, not a
ego, the Jockey Club races at Je- y
me park, and laid wagers daring the
hole week on the wrong horses, At 3
e close Of the last day, having hsd his 10
iual III luck, he exclaimed in a loud
ne Of voice ; s'rll bet 800 that I'm tr
e greatest fool of the native, born q
.eeimens that this republic can show
day An entire stranger, only a to
feet Of, drew forth his pocket-book al
a said i doa9 know who you are q
q TIL coTeE yoar pile. unless you i
Guild haprea q BE George Francis ID
ain in