The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-05-14
70" Bishop Keener, of New Orleans

Commercial Place.
EYBishop Keener, of New Orleans, is
leoturing in Memphis on Mexico.
E President Theirs has zone hun
dred and twenty thousand volumes in
his library.
u C. B. Darrali, Congressman from
this District, has our thanks for appre
ciated favors.
rB Morris Warner, Of Mynmus,
Conn, had his pocket picked of $ll2O
in New York the other day.
" Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice
of the United States, died in New York
last Wednesday, of paralysis.
EY With oil our newspapers in the
United States we have only one news
paper to every 1888 persons.
" Pittsburg receives annually 3d.
600 TONS of iron ore from Missouri, cost
ing about SO per ton.
W Elyria, Ohio, had a S29O,OOO fire.
last week, destroying the main business
part oftown.
E The number of visitors at EXPOSE
ton of Vienna since the opening has
been from 10000 to 10000 daily
E' The right of a street car conduc-
tor to eject a small pox patient from his
car is to be contested in the Boston
courts.
E John NJ. Foute, a well known
lawyer of New Orleans, and a member
of the Senate in 1868, died in that city
last Wednesday morning.
B There are now between 10000
and 10000 pupils in the public schools
ofNew Orleans-an average of about
forty pupils to the teacher.
u The horseshoers of New York
city, to the number of nearly 1900,
propose to parade,apd strike next week,
If the bosses do not yield to their de-
mands.
t. Lucignari, the wife murderer, at
Morristown, N. j., refuses to take any
food, and is trying to starve to death
before next Thursday.
E- London has forty-six regular the
aires, and one now in course Of erection.
This is exclusive Of music halls, con
cert rooms and entertainment galleries.
which number over one hundred.
ET Canton, Miss, has shipped this
season up to date, something over &c.,
765 bales Of cotton-more than any 9TH
or town between Memphis and New Or
leans has shipped.
E"A Chicago theatre has billed &:
''White Eagle, or the Modoc War; in
which is given a startling and lifelike
representation Of the massacre of Gen.
Candy and the Peace Commissioners.
EB Nearly all the Apaohes, including
C~hetepan, one Of the most prominent of
the chiefs, came into camp Verde and
surrendered, a few days ago, Cause
The moral suasion Of General Crook.
D Napoleon's will has been proved
in England. His personal property,
amounting to $780, 600, he leaves to the
Empress without reserve. To the
Prince Imperial, he beque aths the crown
Of France.
" 1t is now said that the Judges of
the Supreme Court, General Term, who
have denied Stokes a motion for a new
trial, will not re-sentence him pending
the decision Of the Court of Appeals, to
which the case must next be taken.
" Smooth as glass" This omin-
ousus inscription is creating quite SEN
sation in large cities. 1t appeared sud.
denly between two days, printed on
broad slips of paper and pasted to feno.
es and bulletin boards. What does it
mean?
E"The burnt districts in Boston now
present an exceedingly animated ap-
pearance. The work of rebuilding is
progressing at a very rapid rate, and
present indications are that before an
other winter, little will be left to mark {
the seer of the oo~nasgration. {
r. A dispatch from Yreka states I
that the Modocs are known to be out of /
the lava beds and fleeing towards the
the Goose Lake country. The Warm :
Indians and several scouting n
are in close pursuit of them. L
Six men from Yreka are on the track of .
Charley. il
T. 1t is believed, under favorable n
conditions, that $500 miles of new rail- :,
Dad will be built in 1873, divided among
he several sections Of the country as Il
pillows: Northwestern States, 435 miles; 81
fiddle States, 1865 miles; Western pi
and Territories, 1880 miles; II
outhern States, 25I0 miles; Pacific If
720 miles. to
E~ The 0uschita Telegraph of the 81
III inst. says: AT a quarter past / "a
clock this morning a fire was disoov~ be
led in the Club Room Saloon, on SC
esiard street. The building being hi
wooden one, the whole house was tn
ION IN frmes, and the fire, famed ~
the bresze, advanced down and thu
the street, destroying in its route
nrteen buildings. The loss foots up ira
50, 900 ! insurance s86,OOO. ST.
~ This is the winding up bart of Isl
|, war at st. Martinsville. A dispatch '
IN New Iberia, dated the 18th inst, osE E
rs that a lieutenant and ten United we
ties soldiers, accompanied by Mr.. pa
United States Marshal. left tur,
nsville on that day at 1 o'clock tOt
Col. DeBianc and friends at y
DeClouet's residence. Col. De- Be ]
will surrender TO the United unls
ties troops, but be positively refuses dssc
As A. "a - ~ g.