The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-10-01
THE SOUTH.

Richmond Enquirer: :; 1t is generally
understood that negotiations, likely to have q
4 favorable result, are pending between the
I Norfolk and Great Western railroad company
and the English capitalists, looking to the sale
Of the company's bonds to sufficient amount
to insure the construction OF the road. An
engineer, sent over by the capitalists will sail
! from Liverpool on the Goth inst, and bis duty
will be to make report of the prospectus Of
this road, to the gentleman whom he repre-
sents" ,....,.
The anniversary Of the battle of North
/ Point, was observed in Baltimore as holiday.
The old defenders passed the day at Browns
pavilion and the militia paraded. ,.,....
"A private dispatch to Louisville announces
the death Of James A. Rice Of New Orleans,
BY jumping from the window of New York
hotel, while temporarily insane. Re-. p .
A movement is on foot in the southern
states to have an equestrian statue of =" Stone
WALL Jackson which WAS begun. some years
years ago completed, and placed either at
Lexington or Richmond, in Virginia.
The United States marshal at Shreveport
Ia, telegraphs to AtbOrney-G General Williams
that the local authorities on the Texas Pacific
railroad have stopped the cars by force, on
account of the fever at Shreveport, and asking
that the. general government Interfere to conn
pei the running Of trains. ,..4
New Orleans-The cotton crop pool esti-
mates ceased March l. with 43 estimates, the
highest being 3,977, 900; the lowest. 1850, 900,
and the average 3, 1888, 237. The winning esti-
mate was s, 945 T84, and was made By Mr. J. B.
Priolean Of Liverpool, formerly Of Frazer,
Trenholm & Co. =
"A new steamship line has just been estab-
lished to run between the ports of New Orleans
and Rio de JaneirO. touching at Jamaica, Port
Spain, Trinidad, Para, Marahham, Pernambu-
co and Bahia, making the outward trip in
twenty-five days and the home passage in
twenty-three days, thus opening a vast COM
mereiaI trade between those ports and the
great states of the Mississippi valley.
Senator West Of Louisiana received the |
following dispatch from the mayor Of shreve-
port: People are panic-stricken here. All
that could, have left. The poor re..neariy all
on our hands. No money in the city treasury
All pecuniary aid will be thankfully received.
Fever increasing. - ''.'. -. ..'. '.i a
"A dispatch from Commerce Mo-, says the
steamer James Howard caught Ere in the hull
yesterday while lying Of that place. The pas
sengers and baggage we're taken ashore safely
and the steamer sCuttled, which was the only
hope OF saving her. No further particulars
The Howard was the largest steamer on west
ern waters, being thirty-three hundred tons
burden, owned by Capt. B. r. Pegraua and y. |
II. Chasing, st. Louis, and James Howard,
Jefefsonville; Ind, and cost two years ago
$3.50, 900.
Coy. Smith Of Georgia recently stated |
that the states of Georgia, Alabama, Florida
and South Carolina, even under the agricul-
turaf changes Of the south, do not yet raise
enough wheat for their own use within 80, ,0O0,-
900 bushels. -y |
The mill owners of Charleston, s. @ have
determined to keep their mills closed until the
negro strikers return TO work at old rates
St Louis-Twelye hundred dollars were
raised iu q few minutes on change for the sick
and suffering people Of Shreveport, La and
committee OF prominent merchants was APP
pointed to solicit subscriptions for the same
purpose. tis expected that . handsome sum
will be raised. Ma