The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-06-04
70. Notice Of a reaI-lightning.


rgp Silver mines have been disCov-
cred in johnson county, Texas.
EF English manufacturers are i'm
rortinr iron from the United States.
EF A fire occurred at Carlisle, KY
last Wednesday-loss $4,000.
TT South Carolina supports one hun
dred and one oolored Legislators,
81" Connecticut has reduced her
State debt fifty per cent. in six years
rF Pennsylvania IaSyers petition
for the abolition of the grand jury sys
tenn.
~ Gen. Davis has returned from his
scout, on which five Modocs led him.
No results.
~ Yellow fever patients are com
menoing to arrive at the quarantine
station, New York.
u Eight new iron furnaces are buiI
ding on the line of the Selma, Rome and
Dalton Railroad.
II The horse malady has reappeered
in Brooklin car stables. Twenty horses
are down, and two have died.
w A Modoo warrior, with his squaw
and four Children, surrendered on the
9th inst.
rF The late General Frauk Gardner
was a class mate at West Point with
President Grant.
rY The census ssys there are SCI
clergymen, SD lawyers, SO iOuc0sliats'
and II43 physicians in North Carolina.
u Between the list Of April and the
I9th of May, 85s552 immigrants have
been landed at Castle Garden. New
York.
IT. II is stated that the Spanish
forces in Cuba have put to death during
the past four years 1880 Cuban pris-
oners of war.
TT A pig vas killed a few days ago
in England, which had two perfect
hearts-one a little less than the other,
but both perfect and healthy.
II George Francis Train sailed for
Turope last Saturday, just escapsng a
subpoena as a witness in a Government
suit against the Union Pacific Railroad.
TB1 Rev. John Early, President OF
Georgetown College, died on the Oath,
,at the age Of OF. He was stricken with
paralysis on the previous Thursday.
g Secretary Delano has written to
ths Governor of Texas again, asking for
the uelease of chiefs Big Tree and SAM
tana, in order that the treaty with the
Indians might be carried out, they hav.
ing already fulfilled their engagements.
Ew' The excessive rains all over Kan,
sss have raised the steaBIs to food
height. The Kansas river is higher
than Il has been for the past Eve years.
GE' The Jail at San Francisco is
crowded with Chinese lodging house
. keepers convicted Of violating the law in
/, regard to sleeping regulations. They
suffer Imprisonment rather than pay
! flies.
TTexas has added 100000 TO her
, population, nearly all of. the industrial
? classes Of white people since 1860, and
Louisiana, up to 1872, in twelve years,
added but about $4,000 to her popula-
ton, and most of these we're colored.
U The President Of the Union Pa
oiRc Railroad Company issued an order,
last SatardsY, for the erection Of depot
and general oaioes for that company at
Omaha. This settles the long agitated
question between Council Bluffs and
Omaha.
81" The following advertisement for
the recovery Of a red calf was actually
published in a paper Of Columbia soun.
ty, Pal
LosT-A Caff Ret. His 10 behind legs
was White. He Il SHE caa. Every
body what catches hiaa GIBBS three dollars.
GO" The. Thibodaux Sentinel says,
'tThere seems to be no doubt that this
terrible desease (oholera) is in our par
ish. Below Lafourche Crossing some
fifteen OF more deaths have occurred
since last Saturday, principally on the
Oak Grove and sc0dday plantations.
Two of tire victims, daughtecs OF o Mr..
Theriot, were the only whites that we
heard o."