The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-04-02
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"" The Governor of Mississippi ha
signed the temperance bill, and it i
row the law ofthe State.
~ Brick Pomeroy's fortune ha'
dwindled down to 500 600. Five year.
ago he was worth $780, OO.
IL It is claimed that tin ore has beer
discovered at Stendal, Pike county, In
diana.
f9 A Michigan barkeeper is called
on to pay for a horse stolen by an inc,
briated Indian to whom he had sold Ii.
quof.
II Twelve thousand dollars is the
neat sum that Henry Ward Beeoher
melted from his lecturing tour through
the west.
@ A Connecticut paper solemnly as
serts that a maj fractured the ceiling
iust-above a chair in which there had
been. placed a hot poker.
" One of the travelling circus com
ranies reports that it paid $40 600 for
licenses and $435.OOO to hotels and
livery stables last season.
1 On the first day of May 1900 rev
epue assessors and their assistants will
have finished their career as Govern,
.ment officials.
E@ An epidemic of measles is now
spreading through the Northwestern
States. claiming an unusual number Of
victims.
~ An Indian undertaken has CONS
menced suit against a customer who un-
expeotedly recovered after making ar"
rAngements for his funeral.
u Illinois horticulturists are re-
ported to be cutting down their peach
orchards which have been killed by the
severe winter, TO make room for ether
crops.
~ The Michigan Legislature has
authorized Detroit to expend $500, 600
in a park, boulevard, or both, on the
lake shore, in the section known as
Hamtramck.
IS7 Twenty-Five thousand dollars
have been subscribed in Barbour county
Georgia, for the building of a cotton
factory, which will be begun forthwith.
Eg~ A bill is pending in the Alabama
Legislature exempting widows from
taxation unless they are worth more
than $4,000.
%" A Titusville father, who sold his
oil before hard times struck the region,
and who has a quartette of beautiful
daughters, has worn out the toes of four
airs of boots this winter, helping
young men down the icy steps of his
residence, who have called to chat with
the girls.
r@ In a late number Of the New Or
leans Times we find the following COM
limentary notice, and reproduce it for
the purpose Of convincing some of our
citizens that The Cotton Boil, with the
series Of articles which we have been
publishing from week TO week, about
our climate, soil, etc, is attracting the
attention of men of capital and
influence:
THE Cotton-BoH is now giving a se-
of we'll prepared articles setting
.orth the advantages Of that section
cordially commend them to all who
ire interested in the question. {
There is no doubt that the Vermilion. I
is n of the most fruitful and (
10 the world, and it has only
leeded the advocate it now possesses 1
n the Gotton-BoI to bring the matter i
airly before the verdi" p
70 The DonaldsonYille Chef says 6
hat a new set of men have taken hold
f the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas :
railroad and will renew the suspended :
rosk of construction in a week or ten Il
avs and push the road through to Tex d
) within the extension Of a years time n
ocorded by the general assembly at its II
seent session. The creditors who Il
laced the road and rolling stock that W
,e above Bayou Lafourche under seiz- II
e have been satisfied. and the deputy a,
nited States Marshal, who was guard al
& the seized property, has, we are in. :,
rmed, relinqaished possession and de- !,
lrted whence he came. Orders have -
zen received by the contractor who is
ilding this section of the railroad, to
track over the new bridge and pre- ~
re that structure for immediate use. gr
is important work wilt probably be all
nmenoed Monday next, and as soon do
it Is finished we may look for the me
i'd extension Of BUR great iron thor ca.
;hfare toward the Texas border. ms
y A shark eleven feet ia length was nc
emily presented to the Dundee M, no
On being opened for the pur- n,
e Of stuHlng, It was found to contain
remains Of D variety Of fish, q wo- ~
Is bonnet, and a soda water bottle, dIe
some interesting intelli. OH
&c 10 lady's~ handvrite. sue