The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-08-20

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A1so. Mr.. THOMAS MCINTYRE, No. Il
Commercial Place.
rP No yellow fever is reported in the
City. - RI,
T,L.E Lcet is writing the life of the
lato Lieutenant Governor Oscar j.
Dunn.
II Fred. Douglas employs white ser
wants exclusively.
II Florida will have an abundant or
range crop this year.
~ Peoria, Illinois, has ten miles Of
street railways.
II Captain jacks once big mainly
voice has grown feeble.
w Attorney General Williams ia
suffering with catarrh.
~ The wife of Don Carlos has joined
her husband in the field.
II The census reveals nearly @'oOC
poets as IlFluS III A"AN'N
~ The base ball mania is said te
have broken out in Japan
r. Several cases of Cholera have
been reported in Cbiago recently
II Washington Irving received tor
bis entire literary Iabors $24O,OO0'
II General rains all along Red river
and northwestern Texas yesterday
IF Boston has been awarded the dip
Iona of honor at the Vienna Exposition
II Sixteen hundred andrffty immi,
grant arrived at Castle Garden last Fri
day.
pr Parties engaged in boring well
In Ottawa, Kansas, struck a vein of sail
water.
" California, finding that Gotten and
tobacco growing is a success is trying
coffee.
II Since September /, 1879. Nor
folk (va.) has received 279,29l bales Of
cotton.
" A band of boy burglars is e1oit,
ing the terrors of quiet citizens in
Omaha.
B The Virginia Educational Associ-
alton have voted against teaching girls
algebra.
~rha National Hotel and several
stores we're burned at Catskill, N. u
Loss $4,000.
B German farmers give their COWS
q mixture ofmolasses and oil cake to in-
crease their milk.
II The crops in the country around
Frederick, Md, have been much injured
by q hail storm.
EF The wheat crop in Minnesota is
large. No field yields lcss than twenty
Eve bushel to the acre.
70" The Secretary Of the Treasury
denies the existence of the reported
$4,000, 600 gold deficit.
a. Wild horses abound in Southern
Kansas, and they give employment to
several parties of hunters.
~ An English combany proposes to
invest $5, 100000 in the coal and iron
mines neal Birmingham, Ala.
n During ten days ending IN the 4th
inst, 1881 freight cars passed yer
the new bridge at Albany, N. Z.
Eg The cottage n Q occupied by
WIN. Penn, in Philadelphia, has been
converted into a lager beer saloon.
a The Georgia State Fair offers a
thousand dollar prize for the best drilled
military company from the North or
South.
~ One Of the granite blocks for the
SCOTT monument, in Washington, con-
tains 1850 cubic feet, and weighs 1000
tons.
Er The United State Canal evplor-
ing expedition in Nicaragua, under
charge of Capt. Sull, has finished its la
iSors.
ES~ On the 10th, Savannah received
rGhe first bale Of the new Florida cotton
Drop and the second bale of the Georgia
Drop.
" A Buffalo manufacturer has an
order from Copenhagen for oil selected
frOm samples sent to the Vienna Exhibi.
ton.
n A Michigan inventor claims that
be has discovered the art of SO temper.
Ing steel and even cast iron. as To make
either cut glass like q diamond.
E The cholera is so fatal and wide
spread at PrinOetown, KY, that the
qualification of the Banner has been sus-
pended. as has business generally.
~ Within three miles Of Denison,
Texas, and forty.f feet below The sur.
face, lies a vast field of emo coal. Tho
mine is being worked by Biddoll g. Co.,
OF that city.
en- The Columbus tGa.) cotton mills
have taken this season 1881 bales Of cot.
ton ats cost ofnot quite 100000, which
have been worked up into cloth valued
at nearly g. O0, 900.
EY' Vioe-Presiden Wilson was Ia
Monday. His improved appear
anOe indicated q steady progress towards
restored health, which has been brought
about by bis cessation of all duties.
~ An International Magazine il
.alked 81, which win, il ii said, make its
appearance on or about New Year. It
also given out that .,Tom Brown
win be one ofthe contributors.
c. Sixteen years ago. North Caro-
Inia father thrashed Bis Big boy, and
enc him out to hoe corn. The boy has
% been seen since, until lately, when
q returned from California with $50