The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-04-01

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~ Pennsylvania is organizing anti
grange societies. .,
r. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher Is reSld
LHntel in Jack
vile, Pa.
C S. Gonzales, of New Orleans, dice
on board.the steamer Ida, whilei on hi
wav from New Orleans to New Iberi@
last week.
rv A Wcstcrn3r enthusiast cxclaims
Cpd rather ba a gate keeper in the hall,o:
the Changers, than to shovel sugar IN the
stores of the middlemen."
D1This summer will be ihard on poor
people, as wcnEas on business men. Par
ties having funds on hands should be
saving with Them.
CY7 A creyasse occurred on the Story
plantation, nine miles below New Orleans
Oh the goth ult., and is reported as being
twenty-five feet wide.
To- The Governor of Maine recently
sent to the Legislature of that State the
first veto for fifteen years. Both houses
sustained the objection.
" A wealthy Buffalo lady Of sixty has
just mcrried her widowed son-in-law, and
the children of both families are new
puzzled to settle their relationship.
% One Of the Duchess of E~dinburgh's
hankcrchie S is worth { eco, and cost fol
it's production five years of labor, besides
the cyesight of tho unfortunate work.
woman.
EH Cont King of Tavas- formerly O.
Vermont, has an enclosed pasture of TO-
zoe acres, though he own about $4,000
acres of land in Nueces and Duval coun,
ties. The entire stock held by him at the
present time is $4,000 head of cattle. 90,
900 head of sheep and 10,C00 head OF
horses.
~ The following recipe is said to be
a dead shot on felons: Venice turpen.
tine, one ounce put into a half teaspoon
Jul of water, and stir with a stick unit,
the mass looks like candied honey /; Their
spread good coat on a cloth and wraT
around the finger. If the felOn is of re-
cent origin it will romov the pain in sil
hours.
~ In June, 1872, Belle Sccor, a young
girl, aged thirteen. vas outraged and
murdered in Mercer county, Ohio, and
two men named Mcleod andlKlnmel, sus,
pected of the crime, were lynched by the
infatuated citizens. A. few days ago T.
i. Douglas. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, on
his death bed confessed that he commit,
ted the outrage, and afterwards partici-
pated in the hanging of the innocent
men.
II A New York paper presents a start,
ling array of facts and figures in regard
90 tbs retail nuuop-irafe of that city. 1t
finds that enough money is paid annually
over the metropolitan bars to build nine
miles of four-tracked rapid transit rail
road through the city clean the streets
for three years, or pay every Cungrega-
tional minister in North, America a salary
isl 5000 per annum. The real estate
surrendered to drinking. Establishments
y about one-fftietlLpa part in value of all
ne real and personal property in the
iity. If all the liquor stores were vaca-
ted they would accommodate a tenant
population of 40, 200.
E5~The New Orleans PicGyuae says -
Q had the pleasure of meeting this
week Judge J. T. Crosby, of Houston,
Texas, former Receiver of the Texas and
New Orleans railroad, now attorney and
agent Of the line from the Sabine to
Houston. Judge Crosby reports that the
owners Of the Texas and New Orleans
Railroad are ready and anxious to put
the road in perfect order FROM the Sabine
TO Houston, as%oon as arrangements are
consumated for the building of the line
from New Orleans to the Sabine. Nor
ton, Bliss 4 Co., Z, d. Morgan, and the
capitalists who control the Texas and
New Orleans Railroad, are ready with the
cash 70 complete and stock their end of
the line. Tue people Of Houston are
deeply interested and anxious to see the
work c mmenced on the New Orleans di-
vision.
- Tho ladies of Boston, the home of
Dio Lewis, refuse to have anything 10 do
with that it~inorating cold water quack.
aud have positived decline ed to employ
him to assist in organizing their proposed
movement against rum. They propose to
conduct the thing in a quiet way, and to
dispense as inch as is possible with the
S-ensationalism that has character
lied the crusade in the West. They have
sub-divided the eight wards of tie city
into districts, over each of which a small
subcommittee win be appointed, whose
business it shall be to call en- the owners
Of buildings in which liagar is sold, and
and, if necessary, pray with them
to induce them TO prevent the traffic on
premises; to visit the sellers, and in
! quiet way attempt to move them
Meantime prayer meetings are TO be held
or an bour each morning in the churches.
he only suitable places fer such meet
ngs. The Boston ladies display good
Judgement IN the arrangement Of their
rogramme, and we hope II Mill u car
led out with success. I