The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-01-07

G.. L. MARSH & Co, 20 Regent Strcet
London, England, are authorized to 'ac
as agents for this paper.
rg A general railroad strike is tX
r,cted in Chicago.
~ Prosperity is a poor scale t.
weigh our friends ia.
r. It is reported that Mast will clea'
$4,000 from his lecture season.
u The witty .Joln G. Saxe is adver
tised to lecture in Frankfort, Ky.
II The debt of Alabama is officially
announced as amounting to $2~4'4iO'49t
wsThe Virginius, on her voyage
North, sunk off Cape Fear, in sight o.
land.
ar Cco2ers at Kansas City are on a
strike in consequence Of reduction o
wages.
~ New York city,has $40 churches
with an aggregate seating capacity oil
3O8,5OO.
U New ObleaRs levees are crowded
with sugar,m olasses and cotton. Bus
mess brisk.
u The Choctaws and C~herokees, Of
Indian Territory, raise 5000 bales o.
cotton this year.
n The correspondent of the St.
Louis Dem ocrat declares that Chicago
is $500, OOO, 900 in debt.
E New York climbs are expensive.
A fashionable man pays 5000 per an
mum to crafty his social ambition in
that line.
1~ A Montana man has been txiled
from the Territory under pain of pitch
plumage and for the crime If marrying
a Chinawoman.
IL The Texas Pacific Railroad is
completed to T~exarkanna, the Junction
with the Cairo and Fulton road. Re
gular trains are running.
T Ten car loads of coffee for St.
Louis, and ten car loads of barley for
Chicago, passed through Omaha last
week, from San Francisco.
II Gf'eighty-nine teachers at a re-
cent institute Vincennes, Ind, only one
spelled correctly a list of twenty words
in ordinary use, and one missed them all.
II What comes after TT" asked q
teacher of a small pupil who was learn"
ing the alphabet. He received the be-
wildering reply: You do-to see Liza
II The Chicago Pillow Company, with
a capital of$1S0, 900, employs 100 men
and turns out $3.50 00G worth of plows
IND others farming implements per year.
~ Ziba Darlington Of Chester county,
Ia, recently discovered a tortoise
marked a. D.. 1890" which he recog.
nized as the work of his hand fifty three
yeare ago.
B~The patrons Of husbandry accord
ing to their aa4est reports, have 1885
oranges, with G02 Cos members. There
were g94 Of these oranges organized
during November.
II The London Times estimates
that "a, OO0, GOO bushels of wheat will be
required from this country TO supply
The mark cts of Europe until the crop of
1874 is harvested.
9" New Orleans recently received
by railroad in one day from various
sources 6,s46 bales of cotton, which the
Picayune says is the largest quantity
received in q single day by that
means.
u Oftwenty~fve men who have been
Of the House since Congress
first organized, only one-James X
Polk, of Tenressee-ever reached the
House. Henry Clay was Speak.
er twelve years.
u Since the sea islands of South
Carolina have become Africanized, En-. {
glish spinners find that the quality of
sea-island cotton il deteriora.
and the Egyptian is driving it out
d The market. 1
- Five hundred children of HaYre
Ost their fathers by the Vile de .Havre L
disaster; one hundred and ten widows
rave been made there. Heartrending
Genes took PLACE each day the Havre
Ind Southampton steamboat entered 1
port.
~ The custom Of wearing orange /
blossoms for bridal wreaths was derived
the Ssracens, among whom the or q
luge branch, from the circumstance of :
T. bearing frnit and flowers at the same a
ame, was considered an emblem of pros
I
- The Chicago and South Atlantic d
Railroad Company is going to build on i
street, Chicago, n depot 800 feet +
eng, with . sandstone front, and many
ins architectural ornaments, 1t will :
have = dome, the top Of which will be IFS v
above the sidewalk. Trains will
'Ppveach i Through an archway 100 feet !,
vide and 600 feet long. i