The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1876-01-26

RADIO, 100000 to Utah, 100000; to Kern and
| Truckee rivers for Gala, 100000; TO New
Zealand, $4,000; to Canada, 10000; for the
United States fish commission, 100000
now Matching at the establishment for sacra.
meuto river and tributaries, 2,0o0,o0a. The
total number Of impregnRted salmon eggs
taken was $4,000. The above shipments
made over eighty bushels in bulk, and u
took $50 bushels of moss from Mount Shasta
TO mack them in. When packed they
weighed ten tons and filled 1866 boxes 3 feet
square by 6 inches in depth.
A handicapped recently purchased
for a New York belle, composed of ai~rplants,
MarshalnpaI roses, lilies Of the valley, ~violets,
pink roses. and other choice flowers, though
but n Fmall affair, cost $50. Stage bouquets
cost from Sc to IS generally, but have been
known to sell for ms high az $500. Among
floral displays may he mentioned that which
was made at the Ohaeqics Of a New York gen
leman. which consisted OF a broken column
with q nmanchsr leaning against it, sur
mounted by a crown, the whole stand
ing FIVE feet in height 1t cost the pur-
chaser $1,000. When the Grand Duke
Alexis arrived in New York Colonel
Fisk sent to him Mt his hotel, o three-tier
basket, the upper tier Of which bore the
American and Russian flags, while upon the
lower tiers appeared the words, Welcome,
Alexis" This cost $500. As an English
horticultural writer's naively observed in a
recent issue, at may be remarked that fow-
ers are expensive ut this time of year.
Even the little boutoneiere Or souvenir
which lends an air 10 the lapel Of n gen
mems coat, though 1t he but @ neatly ar
ranged cluster Of lilies Of the valley or Of
~.viOlets or a piece Of smilax, costs from
twenty-five to fifty cents. Quite recently n
horalist sold a Marshalneal rose for $40,
which ia considered the largest price ever
paid in New York for a single flower
We are always laughing at the van-
tiles of women and their absurditieB in the
matter Of dress, but the excentricities Of many
dregsy persons who profess to belong to the
sterner sex are quite as lgughable as any OF
the freaks Of the poor women, whom Nature
and the Fates seem 10 have conspired to
make ridiculous, The man with the big
silk hat and spring overcoat, fragile cane and
odorous "cigyar," whose confidence in his
"overpowering appearance is visible III his
every look and gesture, is about as Imaginable
an object as the other sex can produce, while
the man who disappears in an Ulster and
goes about like a fashionable hermit, per
spring in an intOlerable seclusion and leaving
the public TO wonder whether the sweitering
fragment of humanity passing them is the
advance agent Of a theatrical troupe,
a western state-driver, or an exaggerated
pile of bed-blankets set in motion, is as
Comical a spectacle rs Can be seen outside of
a theater. The man with the spring over
coat derives his self-satisfaction from the in
imitable style in which that garment IL
thrown open for the display Of the closely
buttoned undercoat, and few fully compre.
bend the tremendous effect of this remark
able fashion upon the vulgar throng, which
a limited sense Of humor and IL easily
overcome by appearances. Between the
man in the Ulster and the man in the open
spring overcoat, no cultivated mind need
seek the drama for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Journal.
The following Is a full text of a bill
introduced by Senator Morrill,, of Vermont,
to provide for the redemption of legal ten
United States notes, in accordance with
the existing law:
BE it enacted, etc, That to further en-.
able the secretary of the treasury to provide
for the redemption of legal tender United
notes, in accordance with the existing
law, he is authorized to issue, sell or dispose
at not less than par, in legal tender
United states notes, either of the descrip-
tons of bonds of the United States bearing
ut a rate not exceeding four and a
half per cent. per annum, described in act of
congress, approved July Ia, 1870, entitled
' An act to authorize the refunding of the
debt" with like quantities and
privileges Of exemption to the extent neces-
gary to carry into full effect the act of con.
gress approved Jan. IA, 1875, entitled "An
lct for the resumption of specie payments"
md to use the proceeds thereof for the pur-
pose aforesaid, and the said legal tender
so obtained upon the issue Of said
ponds shall be held and considered as a pnrt
If the final redemption Of such notes, pro-
7ided for in act OF congress herein last mem
toned, and shall be treated accordingly, and
cancelled; provided that the principal eff
he bonds herein authorized may be made
'edeemable at any time not less than thirty
Tor exceeding forty years from date Of issue.
BE il further enacted, etc, That all CON
ragts entered into or made after the first
lay Of January, 1878, shall be payable in ac-
,ordance with the legal tender / andard OF
yold and silver, unless otherwise pro.
-ided for at the time Of the contract,
BE il further enacted, etc, That all ma
ional banking associations shall be and are
hereby requested to hold in coin, as a part of
heir lawful money reserve on hand, after the
irst day Of January, 1877, one-fourth after
first day Of January, 1878, one-half, and
.fter the first day of October, 1878, three.
ourths.