The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1876-07-26

NEW IBERIA ITEMS.

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Ntlr Residcpcc.-Mr. Laodioe FOntolieu
enclosed some lots of ground just below
DR.. Colgin's and Nine. Escoubas, and is
about commencing the erection OF a
dwelling house thereon. The lower
end of tho town, it seems, Will keep
pace with tho upper.
Court House ReR0red. Last week NIL
the parish offices were removed to Mr..
Calls remodelCd building, where court
was he'd some years ago. The change
is a , agreeable one to all concerned,
for .. 70 is much more court room,
better light and larger offices.
Heavy Bloc Recent rain storms have
been accompanied by considerable wind.
Last Wednesday it blew SO fnriously
that the corn was Frustrated in places,
and in the colored Olivier settlement Il
small house was blown down but fortu-
nateIy no harm was done to the Inmates
Very M.-Mrs. Jonas Marsh who for
years past has been an invalid, is now
dangerously sick. As we so to press
her death may occur at any moment.
She has attained an honorable old age,
and her children are all among our best
citizens.
Bear in MRd-That after July LIST,
We will sell our Gntire stock of goods,
az 90 per cent. Reduction from present
prices, until we take our annual inven-
tory. A. Lehman " Co.
The Coacent Exhibition, Next week we
expect to publish q list of prizes award
ed mt the annual exhibition of Mount
Carmel Convent, Of this place.
We call attention to the list of prizes
on French page, awarded at Holy Cross
College,
Sale of Tom Tdgc.-Tho right to
keep the town bridge, furnishing oils,
lights, etc, will be sold TO the high est
bidder next Tuesday, August LIST, and
purchaser to furnish $1,000 bond. We
do not believe that the change proposed
by our new Council will be beneficial
Certainly the bridge has been we'll kept
for years past by Mr.. DoJuge, and we
hope he will again secure it.
Natural CroSiy.-We last Monday
say a living pig in the rear of DR..
Mestayer's drug store, belonging to II
cOnfrere-of the-Progress, which, owing
to q certain mal-formation, surprised all
Gncluding physicians) that it could live
even three days. Owing TO surgical
operations, if not from the other cause,
doubtless it Wilde.
Spending Tie SHmmer. Mr.. A. Lehman,
the senior of the most extensive dry
goods house of Western Louisiana, lately
arrived here from New York for the
purpose of spending the summer. Most
of Mr.. Lchman's time is spent in New
York, where he makes all the purchases
for the New Iberia house, but he is glgR
to escape the oppressive heat of New
York, and come here to be famed by
the Gulf breezes.
utter July 1St-Wo will sell our entire
stock of goods at 20 per cent. reduction
from present prices, until we take u
annual inventory. A. Lehman N Co.
Personal. Capt. E. IL. Lombard, tho
energetic agent of tho Citizens Bank,
af New Orleans, was in this section
seyeGaL days geontly, IN The interest
A, W. Rountree, Esq, general South
ern passenger agent of the Illinois
Central Railroad, spent some days in
our vicinity, last week. We hope no
enjoyed himself fully.
Mr.. j. LOckhart, of the firm of j. n
l. Lockhart, New Orleans sugar brokers,
made our place q short visit, last Sun
day. He came here from their planta-
tiOn near Pattersonville, and we are
glad to learn that they are TAX ing
measures TO leyee in their land, as this
year they lost about thirty acres of fine
can by the high water.
Painful Aoeident.--Last Saturday, at
the saw-mill. Of Messrs. Broussard e.
Decuir, in this place, d young man
named, Alexander Chargu, had half of
the two front fingers on the right hand
cut of. He, to gain time SO that he
could get away from work sooner, very
foOlishly commenced cleaning the en-
CINE while it was in motion, when his
hand was caught and half of his two
most important fingers were cut entirely
off and left in the machinery.
Accidents are constantly occurring
about our saw mills, and almost invari-
ably they are traoeable to caFeIessn ess.
Whilo we s%ympathize with the young
sufferer, we hope others will profit by
his misfortune and be more cautious.
2 NeW SHgar HoH8es.-Cane culture has
lately received NEW impetus in Fausse
Pointe. We presume that better crops
forsa year or two past, and improved
prices, is the cause. A strong DISPOSE
tion is evinced by tho people to quit
cotton and plant cane. To meet the
demands of the people, Mr.. E. Fl. Flory,
a thrifty local merchant, has erected q
large mill on the portion Hof the old
Nine. Neuyelle DeClouet plantation,
where, in addition to his W crop, he
expects to grind for several neighbors.
In fact, we arc glad to hear that he in
tends eventually to make this some.
what of a central factory, where he
will buy cane by the ton; and by this
means induce the cultivation of tho
bulk of a large quantity of idle land in
that vicinity.
Mr.. Adrien Gonsoulin, of the firm of
Alfred Il Adrien Gonsoulin, merchants
of Loreauville, have also built a small
but very conveniently arranged sugar
house on the Alcide Gonsoulin planta-
ton, and he, too, viii grind cane for
several neighbors. He purchased the
Lyman mill, engine and boiler-the best
we Know of for their size -and We have
no doubt he will do we'll.