The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-24
General News and Notes.


General News and Notes.
The Carnival at Memphis was
a weak imitation of that ut New
Orleans.
REX and his crew, assisted by
cousin CoNUs, gave a grand dis
play in the city of New Orleans,
tn the 18th, A!AND1 GRAs. The
procession, tableaux and costu.
merry were rich, lifclike, and gor-
yeons. Many visitors attended,
and it is marked in chronicle as
another of"the finest exhibitions"
G. F. 4 w. u. GARRISON, the
we'll known hotel-keepers have
failed. They were managers of
Grand Union Hotel, in New York,
besides fine Hotel at Albany.
The LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES
Of New York have been derelict
in their Charter duties, and the
Courts have many Of them under
investigation.
War seem emminent in Europe
again. England and her money
markets are somewhat uneasy
over it. After so much talk be.
tween Turkey and Russia it would
be a pity to postpone the fight.
Let us have it:
RICHARD T. TAYLOR, Cashier
of the First National Bank of
Franklin, Indiana, stole all the
finds of the bank and absconded.
Taylor was about - years old,
and as usual a strict member OF
the church ; in fact, religiously
speaking, butter wouldn't melt in
Taylor's mouth; Notwithstanding
which, he "got away" with $3.50,
600 of the poor farmers money.
The Louisiana orange crop OF
last year is estimated to have
been 32,ooo,000 oranges, which
would represent about 10000
trees, and worth about 100000
on the trees.
One.third Of Persia's territory
has already been captured by
Russia. The population of Persia
has been reduced by war; famine
aud plaques to about 100000.
As crazy George III was break.
fasting one day at Kew, the scar
city of beef became the subject O
conversation: ''Why do not PEG
pie plant more beef' asked tn
King. Upon being told that bee
} could not be raised from seed HI
seemed incredulous, and tool
some bits of steak into the garden
and planted them. The mex
morning he went out to see If the,
had sprouted and found SOM
!, snails, when he was heard to ex
= claim, "Here they are, Charlotte
= horns and ALT"
: Tho Columbus, Ca, Times say
of its great Eagle and Pheni
D mills, "that it now stands fore
D most among the cotton and WOO
en- factories of the South, countin
. its looms by the thousand, and it
spindles by the tens of thousands
8 and its product by the hundred c
y thousands of dollars. Its employ
k es require a wlfcle village for thel
+ habitations, and the village, wit
y it's schools aud churches, is flu
= nished by the company. TIL
u goods manufactured are sold i
! almost every State in the Unio'
Z and the present power is inad'
quatc to fill orders that arc con
: stant1y pouring in."
y Jeff Davis brother, Reuben, la
u just had his disabilities removed
y Logan was all actor thirty yea
;. ago. The curtain is down fl
e good this time:
Il Arnold, the writing duid ma
!. has made q 600, GOO by it: That
y e the kind of ink:come to have.
ri DR.. Aver invented pill aud 6or
syrup, advertised II and is Worth 81
" 100000: And the Free Press wau
T. to know layer yod advertising an
Of thing :" .,.''.''
rs Father tet.y;; many years priest
to vicksborg, has been appointed
Sc tho Pope bishop Of the diocese