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The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-12

THR university Of South Carolina il
te be reepened early next year on as
high scale, II is promised, rs it ever
annoyed.
AATHF university of Georgia has grad
uated six governors, twenty six United
states senators and congressman, forty
nine Judges and several hundred legisla-
tors.
Mrss Jenny Bancroft, recently grad
uated by Syracuse university has be-
come Dean Of the Woman's College con-
neobed With Northwestern university.
AT the present moment 1900, 900
Hindoo and 1000 Mohamedan children
are attending schools in India, and 10000
To 10000 of them are receiving instruc-
tions up to the English uniyersities'
standard.
Mr.. George Muller, in response to a
hearty Invitation from several of the
clergymen Of this country, win sail from
Liverpool the latter part of this month,
for preaching tour In North America,
commencing at New York,
A great deal has been done IN England
during the past seven years IN the way
of increasing public school aecommods-
tions. Statistics recently published show
that, while there were in 1870 &C.
commodatiuns for 1,sTS,S64 children,
there are now accommodations for 81.
426,74s.
All the thirty-six candidates for the
diploma OF sehooi.mistress have just been
rejected at Folk, In France, for inability
to solve the following problem Two
persons employed in a shop have different
salaries, together amounting to 4,400f
per annum. The first spends two-thirds
Il her salary, and the second three
foutths. Their joint savings amount 10
1,sl0f q year. What Is the salary of
each
A young lady in Buffalo has Sunday.
school class of seventy.five young men.
Thirteen years ego che began with class
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THE police Jury Of Point Coupee
La, has passed a levee ordinance. They
divide the parish into six leyee Districts
corresponding with the police jury wards,
appoint one superintendent for each, he
to have the privilege to appoint two
assistants. All persons liable to road
service are compelled to work on the
levee when required, under penalty Of
two dellars a day, or provide an able
bodied substitute. Persons are forbidden
employing directly or indirectly, any
person who has been notified 10 work on
the levee until such work has been per-
formed under PENALTY Of twenty dollars.
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sOUTHERN NEWs.

4
( The crop Of dried peaches iii Georgis
this year is estimated to be worth 81 500,
900.
EVERY once in while they bAink oi
constructing water works in Rockville,
Tenn.
PofNT CouPBB PARISH, LA, has an
immense product Of honey this year
There are several hundred barrels of II
for export
I'VE grass on the mountains has been
on FIRE up in Bandera, Texas, for the past
peek. and much of the range has been
destroyed. n
ONBaecount Of low water In the river,
Riehmond, Va, is on short water supply.
Geitatlglers are counaeIAaato Be eeonomi,
cal in the use Of water.
GEORGIA papers speak of the Atlanta
custOm-house as a -superhuOus concern.
II will take two yeass more to finish it,
atd the cost will be $500, 900.
The Giles, Va, Gazette says Grayson
county is troubled with an extraordinary
cattle plague. The cattle are literally
covered with North Carolina blue ticks,
and the disease has been ascertained to
be tick fever. Several have died.
The Negro man who called herself
Annie Williams, and was detected in
Chattanooga when his clothing was
stripped from him at the Btation-house to
give him bath, turned out not to be 70
very fat after all, He was made up with
pillows, 1t is supposed he had disguised
himself to escape from the consequences
of some crime.
In life insurance suit In New York
Mr.. ?. W, Grubbs, o real estate agent in
Richmond, Va, testified that the assessed
value of real estate in Virginia often
exceeded the actual value; the Ballard
House, for instance, of Franklin street,
in Richmond, which was valued by the
city assessors at $S1, 900 aud about 25
per cent. less by the state assessors, would
not bring, under the most favorable cir
cumstances, more than 100000.
AN Intellectual attempt was made to
capture Jim Pearson, who Is accused Of
killing man in southern Texas about q
year ago, by detective from Texas,
assisted by posse of citizens, near
Chattanooga last Monday. Pearson,
although the posse were within ten feet
of him, made good his escape, and now
the Texas detective will have to retrace
his steps without his man.
Mr.. HEDGES, of Kaufman county,
Texas, has raised some of the pampas or
upland rice, which will yield about three
hundred bushels to the acre. 1t can be
served like rice for table use, or it will
make wholesome bread. It ia considered
the very best for chickens. 1t is said
that chicken fed upen this grain will
never have cholera. 1t is destined to be
a staple grain in Texas, and win be very
profitable to the producer.
RICHMOND, Va, State The hands for
the Henry Clay statue ordered by the
general assembly to replace the mutilated
ones were received by Major Samuel H.
Roykin to-day from Florence, Italy.
They are made of the pureet italian
marble, and are of exquisite workman
ship. The old man in his dusty clothes
and soiled linen will look odd with his
white, clean hands-but his hands were
always clean.
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nr. Guthria spokc of ship builder
who paid hiBs greatest templiment
by eaying: aslnnang the ,teaching
most minis sthey.sAo-t Or long, !
generally oaas J. I'm niytlwn mind to
lay the keel Aa build the ship from
stem to steE ID during IL lr sermon I
cannet lay single plank"
" Have you any blackberry pies2"
asked q hungry traveller OF the mistress
Of a tumble down shsnty by the roadside
in one of the upper counties Of South
Carolina Thank you; if we be poor
and amt got no breadq nor buttermilk,
nor nothin' we amt come down to black
berry plea yet"
The exploring party struck the store
where Priam used to trade for his flour
and beans at MyCenm the other day,
aud found the Trojan monarch's pass
book, showing that bis account was be-
hind by fifty-nine draChmR, DR.. Schlie-
man says this arouses all the grocer pas
sions of his nature.
-" What are those purple poises down
by the brook asked Gus. {" IF you
mean replies Clara, those glorious
masses of empurpled efllorescence, that
bloom in bosky dells and fringe the
wimpling streamlets, they are campanula
rotundihOra.' > Gus plays billiards for n
living and Clara goes to girls college.
(Scene; Royal Academy, Gallery
No. 2)-Artful one (noticing the prox-
unity of the refreshment room): ooh,
George, dear, II feel no faint." More
artful one (who has been "served that
way before"); Faint, eh It's this
doosid unpleasant smell of cookery; let's
go on bit" (Exeunt) ).-Load0n Fun.
A San Francisco photographer has
succeeded in taking picture of Ocoi.
dent while he was trotting past at the
rate of 2;27, accurately timed, or thirty
six feet per second, and about forty feet
distant, the exposure of the negative be-
ing less than the one thouneudth part Of
a second.
This lady and her daughter, as every
body knows, spare no effort to repair the
ravages of time in their faces, and are
not always successful:
az saw Nine, E." says friend
" How old and worn she looks"
Yes; poor woman. She Is begin
l.. / L 4. 1.
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is THIS THE War LIFE ON LAND
BEGIRP

This beach is noticeable for sea.weeds
and moses carried on land by the tide.
These creations of the deep are of the
most diverse forms and shapes. In the
deep, as under the eye Of the sun, nature
exhausts her ingenuity in the produc-
tion of all shapes, forms and oolors, One
of these sea-weeds is most remarkable
perhaps. II consists of interlaced roots
in hollow bundle, four to six inches in
diameter, grasping together rs it's base
earth, shells and rock at the bottom Of
the sea. From this bundle of roots
number of round, hollow strings grow,
one-third of an inch In diameter, with
oval wind-bags of the same texture at
intervals, 80 that they can swim In the
water. These wind-bags have fins like
a fish, and from these fins new roots grow
to become parents plants in their turn.
The texture of the whole plant ia of
wood fibers and brown gelatinous matter,
like brown india.rubber, AS the plant
dries in the sun, thoussnds Of little In
sects grow out of 1t and populate the
sand, leaving tho dried-up wooden fibers
to show the alelaaon of the plant. Here
is a beginn animal life on earth
right before eyes, although insects
only. VIII irwin and Haeckel not
mention e. b worth a naturalist's
time to go q Cruz anS Aubtect this
sea- weed u reful analysis. I will
bring spec II II to the. Cincinnati
ee plant has various
shapes ant to different sizes. /
have a b which looks like q
leather VI lick, elastic, and inter6.
bered, - Cor. Of the american
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10 IL stated that 1900 cigar makers are
now employed in Key West, Fla.
One company in Tifin, Ohio, turns
out 5000 churns and 10000 washboards
annually.
The tobacco crop in Connecticut valley
promises to yield more than last year,
although the average is smaller in Con
necticnt.
The United States silk production is
falling of. In 1860 12,000lpounds of CO.
coons were raised; in 1879 only 5000.
Glass slippers have been produced by
the coming artifoes Of Vienna. The
slippers are actually woven OF fine fex-
ible threads Of glass,
Large quantities OF vanilla are being
shipped from Sanford, Fla to Savannah.
Il 10 mainly used by tobaccouists in the
manufacture of Havana cigars.
silk worms Matched by electricity are
now being reared in italy. IT is sug-
nested to apply the same method TO hens
eggs, and Ito hasten the termination Of
seeds.
Az Cairo, Egypt, there is an exten
stve printing establishment, containing
sixty presses for books In Arabic and for
a daily gazette in Arabic, Italian and
Turkish.
A saw, ifty-four feet long and eight
inches wide, intended for use on big
trees In California, has just been turned
out at the Beaver Fails, Pa, steel works.
According to the chairman Of the
Grand Trank railway, that road has lost
S4,T50,000 In two and quarter years
from competition, and railways in Amer
lea have lost 100000 In the came
time from the same cause.
The United States import annually
$50, ,O00, 900 worth Of flax hemp and jute.
Improved processes are steadily dimin-
ishinr the cost Of harvesting, preparing
and manufacturing. Jute may be grown
IN the southern states; hemp in Ken
sAoky, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana
while fax thrives in states further horth.
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THE uNEMpAOYEn.

"Three million OF unemployed men in
the United States that Is the text
upon which have been threaded more
editorial attempts at pathos lately than
any statement that has been made since
the panic. But is it truef There are in
the United States about 10000 900
people, 20,o00,000 males, Of whom not
over 5000 600 are mature, able-bodied
meu. Of these 100000 about 2,000, 600
are southern negroes, Of whom 1t can
hardly be said that any are really out
employment, since there is work enough
for all who are willing to work. of the
remaining 5000, 900, at least 1908, 900
are farmers, Of whom It cannot be said
that any are out of employment This
calculation leaves but about 5000, 900 to
be accounted for, and If they arc all "out
of employment then there Is nobody at
work in the Uuited States except the
farmers But this, Of course, Is an absurd
conclusion. OF these 9, ,Oo0,0 we know
that fully ! 200, GOO are engaged in active
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-12
GRATE AND GIE.


kiss me, VIII" snnp Marguerite,
lie n pretty little tune,
Holding up her dainty mouth,
Sweet Rs roses born IN juno.
VIII was ten years old that dny,
And he pulled her golden curls
TeasiugIv, and answer made.
'T'm too old don't kiss glrls"
Ten years pass. md Marguerite
Smiles ss win knrels'at her feet,
Gazing f0ndiy In her eyes,
Praying, "Won't you kiss mo, SWEET"
Rite Ia seventeen to-day.
with her birthday ring she toys
For n moment. then replies
"l'm too old don't kiss boyar'
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-12

price Of horses in England during the
year 14S5 may be formed from the fact
that in that year Richard III. offered
his entire kingdom for one, and the offer
was not accepted. - Courier journal.
OF all sad words Of tongue or pen
lho saddest are, II might have bean.
The Kaddest words we ever hear
Are those sad, sad words, " No Cash, no beer
-Si. Laats ,ioWyRai.
Harpera Bazaar says that you may eat
corn off the cob, but you must hold II
with only one hand. If the cob gets 9
little the better Of You, VS. suppora you
may hold one end OF the cob downwith
your loot Hdiukeye.
There ia nothing like knowing how to
select cheerful subjects for dog-day
editorials. A religious exchange presents
leading article with the captivating
title, Infant damnation--Nos B." Which
recalls the memoranda In the diary lsf an
eminent theoiogian: Aug. 1Sth--Took
great deal of pleasure to-day In reading
DR.. Edwards able sermon on The JUS
tiee of God inthe Damnation ofSinners. :"
= The Aiiiaace.
A man stood on q street corner In Chi
cago one day this week, slowly and de-
liberately tearing to pieces q very fair
looking pocket-book- first pulling out
the partitions, then drawing out the lin
ings, and finally ripping the leather
across and tossing the whole wreck into
the street. What'r You doing that
for9n exclaimed a friend, who came
along. Well, I'll tell you, replied the
man. " the fact is, I've got tired carrying
around something that of no earthly use
to me whatever - Chicago Journal.
There was a colored man about the
streets Saturday, trying TO sell 4 shirt.
He wsnted the money to buy new rum
with which to bathe his rheumatic wife.
He said he had more shirts than he
needsd, and the fact he hadn't one on
raYe some color, although dusky, To his
statement. He finally found a gentle
man ready to negotiate with him. The
shirt was warranted TO be all sound and
kind, whereupon, unrolling 1t from its
brown wrapper, Il was found TO be full of
holes, some 81 them large enough for q
PROCESSION ot rabbits 20 pass through with
ears erect. When asked I'd account for
the neshes Ii this human net, Mr. john
con exclaimed " My goodness gracious.
who'd thought IL !? them ere moths got
into de house this very morning and "a
for de ole mans miscellaneous shirt
Well, it's awful sticky any way. Good
morning sab, and then he took up the
shirt are !ully, as one would wreath Of
mess AMI walked mournfttlly away
HdrfforS Giobe.
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So, as stsaAaFy department has issued 4
& sa'aa g Az customs collectors relative
Mem M. u eosofing sugar. directing
prss...s .,.ssf 0osober lst next, to seise and
d ~ s ioE forfeiture all importations
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IHF permanent exhibition al Phila.
aephia has had a change Of management.
me new president, John s. Morton, has
laa power 70 direct the exhibition as he
pleAses The Ast move isthe opening of
n rates On Sunday. The big show viii
@opened next Sunday at ten o'clock In
we morning aud closed at six in the
evening There viii b no machinery Ia
aeson and no sales permitted except in
~ department ofpublie comfort and the
NS cabin, In the afternoon sacred con.
w y 70 he held, in which thirty pro-
sssional voices and an orchestra Of thirty
peoea will participate. The show has
~ rad expenses The average daily
aaaloer Of admissions has been about
4sV. but fully 1000 ot these have been
',serded hy the 500 exhibitors and EN-.
ey@ oe the exhibition, there being
soeet one hundred or the latter class.
v average daily c,tsh receipts have
@e'eiOFe been only about ss75, while the
s,s 1850 daily expenses have been about
Of which sl0O went for advertising.
sauef the new regime Mr. Chas. w.
s'sae late manager Of the department
\ advertising snd amusements, becomes
sssssal ssa. manager He says that the COM
N, saoala expend at least $500 a day
NJ. ~ ~ aislng, and he nas no doubt that
NH aelA policy iust put into practice
~ saon enable ID 70 be done.
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-12
crRRENT PARAGRAPHS

,,,,rn pAsHA, who has been leading
.i,torv branch OF the Turkish army,
1 " man who never drinks intoxicating
,'-,,ors or uscs tobacco, which fact makes
I,,, ~ os odd thingaia white crow among
he fellows -
TaF occupants of six hundred Shanties
,rr the lines Of New York railroads
,.stes living by planting corn and po-
,loeg between the rails and the fences.
n, said that 1000 acres are cultivated
ID thS way
THERE we're no lives lost by the forest
t,s Al Eaton, near Gre0 Bay, Wiscon-
n The five missing families have
arnel up alive, after suffering from lack
,flood and sleep. One woman saved her
.bljren by laying them upon the ground
"a covering them with cara Apothn
aaIly, who had fought tire S5r ffS5lttt
,oan without food or rest, were about III
despair, when slight sbifting of thel
rIad opened TO them pathway to safety.
ELECTRICITY will now be dispensed at
ne usual rates in China, as there isa tele.
rsph line six miles long just completed
Hthat country. II has been erected by
A Hung Chang, viceroy of Chill, from
M official residence 10 the Fretain arse
nI There is little doubt but that other
lipw will follow rs the intelligent China
man feels disposed to let this one stand,
although heretofore he has insisted ON
pulling down all lines formerly put up,
THE peach growers Of Delaware have
asW terror which they expect will en-
hsnCe the value Of their fruit. They
announce that peach culture Is 10 far
allure that many farmers will cut down
iheIr trees during the present year. A
gentleman living near FELTON,, after
puCking this years crop Of Hale's early
peaches cut down m orchard of Ave
hundred trees Though freights have
0ue down TO about half what they were
few years ago, yet the price realized
hf Tho fruit have fallen much more In
,mportiou, and there Is no prefit in rails
ng fruit to sell ut the prices IL has real
iedln New York for the past few years.
]uttiBg down all the peach trees will
ettsinly raise the price Of peaches, but
tis difficult to see where the profit Of
he operation comes In.
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THE London correspondent oil the New
York Times writes an interesting para
gnph concerning Master Pongo, the 60.
iilla which Is now the sensation OF the
! London aquarium. The correspondent
'ys Pongo Is ian unBpeakahle gorilla.
He makes his beholders realize what
narrow escape they have had. II the
afai attempt ut making man had failed,
shis might have been the waster' cast
aside with the second and successful
efOrh'' The correspondent goes on to
Wy Of the gorilla: He does everything
out talk, l gave him a biscuit, He
lasted Il, didn't like IL, and returned it
lone with the gentle gracefIlness Of a
bond street exquisite. His initiative
powers are very remarkable. Ifhe can.
net talk he win soon write. He takes q
pencil IN his hand, and w,ts the point In
hs mouth, and scrawls on paper as
naturally 90 senator, He eats meats
md drinks ale with the relish Of an agri-
Saltaral laborer. He Il terribly and
a#lully Ike human beine and looking
lato hls big, sad, melancholy eyes, one
nightthink he knewit, and was inwarily
RsEethng hia position
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A PILLOW CASE, well saturated with
water and having small hole torn In IL
TO look through, placed loosely over tue
head, is said 10 be an admirable inn
promptu rsspirator IN the densest smoke,
valuable idea for escaping occupants
from burning buildings. Vice Admiral
birmingham, when he commanded The
Cambridge training-ship at Plymouth,
made an experiment with this pillow
casp respirator He had twelve pounds
81 loose powder exploded in confined
pnrtoftheship, which, although screened
Of with fearnaught, emitted 30 dense a
mOke that those outside had to lie dewn
on The deck. A common plllow.case,
With small eye-hole, was placed over
iAa head Of a man, who, with the hose In
Aia hand, went inside and remained ten
minutes, when, to assure his friends out
'Ide Of his safety, he sang comic song.
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AHMED pAsHA, who has been leading
rictory branch OF the Turkish army,
" , man who never drinks intoxicating
-. !, or ,tscg tobacco, which fact makes
,.., ~ az odd A thing white crow among
40 I,It,ua
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-29
Wednesday Evening,

The Detroit Free Press is one of
the very few Northern papers having
any considerable circulation in the
South, or which desires and publish
es Southern correspondence, There
ID hardly 8 locality in the South
where this paper is not taken, and
where thas not secured warm friends,
for the interest it has taken in South
ern affairs. 1t has advocated all mea-
sures looking to the development of
new industries, the establishments OF
permanent peace and friendship, and
the election to office Of representative
men whose administrations must be
prolific of peace and harmony.
During the coming year The Free
Press will publish articles from the
pens of various State governors in the
South, letters from centers of bust
ness, and communications from those
in position to know the needs of theil
State and can suggest beneficial chan.
GEES. We further desire to hear from
planters, fuit-growers, stock-raisers
miners, and manufacturers. Thei
communications will interest thou
sands in the North who are restless
for a change of abiding place, ant
must be of benefit to the South.
All. other departments ip The Ere
Press win be maintained and mad
full Of interest To all readers, and
hopes to make many nsw friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-29
"FIRST LECTURE THAT PAID
got ITS Way

ssThe lecture Of Miss Anthony, at
the Opera House,sFriday evening,
was attended with the most fiattering
success. Springfield scciety cares
but little fSr1ectures, and it's a re-
variable fact that Miss Susan B. An
thony enjoyed the honor Of delivering
the first lecture to an audience, of oar
people which paid It's way.
"Niss Anthony is fftyziive years Of
age, and has been engaged for years
in public speaking. She l. pleasant
booking, dresses In a becoming man
mel, and speaks with = clesr, full
voice, and In snch a way that she
holds the attention of her audience as
Iifty magic" -Missour lSpringfield)
Patriot, April 8 1876.
shsant B. Anthony Iectuers in Mexi'
90 next Wednesday night and we
truat she willsbe crested with 2 crowd
ed h0usos
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-29
SOUTH WILSON ITEMS.

|.gL.eE a,3- 1Gr-Tg = D9s. ~
As South Wilson is not represented
in your columns will you please ien-
roll us as a correspondent from! This
section. News is as scarce ast, hen's
teeth, Fbut L will try to find sems.E
BobdMorris has rented his place te
his brother JosepbIMorris, and starts
for Texas te-daya lie is going sttefe
for his,wife's health, Ged.HsWoolry
goes with him. 'i-Ipf
The constable 'seemsto lnsve d great
deal Of business etftfn itAis section,
but mostly on Sunday nights3nbut !
tguessI WONT tell ON Beb-Sea ;"
! Cupid has besh Visiting this hefgH.
borhood, and as al result, EdGambeile
WAS married to Miss sdlrE 'wither,
on last Thursday night. . nha
l.. The farmers are busy gathering
corn and hanIfng to LaekIand's barn.
| The schools are IS shfais.a ,fReHR g aAAls
condltloh,o i,qsI ja saosl si,is
There il aILyceHm msetss gver!
Friday hight; at thea Frioe seheo
house, it makes o great deal Of flu
tor the old folks aaa gives the, EaHnts
people a splendid chance. TO swing ei
1.-The gate,dr s,tKa,ae i. n. YuM. .