The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1878-07-25
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

There are nine daily newspapers pub.
blished in Georgia.
A gentleman in BIackvilIe, S G, has
bs,un the culture of silk.
The arlesian W Il at Charleston is such
a success that the city has more water
than it demands.
Chattanooga wishes to hold a cnm-
mercial, manufacturing and agricultural
exhibition there next tall.
Memphis is exasPerated for the reason
that discrimination is made against her
in river freigbts.
Vicksburg has subscribed $lO0,0N0
aud the county SIS, 900 10 the Memphis
and Ylcl )urg railroad.
Work has been resumed on the pubic
buildings in RIIeigh, and the post.office
will be ready in two weeks.
The state engineers of louisiana are
examining the levees Of the Mississippi
the entire length Of the state.
The San Antonio Herald says the
whole Texas frontier IL being raided by
Mexicans IS it was never before.
A three-year old negro child got lost
in the pine woods Of North Carolina,
and was gone two days and nights.
A Texas paper tells of a desperate en-
counter between two blscksnakes and
coon, resulting in the death of the latter
A turtle captured at PenpacoIa weigh
I'd three hundred and ffty-fve pounds
and yielded seven hundred and two eggs.
Henry E. Sizer, of Jackson, Miss,
is 10 receive twenty-four thousand dol.
lars from the government fer property
destroyed during the war.
Mrs Campbell, oI Minnesota, was
drowned while bathing in the surf at
MaypOrt, Fla, Wednesday. Sharks bit
OF one Of her arms before the body could
be recovered.
Daniel Wright, the largest land owner
In The lower Shenandoah valley, died at
bis home in Berkeley county, West
Va, last Monday. He owned fifteen
valuable farms.
Some portions of Middle and West
Tennessee have been visited with hog
cholera pretty extensively this summer,
and hog breeders begin top think that
pork will be very scarce in those eections
next fall
A gentleman at Orange City Fla,
received some popcorn from Wisconsin
last February, which he planted on the
5th of March he gathered in the crop
and returned seed to Wisconsin by the
lst Of June to Be replanted there.
s gonner, d C1rinth, Afiss, has
tued the Western Unien telegraph com
psny for $4,000 damages, because a dis
patch summoning him to the bedside OF
his sister in Bethel, Tenn, was not
delivered him until two days after it
reached the telegraph flee, or otherwise
he could have Ieacbc Bethel before she
died.
Little Rock Democrat: The people OF
Hot Springs are really in a deplorable
condition. With the unsettled state of
affairs in reference 10 titles to property,
there is constant uneasiness pervading
Rl classes. Any permanent settlement
Of the property rights OF the citizens
you'd be hailed with delight. They are
fevere in their criticism on the failure of
our members Of congress to procure The
passage of some law affording relief.
The cotton planters Of Brsz,s cjuntv,
Texas, have novel way Of destroying
The cotton worm, 1t is as follows: A
lsHtern, st inside Of a pen made of CON.
mon sheet Of tin, and surrounded by
abouta quart Of water, upon the top of
which a spoonful Of kerosene is poured,
Is the remedy. The flies which produce
the worm are attracted at night by the
light of The lanterns, and, striking |
against them, fall into the pan Of water
and oil, and are then destroyed. Any |
kind OF cheap lantern is used. The |
cotton fields are lighted up with thou.
sands Of these lamps nightly, and the
remedy has so far proved successful