The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1878-05-23
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southern News.


VI yeK Orleans a, said to be preparing
- ioin in ali invasion of Canada as soon
a. Russia grspples with England.
Columbus Georgia. Sun: An old
negro fiddler Of Cuthbert got religion
q few days ago, whereupon he shivered
bis fiddle on the doorstep, saying; No
man kin hab religion an be a fiddler"
Chattanooga Times: tits stated that
large fields Of wheat in Middle Tennessee
we're very much benefited by the late
serm. 1t blew and washed the rust so
that the wheat was almost clear and the
ground covered with it, and since then
The wheat is said to be doing well.
Richmond States The failure of 50
many New England cotton mills and the
strikes in Old England among the opera
tiyes must lower the price of raw cotton,
and raise that of the manufactured article. |
Il should admonish the south that it is
not only her policy to grow, but to spin
and weave the cotton also. Let us
profit by the experience.
Chattanooga Dispatch Thirteen fat
boats, loaded with grsin and meat, ar
rived at the wharf Sunday from up the
river. They brought about 5000 bushels
d wheat, 1000 bushels of corn and Sb,.
0a0 pounds ef meat, principally from
Union county. Twenty Hatboat have I
arrived during the week, averaging ], 900
bushels of grain to the boat.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: The pros
pect for good crops in this section were
never better. We gather from many
who are engaged in agriculture, and
others, that the stands of cotton and corn
are all that could be asked. The cut
worm is slightly in the cotton ia some
localities, but no serious damage is ap.
pretended. The promise of the fruit
crop is also just as good as can be.
Raleigh IN. Co. News: Operations
for this season have been discontinued at
the great fish hatchery at Avoca, on
Albemarle sound. It was not expected
that the work would stop before the 10Th
inst, but owing to unprecedented good
luck of the owners of the great seines in
their catches of herrings, the nets have
been taken out for the season. The
amount Of work done, the quantity of
fry placed in the streams, has been enor-
NOUS. The duty has been ably dis
charged, and it but'remains for our people
to unite in projecting the fish for our
streams to be once again filed with the
finest varieties of fish as of yore.
Charleston News ard Courier "In
answer TO the many inquiries which are
made concerning the welfare Of the emf
grants who have been forced to remain
here until the return of the Azor, it may
be said that vyer fifty of the emigrants
with their wives and children have set
tlel down and gone to work upon the
plantation on Wandoo river purchased
by the u E. association a few weeks ago
for thel benefit. Others have secured {
enjoyment at several phosphate wo kg
near the city, and some few remain in
the city and have their wants provided
flr BY the association The emigrants, as
clsss, are we'll behaved, hard working
pe5fle and will doubtless earn fair Q
living during their term of probation. =
san Antonio Herald: There is one
thing very evident, and that is If there 2
is anything in the power Of General Ord
which win conduce to the safety Of the =
frontier and protection from Indian and
Mexican raiders, he will do it. But his ?
power is far less than is generally sup. = I
posed. When the re>enforcements were : !
ordered here few months ago, the :
newspapers all stated the force in this 4
department as amounting to fully four :
thousand troops, but the last official = y
returns Of the troops now here show :
that, while the organisations now 4
Stationed here call for three thousand 4
'even hundred and torty-nine troops, :
there are only two thousand and eight = :,
hundred and seyenty.three enlisted men, u
aad that of this number there are but "
nineteen hundred and sixty men instead =
of four thousand. ss
New Orleans Picayune: The large and 2
distinguished family Of which General e
Wade Hampton Il 80 brilliant member
urnished one thousand men to the CON y
ederste army. Among them may be y
asmed Generals Joseph e. Johnston, .
Albert Sydney Johnston, Edward p p
Johnston, J. B. Floyd, John D. Breckin- Il
1dge, John S. and William Preston, Of m
Virginia, with Col. R, T. Preston, Of the O
anne state. No less than FIVE governors q
y Virginia were Of this family Covers q
aors Mcdowell, Campbell, james Pres ~
% and the two Floyds; ex-Governors u
'acobs, Of Kentucky; Gratz Brown, of a
aiasouri, and Weller, Of California ~
Hons. Patrick Henry, Thomas II. Ben In
.on, w. c. Preston and Ballard Preston "
EeFe Of them, with Professor Holmes and 3
Versailles, Of the university of Virginia th
y < Johnston, Of Washington and Lee
and General r, T.. Gibson,
member Of congress Of Louisiana.
Hon. George Williamson before tbe Of
New Orleans chamber n commsrcs. M + i i
1 wy been invited . confer with you on be
Nd Spanish America, ! see s tss n
alaan numbers present sn Indication th
4 sae little interest that Is taken in ii
\ 'ss iaat'er. This is not peculiar to New de
\ sa'e4ns oF Louisiana, but the United Ia
.a.ss have lost interest in reciprocal eli
tlaie with the countries soutb n II Il
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