The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1879-08-28
Many tramp8 are moving ON to Mem.

Longiyer, the Fort Worth stagc-rob-
ber, has received ninety-nine year sen.
tence.
One steamer recently left Savannah
with 5000 watermelOns, consigned for New
York,
Atlanta (Ga il to have military
FaeadenV. ltwiilbe open by the first of Sep
temhEr.
Lightning gstruckarotton field infieor,
ga the other day, and scorched d duarter Of
an acre,
/ Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana.sis vic
tim to. neuralgia, and has gone 10 Virginia
for relief.
Washington, county, Texas, farmers
are paying fifty cents per hundred for pick
ing cotton.
Henry Ward Beecheer is booked to
lecture in Montgomery, also Mobile the COM
ing season.
Cattle are dying on the prairies of
Bell county Texas, in great numbers from
want of water
The Louisiana Sentinel urges that the
state take some action with regard to lcprosy
on the Lafourche.
in Evergreen Ala, where the popula-
ton y 200, there h9slbeen apat threes deaths
since January "
The quarantine between Texas and
New Orleans is 50 strict that the papers are
not interchanged.
One farmer in Norfolk county, Va,
has raised and shipped 10000 barrels Of po-
tatoes this season.
The Austin Statesman says it is as
serted that there are two hundred and six
newspapers in Texas.
A rapid rise in the OCmulgee river, in
Georgia, last Sunday, devastated the crops Oh
the banks considerably.
The assays Of gold bullion at the United
States assay Office in Charlotte in the month
Of July amounted to $5,13,226.
According to the report of the COM
missioner Of agriculture of North Carolina,
dogs cost the state $G,000,000 annually.
The lands Of Talladega county, Ala,
have yielded good crops after forty years
| cultivation without the use of fertilizers.
Gold mining in North Carolina is a
booming. -Four prominent New Workers are
in Charlotte looking after mining interests
A negro boy in.Waco Texas, caught
number Of large rats, and, after skin
ming them, sold them to q restaurateur for
squirrels.
The Key of the Gulf says that Key
West, with its 800 inhabitants, has less
deaths and better health than any other city
in thesouth,
A farmer near Wilmington, n. G. set
spring-guns in his watermelon patch, and
the thieves came along and stole both guns
and melons.
The Supreme court of North Carolina
has decided that dogs are not property in
that state, and on that ground an indictment
was quashed.
A recently enacted law in Galveston
provides that any employer who shall force
an employe to labor on Sunday, shall be liza
bic 10 fine of $50.
The Nashville Medical society has
been hauling a number of its members over
the Goals for allowing the frequent repetition
Of their names in print.
The News ventures the prediction,
there is not another city in the country
that can show better health record than
Savannah.
II cannot tell, says an old convict,
chow many crimes are arranged in prison,
and afterwards successfully carfied aat5 hRtl
their name is legion.
About week agethree haHal4s sss
groes were to be seen assembled on the sbs.sSE
OF the Mississippi at Bayou Sara, awaiting
/ transportation to Kansas:
Mr.. Sid Hall, of Montgomery county,
! Ala reports that the farmers have effectually
stopped the progress Of cotton worms, by
the free use Of Paris green.
The report is general in Virginia that
\ the corn, clover, potato, tobacco, fruit and
other crops have been greatly damaged by
the,immense heat and protracted drouth
The Jewish temple, in Vicksburg,
| Mississippi, has been offered free to the Bap-
4 fists in that place for worship until they can
rebuild, the latter having lost their house by
FIRE.
The Elizabeth City IN. CD Economist
! saws that 1000 to $4,000 worth OF huekle-
| berries have been sold from the counties of
Chowan aud Perquimans, during this sea
son.
AT d meeting of citizens in Richmond,
/ Va, with reference to the proposed Sunday
| laws, it was resolved that there should be
l.eliberty OF individual conduct unvexed by
sumptuary laws
ChevaIier Jumonville, whose defalca-
/ tons as cashier Of the Canal Bank Of New
Orleans, has just been discovered, wns quite
d venerable man, and has been attached to
tie bank since boyhood.
The Mississippi towns are very much
dissatisfied, because the mail service is al
most broken up on the river, The United
/ States mail boats won't take on mail from
| Memphis, hence The trouble.
Memphis Ledger The free ration
question il still subject Of contentious dis
chssion in many quarters. few OF the peo-
nle remaining here are pinched and haye
/ seantv fare, but the majority are sleek, tat
and well provided for.
Albany (Gal Advertiser General
Gordon's sheep rancho does not comprise
4 aforty thousand aeres,n and negro conyicts
! arc not enclosing it with stone. fence
/ There il not enough stone in southern and
southwest Georgia to build an old-tashioned
/ stone chimney, much less fence for sheep
rancho.
i Corpus Christi Ledger: In the item
OF horse hair, business has developed IN
! this city within the last few years amount
1 inr u ITa.000 10 200,o08 pounds annually.
/ The exports are gradually increasing and
| greater attention is being paid by the ran
| cheros to the preservation Of this product.
The police If New Orleans having ap-
! pretended an escaped conYlct from the
Tennessee penitentiary telegraphed the TACT
10 the prison lesseess and received as reply:
eve have Nc particular use for him, but viii
nav TWENTY-FIVE dollars reward for him II dc.
4 iiyrred here Refreshingly cool.
/ st. Augustine Press: 1t is reported
that an English company q capitalists will
attempt to build Florida ship canal IN op-
position 10 the French company, and over a
slightly different route Mr.. Reid, member
I 81 the British parliament, will, it is stated,
soon come to this country in behalf Of the
English company.
III Archer county, Texas, a farmer,
John Brigham, called his daughter to prepare
breakfast. and then left the house. lie was
subsequently found in the woods. Having
sirst attempted suicide BY hanging, and fail
ing, he literally beat IBIS own brains out with
hammer He lived but short time He
was formerly of Conway, Arkansas.
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