Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-14
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The University column III tAe Caftro-
LIAM Is attracting good deal OF inter
est from individuals as well as the press
of the State ri
While passing the confectionery off
Mr.. Ramon Diaz, Mainsstreet, don't fail
to call In and try some Of hi4 iee-celd
Nsodo.water. He knows how to six It,"
Gen. Jastremski, in company with Mr..
II. skolfeld and Major Herrop, left on
the steamer Cannon for New Orleans,
| Sunday, on business connected With the
4 university,
The Knights Of Pythias il Clinton
propose to give grand entertainment,
on the 18th Of next July, consisting Of
| o supper and ball, aud general convlvi-
atty and social reunion of the order. 4
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With the compliments OF senator W.
l.. Hagan, comes to our sahctum, the
Daily Bristol Times, In returning
4 thanks for his kind consideration, we
take occasion To wish the Senator un-
limited pleasure while on his summer
tour,
Our young friend Henry Sehorten,
who recently left this place & to learn
engineering in Boston, places as under
obligations for late papers OF that city
He possesses sill the elements that pro.
mote success, aud we trust be will re-
alize his highest ambition in, his chosen
profession.
Clinton Waterman: We earn from
from Mr. J. NJ. Tracy from Baton Rouge,
Of an explosion of q boiler, pn Monday
morning last, at the steam saw mill of
DIR. T. ). Jones, located hear Olive
Branch, in this parish, four persons were
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badly hurt, one, Mr.. j.. II. Burberry,
very seriously injured The damaged to
the property not aseertained. -a..
Thesteamor Jesse X. Bell always brings
good quantity of freight to fhis point
The reason Is quite plain. Her rates Of
freight and passenger fare Rrc cheaper
than the regular Bayou Sara and Vicks-
burg packets, while her officers are noted
for their consideration of passengers.
! Try the Bell if You want to receive kind
and polite treatment. john Garvin is
their agent Mt this place.
Since our last issue very refreshing
aud much needed rains have fallen, CIV
ing neville aud vigot to vegetation.
Early potatoes, which were being seri-
ously injured, viii be greatly improved
both in yield and quality. Mother Earth
is now thoroughly moistenedt and though
we can dispense with any more rain at
present, we doubt If We can influence
the clerk of the weather Indeed we
shan't try.
Vegetables are ecoiniug very pleu-
tiful in Baton Rouge We saw some
. early sugar corn Sunday, 'tasselingP
fuely-iu fact it was nfarlyall "tassel,p
as "tassef' and all were not more
than twenty inches high, Now ifSam-
boIa bothers this item, (and we know he
Will be worse than duck on June
bug wo'lltell him the difference between
sugar corr and the local editor OF the
Advocate,
The lightning propeller, Morning star
never fails to hive a good number ofpas-
seugers both going to and coming from
Donaldsonville. This is due to the pc,
likeness of her officers, and the train
like regularity with which she makes
her trips. Being always on time. the
travelling public have learned that abe
eau be relied on to deliver them at the
time and poiut advertised. Doat for
get the Morning STATS excursion to
New Orleans.
Mr. Stoner, the iuventGr of the ma,
chine torproducing fibre from bear grass,
left yesterday for NewI0rleans with tue
view of applying to the capitalists OF
that city, for the means to build'machi
merry on an extensive scale and put th,
manufacture of the grass into actual op
grafton. We believe this Invention vii
prove of great beneneht to the South--
:. especially if Southern capital is invested
imit--and we hope our capitalists vii
not let the opportunity Slip,
The hollow cry of y priceless balio
and d -fairscount' comes most ioudl,
from those who were once the violen
II bullGozers of the South. Their violenc,
e. A ~