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RUGS -a CARPETS SMYRNAS-A Big Line. The Bromly make (best in the market) in bright [colors and choice designs. According to size $ I.Ott AMERICAN GRASS RUGS. Just out! A serviceable novelty. Two sizes, at 50c and $1 .OO MOQUETTE'and BRUSSELS CARPETS. Handsome colors and designs. Bor ders to match. Art squares made to order. INGRAIN ART SQUARES. In all grades and colors—largest line we ever had. COCOA, CHINA, JAPAN AND GRASS MATTINGS. $&*See if you can think of anything I cannot furnish. R. S. McMAHON. W. L. BURKE. WALTER M. GATES. J. P. SUBERBIELLE. Successors to J. J. CRAIG & CO. INSURANCE. State Bank Building, NEW IBERIA, LA. S^^Representing Fifteen of the Largest Companies. Losses promptly a personally attended to. Cheapest current rates. Best Inducements NEW IBERIA ICE & BOTTLING CO., LIMITED, NEW IBERIA, LA., MANUFACTURERS OF Ice, Seltzer, Soda & Mineral Waters. AGENTS FOR Anheuser-Busch EEG BEER AND THE CELEBRATED Budweiser Bottled Beer. NEW IBERIA BRICK FACTORY, Aug* Erath and K. Southwell, Proprietors. NEW IBERIA, LA. FIBST-CLASS PRESSED & COMMON BRICK, BEST of railroad and water shipping facilities, TO ALL POINTS. tVPlioea quoted on Application. Charbon! Charbon!! Now il the time to hare your stock innoculated. Don't wait until the dreaded disease comes upcn you, but innoculate early and pre vent it. I have just received a large amount of Vaccine and am ready to innoenlate vonr stock. Also have the Vaccine for sale in large or small quantities. DR. SHEARD MO ORE, Vet erinary Surgeon RESIDENCE, OFFICE and HOSPITAL, Lower St. Peter Street. CUMBKRLAND'PHONE 240— Calls Answered Day or Night. E. W. Phillips, ARCHITECT CONTRACTOR AND 'BUILDER, NEW IBERIA, LA. Will famish Plana and Specifications for Sugar Houses, Dwellings and all kinds of Baihtings in Iberia and adjoining parishes. Best of refference as to ability and at leatioB paid to contracts. Sugar House Work Specially Solicited. H. F. DUPERIER, tlHIERTAKER ill DIRECTOR OF FORERAIS, Everything New and Rrat-Class, WUl take full charge of and Direct Funoral» and attend all de tail». Prompt response made to all call» day or night. Oumberland 'Phone 47. East Side of Bayou. NEW IBERIA, LA. Nov Iberia Foundry and Machine Shop. GEO. SIMON, Proprietor, MAKES A SPKCIALTT OF Repairs on Sugar Houses» Cotton Gins, Saw Mills and Steamboats, A Ml Msortnent of Brass sad Iron Steam Fittings, Refined Bar Iron, Anti-Friction Metals, Late* Improved Packings, Machine Bolts, Nuts, Washers, constantly in Stock. B8TMATBS MADE ON ALL KINDS OP REPAIES. It U :er and Funeral Director, Old Odd F a q ows Building, Main Street, New Iberia, FUNERAL CAR, WHITE AND BLACK HEARSE, COFFINS, GASKETS, METALLIC CASES, BURIAL ROBES, WRAPPERS, SHOES, ETC. Mb*» Aristide Boutte's 1 bMaaMwndaad be will take feU ehaige of foaerali and attend to all us fits NMMM6 lit Mir of establishment and night or day will » Feed and Sale Stable», t and finest outfit in attakapas. ^ f, Co ' Bl W# hmndled in Carload lot*. to «toe«. ofeat for the world-rettoumod OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF IBERIA PARISH AND TOWN OF NEW IBERIA. THE COTTON FACTORY A CERTAINTY. The movement inaugurated by the New Iberia Board of Trade, at its meeting on the evening of the 18th inst., for a cotton factory, har met with such favorable response as to make the undertaking a cer tainty. The committee on sub scriptions, Messrs. James A. Lee Leopold Levy and J. P. Suberbielle ; commenced their work on Monday last, working a few hours each day 1 and at noon on Friday had secured one hundred and ninety-three sub scribers representing 699 shares, or $69,900. It had been expected to effect an organization when $50,000 should have been subscribed ; but that limit was so promptly reached and passed that it has been thought best to wait until $80,000 shall have been obtained. Many persons did not wait to be called upon, but came forward and subscribed. Sub scriptions will be received by either of the members of the committee j and also at the Enterprise office. I We append a list of subscribers from four shares upward : James A. Lee 20 J. P. Suberbielle 20 Leopold Levy 20 R. S. McMahon 10 A. Daigre 10 W. J. Burke 5 J. B. Lawton 5 Phil Lee 5 Leon Dreyfus 20 Gall O. Pharr 20 C. E. Reynolds 20 Henry Miles 5 H. E. Suberbielle 5 N. I. Rice Milling Oo 20 Estorge Drug. Co 40 Jules Dreyfus 10 H. H. Winters 5 Jules E. Dupuy 5 Emile Deriaz 5 P. R. Burke 5 T. R. Morse 5 James W. Wyche 4 Alexis Voorhies 5 W. L Burke 5 P. G. Blumenthal 5 A. J. Cammack 5 Smith, DeBlanc & Suberbielle. 10 E. J. Carstens 5 Davis & Soharff O. Renoudet 5 Jim Pollard 5 H. P. Ortmeyer 5 Burke, Gates & Suberbielle 10 A. B. Murray 5 Harry & Müller 10 H. Scharff & Sons 5 Luke Trainor 5 j A. M. Bernard 5 J.W.Taylor 5 Arthur Bernard 4 Geo. Henderson 5 Smith's Bakery 5 J. M. Courrege 5 Jean Courrege 5 Dr. H. A. King 10 Geo. Simon. 5 Mr. & Mrs. P. S. Lutzenberger. 5 W. L. Lasalle 4 C. L. Lasalle 10 John Broussard 10 Irwin A. Bell 5 Mestayer & Weil 4 Chas. A. Hills 4 Fernand Butaud 5 THE ENTERPRISE at That our readers may familiarize themselves with the progress, suc cess and advantages of cotton mil ling in the South, we propose to publish weekly copious extracts from the N. O. Picayune hand-book containing the atfle articles of Mr, H. H. Hargrove on the subject,from data obtained at the very sources of information, beginning with this issue. It is proposed also by the Board of Trade to extend an invita tion to Mr. Hargrove to visit New Iberia at an early date and address the people on the subject of cotton mills. In connection with the subject of the establishment of industries in New Iberia, we are authorized by Mr. J. P. Suberbielle, the organizer and manager of the New Iberia Rice Mill, to say that the first year's operation of this mill cleared a net profit of thirty-three per cent on the investment. Improvements to be made and prospects of handling an increased quantity of rice this sea son, justify expectations of a net profit of fifty per cent. Representative Jacobs of St. Mary has introdoced a bill in the Legisla ture having for object the compul sory attendance of childran at school It is hoped that our legislators will not waste mach tim e on this propo sition. There is mach to be done for educational advance ment in this state bofore this step is reached The opportunity and facility of at tending school moat first be provid ed, not the least important of whieh is good roads. This wonld make possible the well equipped graded district school ia all country locali ties where population is not too sparse, and thus would be created an incentive to school attendance that an army of oooatables oould not accomplish under present condi tions. Good roads, competent /ram ed teachers properly remunerated, comfortable attractive school houses and, above all, school super vision by able educators are the first essentials. Until these factors are provided, it is absurd to talk of compulsory education. in in the Representative Burke, of Iberia, has introdoced a bill to amend the act relative to tike nie of liquors to habitial drunkards.—Better let the «Id drunkards go, as bo legislation will save them, and pass acta that will save the young men from be coming drunkards.—JfsrMw OU » Review. and and and The — C0TT0N FACTORIES FOR THE SOUTH, H .h. H argr oveix n. o.pioavrx,. A courageous performance of ! duty, the daring encounter with seeming insurmountable obstacles, ! i I bravely facing an euemy, the un daunted heroism at the cauuon's mouth, all mark the spirit of a soldier's fighting for his country's A 00 ; The soldier fighting for his coun- j try's flag is frequently the man without a home, without a familv 1 and fortune. He struggles with the hardship and deprivation of camp life and with the minimum j pay of $8 per month meets the on- ' slaught of his country's foes, an imated only by pure patriotism. Why should the military patriot acity rindTe™rialïfh!n e those a Sf : uswho are soldiers in life's work, ' attempting to be country builders— country makers—aud home uplift ersî Who be more courageous in facing all obstacles, who more en during, who more undaunted in the hour of trial and in the presence of extreme perils than our men of homes and families? Are there auy trials and extreme perils to the Louisiana people? Need there be an answer? When the burglar attempts to enter the sacred precincts of our homes: when a sueakingassassin ' . • ... y* t uncovers his identit\ r : when a des- 1 poiler of virtue is detected, we, as | tio^uireoolT^ÄYoducei WÄT? aDd n g î tfUlly - ; "f kD0, *. D - ! lees^.eptnintw i ti - less eertainty m facing other griev We go with steady : treadTo th^battl'e fidd. " We march doer- U °We i'^Ta'd I""'?' 1 ." "" t ha " ds t0 e ec ,V>» r ! Î nt «nnthlr Ïk offices " Is there | not another work m which we as a j ZriÎLSt A t I a ' F/ ÎL g i d T i° t0 " da ^ is the bluest and most depressed ZTtiZ t S Ï 6 n n v"!P tnfnhlP« JSfin ? D h- if S ? ! u 0nlj , to hl P lself or sHtnte%0 nef ÛÏtî n"' 1 stitute 50 per cent of the state's i population? Does not the entire state become a reflex effect of the ° affliction of his class? ! of How does 3,000,000 bales of low price ootton affect New Orleans merchants T How does 250,000 bales of 4-cent cotton affect the merchants of Shreveportt How does 80,000 bales of cheap cotton affect the merchants of Monroe? How is the small country merchant affected by this low-price cotton, which costs more to make and market it than his daily and life time neighbors and customers can realize for it on the market. The farmer is ruined. Thecountry merchant is ruined. The city com merce is embarrassed. Then the grievous difficulties concern us as a whole people. top cial As we face and meet all other trials and perils with true courage and fortitude, why shall we not at least attempt to circumvent the affliction of the agriculturist, which affects the whole? Few men have the foresight and opportunity to learn and develop full and thorough lessons and duties at critical and acute points, and must call in the experience and schievements of prior generations. We must borrow from others the example of their success. The press must be the chosen circuity of this light, the teacher, the purveyor of the needed information of how suc cess has been secured elsewhere. On the soil of North and South Carolina I shall pitch my tent, with the purpose of mingling among the people whose genius and industrial exploits have enabled them to over come the afflictions of cheap cotton, whose progress and enterprise, developed by self-help, have fash ioned the instruments which brought weal out of woe; whose light shall be made to shine through the columns of the Picayune to il lumine the pathway of the Louis iana cotton growers and those de pendent npon cotton, that they may at least see one means of escape from futnre afflictions of low-price cotton. by As North Carolina and South Carolina each manufactured nearly 400,000 bales of cotton in 1898 into marketable merchandise, cloth, bagging, rope, etc., getting back to the state two or three times the valne of the raw cotton, it is easy to see that a similar pursuit in Louisiana should be a solution to onr home afflictions. Louisiana grows annually but a little less than three-quarters of a million bales of cotton, having this year a value of $15,000. This is the main product of about thirty-six parishes. If this was manufactured at home there would be the value of labor left here to help the mer chant, the doctor, the lawyer, the editor, the butcher, the taxgatherer, and then the finished product would be sold faster than it could be manu factured and this would bring into use for our people about $45,000, 000, instead of $15,000,000 for the raw cottou. When I prepared for the Pic ayune an article on cotton factories in the south, which was published in the issue of Dee. 4,1898,1 wrote only from published data, then several years old, but I at once began an examination on a wider uale by writing to a practical super intendent in one of the South Caro lina mills for reliable and accurate data of the present condition of the mill interest, for the guidance of the Louisiana cotton-growing sec tions. The answer is herewith published, that all ean see what is ■•id, fresh from the fields of sue The author is a practical super intendent, and speaka with accuracy and clearness not otherwise avail able. He has addressed the New England Cotton Mill Association and had signed articles in the Manu facturers' Record, of Baltimore, and the Tradesman ,*of Chattanooga. The letter: "Newberry, S. C. Dee. 23,1898. — H. H. Hargrove, Esq., Shreve is we Of port, La.: Dear Sir—Iu reply to yours 0 f the 8th, would say my re ! be taken as representing ™ j V ?PP roxima h te estimates ; they ! - however, be near enough for I forming an opinion. Onehuudred thousand dollars will erect a mill S ^ dle - 8 a f nd t , 275 - lo °™ „W rate of ; oO per spindle, and also repre j sei j ts bnildin S s _ a ? d equipments on ^, the expense of land being an 1 ° the • lte f gS W ^ lM re q Qire at least 40,000 square feet, glV ® e f m P lo y ment to j y 10 Tf™ P ? r ' f" fjÄ consume 3,o00 to 4 ' 000 b&le ? °? <»?? n \ lf1 ^ _P ™duct was standard 36-inch, 285 yards goods. : a ™ mi ° or expenses and CUt but a h ttle figure in deciding upon a mill site. The chief ques tiou being as to the ease with which coal can be secured, and as to how reliable the railroad service may be considered, together with the pro babilities of other and competing railroad connections becoming^vail able later on. I have entire con fidence in the competence of south ern hands in cotton mill work, up to a certain fineness of yarns; above that they ueed a number of years' experience. For instance, the yarns in standard Osnaburgs, is such that Jf «.. i ,»«, u,,«. „ * * it takes but a short time to train ,< u-i ■ * e ■ °"™" "My adviee to «Il cottou factory j S tee« Uaomewha of f local demand. This ooe item often is the oue point which means sue- : oessor at lhe begjnnin g „ „„5:* here 1° W ! shirtings, sheetings™drills* bags, Osnaburgs, eone yarn foi hoisery and knitting mills, batts aud ^ f or domestic use. a mill | such as 1 have above described, would probably require a loan cap! 1 ital of $30 0 00 to $40,000, should a y 8 per cent to 10 per cent, and earu 2 °p er cent Per year. From time I to time additions should be made, until the P lant had fronj 15 ' 000 to on nan * i a . 3TcZ capac . lt ^ I A P la + ut ° f 10 ' 00 ? more s P ind Jf «osts to pe T r J°^ nd than one : hair that size. This is on account of certain charges being about the, same in both sizes of plants. We > use for coal Tennessee, run of the mine, at $3 50 per ton. I "One point I desire to caution you upon. Don't let any one sell you old machinery, if you do, the mill is dead so far as being a finan cial success. The best and most up-to-date machinery is that which assures dividends nowadays. Get some one who would put into the venture a little money (the amount not being the main object) who knows how to run the mill from top to bottom; give the finan cial end to some one else ; the re sponsibility being entirely separ ate in both. Then push the ven ture for all it will possibly render, and in all directions; be satisfied with reasonable dividends, using the surplus in additions, etc. "These mills which pay the big dividends we frequently see men tioned often become sadly embar rassed within a short time for that very reason. This is very much of a badly expressed and rambling letter, but if I can be of further aid to you, don't hesitate to call for it. You will find much additional information in in The Tradesman, of Chattanoogo, Tenn., when it ap pears in January. Yours truly, e. B. W ilbur." THE PROPOSED COTTON FACTORY. M r. E ditor —In compliance with numerous requests, I will attempt to give my views of the present agi tation leading to the establishing of a cotton fabric factory in this vici nity. After serious reflection, I am compelled to say I cannot for the life of me see why one should uot be established and run at a profit in New Iberia. Why do I think so Î For reasons so numerous that I al most despair attempting to enumer ate them ; but will try a few. So here goes : here goes : 1. We certainly have ample facili ties for transportation. 2. With no similar establishment in this vicinity we have the entire local field. 3. We have (or soon will have) three well equipped cotton gins running full blast right in the city, with others in close proximity which should (and will) furnish sufficient raw material to supply the factory And if that is not enongh, we have thousands of aores of the most fer tile land to furnish more as soon as our prospective drainage oanal complete, which, if we do not soon push through, we are guilty of treason to the dictates of common sense. 4. We have scores of unemployed yonng men standing idle on our streets, who are anxions to earn an honest living, bnt who for lack of opportunity are led to dissipation, gambling, politics and other kindred vices. And young ladies too ; there are many possessed of energy (statements to the oontrary not withstanding) whose surplus energy is compelled to find vent in piano thnmping and wearing ont of rock ing chairs, who would gladly em brace the opportunity of earning a respectable living in one of the cleanest of occupations. 5. We have all the building ma terials right at onr door with archi tects and builders competent to bnild anything. 6. We have a numerous popula tion, tiie majority of whom wear no other fabrics save ootton, fabrics which are shipped north first in the raw and after pasaing through the hands of the local ootton buyers, thence into the hands of the jobber over a thousand or more miles of railroad to the factory. There manufactured into fabrics, then with the speculator's profits, rail road transportation and drâyage again added, it returns home— and we pay ike freight. And yet some wonder will a cotton factory pay ! Of course it trill. is of to And now comes the questions that are being constantly asked : First of all is how to secure it? Answer by appealing more to the common sense of the people than to their enthusiasm. Show them where the investment will give them a dividend as well as build up the town. Above all don't make a social of function of it Send out only successful men to f nvas - no 1 t onl y meQ of success, but men who possess the confidence of * he Pf 1 } 0 " . u r ♦ ^ive the ladies a chance according to their subscribed stock Hang the man who attempts to ; feather his nest off your stock, A. H. W idxey. The General Assembly formally elected Gov. Foster and Senator McEnerv to T T ^ ,!° ' ' ' i • P rese,1 t e d hi: Senate on Gov. Foster forcibly views ou National Democratic caucus. issues to the On the money question he said that f ük e manv other food Democrats , , - * „ Democrats pr0U0UDCenlent °f t' ie Democratic platform of 1896, but had given earnest support to ' the ticket aud he proposed to stand ; n 1900 for the Deinncnti.. stanrUr,! W K , , , Dearer as he lias always done ID j He is sound to the core , the na^t ou TtiUt and auti-i m peria,i sm . i - j No matter what u.ay h. F ° S '" ' as " P ubh « "«■> he 18 : '"corruptible —; - WALL STREET SPECULATOR'S VIEW. be said of i politiciau. honest and I in ! -'«mcs K Keene, known as the K "f of Wall Street, aud oue of the we f Itlnest imn 111 America, was an | ardent s "PPorter of President Mo Kmley four years ago, and it is 1 stated lie contributed $40,000 to the R e P« b ^an cBmpaigu fund. He is however, for Bryan and had a I lou ^ interview with the ^ebraskan °? the occasiou of the latter's last V1Slt t0 Th6 ^ ., ,. , > consi derable alarm in the great spec ulator is regarded as a genius in the matter of foreseeing events, and the fact that he recently made a wager of $7500 to $10,000 that Bryan would defeat McKinley has caused Republi I can camp. I can camp. Mr. Keene has turned against the Republican party because it is dom inated absolutely by the great trusts and the money power, and this fact he regards as threatening our most cherished institutions and the life of the Republic itself. There is much reason to believe quite a num ber of other millionaires iu New York who take the same view of the political situation, aud in November next will contribute their support and influence to the election of Bryan. In a recent interview with the New York correspondent of the St. Louis Republic, Mr. Keene said : "The people of this country must arouse themselves. The com ing election is of more importance, from the standpoint of pure aud true Americanism, thau any that has transpired since the second election of Lincoln. Money is in the saddle ; it is riding down the institutions of this country wich a confident insolence that tells of its firm belief in its own invincibility. It is running the government to-day in its every branch and arm. If money's power in molding public affairs goes forward for four years more, as it has for the four years past, the name of American liberty will only be worth a recollection as a matter of history. Money is pres sing the people backward step by step. What is to be the endT If it goes on there are, as matters trend, but two solutions. One is socialism and the other is revolution. The American people must defend them selves from money, just as they once guarded their forest frontiers from the savage. Unless they come solidly, shoulder to shoulder, for their rights, and come at ouce, Bunker Hill will have been a blun der; Yorktown a mistake." The war in South Africa is still draggiag its weary length along, and it is now clearly evident that the small Boer army is unable to contend with the British that now outnumber them ten to one. The invaders have now occupied nearly all of the Free State territory, and are now ready to strike for Pre toria. It now looks like the Boers must soon yield, for although they have made a gallant fight, and have won admiration of the world by winning every battle when the odds against them not greater than two to one, yet their fate is inevit able, aud the last vestige of a re publican form of government will soon cease to exist in African con-I tment. Those brave people have| » the sympathy of all Americans, and it is with sorrow that we see . _ ... v their hopes of independence and r freedom blasted to satisfy Great! Britain's greed for gold. ' Cost Oil ss a Water Purifier. i M b. L awton— i noticed in last week's issue of the Enterprise an article by Dr. Shute of Opelousas, advocating the use of coal oil in our cisterns to destroy insects and animalcular of all kinds. For a number of years i have known that j "ZV!»« „'b"! e »d té?; i citizen, to keep coal oil in his cis tern, during the entire summer sea son, for the purpose of keeping down the uiosqnito nuisance. i was not aware of the fact that it wonld destroy all other insect life and purify the water as well. If there is even a possibility that these pre sumptions are trne, wonld it not be worth our while to give it a trial this summer! What might it not save ns in suffering and doctors bills and bring us in ease and con tentment. The oil floats on top of tbe cis tern and gives neither odor nor taste to tbe water, bnt effectually prevents the laying and hatching of the mosquito egg on the surface and as we now learn, destroys all other insect lifo as well. Shall we not give it a trial? C itizen*. Xote :—The observations of Dr. Shute led ua to experiment with coal oil as a water purifier and we can vouch for the perfect success —Editor. attending the experiment. All aui mal life is destroyed and floats to the surface in the thin layer of oil, leaving the water pure and sweet. With each overflow of the cistern of course this surface coating will be washed out and it becomes nec cessary to replenish with more oil. A Textile School. Gov. Heard's suggestion relative to the establishment of a textile school in Louisi ana, niaile in his inaugural address Mon day, has been met promptly enough, for Mr. Pearee of Lincoln gave notice yester day of his intention to introduce a bill to that effect in the House. Mr. Peaice wants the school established in connection with the State Industrial f eh ° o1 at Kuston - The Governor, it e ' suggested ,f as a braneh of tlie Louisiana State University and Agricul tuial and Mechanical College at Baton Kouge. It does not matter much, how ever> where the school is established, if it is . in a suitable and eentral localit - v ' whieh W ' U assure ' e a good attendanee fro,n a " parts of the State. What is desired is an institution where the youth of Louisiana ean be instructed ill the textile arts, so as - « -W c, ou hope,« have built in the next few With the large I VNE LAND GRAPE JUICE. In the sickroom there is no bev erage more nourishing nor more palatable than the rich unfer mented juice of the luscious Con cord Grape .... And for those in health, unfermented grape juice is the best of all beverages. -AT LEE'S. LETTER BOX FILES IN JOB LOTS AT LAWTONS NEWS STAND. Drink only the Best and Purest 66 Harmony Club" RYE WHISKEY. On sale at QIRARD'S SALOON, New Iberia. £ & » « O tr * 3 VI n •a K fb S Pf n al Vi P K V! S ft a N original plan, under whith von ean Obtain ... . A » high-grade sewing machine and tbe afford to pas«. You know the " Wh seription of the machine and its construction in the par Write for oar ïtemïtaïïi 3 m ,M? """f "TTi"?" mone W in the'purchase of ' WhlU$—mîîkifJu?]* H€n opportunity you cannot manufacturer.. fhVrefore J /etailed de »nstrnction are unnecessary. If you have an old mu-hln» tn ei u» tun Uincniue auu iis CODRtroeUOIl are QOOMeiRftrv I t vnn i,... __ vt vi 1 h * nge ' weeowo ^* rmo ' 1 '«"»»*• wnte to-day^Addris in w* 1 >» Sole Main Office: NEW IBERIA, LA. «-f. xclu . ive control of Iberia . Lafayette . St . Martin and Vermilion Parishes . ixk-'k box 3a« E. c, FENNER, P bksidknt. JOHN GLYNN, J b ., VlCïPRÏSIDrXT . c. h. solanas, 8» ctyts«ah. - ■ ■■ ■ ■ biiimvu) Carria Kes, SiuT e yg, Phaetons, Buggies, Har. ness, Etc., Studebaker Wagons. 315 Macazine Street .... NEW ORLEANS, LA. «•white fob catologue and pbices. m Tonic The Best Lhrer Medicine "f«t Package the Market. on Oae Price Me. FI t# for •140. DavidHowcUs, ifsT^For stckaeeott lime waa annoy es tn es a . I with pi InnabU Toaic cared BIOWN uro Tenn OCT TOB SALE BY JAMES A. LEE. number of new mills being opened in the South, it is natural that there should be some deficiency in skilled labor. This de ficiency can be overcome only by special schools giving instruction in the manufac ture of textiles. It is in this way that Georgia has been able to supply the im mense demand made upon it by the new mills it has lecently built ; and Mississippi and other States anxious to become great cotton manufacturing centres, have fol lowed Georgia's example. As Louisiana has the samf ambition.=he should similnrlv have at extile school, whieh will assure the cotton mills of all the skilled labor they may need. There should be no doubt as to the passage of *ome measure of this kind at the present session. Louisi ana needs a textile school even more than its neighbors, in order to stimulate the cotton mill movement, which is lagging here somewhat as compared with the boom in other Southern States. — Tunes Democrat. The fact that the United States pavilion at the Paris Exposition is unsafe, a mere shell, will prove a shock to tho^e who con sider the architects and the mechanics generally of this country the world beateri. The Supreme Court of the L'nited States has refused to interfere in the decisions of the State Courts of Kentucky in the election contests between Taylor and Beckham, and as a result the latter is uow undis puted Executive of the State. Tay lor who is uuder indictment for complicity iu the murder of Gov. Goebel, is iu Indiana and announces that he will remain there for some some time, owiug to the feeling against him iu Kentucky.