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Published Every Saturday.
Official Journal of the Parish of Ascension
and'ori of )ona1ldsoinille.
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8aturday, January 10, 1880.
Cheapest and best oysters, at the Jack
son House.
Miners are on a strike for igber
wages in Mlorris county, New Jersey.
A reorganization of the Greek cabi
net' is impending. Two ministers
have resigndet;.
The name of St. Mary post-office, in
the parish of Pointe Coupee, has been
changed to New Ry.nd poet-offite.
The President has nominated Mr.
Louis Dupleix to be Receiver of the
Public Land Office at Natchitoches,
La.
Gen. Gr4nt and party arrived at
Jacksonville, Vla.; on TuesdSy. They
meet with hearty receptions every
whete.
Mississippi has reduced her debt
$220,000 in two years. She now owes
$379,000 and has $50,000 cash in the
treasury.
A nephew of the ,poet Longfellow
w.zv arrested in Boston, charged with
'fiifging his uncle's name to a check
for Stowt.
Nine prisoners escaped from the
jail of Franklin coutity, Ohio, a few
moments aftter at new Sheriff had
taken charge.
Gen. James A. Garfield has been
unanimouisly nominated for U. S. Sen
ator by the Republican caucus of the
Ohlio Legislatured. !
John E. Poindexter, who shot and
killed Charles Curtis in Richmond,
on the 3rd of March, 1879, has been
seatenced to the penitentiary for two
years.
A Mormon agent is in Mexico en
deavoring to obtain permission to
establisih a Mormon settlement in that
country Wtin a guarantee of rel.,gous
liberty.
