Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spoke at once, at length and with great feeling, about his educational scheme. He had made his fortune, he said, in Louisiana. He had had scores upon scores of her best people in his younger days and in his maturer years as his best, his most intimate friends. They were well to do and had been enabled in consequence to send their sons, as was the custom of the day, to the North or to Europe for an education. All that was changed by the war. The sons of his old friends were impoverished. Their young sons could...
...follows : Massachusetts, (including Boston) 149, New York 40, Pennsylvania 13, California 8, Maine 6, Ohio 5, Illinois 4, New Hampshire 4, Washington, D. C. 2. Delaware 2, Maryland 2, Missouri 2, Nebraska 2, Rhode Island 2, Washington Territory 2, Alabama 1, Connecticut 1, Indiana 1, Iowa 1, Louisiana 1, Oregon 1, Virginia 1, Cuba 1, Turkey 1, India 1. Total...
...Paul Tullane has just completed the donation to his administrators of bonds yielding $19,000 yearly for the use of Tulave University, Louisiana. This last gift of Mr. Tullane to the university fund makes it foot up $1,000,000, with very much more in prospect...
William Preston Johnston, President of the Louisiana State University and son of Albert Sidney Johnston, the confederate general, is visiting leading colleges in the North with the view of obtaining useful information. He will soon visit Harvard...
Further destruction of property by the cyclone in Louisiana is reported...