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Chinese In Louisiana

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
June
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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8,000 Chinese laborera cmployed on sugar nlantations Louisiuna, chiefly irom California. The majority of the planters prefcr them.to negroos; a few havo not oeen suooosgful with them, and havo not been able tojeoep them. They are jealQU8 of tho difficultHM with them grow out of this fact. They aro faithful to their stipulatiou8, ani. oxactinp; with their employers ; bufc ther is such a deniand for job-workers in the State, and the Chinóse ar# so well ndaptod to this kind of business, tfaat thr:y are sometimes educod from their oontracts by tho lligher wagos paid:für juh-woik. A ISM rpcently d}$d i Iudiuna froii, VïWnni'l:roeBived;at the b&ttlu of Queenstow.n, (andfc, in 1WU. Aii-iouncc mus kot bivll whixth had rsimained imbodded in the bones of his ffloe over fifty-oight yoars ulcerated ite way into. his muuth and was sjnt out. From this causo in flammation aróse, which, xtending, toriiiinatcd fatally.

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Old News
Michigan Argus