The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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aToo much rain" is the complaint of all
be southern cotton country.
THE trial of Jerre Coleman, executed at
,6bevill. 8. c., the other day, for the murder
p another negro IN 1873, cost $1,000.
scHoOLCRAFT, whom Miss Ould married,
:. onlv twenty-five, while she is twenty-eight,
5ut then he is worth 100000,
ReBr. WILLIAMS, the negro r8visher of
ronno Mrs. Anna Bridges, and who was shot
bv a mob in the Augusta, Ca, jail Sunday
S;obt, had brother hung in the sBme Jail
TaPd for similar Offense during the war
DrRTyG the late African revival in Griffin,
ia three grown negroes went into a trance
and remained insensible for thirty-six hours,
curing which time they neither eat, drank,
shouted nor prayed.
JACKSON fla Union Some two years
gince, Fernandina contributed to the list of
Florida curiOsitiesa calf with human head,
rbich is preserved in alcohol, and is in pos
sos,ion of a citizen Of that place. Quite re-
eantlv another of the same family has been
registered there. What next?
LYyCHBURG (Va) News: The Iunatic
agylum for the colOred peOp,e in this state is
8miI-the iails have more or less colOred lu-
ratic inmates-many are kept by their
trends at home. Now we all know that pre-
vious to their emancipation there could
scarcely be found a cOlOred lunatic, and
when found it was always the result of some
disease, in nearly every case yielding readi-
" to medical treatment.
GRIFFIN (Ga.) Press: Scarcely a week
masses that some crazy negro is not brought
r. Griffin for confinement. Twenty years
40 some idiots were found i'll this race, but
who ever heard of one going crazy? 1t has
now become fearful epidemic, and the phi,
anthropic made to feel for them, and natur-
ally inquire the cause, that the remedy may
rawlings of those we have seen that their ma
MIA is their religion.
MRS. CLEMENTS, of Atlanta, Georgia, re-
proved cOl0red servant for some offense.
The girl left the room, satura ted the steps
with kerosene, and set fire to the infamma-
bic substance. The flames had gained great
headway before Mrs. Clements was alarmed
BY the smell CT fire, and as she attempted to
open the door Of her chamber, the girl held
it firmly: 1t was some time before her mis-
ress was enabled to force her way out, and
the fire was extinguished with great diff
Guilty
AUGUSTA (Ga.) Chronicle: The corn crop
throughout the state is undoubtedly the best
that has been grown since the war. Every
where farmers are rejoicing over an album
dant yield, and the prospect is that city low
ers of cOrn-dOdgers and mush and milk will
get meal at a very moderate price. 1t is
stated on good authority that Flint rIver
farmers in Crawford county are offering to
sell corn this fall, from their cribs or fields,
at twenty-five cents per bushel.
THU oldest house in Staunton, Virginia,
built in l74S, has just been taken down.
The next house built there was long frame
tenement, for yea used as pOstOffice when
George III. was king. When the United
Mates achieved a separate independence,
the postmaster was Larry Temper, who was
appointed By George Washington. The assist
ant postmaster was a COlOred man owned by
Temper, part of whose duty was to an
bounce the opening of the mail by the ring
ing of large dinner bell.
CAPTAIN P. N. MURPHY, who commanded
the confederate gunbOat Selma in her men,
Orabe engagement with admiral Farragut, in
Mobile harbOr, died in that city a few days
RgO. He had an attack of appOpleXy while
bathing, and was drowned before help could
beach him. Capt Murphy was an officer of
the United States navy for many years, and
was in command of the receiving-ship Penn
EIvanIa at the breaking out of the war. He
Eas buried according to the rites held by the
SPlritualsts, desire to that effect having
been frequently expressed by him before his
death.
The Richmond correspondent of the Pc
fe2burg Post says to the proposed tOurna-
ment for the benefit of the Lee monumental
iQnd: 1t is proposed that in this tOurna-
msnt there shall be none of the riding at
lhe ring, but the test of the success will be in
lnhorSing the knights. Each one entering
he list is to wear heavy leather armOr, and
ney are to ride at each other as did the
Knights of old, with the exception that stout
pax Lances will be used. OF course there
may be some bruises, but no one can be seri-
OusIy hurt in the contest, and its novelty will
A'tract people from all parts of the state
FIVE ife-saving stations have just been
completed on the coast of Florida. Says the
orlda Union: The purpose to be accom-
PnShed by these stations is saving the lives
ShIp'wrecked sailors and others, who
each land in a destitute and starving condI-
Ion, an to this end keepers will be proVld-
ID, and at all times stores of provisions,
tothlng and other neCesSaries will be kept
hand, for use in time of need. Boats will
@SO be furnished, although but little use can
made of them in saving life, as no boat
an live in the surf Of the coast in storms
aleh sometimes happen there.
As Miss NARY CARLY, aged 45, was re-
Orning to her home in Nashville, Sunday
Venlng, she was knocked on the head with
reck thrown over the fence and ravished
an unknown negro. She was discovered
several hours afterwards and taken to the
pospital. Her skull was crushed and a
Eaasty wound inflicted on her face. The
paaner says no crime enacted since the myS-
eAOus murder of Mas. Hamlen, in that
SSauty several years ago, and the killing OF
sneer Robert T. Frazier, on the thirty,irst
lay OF April, 1875, has created such an ex-
oement among the citizens of Nashville