The Lake Charles echo., 1876-08-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

ACCORDING to the mayors report, the
debt of Memphis is now, in round numbers,
$5,70O,O00.
THE Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad
was completed to Fort Smith, Arkansas, last
week.
THE postofice at West Point, Ga, was
robbed of over seven hundred dollars one
night last week.
GEORGIA planters are engaged in shipping
watermelons to the north now, fer which they
are receiving good prices.
IT is stated that within a radius Of fifty
miles around Augusta, Ca, the crops are
finer than they have been for fifteen years.
ELEVEN tons.of cucumbers for northern di-
gestion were shipped from Jacksonville, EIa''
few days ago.
AN attempt was made last week to tre
the city of st. Augustine, Fla, by kerosene
oil and rags.
LAST week Moses Green, of Upson coun-
ty, Georgia, shot and killed another ne
gro named Tom White.
ONE night last week, J. Shoemaker,
living near Dallas, Texas, was assasslnated
by unknown parties.
A FEW days ago a man slapped Mrs.
Benjamin Crawford, of Pendleton, South
Carolina and was killed by her husband
J. w. MONTGOMERY, of Llano county,
Texas, was shot and killed recently by one
of his cattle hands.
J.H. HENDERSON was knocked dead by
a man named Mckenzie, at Mexis, Texas,
last week.
A LARGE number of Cubans recently ar
rived in Jacksonville, Fla, for the purpose
of engaging in the manufacture of cigars.
MISSISSIPPI county, Ark, of which Osceola
is the county seat, owes less than $4,000,
and its assessed property sums up in the
millions.
THE U. s. troops lately stationed at Hum
bOldt, Tenn, have been removed to Nash
vile, and the post at the former place
abandoned.
TENNESSEE has forty cotton mills, employ
ing fifty-six Thousand three hundred and
ifty.eight spindles, and consuming fourteen
thousand four hundred and ffty-three bales
of cotton.
THE military coat made by the late
Andrew Johnson for Bri9ade-MajOr Robert
Fl. Hynds many years ago, has been pre-
sented to the Tennessee historical society.
The coat in its make up and appendages, is
antique and curious.
SAMUEL CHASE, colored preacher and
ward of the nation, was shot in the shin the
other night, near the town of Washington,
Texas, simply for collecting his tithes from
the cOrnfeld ON the Jackson plantation with
out asking leave.
THE Charleston, s. c., bank robber, Will
liam Fortune, who robbed the first national
band of three thousand dollars, and the
peoples national bank of four thousand sew
en- hundred dollars, on the 18th of last May,
was arrested and lodged in jail at Hender-
sOnville, N. c., last Wednesday.
AN aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs. John E.
Peoples, live in Barnwell, s. c. They were
born in Gloucester county on the James
river, in Virginia. Mr. Peoples is 121 years
old, and his wife 1913. This is, perhaps, the
oldest living couple in the United States Mr..
Peoples is a machinest by trade.
LAST week cadet who had been
charged by some of his fellow-cadets at the
Virginia military institute with some crime,
was about leaving Lexington for his home;
a mob of cadets gathered around the stage,
took him of the seat, stripped him of his
uniform, which they replaced with citizens
clothes, and then, after shaving one side of
his head, permitted him to take passage on
the stage.
THE crop prospects, as reported by the
McKillOp & Sprague company,,,New York, Of
date July l, are as follows: The reports
from Boone, Cross, Pope and Lawrence
those from the other counties. Complaint is
made that wheat is not yielding as much per
! acre as the average of previous years, and
that, in some places, the growing cotton does
not promise quite as we'll as usual. Corn is
very good, and on the whole, the prospects
are very fair. The twelve counties report
increased area under cultivation, but the in
crease wholly in grain. Wheat has been
generally harvested, the yield below an aver
hNNA he ftEV ~ md tha in.
creased area more than cover the deficiency.
| Condition of corn and cotton is very good,
and prospects for full average crop rather
| better than usual at this season, Oats not
an average. Good apple crop, but other
| fruits are failure. In Kansas the wheat
harvest is well advanced, fOur-ffths of it be-
ing in shock. The condition is excellent, and
the promise is that the crop will be greatly
above an average IN quality and quantity.
Corn is in every instance reported in good
| condition, and promising a full crop. Thus
far the weather has been very favorable
iiax, hemp and grass are all in good condi-
tion and likely to yield large crops. The ag.
riCultural interests Of the state were never in
| a more prosperous condition at this season
/ of the year. In only one county have we
any complaint, and that is" the wOr M is in
juring some wheat slightly, but not doing
any general damage" All the reports from
| leNab cOhSuf IN representing Ihe "heat CtoP
as good, and above an average in quantity,
though the yield per acre is not as good as
last year. Corn and cotton are in good con,
ditiOn, and with favorable weather will yield
| above an average. Oats pretty near full
crop. In Florida corn is very good. Cotton
thus far looks WELL but Il is too early to give
an opinion respecting either quantity or quail
ity. The land in Florida, west of the ChOc'
tawhatchee river, Is very poor. This year
many are turning their attention 10 the cal
| tivafion oF n, anRes for WhiSh the climate il