The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-09
SOUTHERN NEWS.

THERE are three hundred and twenty
seven white seamstresses in Richmond, va
A WRITER in the Savannah News says fear
has killed as many persons as fever In 'ha'
city.
THE explosion Of coal-ol lamp caused
| $4,000 fire in New Orleans Tuesday.
EIGHTY fat hogs, belonging to Captain
VIM. Jack, Of Cooke county, Tenn, recently
died with cholera.
THE records show that in the yellow fever
endemic of 1853 their died Z, S40 whites ana
only forty-three negroes.
THE coastwise trade of the southern
steamship lines is almost broken up by the
yellow fever panic.
ROBERT HARGROvB, a ten.year convict at
Raleigh, N. c., made dash for liberty Fri
day and got ball through his head
GEN. MARTIN, warden of the Florida pen.
itentiary, expects to make 25'0OO gallons Oh
his famous scuppernong wine this fall.
In 1854 there were six hundred and four
teen death in Charleston from yellow fever; ;
in 1856, 206 in 1858, $50.
COLUMBUS IGa.) Enquirer: We were
told yesterday by one who CLEANED 1t from
an intimate friend of the deceased Gen. Bragg
that his life was insured for $4,000
CORPUS CHRISTI (Tex.) Times: It is
thought that the years product of wool mar
keted at Corpus Christi will exceed 5,OOOOO0
pounds.
DR.. HENRY SMITH, of the U. s. Marine
hospital service of New Orleans, temporarily
| in New York, has been ordered to Savannah
to assist the sufferers there.
THE sale of a house near the depot in Hot
Springs for $685. which cost $500, is truthful
| illustration of the crippled condition OF the
| people of that place.
JACKSON (Miss.) Times: We exceedingly
regret to learn that Mr.. A. J, Signiago, the
accomplished editor of the Grenada Sentl-
mel, has become insane, and was seut to the
lunatic asylum on yesterday.
THE farmers of Pittsylvania, Va, are sus-
tanning heavy losses in cattle and hogs by the
murrain and hog cholera. In some instances
farmers have lost all their stock Of cattle
and hogs.
A SPECIAL dispatch says family of sys.
tematic murderers have been discovered at
Montague, Texas. Seven of them, we'll
armed, are besieged by an incensed cOmmu-
nifty, and will be starved out.
WEATHEFoRD, the present terminus of
the Texas Pacific road, is thriving town ;
population 1000; twenty-five business
| houses, two Of them drug stores, one sad
dlery, four saloons and two Touring mills.
GRIFFIN (Ga.) News: Seven hands picked
$500 pounds of cotton on the plantation of
Mr.. w. E. Alexander, in Henry county, one
day last week-an average OF four hundred
pounds. One young man named Mays
picked nearly five hundred pounds.
THE Texas and Pacific railroad company
have made a call of twenty per cent. upon
it's stockholders, the money to be used in ex-
tending the road from Fort Worth, its pres
ent western terminus, to WeatherfOrd, some
thirty miles distant.
RICHMOND Enquirer: It is proposed to
erect a handsome monument to the late Gen.
Henry A. Wise. The matter will probably
be first taken in hand by the Catholic sOcie-
ties of this city, the members having had the
warmest regard for the general.
AUSTIN (Tex.) Gazette: Good ordinary
cotton rules from nine to ten cents in Gal
weston and New Orleans, and in Austin at
from eight to nine cents. This is very low for
cotton and discOuraging to the producer. 1t
has never been produced at less than eight
| cents coin. and then at the actual cost to the
producer.
In answer to the question whether any
full-blooded negroes had died of yellow
fever, the Savannah News says: The result
of our observations and inquiries upon the
above subject is to the effect that the pure
blooded negro is not a subject for yellow
fever. Those colored who have died here,
without exception, have been persons of
mixed blood.
SAVANNAH suffers from yellow fever as if
it were the plague. A member of relief
association thus describes their work: owe
are feeding Is, 900 persons and nursing about
1000. The supplies of provisions and money
sent us have enabled us to meet immediate
wants, but we shall need all the aid you can
give us for the next month or so, until frost,
to keep people from absolutely rOtting in
their houses or on the streets"
ATLANTA Constitution: The oldest in
habitant never saw SO much September cot
ton in the streets of Atlanta as he has seen
this year. We will let few plain unerring
figures tell the story of our trade Receipts
in September, 1874, 2,O45 bales; September,
1876, 1886 bales; September, 1876; 11,122.
Gain over previous year, 2,486 bales. Price
October /, 1874, 1870; October l, 1875, Tx
October l, 1876, 93c.
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RAGE FOR NEW ENGLAND FERNS.