The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-16
SOUTHERN NEWS

U4rHTHBRIA is fesrfully fatal among the
children Of Rock Hill, 8. G.
A cOCOANTT tree in Florida has a hun.
dred nuts on it,
CHE Savannah Benevolent Association had
received up to the 18Th, $8s,G03.18.
ADAM CURKRLUCE, Of Concord, Va,
rent through the war Of 1912 to be killed
the other day by fall from his horse.
TEEtotal loss by the fire IN Houston, Texas,
il S358,25O; insurance $219,1OO The burnt
district will be Immediately rebuilt with a
fner and better class Of buildings.
II the legislature elect of Georgia there is
but one republican,in the senate, while in
the house there are but six, three of them
being negroes.
A BRUNSWICK mother gave birth to a
child and died two hours after with yellow
fevpr. The child was taken with black
yomit but, strange to say, recovered.
AN Atlanta girl carried out the theory of
Il sGuatter sovereignty" by sitting on her
lovers hat and keeping him three hours
over time.
THERE are twelve miles of street railway
in Atlanta. The company owes not dollar,
has 100000 worth of property and the in
vestment pays ten per cent.
a
hall station, Savannah and Charleston rail.
road, together with its contents, consisting
of railroad and express freights, was de-
stro7ed by fire. 1t was the work of incen-
diaries.
Now that the terrible plague is about at
an end the Savannah News suggest that free
passes to the centennial be furnished to the
overworked and weary physicians who have
so nobly stood to their posts during the past
two months.
AN authorized agent of the English Good
Templarg, the Rev. Il. w. Parsons, will soon
sail from England for the southern states for
che purpose of organizing Good Templar
lodges among the cOlOred people, who are
excluded from the order by the white Good
Templars on account of color.
Ara recent meeting of the Alabama Bap-
fist association, Rev. BOardman Hawthorn
arose after a sermon on foreign missions and
said he wished to contribute a $40 gold piece
which ne had just received for marrying a
couple ten or twelve years ago, and if there
were any others indebted to him for similar
services he wanted them to pay up that it
might 90 the same way.
NEW ORLEANS Democrat: Several bodies
have been recovered from the wreck of the
steamer southern Belle: George Thompson,
the first steward of the boat: Auguste Davis,
hali-tender, Jim, pantry boy; and a soldier
named Ryan were identified. The bodies of
J. J. Lyon, A. c. Griffith, A. Frank, and
Mr.. Langdeau, all of whom went aboard at
Port Hudson, and that of Mr.. Won Phul have
not been found.
NASHVILLE Banner: A prominent gentle
man, representing several English capitalists,
has written to the bureau of agriculture, sta
tistics and mines, asking whether or not there
are 100000 acres of coal lands in Tennessee
Tor sale, and if so to inform him at once, in
order that the transfer can be made. An
other wealthy Englishman has sent a cable
gram for n copy of the "ResOurCes of Ten
nesSee," as he desires to invest in iron lands
here.
GEORGE SMO0T, white, and Isaac Howell,
roored, were killed, and Ben Ford, cOlored,
fatally injured, by the explosion of four boil
erS Wednesday at Carbon Hill coal mines Of
the Goochland company, fourteen miles from
Richmond. The cause of the accident was
oarelessness in allowing the water in the
boilers TO become exhausted and then turn
ing on a stream of cold water. There were
thirteen boilers about the mines. Several
buildings in the vicinity were wrecked. No
one in the mines was hurt.
CHARLESTON Journal of Commerce: Mr..
t. G. Dougherty has left at this office a clear
glass bottle, picked up on Foley island
beach October Is. The bottle was tightly
sealed, and contained paper written in the
Norwegian language, of which the following
is the translation: No. l, more bottles fol-
lows. This bottle is thrown overheard lati.
tude go Sc north, longitude 100 40 west
from the Swedish ship Hebe," belonging to
Gehe, on her passage from Humacai porto
Rico) to England, 3Oth May, 1870. NJ. Ny
berg. All we'll If anybody picks up this
bottle please publish when and where
found.