The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

TON SCOTT and party are in Tex look
ing after their railroad interest.
JUDGE COLPUITT, of Georgia, has an or
cbard from which he expects TO gather 5000
bushels Of apples this season.
A EOBBER undertook to capture a Sher.
man Texas stage the other day, but the
stage turned out and captured him.
"BODY-syATCHERs" have been after Hal
larry Page, the Virginia fre-fend, and the
indications are that they got him.
FLORIDA has heard of the chills, and is
making strip of her watermelOns. Twelve
gallons OF water make one Of strip.
NOTWITHSTANDING the usual flying ru-
mOrs, Savannah is, so far, the only southern
city that has had case of yellow fever.
THE United States sued ex-marshal Brit
ton, at Fort Smith, Ark, for S49, 600, and the
jury brought in a verdict of $1,000 in favor
of BrittOn.
Hon. EPHRATN G. PEYTOy, ex-chief JUS
tice of the supreme court Of Mississippi, died
at Jackson last week, aged seventy-fOur. He
was born in Shelby county, Kentucky.
WESLEY GREEELEA, convicted of the
murder of a cOlOred man and brother, is SEN
fenced to be hanged at Meridian, Miss, the
27th of October.
DRUMMERs without license are arrested
in Alabama and held in the sum of $500 to
answer. At least, that's the way they did
one at Scale the other day.
The Richmond Enquirer has suspended
1t was one of the oldest papers in the State
Thomas Jefferson once declared it the best
paper in America. PecunIary troubles
caused Its collapse.
RICHMOND VA Dispatch: A petition is
being circulated among the military cOmpa-
mics in this city praying the governor to APP
point Gen. Joseph E. Johnston adjutant gen.
eral of the state.
GEN. MCCAws says yellow fever nsyer
spreads in the pine woods, and cases Saken
there lose their cOntagiOusness. From this
he argues that resin is the best of all yellow
fever disinfectants.
CAPT. DEARING claims to have taken
ninety bushels of medium-sized mullet and
five sharks in one haul, at Mayport, Fla, re-
Gently, and the Union says the statement is
no doubt correct.
SECE the cvlone at Galveston IN Septem-
Der last the whole island is being covered
with the finest quality of Bermuda grass.
As the sand hills on the beach form they
will become matted with the grass, and
thereby become permanent sea walls.
APPEAL: The business outlook for Mem.
phIs was never better, and merchants were
never so much encouraged as they are now
under the impressions which reach them
from all quarters that the worst is over, and
the evil days have passed away forever.
JOHN FNUTCH, the great coon-killer of
Madison county, Tennessee, now in his six
tv-ninth year, says, from rOasting-ear time to
r0asting-ear time" he has killed, with the
aid of two dogs, two hundred and siXty-nine
coOns. His neighbOrs pays the tax on his
dogs.
EX-GOv. HENRY A. WISE died at his resi-
dence in Richmond, Virginia, on the 18th, at
twelve O'Clock, after an illness of some
ing pain, retaining, however, to the last, his
powers of mind in all the clearness Of his
ripest days in public.
A NUMBER of importers of Cuba sugar,
who receive their cargoes at New Orleans,
claim that they are entitled to enter their
sugar free of duty, and have paid the Gus
toms dues under protest, since the passage
by congress of the act to regulate imports,
under the reciprocity treaty with the Sand
wich Islands.
ALEX. COEER, a Texas herder, was run
ming cattle recently when his horse fell, and
the long lariat that hangs at the saddle-bOw
became entangled around the herder's leg.
The horse rose quickly and ran, dragging
Cocker across the plains, but had proceeded
but little way when Cocker managed to
draw his pistol and sheet the animal dead.
SUNDAY morning Thomas Davis, an Irish
man. and Mary Suard, who lived with him,
were found dead in a swamp near Macon,
Ga, with their threats cut from ear to ear.
The wOman'acted as a spy upon thieves who
brought their plumber to the swamps, and
they are supposed to have murdered the
couple. "Swamp Molly" as thu woman was
called, followed the army to Georgia from
New York, where she is said to have respec-
table relatives.
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