The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-12
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Arkansas has a nominal indebtedness Of
$40 900.
A SPANISH 7esseI brought yellow fever to
Say nnah-
OUTDOOR religious meetings are being
held in Columbus, Ga
The first new crop Of Carolina rice has al
ready reached New York
THE cultivation Of tobacco in Arkansas Is
receiving attention.
THERE is some complaint Of grasshOppeEs
in east Tennessee,
TEXAS boasts Of having nine railroads in
process Of construction
The employers have yielded 10 the de-
msnds Of the striking New Orleans c00pers.
NUMBERS Of Georgia negroes who emf
grated west are on their way back to their
old homes.
ALL the cities and towns around Savannah
are quaraHtiHed to prevent the spread OF
yellow fever.
YE drummer, book agent, Iigbtnfng-r0d
peddler and insurance agent fndeth business
dull in the south
BISHOP MAEyrN, Of the Methodist church
south. is about to sail for China ami Japan to
look after the missionary work
GEORGE Favor, cOI0red, under sentence
?
Jail on Wednesday last
Ex-Governor JOHN c. BsOwE, Of Ten
nessee, has been reelected Vice-President Of
the Texas Pacific railroad
A BOILER exploded at Marietta, Ga, Tues
day, killing two negroes and wOUndiDg an
other so that he died
IT is estimated that at least 1000 people
have left Savannah since the breaking out OF
the panic
GEN. PEENYPACEEE has been ordered to
the department Of the gulf, and viii make
headquarters at Mt Vernon, near Mobile.
INDICATIONS Of silver have been discovered
fifty feet under gFOand by a company opera
| ting near MarysViIIe, Tenn
| A WILD horse, bearing the dead body Of a
man securely strapped to his back, dashed
/ into Waco, Texas, few days ago.
| THEY are changing things in the south
/ 4 frm in Tennessee, a few days ago shipped
/ 8 thousand bags Of corn to Illinois.
| IT is generally believed that southern girls
| at the various watering places this season
/ dress very plainly, and are not dem0nstra-
/ tive in any way.
| Mrs. CLEMENTS, OF Atlanta, repFoved her
I hired girl Tor washing potatoes in the wash
tob, and the hired girl repFOved Mrs. Glenn
ents by setting ire to the house.
/ AFLOETDA man made $500 this yeaE by
getting three hundred bushels of cucumbers
into the New York market before the season
( at which they are generally offered
THE Hon. Alexander Fl. Stephens has 50
far recovered his health that he Is abl0 to ap-
pear in public, and is announced TO make
some speeches for TiIden and Hendricks
AN old citizen who has resided In South
America saws that the young ladies Of New
/ Grenada. have beautiful compilations from
eating alligator steaks
WHENEVER anything of sufficient weight
falls in the south il is sure to kill q colonel
ora general i bucket dropped in Macon
Ga, well, without malice pretense, and
killed general HangabOOk.
WIN. GOUGHER- living in Gibson county,
Tennessee, drank sixteen glasses OF cider at
one sitting, aud then the friends who fol-
lowed Williams remains TO their last resting
place sished-er deep sigh
A NEGRO was found dead in q well in Bib
county, Ga, few days ago, and the editor
Of the local paper advances the plausible
theory that he either fell in or was thrown
in.
4 SOUTH CAROLINA murderer, at his exc
cutiou the other day, confessed that he
killed his victim for money but found on
him only fifteen cents, which he divided
with a confederate.
THREE HUNDRED EOol COOKS anu NV
hundred house girls, all English servants,
visiting the centennial exhibition, have been
induced to 90 to Richmond, Va, where en-
Dloyment was guaranteed them.
REV. Me-. ENGLAND, his steP-soR and
daughter, were murdered in their house on
Denton creek, Montague county, Texas on
Saturday last Mrs. England was also shot
{ and MORALLY wounded.
The Rural SOutheFner says, nOtWithstand'
ing the past year has been one OF dsPrecia-
ton and disaster, the Granitsyills cotton
factory has been run on time, and added new
looms and produced 126,T93 yaEds more OF
cloth than the proceeding year. The entire
production was 1O,663,293 yards, consuming
/ S,347 commercial bales of eOtton-cOst Is
4S-IOO cents a pound. The profit from the
sale of goods for the year amounted to S4s'
, 400. from which a dividend Of ten per cent.
; on the capital stock Of $4,000 was paid
The company also purchased . valuable mill
privilege near the present mills, erected gal
works and new operative houses, ard main
tanned the high condition Of the entire prop
erty.