The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-09-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.


WHITE river, Ark, has received 80. 100
young shad.
THERE are only two poOrhousesin the state
of Georgia, says the Macon Telegraph.
TEXAS now has nine railroads in process
Of construction.
JOE Cox, prompted by jealousy, shot and
killed Charles Franklin in Macon, & orgia,
last Monday. Both c0lored.
ANDREW JOUNsON's son was defeated for
the legislature in the Green county (Tebn')
primary election last week.
THE Richmond and Manchester, Va, mills
shipped to Brazilian markets last week IL
931 Barrels of -four, valued at $S5,l35.
THE newly elected trustee for William
son county, Tenn, has nc arms at all. lie
lost both arms at the battle of Fort Donel-
son, when quite boy.
The Georgia state agricultural society
offers premium of $500 for preventive or
cure of hog cholera, and 5000 for chicken
cholera TO be recommended by trial OF not
less than thirty members.
THE Texas legislature sits and sits with
the mercury at one hundred degrees In
the shade and the newspaper men filling the
air with a sulphurous smOke-but then they
get 50 per diem.
THERE are at this time 1850 COnVicts
boarding at the Tennessee penitentiary. VI
these, six hundred and twenty are hired out
in various portions of the state, four hundred
and thirty are hammering away within the
walls of the prison.
A CONVICT in the Mississippi penitentiary
writes a very interesting letter to che
Natchez Democrat, in which he says:
There is at the present time a total CT six
hundred convicts; five hundred and thirty
nine of these are male negr0e sixteen are
cOlored women, and fOrty-fve are white
men; four hundred and eighty-six are en-
ployed outside the walls, and the remaining
sixteen are employed in different capacities
inside.
VICKsBURG (lIiss.) Tribune: We regret
to hear that the genuine cotton worm
has made its appearance in large numbers in
the counties Of Washington and 1ssaquena,
in Mississippi, and in the parish Of Madison,
in Louisiana. The showery, cloudy weather
we have been having for some days is very
favorable for the operations of the cotton
caterpillar and we fear that the raVages of
that great enemy of the cotton crop will be
of a very serious character.
BRITISH explorers are at work in Chat
ham county, N. c., prospecting for copper,
gold and silver ore. An agent of the princl-
pals says that there is more gold in North
Carolina than in California; that the mines
are deeper, and richer at great depth; that
five or six square miles in Montgomery
county can produce gold enough to pay the
national debt, and that all the mines will
pay $25 ton. Fifteen millions of capital
are backing the enterprise. A smelling turn-
ace costing 100000 will be built, and six
hundred skilled operatives will be brought
from England.
ON Monday evening says the Americas
Ga.) Republican, Mr. Volt Oliver took
in hand the task of Kidding DR.. J. W. Bar
lows mill-pond of a hideOus monster in the
shape of an alligator, that has been source
of annoyance and fright to all who have fire.
quented the pond during the year past. 1t
had been repeatedly wounded by parties
fishing, and in many instances has caused
his antagonist to take water" by showing
beIligerent spirit, but up to Monday last
all efforts to capture his carcass proved tu-
tile. The water in the pond being very low,
his alligatorship labored under quite a dis
advantage in the melee, hence his destruc-
ton. He measured ten and One,half feet in
length and weighed two hundred and forty
pounds.