The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-26
SOUTHERN NEWS.

THERE Is now full regiment Of soldiers
at Atlanta, Ga.
TEN cents bushe is the Texas price for
corn the purchaser = gather it,
ADJUTANr GENERAL SLIDE, OF Texas, says
s3'i,ste are "only" 4,7O3 fugitives from jus
ticc in that state.
A GEORGIA maH mas six thousand Ceraplns
penned up under his house preparatory to
shipping to New York.
A LOUISIANA negro has solved the great
social Droblem of the age, what shall we
do with our mothers.in-law? lie took
shotgun and knocked the stufin' out OF her.
VANDERBILT university opened with
two hundred students, and it 10 thought the
number will increase to Ave hundl ed Last
wear there were three hundred and seven.
FATHER +. 3. LANGLOIs, formerly the
Ologian Of the Pic Mono college, Macon, Ga,
and lately of Milledgeville, died Saturday
morning Of yellow fever Mt Savannah: lie
had gone there to administer to the sick.
A RICHMOND correspondent Of the Pc
tersburg Post says: A gentleman IN TINS Guy
has letter from a friend in Cairo, Egypt, in
which il is stated that the khedive has dis
missed from his service all the American
officers. Among them were several Virgin
ians and ex-c0nfederates. Gen. Stone, his
chief, goes also.
A Los Angeles dispatch narrates ter
rible tale of suffering on the Colorado des-
ert. Henry Smith, from st. Louis, with one
companion and pack train, left Yuma for
Los Angeles. He wandered for four days
on the desert without water. Smith opened
the veins OF his arm and drank the blood,
which cIOtted in his throat. He then cut his
wind-pipe to remove it and died few hours
afterward. His companion reached sta
ton in the last stage Of exhaustion.
VIRG1NIAN: The oYster-packers of Nor
folk held meeting at the Atlantic hotel on
Wednesday night, and, after some discus
sion. concluded that on account or the
stringeney of the times they were paying
too much money for opening oysters, and
agreed to reduce the price to fifteen cents
per gallon. The darkies, on hearing the re.
suit of the meeting of their employers, held
p meeting also, and the result was strike
The packers are making arrangements to do
without the strikers.
MONTGOMERY (Ala.) Advertiser: In some
places along the line of the Montgomery
and Eufaula railroad, in the black, rich
lands, the worms have literally stripped the
cotton stalks of boil, leaves and everything,
and but one-third of yield may be ex-
pected It is gratifying to know that the
corn crop was never better, and that the
farmers can subsist, at least, and keep body
and soul together Cotton is most uncer-
tain crop, and it must be the surplus crop IN
our country before we prosper.
MARSHALL Herald, l4tb: "Tobacco now
bids fair TO become staple crop in east
Texas. We learn that many persons in the
south part of Harrison and Pamela counties
are raising tobacco for home consumption.
Meaqrs McLendOn, Yates and Richardson,
of EIvsian Fields, have raised tobacco this
season that will compare favOrablv with that
raised in Tennessee and Kentucky. MIR.
Richardson planted four hundred plants OF
Havana and 1000 of Connecticut seed leaf,
and thinks he will raise five hundred pounds
of tobacco from the 2,4CO plants
A CORRESPONDENT of the Atlanta Times
writing frsm Savannah, September IA, says:
There are. at the lowest estimate, eight hun
drpd cases OF fever in the city at this writ
ing, and mostly among the poorer classes.
The death rate from yellow fever slowly but
surely increases each day. The unterri-
fed" had, until yesterday, kept up stOlid
countenanCes, but the continual stream OF
hcarses, and wagons of every description
carving collins for the dead in all direC-
lions. bancned the cheeks OF the bravest,
each wondering if his turn would come
next. and wishing he were miles away. BY
nine the streets are entirely deserted, and
silence reigns, reminding one OF the city OF
the dead. Now and then one may he seen
hurrving along the streets in quest OF medl-
cine for the sick or for doctor. Even the
dogs seem to be affected by the gloom, and
their bark is seldom heard.