The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-06-29
eouTHERN NEWS.

r.,,-o, ten wears corn has not been SO
~. I'm h Cherokee county, Ga, as it is at
present. -. a..z.aua. :.
Z, ,great numbers in northern Alabama,
"a are occasiouing great uneasiness.
coon horpeg are selling at auction in San
e.t,s county, Texas, at from $18 to $40. More
Ioyseg than money is the reason.
NIL. has passed the lower house of the
80 legislature, by q vote Of seventy TO
L Inc providing for general local-oPtion
law
ervrEEE escaped convicts from the Texas
.nitentiary at Huntsville secured arms, and
70 committed numerous depredatiOns In
he vicinity Of Columbia.
IurrH population Of three thousand, Ma
-sot,a, Ga, claims to have taxable property
~ t5e value of S723,S12 and business to the
Snount of $700,O0O annually.
ELL, has been introduced in congress to
.a;Tnburse Jones county, North Carolina, for
ne destruction Of the courthouse by FEEDER
al troops in 1868.
TURTLR was killed at Bufort, North Car
ANA last week, which on examination,
,raa found to contain one thousand and tt-
" eggs
.of ffteen hard boiled eggs, and on being
toId there we're no more eggs, remarked he
ussgoing home to supper
rgr cotton mills in Tennessee number for
~. spindles employed, ffry-six thousand
tbree hundred and fifty-eight, and bales Of
"otfop consumed, fourteen thousand four
hundred and fOrty-threes
THE Brownsville CTexas) Sentinel reports
q Good deal of restitution and suffering in
that CITY among refugees from Mexico, some
ITndreds of whom have crossed into Texas
at that point.
THE stategville IN. c. American tells of
, minister of the gospel who has in the past
seven wears officiated at the marriage of
eighty five couples, and has been the recipi~
emf Of less than fifty dollars.
DAR1EN, Ga, has exported, since January
last thirty-eight million seven hundred and
twenty thousand three hundred and sixty
fonr feet of timber and two million nine hun
drgd and eighty.nine thousand and seven
teen feet of lumber to foreign ports.
THE Nashville N. CO. Citizen says that
mica is being found abundantly in the vi
cinity of Mitchell, that state. Two parties
there have recently sold quantity of mica
in the lump for S37, 900. From one spot
twenty by forty feet, over $4,000 worth has
been taken.
THE Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says that
nne would not imagine that the times are
very hard, Judging FROM the amount of build
ing going on in Atlanta at present. There is
more now than at any time since the war,
and some branches of business are more
prosperous than ever.
Col. R. L. HERIoT, of Sumter, South Car
olina, has sent to the centennial photo
Vraph representing five generations, each the
frst-boln, The eldest member was one hun
bred years old the day the picture was taken,
and the youngest five years old.
THE entire western portion of Texas is
suffering greatly for rain, as the young corn
OnaccoInt of the drouth is shriyeling up, and
even the grass exhibits signs of dying out.
The San Antonio Herald thinks western
Texas will have no good luck until few
stage robbers are hung in that section.
TX. DANIELS, aged twenty-five, commit
ted suicide at Waco, Texas, on the 26th inst,
BY taking choral. The Galveston News spe'
Cial saws he was reported as an habitual OPT
umeafer. Daniels hailed from Americas,
Georgia, and was q man Of fine education
and good family.
SAM HARPER, the well-lznown Texas race
horse, has been entered for the two and
three-uuarter mile race for all ages at the Je'
rome park, in New York, next October. He
will have to compete with such celebrities as
Ozark, Aristides, Stampede, Chesapeake,
Aaron Pennington, Ochiltree and Pembroke
VIGOROUS measures are to be taken to
repress the existing lawlRssnesS in western
Texas. This is as it should be, for no section
of that great state presents so many and va
ried attractions to immigrants were life and
property properly protected. Emigration
not immigration will be the word should the
present state of affairs continue.
The following appointments have beer
made FROM Georgia TO the West Point militia
ry academy during the term of the present
congressman: Joseph ]. Byers, from the
ninth, appointed by Mr.. Hill; Edgar Her
bert, from the seventh, by Mr.. FELTON,; Per
Cy E. Trippe, from the Augusta district, BY
Mr.. Stephens, all of whom have been ad
mitted.
THERE is q man named Thurston living OF
White Oak creek, in Titus county, Texas
who is seven feet eight inches high and vel
proportiOned. He is from forty-hve to forty
eight years cid, is married and has severa
children. His wife is very tall woman. anC
some of his children bid fair to rival theI
daddy" Thurston is from Missouri, ans
was in Prices army at the beginning OF thu
war.
FOURTEEN persons have been arrested anC
taken to Memphis, Tenn, charged with max
ing "moOnshinen whisky in that section o
the state lying west Of the Tennessee river
All have given bonds to the amount OF $1,000
on each indictment but two parties, one q
whom is Rowlett, who halls from Paducah
The two are now confined in the Memphis
Jail.
THE Raleigh IN. CO. News says that DR.
Hillery Wilder, living near Raleigh, is sale
to be the finest nistnl.SnOt in America, anC
at one fine held Athe champion badge of tn