The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
CURRENT MENTION.

selling at dollar barrel.
There are said to be g, 900 unemployed
miners in Pennsylvania.
Atlanta has received 5000 bales Of
cotton this season.
The new sheriff of Philadelphia gives
bond for $4,000.
Memphis IS preparing to celebrate
Mardi Gras with unusual magnifcence.
The New York elevated railroad now
runs 1874 trains daily.
Good agricultural lands can be had in
Florida for $1.25 per acre.
Philadelphia erected 4,l87 new build
ings and altered more than 1900 old
structures during the past year.
The Chickamauga, in Catoosa county,
Georgia, has been frozen over for the
first time in twenty years.
The citizens of Florida are taxed on
an average two dollars and fifty cents
per capita.
There is an alarming prospect of a
famine in the central part of California
before spring
The bulk Of silver bullion now con-
sumed in China is supplied by the Be-
nanza mines Of Virginia City, Nevada,
Four penitentiary convicts received
Christmas gifts from Governor Porter,
of Tennessee, and went their way rejojc-
ing.
The oldest house of worship in the
United States is the large adobe mission
church at Santa Fe, New Mexico, which
was erected in 1913.
The SixPenny Savings bank at New
York, which receives deposits of FIVE
cents and upwards, opens about six thou
sand new accounts annually.
The farmers in Troup county, Georgia,
have sowed twenty-five per cent. more
wheat and one hundred per cent. more
fall oats than any year since the war.
The importation of tea into the United
States for the season of 1876 was So
1895, 274 pounds, 2,693,I73 less than the
previous season.
At st. AIoysius church, Washington,
it was announced on new years morning
that hereafter the Catholic clergy of the
district would solemnize no marriage at
night.
Miss Rye continues her noble work Of
charity in gathering pauper children to-
gether by the hundreds in London and
forwarding them to Canada, where good
homes in farmers families await them.
The kindergarten system has been in
troduced in the government schools for
girls in China.
On one day recently, fifteen vessels
cleared from the port of Key West with
cargoes of sponge.
The total value of foreign exports from
the port of Savannah on Saturday week
was five hundred thousand two hundred
and ninety-twO dollars and seventy cents.
Large quantities of marble are being
shipped for building purposes, from
Knoxville, Tennessee, to San Francisco.
Artesian water has been struck in the
Foot hills of California. 1t is discovery
which will make a complete change in
the relative values of valley lands and
uplands.
John GRAY vas frozen to death few
days since, near Shreveport, while re-
turning home from town. 1t is some
thing unusual even for drunken man
50 freeze in that latitude.
The California raisin crop is this year
estimated at $4,000 packages, 10000 OF
which will be consumed on the Pacific
coast, whilst the balance will find their
way to the eastern market.
The low price OF rice this year has been
very discouraging to the Louisiana rice
planters, and many of the largest planters
on the Lafourche and the Mississippi are
preparing to go into sugar.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, has
had thirty-nine applications tor state IL
brarian, twelve for Inspector oftertilizers,
ninety eight for solicitorsgeneral AMI
rweuty-four for superior court judges,
Confederate bonds sell at three and
one fourth cents on the dollar in the
London market, or about three and one
half cents higher than some western rail
road bonds also quoted in the same
market.