The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-15
oURREnT PAKAGRAFHs
southern News.

Southern News.
Tennessee has nearly seven hundred
more public schools in operation thanit
had last year.
Itisinow estimated that Georgia q croE
of dried peaches will amount in value
this yearto 81 100000.
The New Orleans gas-light company
has won suit against the city for over
S180,000.
The Texas farmers are not accomplishing
of hard times, as they are but little IL
debt and have the finest crop prospects
known for years.
The Bnosto capitalists wholhave pnr
chased the North and South railroad IN
Georgia, obligate themselves to complete
theroad by October, 1880.
The Fish and Game Association oi
Alexandria, Va, recommendsthe exter'
nination of the English sparrow by any
possible plan that may be suggested.
Mr.Summers, of New Orleans, suffered
his arm to protrude four or five inches
from streetcar window, and had 1t
broken by a passing car. He obtained
$500 damages.
Charleston hopes to have thirty feet
of water on Charleston bar from the jet
ties which will he built out of the Con
gressional appropriation of 5000, 900 for
the.benefit of the harbor.
Since the cotton factory and cotton
seed oil mill were started at Natchez,
every vacant house iinlthe city has been
occupied and there is q demand for more
houses.
a correspondent of the Charleston
News and @Ourier, writes of the voyage
of the Axor TO Liberia: The suffering of
the immigrants were intense. Tney had
mot been accustomed to practice seif-de-
NAL. and soon exhausted the limited
daily supply of water. There was great
waste despite the efforts of the officers.
The fever spread rapidly, and before we
reached this point, which lis a colonial
settlements on the west coast, belonging
to Great Britain, twenty~three or four.
ill.fated ,emigrants had died. i have
never seen sadder sight than when
their remains were committed tn the
deep. The names of the dead will go
to youby the first mail steamer that
touchesat this place.
tGen. Toembs on Communism No,
we ayenothiiig to fear at present from
it. But If the Government be unjust
andlaws oppressive, Communism may
come, and j say let it come. i would
lead 1t myself to secure Justice. You
ask me If Socialism lisa species of Com
lmunism. The former in France and
lGermanyhas been practiced and agitat-
ed among the intellects and cultured
meni0f the realm. Why Robespierre,
yon know, wasa gentleman. and even
Modelling, who attempted to kill Emper-
or William, lis a scholar. Communism,
on the contrary. begins in the lower
walks, andis generally agitated among
laborers and disaftected people of the
poorer classes. They are both the out
growths ofunjnst systems of legislative
and tyrannical administrations.
The Alexandria (Tirginia) Gazette
says that correspondents in Londoun,
Fauquier and IRappahannock counties
inform MS that the iluxuriance of the
foliage in those counties is such that it
looks black; that the wheatis higher
than the fences, as thick asst can well
stand, and that its golden heads, under
the influenced thelbreezes, wave in tthe
sunlight like sheets of flame; thai
although cattle Craze on a thousandlhills
hundreds of cattle grazeon singlehill
and, fOcks fsheepon every hillOck tina
eggs sell for sixpence q dozen, and thu
best of butter for ten centsa pound tina
thelland 10 flowing with milk and woul,
with honey, were it time--and tina
every prospect pleases, and only man i
vile.
Er..Sass~r, Nnxxy., Ttauas