St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. .
Southern News.

The Chattanooga Times says a bear
chased by dogs in the mountains near
that city would double up and roll over
the cliffs
The birth rate in Georgia since 1863
among the whites has been little more
than 80 per cent, and among the blacks
little more than so.
twenty-five towns in Texas are or
gauizing companies and making prepar
atoms to build the roads to connect
them with the trunk lines.
The Georgia Home Insurance COM
papy, headquarters at Columbus, has
earned for its stockholders dividend of
twelve and half per cent. for the past
year.
A rencounter occurred at marriage
In Clark county, Ala, last Saturday, in
which the groom was fatally wounded,
and Hunter Smith, of Mobile, killed
outright.
Among the shipments last year from
the port of Wilmington, n. c., were TO-
$40 bushels of peanuts, 10l 1892 lbs. tur-
pentine, 537 ,696 bbls. resin and sol bags
asbestos.
Peter Cooperis negotiating for the pur"
chase Of Limestone Springs, near Spar
tanburg, S. c., where he will establish
an Institution similar to Cooper institute
of New York.
1t is thought that Lieutenant FliPFeF,
the only colored graduate of West
Point, will be appointed military instruc-
tor of the colored branch Of the Texas
A. and NJ. College.
The cause Of education seems to be
improving in Tennessee, In the State
University at Oxford there are now
nearly four hundred students against
less than two hundred last year.
The supreme court of South Carolina
has declared the election of six circuit
judges null and void, on account Of the
election by the legislature being rig voce
instead of. by ballot The decision was
unexpected and startling.
The Nashville American says Graham
d Sons Clubhouse and saw-milI, at Pine
wood, burned Thursday, with machinery,
100000 pounds of seed cotton and 1000
bushels Of wheat. Loss, s22, 1000; no in>
surance. .-.r ....
The ditching of the train by obstruc>
tions put on the track near Lavergne,
Tenn, Tuesday night, resulted in the
burning to death of thirty or forty
mules, eight tons of coal and eight cars.
Total loss, $25,O00. a-#s #s
The New Iberia Clay Sugar Bowl
says that, owing to the wet weather, but
j little plowing or cane planting has been
done, but, if the weather continues
favorable, all will be activity on the
plantations next week, and that, SO far
as heard from, seed corn is everywhere
perfectly sound, 9..- ..'4 H.
The deepest water found in the Mis-
sissippi river, by the coast survey, is at
a shert distance below the Bonnet Care
crevasse, Louisiana, where they found
forty fathoms, or two hundred and forty
feet. tits no doubt the deepest place in
the river. AT New Orleans, where it
appears SO deep, there is less than half as
much. .SttrTE szE .
The Rev. BENJAMIN johnson, formerly
rector of the Episcopal church in Macon,
but for the last two years in the Reformed
Episcopal movement, first at Charleston,
S. O., and then in Atlanta for several
months past, proposes to organize in the
latter city Reformed Episcopal church
as the result of his missionary labors
there. v
Vicksburg Herald: A large number of
slaborers are almost daily passing through
this city, on their way to The river plan
tations. The bulldozars in the lower
part of the State have created what will
prove an aching void during the coming
season, numbers of the negroes from that
section having already been engaged by
Yazoo and sunfoWer river painters.
Democrat: New Orleans cotton re>
! ceipts are growing more promising every
week. Although the receipts at all the
cotton ports are less than last year, New
Orleans is ahead of 1877 by 1853, ,770 bales
Our receipts from the Mississippi are
greater than last year; from Mobile we
are ~ ,0S9 bales ahead from Red river
66,206 ahead; while the receipts from
the Arkansas Iiver are three times as
great as last year, and those from the
ouachita nine times as great.
The department of agriculture an
nounces that the climate and soil of
Florida, Lower California and portions
OF Texas are well adapted to the growth
OF the coffee plant. Great warmth of
climate is not essential toits development.
Itthrives best in regions where extremes
ct heat and cold are not experienced. In
Lower California and Florida wild ccffee
with many characteristics OF the cult.
vated plant, is very abundant. The
importations of coffee into the HTnited
States during 1876 were nearly s4o,-
100000 pounds, at cost of nearly
$1,000, 600.
Foreign Gossip.