St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-27
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Florida. -
Seventy emigrants from Liverpool
have arrived in Galveston, They will
colonize in Texas.
Gen. Jno. B Gordon has purchased g.
400 acres of land in Worth county, Ga,
for asleep farm =. :. =.
Over two and quarter million pounds
of wool has been shipped this season from
Corpus Christi, Texas,
Five thousand acres of Texas land, on
the Medina river, have been sold to
English capitalists for $1l 900.
7 Fifteen hundred pounds of hair,
trimmed from horses at branding,
was shipped from Beaumont, Texas, last
week. It is worth 12l cents per pound
in New York.
A new enemy to the potato has ap.
peared in West Virginia. 1t resembles a
ANAL grasshopper, and destroys whole
patchesin q single night by singing the
plant near the ground, :.
Three of the largest tobacco factories
in Key West have closed, and the Cubans
employed in them are going back to
Havana. Cause, a strike and interfer-
ence Of United States revenue officers.
Joseph A. Leonard, a cotton-buying
swindler, for whom reward of $4,000
was offered, has just been captured in
San Antonio, Texas. He has. vic
timized the people of Fort Worth to
the amount of $4,000.
Wheeling IntelIigencer: The wheat
now being cut in Marshal county aver
ages from sixty TO sixty-four grains to the
head. There is no doubt about the wheat
of this region being a superb crop. If
the hot weather of last week only con-
tinues we will probably have corn crop
that will match it.
Brownwood (Texas,) Banner: Mr.. Jas
G. Yates, from 33 bushels OF seed sown on
S4acres of land threshed LOO bushels of
good wheat. Mr.. d.. F. Grogrsn sowed Is
bushels OF wheat on Is acres of land and
threshed, as the result of the same, 457
bushels, Or a fraction over IS bushels per
acre. D.na.
=, Gen. Gordon has purchased nineteen
hundred and sixty acres of land in
Worth county, upon which he will place
a large flock of sheep. He proposes to
show the Bostonians that he knew what
he was talking about when he told them
of the profits OF wool>growing in the
SOUTH Atlanta Constitution.
The eolored population of Atlanta is
greatly excited over what they claim to
be divine revelation. One of their
number. lately died, since which time
they say that they have been RECALLED
with visions of the heavenly hosts waving
flags and parading to the sounds OF celes
tial music. So carried away are they
with the idea that the last day is at
hand that, when one of them, dray-
man, was requested to haul load, he
replied cit could not be done, az de
kingdom was so nigh" The Constitu-
TONS reporter is very irreverent over
the subject, and doesn't hesitate to say
that he believes the Africo-Americans
are crazy. r z.... ..........
Marshall (Texas) Herald: A fine race
mare was stolen last week from Squire
Graypon, 3 justice of the peace at Lodi,
Marion county, aud that gentleman, with
3 party of fifteen citizens, started in pur.
suit. They struck the trail Immediately,
and fifteen miles northwest of Mount
Vernon, Titus county, came upon the
thieves. They showed fight ard battle
ensued. The thieves were beaten and
four of their number killed, either by the
rope or the fatal bullet. Six horses were
recaptured. Two of the thieves escaped
with the stolen race mare and a horse.
Mr.. Grayson carried back with him the
marks Of three bullets; one through his
shirt and the Others through each arm.
pit. 81 -. -
The annual report of the Augusta,
tGa.,) cotton factory for the fiscal year
ending June Is exhibits a prosperity al
most exceptional in these days OF BUSH
ness and industrial depression. During
that period TO looms turned out 14,777,-
337 yards of cloth. The mill consumed
!, $40 bales ofcotton at an average cost
1902 cents per pound. The sales ot goods
amountedsto -$8s5O33.41. The number
Of operatives employed was $40. whole
wages amounted to $4,000, The mill
paid four dividends at two per cent. each.
paid off 1900 of It's bonded debt and
,arried 8 %, 40 to its surplus, increasing
hat amount from 8 $50, $50 to 8 256 O2O.
During the twenty years Of its existence
'he Augusta factory has never failed to
'ay quarterly dividend, except ON one |
The case OF Mrs. Rinker against the
danhattan Life insurance company,
loaed at Galveston in favor of the
'laintif, establishes ID new theory.
The amount sued for was $40, 900, and
pom Sthissyerdiet depends .s54, eco ia
ther companies, The. theory set l. RI
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