St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Jacksonville. Fla, is taking vigorous
sanitary precautions.
A recent traveller in Normandy men-
lions having frequently seen aged women
at work in the grain fields,
While out hunting near Knoxville,
Tennessee, recently pack of hounds
attacked flock of sheep and killed
twenty-three.
The supreme court of Alabama has
decided that doctor may be summoned
RS witness, and be made to give q
medical opinion without compensation.
Sixteen hundred dollars reward is Of
tered in Georgia for the apprehension Of
DIR. r. U. Palmer, the assassin of Col.
Salisbury, editor of the Columbus Sun.
The Nashville American holds that
Tennessee receives more new people by
immigration than it loses by immigra-
ton, and that the state is the gamer in
pecuniary point of view.
Richmond Wing It is now alleged
that Charlotte Harris, the negro woman
who was recently hung by mob in
Rockingham county. upon suspicion of
having instigated the burning of Mr.. FL.
T.. Sipe's barn, was innocent after all,
the boy, Jim Arbegast, who is said to
have set it on fire. having been Just tried
and acquitted. .:.....
Oxford IN. CO. Torchlight: While
Rotinson's show was being ferried over
the Roanoke river on the 9Th inst, the
largest elephant became furieusly mad,
and tore up a garden fence, scattering
rails in every direction. A little negroe
hoy attempted to drive him into the
terry-boat, whereupon the elephant
caught him in his trunk and squeezed
him nearly to death. He breathed a
few seconds and then expired.
Interesting tax figures from the Mems
phis Avalanche: It is worth while for
men ambitious for public honors to
remember that the present debt of Ten
nessee is $40 to every man woman and
child in the state. To pay the debt of
the city Of Memphis it will be necessary
for every man. woman and child to con-
tribute 1920. 70 pay the federal debt
will take $4l more from every child,
woman and man in the union. The
total assessment is 1881. s...r.
Savannah News: Three young Indian
braves, the only ones left at st. Angus.
tine, Fla, when those lately confined in
the fort there were taken North, visited
Jacksonville on Thursday last. They
attracted a great deal of curiosity, at
which they were much annoyed. One
OF them noticing a gaping crowd of
colored men and brethren watching and
following them, turned around i'm con-
siderable disgust and said, I" Here,
ringers, don't follow u.s.
Charleston Courier: Upon the course
of the two hundred who sail in the Azor
to day, upon the nature of their reception
in Liberia, and upon the character OF
their new home, it's drawbacks and its
disadvantages, depend, in q large measure
the future movement of the millions who
watch and waitin the south. tits, there-
fore, of su preme consequence that the
plain, unvarnished truth shall be knows,
and that, dark or bright, the tale of the
African exodus shall be faithfully told,
Houston TEX Telegram: The woods
Of North Texas are full of detectives,
scouts, rangers, ancient and modern war
riors, doughty heroes and militia beating
up the train robbers. who are doubtless
the most active among them. Denton
comfy has been thoroughly explored,
bramble, bush, crag and plain, and in.
efSectua'ly. A Pinkerton lieutenant,
with squad; Major Jones, Of the
Texas rangers, with many leaders oflecal |
note, are on theground, scouting, prying,
theorizing and investigating every rumor
and breath Of evidence they can get hold
Of, They have made no arrests vet, for
the reason they have obtained nothing
upon which to warrant one.
The San Antonio Express says that W.
Hurley, Esq, agent of the Merchants
Trading company, of Liverpool, has just
arrived in that city for the purpose OF
completing arrangements to ship Texas
cattle and sheep to England. Vessels
are 70 be built which will carry one
Thousand head Of cattle and the same
number OF sheep, to be furnished with
corn mills, hay cutters and good water
supply. As cattle just taken from grass
Will not bear long shipment, the coms
lany will establish a feeding lanche
somewhere in Western Texas, where
they will be fed on corn and chopned
feed until their flesh has gained sufficient
soiidity to bear shipment. The cattle
will be sent BY rail to Galveston, and
thence BY steamer TO Barrev, England,
where the company has large Slaughter |,
houses.
Miscellaneous Items.