St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-08
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Fully one thousand bushels of oa,
will be harvested within the corporal
limits OF Lumpkin, Ga.
The New Orleans monument to Ger
Lee will be 1o6 feet high.
Ralph Bingham, !" the boy orator.
electrifying Virginia. 49,
"Prot." Roberts, of New Orleans
plays billiards with his nose.
A Philadelphia man proposes to star
cotton factory in San Antonio.
The Texas wool crop this year it i
thong hit will yield 100000 pounds.
Vicksburg has received thus far thi
season nearly 5000 bales of cotton.
The first Virginia regiment proposes K
encamp at White Sulphur Springs thi
summer. ~ G.E
1t is expected that Postmaster Genera
Key will deliver the Fourth of july
address in Memphis.
The police committee of Nashville
has organized vigorous campaign
against gambling houses.
The New Orleans business men are
moving actively in the matter of COM
mercial treaty with France.
A Texas man shot his opponent in a
duel and is now writing poem abouti..
1t looks as if the wrong man had been
shot. .>s.
Dallas, (Tex, Herald: They formed
military company in BRENNAN the
other day, and the captain innocently
bestowed the name "Blackguards" upon
them.
Dallas Texas) Herald: 1t is some
thing that emo Teller can find outS' whv
the United States mint discounts Mexi
can silver seven per cent. when enc Mex
lean, dollar weighs twelve and half
cents worth of silver more than two
American halves.
Key West Key of the Gulf: Our fish
ing smacks have not done much for the
past two or three months. The Spanish
authorities at Havana have determined
to destroy the trade there. With ex-
cessive duties the cargo is generally eaten
up.
A deed of trust to secure payment of
note for 1886, 900, with ten per cent,
payable in twelve months, has just been
executed in favor of Charles Morgan by
the Texas transportation company of
Houston.
The steamship Tapscott recently clear
ed from the port Of New Orleans with q
cargo of 6,517 bales of cotton, weighing
3,03S,623 pounds. The Times says:
This indicates increased depth at the
Jeities, and improved COMPRISING, and
these two facts portend brilliant cem>
mercial future for the city of the great
valley. &5 ~
Petersburg Index-Appeal: A young
lady recently attempted to commit sui
eide in Richmond because her brother
told her she ought to wash her face and
comb her hair. If everybody was as
sensitive as that young woman, there
would not be enough people left in the
world to hang around the polls and chalk
down the votes at primary election.
The school statistics of South Carolina
ought to be read by the rampant north.
ern radicals These statistics show 45, 444
white, and $500 co,ored children at
tended the public schools of the palmetto
state last year; that is, there are 9,14s
more colored children enjoying the adj
vantages of the public Schools in South
Carolina than there are white children.
OF the teachers, 1925 are white and s4e |
colored.
Columbus (Ga.) Sun: The extent Of |
the business of the cotton seed oil facto-
ries in New Orleans may be estimated
from the fact that they have, since
the 1st of September last cleaned
1857 bales of cotton by closer
picking Of the seed sent to them to be
pressed. An oil-seed mill win be found
saving and convenience to any neigh
oorhood in the cotton section which
may have one. Its product is almost d
clear addition to the value OF the cotton
,rop.
Macon (Ga.) Messenger: The silver
referred to in the Lone Star article,
which was captured with Santa Anna In
1886, at San Jacinto, ia on exhibition at
the public library. Also pair Of silver
srosses belonging tothe priests Of Desoto
md supposed to have been used in their
Quincy through north Georgia in 154o
They were exhuned from an old grave
q Murray county in 1881, and purchased
~ Mr.. William B. Johnston, who took
hem with him to London in 1871 and
inhibited them at the British Museum
They were identified ais being similar tn
he crosses used In the time of Charles
VI, King of Spain. The museum offered
Ir. Johnston ESQ for them. Their
weight is about seven ounces.
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