St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-08-24
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News

AourISN1ng.
The crops in the prairie section of Ala
'bama are failure.
Memphis is building Masonic Tenn
pie at a. cost of $22, 900.
In Virginia, when a convict gets q
second term in the penitentiary, the
state adds FIVE years to his sentence.
Sam Bass, the dead Texas train-rob-
Der, was the son of farmer in Southern
Indiana and hut twenty-five yearsold
The Charleston News and Courier
calls wheat and oats the white mans
crops. the evidence of civilization and
progress. u
A skeleton of an enormous animal has
been dug up in Texas. 1t is fifty-four
feet long from the root of the tail to the
Joint of the neck.
A party of scientists have decided
that the Bald mountain disturbances are
caused by the setting of the rock feunda-
IlOu "a Uucs VI tnD bpuESs
Two of the celebrated Lowery gang
were convicted at .Bennettsville, s. c.,
LAST week, of the murder of an Irish
peddler and sentenced to be hung Au~
gust 23d.
Samuel Mitchell, of Quitman, Ga,
has been sentenced to pay $40 and costs
or thirty days in jail, for working on
Sunday. He preferred the jail, and
there he is now.
The new insane asylum building at
Morganton, N. c., is nine hundred feet
long and eighty feet wide; the center is
four stories high, surmounted with q
vast dome; each wing is four stories high
and the intermediate, between the CEN
ter and the wings, three stories high.
Richmond Dispatch The tonnage of
vessels engaged in the foreign trade from
this port is greater than was ever known
before. There are at this time twelve
vessels discharging or loading foreign
cargoes, and the present month will ag-
gregate the largest foreign trade of any
for some years. NJ. 49,.
For some time the New Orleans papers
have complained of the monopolies rails
ing the price of northern ice from $12 to
$25 per ton, but now that it jumped to
$63 they will get on their hind legs and
howl. The aggravating part of it is that
the artificial homemade ice follows
along only So behind the imported ar
ticle.,f,2 ="" ".'' ~ ~, XII. Z a.
Galveston News: B. J. Ward, just in
from the frontier, reports fight between
twenty-five bufalo-hunters, in which
four men were killed and ten wounded.
The attacking party was led by Hank
Campbell, who was killed by Jack
Doughteett, the leader of the party, in q
hand-to- hand encounter. The fight took
place near Staked plains. a#,s; -. -.
Lyncnburg (Va.) News: Walter Pres
ton, son OF Jas. w. Preston, Of Abing-
don, went to his fathers farm near
Kingsport, and while there became in
volved in quarrel with the superintend-
emit of the farm, whose name liz not given,
and shot him dead, after which he COM
mitted suicide by hanging. Mr.. Preston
was nephew of the late Hon. Walter
Preston. s' ''.i r.. II ~
The Lancaster Is. o. Ledger: A cor.
respondent informs us of the discovery
ofa sycamore tree in Sandy Ridge town
ship, Union county, NJ c., near the
HOWE mine, which messures SO feet s
inches in circumference. The first limb
measures II fest inches in circumfe-
renee. The tree is hollow, and has two
deors,i On the inside twelve men can
stand erect, and at the height of - feet
there is bend on which four men can
stand erect. e'ia ~ ~ =. - ,, ~ II. n
Charlotte nv. C.) Observer: The
quantity of manufactured tobacco now
shipped from Reidsville, Danville, Wins
ton, Durham and other tobacco centers
in this State and Virginia to the South
is probably greater just now than it has
ever BEEN owing osthe fact chat the fac
tories held all they made during the dis-
oussiona of the change in the tobacco tax,
and as soon as this was settled for the
year, at least, manufacturers began to
ship as rapidly as possible. =
Fort Worth Standard The name
and fame of Albert Sidney Johnston are
indissolubly blended with the history Of
Texas. Responding to the call of the
state of Texas, whose battles for indie
pendence be had fought. and recognizing
the fact that Texas did not lose her SOW
ereignty by the act Of annexation, he re-
signed his high command and cast his
fortunes with the south. The sod of
Texas covers the remains of our hero,
and the wild prairie fowers and Iuxuri-
ant grass wave over his grave.
Further particulars in regard to the
death of the fve-year-old daughter OF
General John G. Meem, of Shenandoah
county, Va, show that Mrs. Meem, dur.
ing the absence Of her husband, was out
riding In o carriage with her two little
daughters, driving the team herself, when
the reins broke and the horse took fright
and ran away Thinking she could save
the children, Mrs. Meem threw them out
of the carriage One of the little girls