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

Southern News.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: The heavy
frost that has fallen for the past two
weeks has greatly benefited the wheat
crop. The farmers state that the crop IS
looking unusually fine.
Raleigh IN. C.) News: The secretary
OF state, during December last, issued
warrants for the sale of 28, 900 acres OF
land lying in Mcdowell county, TO W.
w. Fleming at Is cents per acre.
The report of Chief-O Connor shows
that there were only 1l2 fires in New
Orleans during 1877, with total loss of
S196, ,S45, or about one-fltth Of one per
cent. of the assessed valuation of the
city.
No wonder the Sioux are not wanted
in the Indian territory. The Star-Vin-
dicator (ChoctaW nation) says: Sioux
women are remarkable only for their
ugliness. It is said there is not good
looking face among them.
Prattville (Ala.) Citizen: We are re-
Iably informed that forty-twe white per-
SONS will leave Augusta this winter to
settle in Texas. Many have already
gone. The blacks, we learn, have given
up all notion of going to Liberia, and
will remain here.
The county court of Davidson county
has ordered the county physician to vac
clnate all persons living within one mile
of the city limits of Nashville, and that
no pupil be admitted into any public
school without proofof having been vac
cinated.
Tallahassee Ella Patriot: Our farmers
are getting on the right track at last.
Most OF them have, for the last two years,
made corn enough to do them, and those
that did not could get it at seventy-fve
cents bushel. Heretofore they had to
buy western corn, paying 81 to 81 so per
bushel.
Memphis Appeal: DR.. George K. Dun.
can, county poor-house physician, pre-
sented his report to the county court on
yesterday for the year 1877. The total
number Of inmates for the year was L.
$50; the daily cost of each inmate was
213 cents, and the total net expenses of
the institution for the year 1877 was $9,-
508 55. In former years the cost of the
poor-house ran up above so, 900.
Pensacola Gazette: we plueked the
other day limb from tea-plant which
has been growing for fifteen years past in
the garden of Francisco Moreno, ESQ.
1t was originally from China, and was
sent to Pensacola from Washington by
the late s. r. Mallory, then in the
United States senate. The shrub is
twelve or fifteen feet high, and is ss
thrifty and hardy as the wild growth of
the native forest.
Galveston News: While mule was
being brought to the city from Bolivar
Point harbor works on vessel he be-
came uneasy, and not liking his mode of
conveyance, jumped overheard and swan
of. The vessel came on to the city and
the mnle was allowed to have his own
way. At p. M, just five hours after he
jumped from the vessel, he landed on
Bolivar Point, cured, no doubt, of some
OF his stubbornness.
Raleigh News: In 1870, Gov. Vance
tells us, in his sketches of North Caro-
lima, that enc great English steamer of
the present day could with ease have
transported every inhabitant (white) of
this colony, with all their goods, includ-
ing CATTLE" This was seventeen years
after the settlement began. In 1860 the
population had reached 478 1G3; in 1910
it was 555, 800; !; in 1920, 638, ,829; in 1880,
737, 1887 j; in 1910, 753, ,4l9; in 1850, $685.
039; in 1860, 992,622; and in 1870, it
aggregated 1,071, ,361.
A bill now pending in the Virginia
legislature fixes the pay OF officers and
members as follows: The president o; the
senate and the speaker of the house of
delegates shall receive salary of $720
for each regular session, and for extra
sessions these officers shall receive a
salary of $3.50. The members salary of
$360for each regular session, and $3.50
fol- each extra session. Clerk of the
senate $1,000, and of the house 81, 8 90
per annum sergeant,at~arms OF each $50
per week during the session.
Lexington (Va) letter in Richmond
Dispatch: / went, of course, to the tomb
of Lee, and was gratifed to find that
fresh flowers are still regularly brought
TO adorn the graves of the General, Mrs.
Lee and Miss Agnes-that students'
guard of honor still keeps watch and
ward at the tomb-that General Lees
office is still preserved Just as he left it
on the day Of his fatal sickness, and that
mementoes of the great chieftain are
cherished with increasing affection as the
years go on. The mausoleum which is
to contain Valentines beautiful re.
cumbent figure is soon to be commenced, !,
and will be pushed to an early compile
ton. The jackson memmorial asso-
citation !" has been making but little
progress OF late, but il is hoped that the
day is not far distant when suitable
monument shall also mark the grave OF