St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10

Southern News.

There are nine daily newspapers pub
blished in Georgia.
A gentleman in Blackville, S. c., has
begun the culture of silk
Re- The artesian well at Charleston is such
success that the city has more water
than it demands
Chattanooga wishes to hold a conf
norciaI manufacturing and agricultural
exhibition there next fall.
Memphis is exssperated for the reason
that discrimination is made against her
in river freights.
Vicksburg has subscribed 100000
and the county $3.50 to the Memphis
and vicksburg railroad.
Work has been resumed on the pubic
buildings in Raleigh, and the post.office
will be ready in two weeks.
The state engineers OF Louisiana are
examining the levees of the Mississippi
the entire length of the state.
The San Antonio Herald saws the
whole Texas frontier is being raided by
Mexicans as it was never before.
A three-year-old negro child got lost
in the pine woods of North Carolina
and was gone two days and nights.
A Texas paper tells of desperate en-
counter between two blacksnakes and
coon, resulting in the death of the latter
A turtle captured at Pensacola weigh.
ed three hundred and fifty-five pounds
and yielded seven hundred and two eggs
Henry E. Sizer, Of Jackson, Miss,
is to receive twenty.four thousand dol
lars from the government fer property
destroyed during the war.
Mrs. Campbell, OF Minnesota, was
drowned while bathing in the surf at
Mayport, Fla, Wednesday. Sharks bit
off one Of her arms before the body could
be recovered
Daniel Wright, the largest land owner
in the lower Shenandoah valley, died at
his home In Berkeley county, West
Va, last Monday. He owned fifteen
valuable farms.
Some portions of Middle and West
Tennessee have been visited with hog
cholera pretty extensively this summer,
aud hog breeders begin to think that
pork will be very scarce in those sections
next fall.
A gentleman at Orange City, Fla,
received some popcorn from Wisconsin
last February, which he planted on the
9Th Of March; he gathered in the crop
and returned seed to Wisconsin by the
LIST OF June to be replanted there.
J. A. Conner, of Corinth, Miss, has
sued the Western, Union telegraph COM
pany for $4,000 damages, because dis
patch summoniDg him to the bedside OF
his sister in Bethel, Tenn, was not
delivered him until two days after it
reached the telegraph Office, or otherwise
he could have reached Bethel before she
died. .:''.'"
Little Rock Democrat: The people OF
Hot Springs are really in a deplorable
condition. With the unsettled state Of
affairs in reference to titles to property,
there is constant uneasiness peryadins
all classes. Any permanent settlement
of the property rights OF the citizens
would be hailed with delight. They are
severe in their criticism ON the failure of
our members of congress to procure the
passage Of some law affording relief.
The cotton planters of Brsz, % county.
Texas, have a novel way of DESTROYING
the cotton worm. Tt is as follows: A
lantern, set inside of pen made of a com
mon sheet of tin, and surrounded by
about quart OF Bster, upon the top of
which spoonful of kerosene is poured,
Is the remedy. The flies which produce
The worm are attracted at night by the
light of The lanterns, and, striking
against them, fall into the pan of water
'nd oil, and are then destroyed. Any
Kind of cheap lantern is used. The
'otton fields are lighted up with thou.
'ands Of these lamps nightly, and the
'emedy has go far proved successful.
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