St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-14
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Southern News.
Waco, Texas, has four ice-factories.
The Georgia railroad has declared a
semi-annual dividend of 1925, 900.
Charleston, S. c., will compromise its
debt, the bondholders being willing.
The average wages of good farm hands
in southwest Georgia are 50 month.
Judge Roberts, the Democratic nomi-
nee for governor of Texas, is 70 years
old.
While cotton mills in the east are
closing, those in the south are full of
work.
The city of Galveston being heavily
in debt the people are signing for an
abolition Of the city government.
The governor of Louisiana has just
signed the death warrants Of four men,
the murderers of Narcisse Arieux,
The Minnesota colony at Sherwood,
Alabama, is growing rapidly. A dirt
road, two and half miles in length, has
been constructed from the valley to the
top of the mountain. A wood factory
and a hub and spoke-making establish
ment are soon to be started there.
The New Orleans Times asks the city
council to put 500 men at work cleaning
the city.
The last words of Sam Bass, the Texas
rebber; Everything is whirling around
like bubble" ss..s
The Vicksburg quarantine is so rigidiy
enforced that some of the hotels have
closed their doors.
A seizure of cigars at the New Orleans
customhouse is said to mean good smok~
ing for the officers.
The Mobile Register thinks the only
way to develop the natural resources of
Alabama is through the medium of mar
row-gauge railroads.
The mayor of New Orleans has directed
the chief Of police to suppress all un-
necessary noises during the prevalence of
yellow fever, such as BELLS on ice-cream
carts, scissors grinding, peddlers, organ
grinders, etc.
San Antonio Herald: From official
information received in this city yester-
day it is learned that the Mexicans
living along the opposite bank of the
Rio Grande are purchasing all the arms
and ammunition for sale on this side of
the river. Bands of Mexicans are every
where arming and drilling. The utmost
activity prevails, and threats are freely
made that any attempt on the part of
United States troops to pursue horse
thieves and raiders across the Rio
Grande will be met with a bloody re.
sistance. The Mexicans are evidently
in earnest this time.
Carrots "reminiscences of public men
in Alabama says of the nominee for
governor of Texas: Dram M. Roberts,
of St. Clair county, was graduate of
the University of Alabama, and early
admitted to the bar. He served in the
house in 1850, his only session, during
which he was modest and unpretending,
though his talents were manifest. In
few years he removed to Texas, where
he was elected judge of the supreme
court. He was president of the secession
convention in 1851, and in 1865 was
elected d senator to the United States
congress but never took his seat, owing
to the rigor of the reconstruction a cts
He is a native of Alabama, and his
record has reflected honor, not only on
himself, but on the state which gave
him birth. .
DR.. Heard, of Galveston, has been in
vestigating the yellow fever at New Or
leans, and reports it to be of the most
singular and malignant type. He says:
The symptoms of the disease are most
unusual, the fever period being much
shorter. than heretofore, and unaccon-
panied by many of the accepted charac-
teristics of the disease. Yellow fever
heretofore has usually manifested great
pains in head, back and legs of the at.
fiicted:t These pains do not accompany
the present type but every patient
whom Dr.. EEL. had an opportunity of
questioning complained of violent pains
in the stomach, and nowhere else. There
is also an absence OF the usual flush; the
fever, range extremely low, amounting
to an adanamic lever rapid sinking sets
in quickly, apd@hemorrhaga and black
vomit follow in very short space of
time. The most infallible test of the
disease Is an extraordinary deposit OF al
lumen insthes urine. e.
Miscellaneous.
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