St. Landry democrat., 1878-04-27
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

The fea-beetle is doing great damage
tobacco in certain Tennessee districts.
Texas lynchers are economical. They
recently hung two men OH the same
rope.
The customs receipts of New Orleans
have decreased more than four millions
since 1871.
The assets of the Howard association
OF Memphis, are $41, 1886, with no
liabilities.
In 1866 Jacksonville, Florida, had
population of 1000; it is now city of
$4,000 population.
Mobile has been steadily reducing the
expenses of her municipal government for
six years. Her debt is over two millions.
The compromise debt of South Caro-
lima is now about $4,000, 900, emitting
nearly $4,000, 900, which will go before
he courts.
The employees of the Atlanta, Ga,
Rolling Mills have struck, and the mill
isstopped. They demand their back pay
and number nearly four hundred.
Memphis Appeal: The caterpillars are
making their annual appearance in this
state, as well as in Mississippi and
, Kansas. They are becoming national
pest, or nuisance, and are about to destroy
the green leaves now breaking forth.
A contract has been entered into be-
tween ex-Gov. Brown and the State of
Georgia. The former has agreed to pay
the latter $500, 900 in yearly installments
of $25, 900 for the use of the convicts for
twenty years from April, 1879.
Thomas R. Addy, well-known young
man of Augusta, committed suicide the
1st instant by shooting himself in the
head. BE left a note assuring his friends
of his sanity, and stating he had found
himself unable to pay his debts.
Savannah News: The spring of 1878
will be hereafter known in the chronicles
of Georgia as the spring in which the
woods were burnt" It is declared that
there never has been known season
whom there was such general burning
OF tho woods as has taken place during
March. The weather for the past fifteen
or twenty days has been very dry, and
fires have spread rapidly.
The J. NJ. White, built by the How
ards for Captain Tobin, wss launched at
Jacksonville, Indiana, Wednesday. Her
extreme length is 321 feet beam, so
feet; extreme depth of hull, III feet;
width over guards and all, IS feet-fve
feet wider than the r. E. Lee. She cost
100000. The Towards are now building
boat for Captains Tobin and Cannon
that isexpected, when fully loaded, to
carry 10000 balesof cotton. 1- a.
Norfolk, virginian Mr.. John Roberts,
the wealthiest man in Chowan county,
North Carolina, worth over $4,000,
committed suicide, on Sunday last, by
shooting himself through the head. He
had been suffering from dependency for
some time, consequent upon the small
success of his extensive fisheries on the
Albemarle sound, and ON Sunday after
noon walked down to the beach, where
he found that his seines had been carried
away by the storm and were lost. Re,
turning home, he went into his Office
and shot himself as stated.
Dallas Commercial: The connie.
ton of the Texas Pacific will not only
add an immense population to Texas,
and thus increase her congressional repre-.
sentation and consequence in the
electoral college, but it will give two
new states 20 the union, namely, New
Mexico and Arizona. These beautiful
territories, Astounding in resources Of soil
and mineral wealth, will at once fill up |
with a population sufficient to entitle
them to admission to the sisterhood OF
states. The south will thus gain four
United States senators and several mem.
bers of congress.
New Orleans Times: Texas beef
always inferior to the last degree, is Just
now worse than ever because the cattle
have been starving through the latter
part of the winter on dead grass. While
the country is rapidly settling up, and
the ranges correspondingly decreasing,
the number of cattle to subsist upon
them is rapidly increasing. The habit
has been never to feed the stock any
corn or hay whatever, to help them
through the winter between the perish.
ing of the old grass and the coming of
the new. Those that can not tide over.
the crisis on dead grass are allowed to
die.
Chattannooga Times Middle Georgia
farmers are busy planting cotton. A large
acreage is being put in with the hope Of
getting more nearly square with the
world than they did last year. This is
the identical plan of the last thirteen
years and no improvement has been
discernible. A prospective big crop is
mortgaged TO obtain fertilizers and the
end Of the year finds them with depleted /
energy, empty pockets and several hum
dred dollars to be carried over to the
succeeding years account. These lang