St. Landry democrat., 1878-06-29
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

The Austin (Texas) Statesman says
the crop reports from all over the State
promise with certainty the end of hard
times.
Miss Eliza Maury, fourth daughter of
the late Commodore Maury, has issued
an address to the women of Virginia,
urging them to make determined effort
to redeem the financial honor of the
state, by organizing into local societies,
and by making and soliciting contribu.
ton for the payment Of the public debt.
The valuable mineral corundum is be-
ing mined in large quantities in the
northern portion of Tallapoosa county,
Ala. Dr. Lucas is now paying sos per
ton for it on the ground where it is dug,
or three cents pound in less quantities.
If he strikes the main vein he will re-
move his mill, the only one in the United
States, from Massachusetts to Tallapoosa
A man in New Orleans has invented a
process of manufacturing mirrors which,
it is claimed, is destined to take the place
of the quicksilver process. In only ten
or fifteen minutes the substance used in
place of quicksilver is made to adhere to
the glass, and the cost of the substance
is not more than one tenth that of quick
silver. Any one can convert an ordinary
piece of glass into mirror after acquaint-
ing himself with the process.
San Antonio (Texas) Express: The
contemplative mule is not more devious
or uncertain" than the average Texas
jury. 1t is said Hearne, the forger of
paper for $1,000, was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary, while at the
same term poor fellow got three years
sentence for stealing pair of boots. In
one of the lower counties, few weeks
ago, the principal in an assault with
intent to kill case was fined 800, while
his accessory was sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary.
Speaking of remarkable feats with a
rife, The Yazoo Herald says: "We
have seen Maj. Lamar Fontaine strike
in the bottom number, perhaps twenty,
OF ale bottles which were,thrown, consecu-
lively, revolving lengthwise, into the air
at distance of thirty feet from him,
without missing single one or striking
it in any other part. A fve-cent nickel
being tripped up before him ten or
fifteen feet high was so squarely struck
with a rife ball from his gun as to for
ever deprive the circulating medium of
the country of the nickel"
According to the report of the K sr
County Frontsman of a recent date,
Mexican atrocities are still going on in
Webb, Duval and surrounding counties.
Theft, eutrages and murder are growing
more and more frequent. The same
condition Of affairs prevails all along the
border line, and yet no remedy comes.
Our representatives in congress have
worked faithfully in this regar I'd, but
have failed to elicit that support the
emergency demands. Would that even>
handed justice would transfer the situa>
ton to some other portions of the union.
Then, perhaps, men in authority would
learn to appreciate the condition of
Others Dallas Texas Herald.
A young man has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for eight years for
murder, and the Austin Statesman saws:
Because of his youth at the time the
murder was committed, and some extern
uating circumstances, it was believed
that the court would deal lightly with
him. But the boy is doomed to spend
eight years OF his life in the penitentiary,
and the lesson Or example has meaning.
1t means that the people are tired of this
killing business and lawlessness of every
character, and that they have made up
their minds to visit punishment upon
all violators. It is good sign and
betokens that the era of blood, horse
stealing, land forgeries, stage and rail- |
road robberies, ETC., must have an i'm
mediate ending, at least in this vicinity. |