St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-31
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

.Ga& d - -
The only medical college for negroes
ia in Nashville. It has an ample en-
dowment r
The state engineers of Louisiana are
examining the levees of the Mississippi
the entirelength of the state.
It is suggested that monument be
erected over the grave of Admiral
semmsEat Mobile: AZ ~
Congtessman Culberson, of Texas,
says he.lands granted the Texas Pacific
railroad are worth 80 an acre.
The poor farmers of the mountain dis
tricts of South Carolina have concluded
they, must make moonshine whisky or
starYe. --- --.,-..
The Tampa Tribune desires prospect
ors in Florida to remember that in area
of square miles Florida ia the largest
state east of the Mississippi river.
The Camden Light artillery of South
Carolina sa1uted the fourth of July with
a cannon which had been used in the
revolutionary war ~ >-.
Ell. C.Fisk,1 a witness before the Louisi-
ana investigating committee, remarked
III done only hold up de hand when dey
swore me, but didn't kiss do book fur
sure."f @''h"
James E. Jones, colored, of Lagrange,
Texas, has been hung for the murder OF
another eolored man in. 1875. Just be.
fore he was swung or be said he was "a
stranger to the crowd, but with Christ
he was acquainted, and he could see the
chariots of heaven coming to carry his
soul to glory" -s.'
Charleston News and Courier: There
will be no safe or judicious emigration
from the south until the exodus shall be
put in charge of persons who have some
business knowledge and experience as
well as honesty, and who will not mix
import trade and the emigration business
with making money and saving souls
Up tothis the exodus has been profitable
and advantageous to the officers of the
association. The emigrant's loss is their
gain. /. ....,
The Charleston News and Courier says
of the return of the Azor, the ship that
carried over the Liberian emierants
Her arrival here is anxieusly awaited by
two hundred fifty emigrants, one hun.
dred and ninety-seyen of whom are
adults, and despite the terrors of the
experimental trip, these poor people,
who have lived here for the last two
months, no one knows how, are ready
and willing at the shortest notice to join
their comrades in the unknown promised
land. "E
Columbus (Ga.) Sun: In Georgia
there were during the past six months
eighty-eight failures, with liabilities
amounting to 81, ,562, against fifty.
six failures, liabilities $7O3, 1896, during
the first six months of 1877. In the
second quarter of 1873 there were in
Georgia thirty-seven failures, with lia-
bilities of $S63,772. Alabama counts
twenty-five failures in the past six
months, against thirty.three in the cor.
responding months of 1877. In this re.
spec" Alabama makes a finer showing
than any of her sister states. The in.
crease in the United States ia twenty.
FIVE per cent. ON 1877. .'~a.. ..
Kate Southern is gratifed. Having
heard her keepers villifed, she writes as
follows to the Savannah News: Being a
convict, I might expect the cold embrace
of rattling Chains, striped clothes, hard
labor, coarse diet, and even the lash /;
but not sois my case. I am put to light
work, cutting and making convict
clothes; not ironed as others, not draped
in convict stripes havegood and whole
some diet, such as my keepers have upon
the family table; no threats OF the lash;
no cooking for eonvicts, and no such
thing as regretting / had not been hung.
Please, for the cake OF a humiliated and
unfortunate woman, correct the reports
in circulation, 81 unjust to my dear
keepers, and receive the thanks of one 80
injured andaso disgraced.
Miscellaneous.