The Lake Charles echo., 1878-08-01
CURRENT rARAgaRAPHs.
Southern News.

Line !Au6tln AIexAS) btateaman sasys
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 tieterminad effort
to redeem the financial honor of the
state, ibyorganizing into local societies,
and by making and soliciting contribu-
tion for the paymentof the Public debt.
The valuable mineral corundnm is be-
ing mined in large quantities in the
northern portion of Tallapoosa county,
AIa.s DIR. Lucas is now paying $65 per
ton for lit on the ground whereit is dug,
or three cents % pound in less quantities.
1.-The strikes the main vein he will re-
move his mill, the only oneinthe United
States, from Massachusetts, To Iallapoosa.
"A man in New Orleans has inyenteda a
process of manufacturing mirrors which,
it is claimed, is destined to take fireplace
of the quicksilver process. In only ten
or fifteen minutes the substance used in
place of qnicksilver is made to adhereto
the glass, and the cost tOf the substance
lis not more than one tenth that of quick
silver. Any one can convert an ordinary
piece of glass into mirror atteracquaint-
ing himself with the process.
San Antonio (Texas) Express: The
eontemplativemule isnet mere "tdevious
or uncertain" than the average Texas
Jury. 1t is said Hearne, the fofger of
paper for $4,000, Was sentenced 10 two
yearslin the penitentiary, while at the
same terma poor fellow got q three years
sentence for stealing 8 pair of boots. In
one of the lower counties, lew 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 Mai. Lamar Fontaine strike
in the bottom a number, perhaps twenty,
oi alebottles which ere.thrown, consecu-
lively, revolving llengthwise, into the air
at a distance of thirty feet from him,
without missing a aingle0ne or striking
it in any other part. a hye-cent nickel
being tripped up before him ten or
fifteen feet high was 30 squarely struck
with q 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 regard, but
have failed to elicit that support the
emergency demands. Wouldithat even
handed Justice wouldctransfer the situa~
tion 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 says
Because of his youth at the time the
mnrder was committed, and some cexten-
mating circumstance, it was believed
that the court would deal lightly with
him. But the boy is doomed TO spend
eight years ofIhis life intthey ypenitentiary,
and the lesson or example has % meaning
Itsmeans hatithe people are tired Of tthis
killing business and Ilawlessness of every
character, and that they have made uf
their minds to visit punishment upon
all vioIators. 1T lis o good sign ant
betokens that the era tuf blood, horse
stealing, land iorgeries, stage and rail
road robberies, etc, must have AN i'm
mediate ending, at least in.thia vicinity
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