St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-30
J CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.


votes.
The salary of the speaker of the Lous
isiana house OF representatives is $24 a
day. 3
Vessels are not allowed to load at Port
Royal, South Carolina, on Sunday. A
blue law.
The moonshiners of the Alabama
mountain districts manufacture crooked
brandy.
The spring cattle drive in Texas, &C.
cording to the San Antonio Express, will
number a,4Oo.
The agricultural population of Georgia
is 10000 souls, and the number of acres
in cultivation is trife over 100000.
The Palatka (Forida) Herald says one
of the best evidences of heavy grange
crop next season is the backward spring.
The real estate prices in Atlanta have
been much higher since the determina-
tion to make that city the Georgia
capital.
Montgomery, Ala, has purchased fit.
teen guns of the most approved pattern
for the use of the police forcein cases of
emergency. .
There is fully a carload of North
Carolina specimens intended for the Paris
exhibition in the hands of the agricultu-
raj department at Raleigh.
General P. M. B. Young, of Georgia,
the southern commissioner to Paris, is
very enthuiastic over the prospects of a
liberal display of southern goods at the
exposition.
The auditor of public accounts of Vir-
ginia has declared the financial condition
of the state to be deplerable; that no
money was being received for taxes, all
payments being made in coupons, On
which there was thirty per cent. dis
count, and that he can run the state
government not an hour longer.
New Orleans Democrat: Joseph JEFF
fersen (Rip) is over on his beautiful
plantation, shooting, fishing and painting
between times. Why does Rip Van
Winkle come 50 far to spend his leisure
time? To get away from the managers,
my good friends; mails irregular, no
telegraph, distance great, can hunt ducks
quietly here without being hunted by
the managers:
The Jacksonville fila. SUN and Press
says that one of the best business men OF
that city offers to take the contract OF
running the city government for year
for two-thirds what It now costs. He will
be mayor, alderman, police-in fact, the
whole machinery of the government-ard
if at the end of the year the people by
their votes say that they have not had as
good q city administration as they have
had for years, he will pay the bills and
claim nothing.
The general conference of the Method.
ist church south will be held in Atlanta
the first Wednesday in May. The
general business of the conference will
embrace many interesting subjects,
prominent among which will be: /. The
relations to each oth.r Of the two
great branches of American Methodism.
2 The adjustment of the presiding-elder
question. 8. Temperance and great
moral subjects, including perhaps the
questions involved in the discussion OF
the subject of dancing.
Russell (Ala.) Register: There was q
negro marriage In Talladega few days
ago, and few minutes after the cere.
mony had been performed rejected
suitor of the bride threw hisarms around
her neck and in the presenceofa number
of persons inflicted upon her eight or
nine stabs, from which she died almost
instantly. He then mounted the court.
house steps and proclaimed, 4" I done it
hang me, or kill me just as you please,
only bury me by Liza's side"
Charleston Journal of Commerce: A
dispatch received states that the bark
Azor left Boston for Charleston on Sat.
urday afternoon at O'clock. As the
long talked-T and anxiously-awaited
vessel is indeed on her way hither, this
announcement is expected to infuse un.
restrained joy into the hearts of the
many hundred future Liberians who
have doubtless been dreaming for some
time past. the unalloyed happiness
and luxurious ease that are in store for
them upon their arrival in the land Of
"nilk and honey" Liberty, thou art
but name
Brunswick (Ga.) Appeal: Capt. Clay,
OF the whaling schooner Golden Citv
captured in our harbor on Monday last
an enormous white whale, measuring
sixty-tive feet In length, and from which
ne feals sure Of /" trying cut " one hund.
red barrels Of oil, and getting between
seven and eight hundred pounds of whale
bone. The tongue OF this monster Of the
deep alone produced Ave barrels of oil
The captain thinks this leviathan win
net him about q, 600. We have at our
Office . small piece OF the bene taken
from the mouth of this whale, which we
will take pleasure in showing TO any one
who may call to zee i'd. We are informed