The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-08
CUKRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

cotton could be profitably grown OF
plantations where two new grow.
The Louisiana sugar crop has beer
verylmuch improved by recent heav,
rainfalls.
The grain area in the south lis said tt
be larger than it has been at any Eims
since 1865.
Texas last year raised over $4,000
bales of cotton more than any otherstate
IN the union.
In the South Carolina public schools
there are nine hundred and forty mere
eolored children than whites.
Marion county, Texas, is becoming
the seat of large iron, mining and manu-
featuring Industries.
Lemons sixteen inches in diameter
grow ahundantlyiin the mild neighbor-
hood of Galveston. Texas.
"A base ball tournament for prize
of one hundred dollars in gold will be
held in Chattanooga, on the Fourth OF
July.
The planters throughout Virginia,
complain of the fly in the tobacco leaf,
and fear that the next crop will be short
for want of plants.
Ladies' of TarraI1t county, Texas,
have passed resolutions and sent them to
Governor sColqnitt, asking that aErs.
Sothern be pardoned.
Major Ashcraft, of Texarkana, has
drawn his pension as soldier in the
Florida war. THE back pay amounted
to $1,000, which was paid TO him in
cash
The total area In the state OF Alabama
of the three coal fields is 400 square
miles. 1njnxtaposition with three coal
fields are iinexhaustible beds of brown
and red hematite iron ore. \
Tine sociaiistic labor party Of New
Orleans calls for the compulsory educs-
tion of children untier fourteen years of
age, the prohibition of the employment
of female labor in occupations tletrimen-I
tai to health or morality, and the
equalization of woman's wages with
those of men where equal service is per
formed.
San Antonio Herald: Tine Kansas
City Indicator says the Total Texas cat
tie drive this year Ito Griffin to May Is
and to Fort Worth TO May 2Sl is 224,~
SAC, ,of which number 33,70S will stop
IN Northern Texas, leaving 190,688
bound Tor Kansas. Droves are not in
good spirits as to the outlook for prices,
rs it is generally expected that cattle
win sell for one dollar head less than 4
hast year. IA
Nashville American: Maj. w. Hooper
Harris has arrived in the city as
the agent of the United States and
Havana mail-line of steamers He and
MIR. III. B. Stahiman, general agent of the
L. and N.~and g. 9. railroad at this
place, will go to Louisville to-day with
view TO perfecting arrangements by
which Nashville can ship goods direct to
Havana and 0ioe versa ona through bill
of iading, via Pensacola, Fla In con-
nection with this line a last mail will be
put on between New York and New
Orleans via Nashville, the steamers toll
receive all mail for Havana and other
South American ports at Pensacola.
Atlanta Constitution: The latest
fling of the Dutch scullion who edits the
the Personal Intelligence" column of
the New York Herald and who depends
upon the good Offices oftthe members of n
the Paragraphers' association to keep
him in his place takes the shape of an
insinuati0n that the e0ld-time southern
families still refuse to associate with the
ladies and gentlemen sof the north. Does {
Mr.. Benefits sculli0n believe that gen
tifity il the result of climate? There
has never been o time since the war that
an 'sold-time southern family" would not
associate with northern ladies and gen
tlemen.
Griffin (Ga.) News: Several gentle
men around Griffin have been shipping
frnit north for weeks past, realizing .
handsome profit Middle Georgia is one
Of the finest fruit-growing countries in
the world, and with proper care and
attention could he made to Weld a great