The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-26
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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Memphis is raising S25 600 by privat
subscription to clean the streets.
The Tennessee legislature has passed !
law giving the laborer a lien on the crop
Tine A. and III. college, to be built a
Meridian, Miss. this summer, viii cost Sloo,
600.
And now they say cattle are dyinf
about Cullman, Ala, with something lik'
yellow fever.
The legislature of Alabama has appro
priated money to buy legs tor all ner cit
zens who lost them for the lost cause.
A Texae paper estimates that there
were at least three hundred persons muir
dered in that state last year. Twelve mer
were executed,
The Alabama legislature took q recess
in December, and, with the exception OF two
members, all charged the state mileages, the
total being over S300U.
Nearly every legislature IN the south
mas wrangied over the Moffet register and
whipping post bills, but Virginia continues
to have monopoly Of both.
A Georgia darkey, whenshe was told
that dollar was only worth eighty cents,
remarked "This is wussef'n cotton. Must
year"
The bodies OF Mrs. Gray and her three
children, all firmly tied together, were
found IL the river near Fort Worth, Texas,
a few dBys a., She drowned herself and
three children1ast June.
the Door tarm established near Dallas,
Texas, Tor the purpose OF taking care OF
paupers and working tranlps, has cost III
twenty months S., GOO more than its receipts.
Beet alone, cheap as it is IN Texas, cost
Sl210.
The farmers of South Carolina have
lost their heads in the heat OF the Tight with
fertilizer companies, and at one OF their
meetings discussed the question OF forcibly
resisting tine shipment o. phosphates out OF
the state.
Eddie Lawhorn, aged twelve, when
convicted OF horse,stealing and sentenced TO
Imprisonment Tor five years in the Texas
peUitsntiary, laughingly said GIVE years
amt long. Why, I can stand on my mead
zlost Of the time"
A Young man who has tried everyz
thing else and failed, writes the Vicksburg
Herald to inquire the requisites for good
reporter and gets for answer: GA bottle OF
whisky, lead pencil, a cast-iron constitus
ton and q rhinoceros hide"
An Atlanta manufacturer says to 8
Constitution reporter that the factories OF
that city must purchase coal for TWO dollars
ton or close up. They pay nov from four
to five dollars, while in Chattanooga Ii ,ean
be purchased for from one dollar fifty cents
O two dollars
In North Carolina last year three
million nine hundred and two Thousand four
hundred young shad, eiglty-nine Thousand
California salmon, and over fifteen Thousand
the management of the fish hatchers at
Avoc8 and Swannanoa gaps. II
According to Adjutant General Jones
report, the aggregate strength OF the state
guard Of North Carolina is 1924. More than
fifty Thousand dollars worth of ordnance is
now in the hands OF the troops. Most of the
rifles are OF the very latest improved breech'
loading patterns, worth eighteen dollars
apiece.
Richmond (Va.) State: The Rev.
Jasper delivered his sermon: The Sun 90,
Move" last night for the instruction ami
delight OF the members of the legislature.
1t is highly proper Brother Jasper" or
somebody else should Try TO convince them
that the earth, or the sun, or the MOON or
does really move.
Inc atlanta cotton actOry has lain
Idle TWO years. Certain subscribers refused
to pay because kiniball the originator and
president, mad subscribed 100000 when he
had 40 property. The courts have decided
IN favor OF the non-paying subscribers The
Lowell machine shop has enioined further
proceeding, and the immense establishment
lies idle.
Another appeal is sent forth by Profes.
soT Nsnabie, of the university of Virginia,
under instructions from the society of the
alumni, TO the alumni and others, TO raise
the amount necessary, $4,000, or at least,
ss3e, 00O,tior the erection of an observatory,
that the gift OF the telescope by Mir. MeCor,
mick may be speedily utilized and the oh,
serYof's chair endowed.
Charleston News and Courier: AL
company Of enterprising northern men are
engaged on the Edisto river in the business
OF catching sturgeon, the flesh of which is
sent north and converted into canned sal>
mon, while the spawn is sent to the same
place, and, alter being prepared and canned,
comes back TO us with a foreign trade marx, |
and is sold as Russian cayiare. 4
Columbus Times: We have heard of q
good deal Of meanaess OF Late years, among
other things stealing the presidency, stealing
from Uncle Saoss" treasury, salary grabs,
stealing Stewards remains, and stealing
generally Of all sorts and descriptions, but
the meanest steal we have ever heard OF, was
that OF a white man tso-cailea), lately in
Russell county, Ala, stealing from negro
his lawful vile.
Several important bills have been
passed by the general assembly of Florida,
extending the benefits of the internal ina.
provsment act TO numerous canals and rail
roads. The appropriations for the purpose
will exhaust pretty Ench all of the public
lands controlled by the state. They are
generally yalnelsss in their present tcondi- \
ton, and the only hope tor ever rendering
them profitable is to bring them into the !
market by running thoronghfares through
them.
Speaxin% Of the recent railroad horror
near Selma, the Argus says: Parker, while
living in a shanty as itSwsre, gave anything
andeverything ne possessed 10 make COM
PORTABLE those drought 10 his house, and