The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-14
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Wn6at nhTVeStAng DIS begun IN south
ern Texas.
Over $l1, 000. 900 back taxes are du,
the state of Louisiana.
The food damaged Houston, Texas
to the extent of $125,000.
Tame deer strell at win through the
streets of Terrell, Texas.
There are twenty-three daily newspa
pers published in Texas.
Natchez claims that she is the clean.
est city in the United States.
It is stated that 1900, 900 pounds o,
rice are produced in Florida.
a deposit of potash and gypsum has
been found on lake Jesup, Texas.
A frost in the vicinity of Atlanta has
seriously injured the cotton crop.
The Texas bone trade has suddenly
doomed up into great Importance.
The Nashville and Tuscaloosa narrow
gauge railroad win soon be in operation.
More cattle are passing over the Texas
end Kansas trail this spring than ever before.
The Louisiana constitutional conyen.
ton has been petitioned by women to allow
them the right of suffrage.
in Tallahassee there are colored emf
grafton agents endeavoring to induce the
negro people to leave their homes.
The dredging feet, which is to dredge
q twelvefoot channel through Galveston
bay, has arrived at Galveston from North
Carolina.
A Tennessee couple who married In
1868 now have fifteen children-one every
year without fail.
II eao,oS 4l,a evxox;vno,,4 af
paper from palmetto powder, at Fernan-
dina, is a success.
The Macon and Augusta railroad is to
be sold by the Georgia railroad, under
trustee.
The acreage of the cotton crop in
western Texas is fifty per cent. greater this
year than last
The whole sea-coast of Texas is quars
;antined against vessels coming from south
of latitude rs degrees.
A colored woman in Mississippi caught
the Kansas fever last week. but her husband
whipped it out of her.
The internal revenue collections in
The Petersburg district during the first ten
days in May aggregated $141, 900.
DIR. J. lei. Heath, of Boston, q dis
tinguished student of American antiquities
and relics, is in Dallas with the skeletons of
thirty famous Indian warriors.
The government placed salmon spawn
in the Colorado river two years ago, and
this year salmon nine inches long are being
caught in that river, near Austin, Texas.
A North Carolina paper says: The
wheat crop is better than it has been for sew
-eral years. The fruit crop will be almost an
entire failure, owing to the recent cold snap.
A letter from Walterboro, N. c., de-
scribing The recent cyclone there, cited, as
remarkable incident, that "a sheep was
found lying in the road, with every particle
of woel taken from it as Clearly as razor
could have done it.
The negroes of Washington county.
Texas, have been struck with q religious
frenzy, and neglect their work SO much that
farmers in that section fear they VIII make
only half crop.
Gov. Roberts, of Texas, has vetoed
the bill appfopriating 100000 for public
schools, and the bill creating sinking fund,
on the ground that the state is too deep In
debt already
There are about 4, 100 conyicts be-
longing to the North Carolina penitentiary,
about two-thirds of whom are judiciously
employed on the several lines Of railroads
now In process OF eonstruction.
The annual reunion of the survivors
Tey WeanasSss I'll - q noi r. Z. as M.n
tbat sanato. Wy 2 2ay - "a - c. enpSeD.eo
of Sonth Ga.ol; NV iii ~ @na ao a aiys
diver addresses.
Stockraisers and planters ia Richland
p p@asn: la may complain anas wolves nave Pc
That tbsas ha.a L;SsaS $3.50, - as pasn anu
swo vuoy n1xe Icy - PsanaPe g Many as
ss mo -. :. ns "a 49,. - csises lis ano
-,"Ay Auofe ~ i''iuos'
:, "A canal will probably ibe built through |
the swamp land Of st. James parish, La, In