The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21
NEWS GLEAEIEGS.

In six CULTURE,
A sea-cow was recently seenin the ba
near st, Augustine.
Mississippi is displaying an unusua
interest in railroads.
4 Virginia now ranks eighth as Il pro
ducer of iron ore. In 1870 she wa
twelfth.
| Twelve thousand barrels of rosin wer'
disposed of in one sale recently by Sa
vannah house.
| The Chief Justice of Alabama is {
printer by trade, and formerly worked
at the case at Athens.
The machinery to be used in improF'
ing Apalachicola, [Fla,) harbor has ar
rived there and work viii begin at once
| Col. J. s. Mosby, of Virginia, when
he returns from China, will marry well
known society lady of Alexandria.
Stock raising in Texas offers greater
inducements TO the capitalist than any
other business carried on in the eoun-
try.
New Orleans property owners will
have to pay tax os three per cent to
meet tie necessities of the city govern
ment next year.
Asbury Bush, ferryman, shot and
1
killed negro named Charlie Nixon, at
Warwick, Ga. for refusing to pay five
cents ferriage acress the river.
Lucien Beard has been pardoned out
of the Virginia penitentiary at Rich
mond after having served eight of an
eighteen years sentence for horse steal.
ing.
Five hundred inhabitants at Ozark,
Ala, and not Smith in the directory.
Perhaps the old and well known Jones
family have kept them out with clubs.
Thomas Jefferson has been arrested at
Wilmington, South Carolina, for strik
ing Ben. Franklin with rock and throw
ing sand into John Adams eyes.
A large petition is being gotten up in
Alabama, praying for the opening of
Coosa river to navigation, and beseech-
ing that no delay be permitted.
The convicts in the Tennessee peuiten-
tiary will issue an address to the people
Of the State, soliciting funds to pur chase
an organ for their benefit.
The State of West Virginia has no
Indebtedness, the constitution Of the
State forbidding the creation of any La
bility in the nature Of a public debt.
Reports from Hoover Hill gold mine
in Randolph county, North Carolina,
still continue good. Since the rich
strike was made few weeks ago, it is
estimated that the ore raised is worth
$4,000, and it still holds out with
splendid promise. This mine is owned
and operated by an English company.
Bib county, Ala, has curiosity in
the way of stalk of ribbon cane. It
divides itself into two prongs near the
ground. Below the fork the stalk has
double eyes. Above the fork, and in.
Guiding both prongs, it is ten feet longi
and has thirty-two Joints.
Senator Brown, OF Georgia, said in
recent interview that he received no ed
ucation to speak of until he was Of age
AT thirty-three he was elected to a
Judgeship, and at thirty-seven became
Governor. He is now, at siXty-eight, a
United States Senator.
Gainesville fGa.) southron: Gen.
Longstreet will ask the Legislature of
Tennessee and North Carolina to give
him charters for the extension Of his
proposed road into their States. Gen.
Longstreet does not pretend that lie can
build the road all by himself, but with
proper encouragement can and viii
do so.
ALthubd tNQuShtbAtioAs
say they win plant more corn next year.
These are not the intentions of spring.
When the present crop OF cotton is safe
ly out Of the hands Of the producers,
prices viii 60 up with yenomousH
bounce, and then our gifted husband
men viii pillow up the corn they have
planted and proceed To scatter their cot
ton seed over the face OF nature.
Eatehez (Miss.) Democrat: Yester-
day Mr.. jerome Converse shot and killed
an immense rattiesnake, which measured
eleven and a half feet in length aud fif-
teen inches in diameter. This monster
snake had nineteen rattles, and it, upper
fangs were one inch long, and when shot
had alarge rabbit 10 its mouth prepare
tory to swallowing 1t.
Mr.. III. B. Evers, of England, repre-
senting a Louden syndicate. has recently
bought GIG, 900 acres of land from the
State Of Mississippi, lying principally
ID the Yazoo ldelta, and for which he
has paid the State about $4,000. Mr..
Eyers says that if the State will give
his syndicateaid they will In the next
-four years bring 70 the State 10000
English immigrants, $4,000 If whom
will he voters Al soon ~ naturalizcd.
Orange county, (Fls.,) Reporters:
friarn.. 1890 ..r., n n " MsfchalI