St. Landry democrat., 1882-03-18
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coast in large numbers, says the Savannah
(Ga.) NeUs. but they have become so en-
boldened that they ply our inland streams.
The captain OF bark that has been loading
in Wright's River, reports seeing one for
several days perambulating in the vicinity
OF his vessel. Not alone off the mouth of
the entrance to Savannah River are these
denZens of heretofore other chimes to be
found, but are seen all the way down the
Georgia coast. A few days since the whal-
ing schooner Golden City, Capt. Anthony,
captured a seventy barrel whale outside the
harbor Of Brunswick. To strike and make
good haul out of a shoal of these creatures
is ''lucky flnd,' and when we consider
that the one captured near Brunswick,
though not considered anything like Il mas
todon, yielded seventy barrels, or about
2,13o gallons of oil, valued at $500, the
business can not be else but profitable.
The De Kalb (Ga.) Neus says a lady
living in Cross Keys district gave birth TO
two children, twins, some time in October,
1881. They were quite small, weighing three
and five pounds respectively, but perfectly
| formed and apparently healthy. The strange
part Of the matter is that from the day of
their birth until sometime in the month Of
December they showed no animation, and
scarcely any sign OF life beyond respiration,
and appeared precisely as if asleep. During
all this time they took no nourishment eX
cept very little sweetened milk forced upon
them, and all efforts of the mother
to get them to nurse proved UNI
tho Of oh t.xo 1,S
after their birth the twins apparently walked
up, and became as "peart" and lively as
any children, and are now living and thriv-
ing. They were weighed at the beginning
and also at the end of their long sleep, and
their weight was precisely the same each
time.
The Cooperative Colonization Society
Teutonic, just getting under way at Kings
Mountain, N. c., presents some new fea-
lures of business cooperation. 1t is, IN
fact, joint-Stock concern, in which the
members and owners receive wages for
their work, and then the profits in the shape
of dividends. Each member takes one share
OF stock, and is given an acre, of land upon
which he builds with his own money. The
families are entirely separate, and there is
no religious test of membership. The bust
ness will be farming, horticulture, and va
rious kinds Of wood manufacturing.
There is a pecan tree in San Saba
County, Texas, from which was gathered
last fall nineteen bushels of nuts. These
sold for three dollars per bushel, or fifty
seven dollars for the crop.
Two Mexican families who went from
Laredo to New Orleans to see the Mardi-
Gras parades were robbed of $4,000 worth OF
diamonds and watches by a Boston thief
named Charles Donnely.
The Board of Trustees of the South
Carolina University has decided to have i've
additional professorships at salary of
s., 900 each. The extra chairs will be filled
in May.
Baton Rouge is now the capital of
Louisiana.
A man S. years old and woman IS,
who live in the lower part of Dawson Coun-
| ty, Georgia, recently ran away and got mar
| ried.
The restitution in some parts of Adair
| County, Kentucky, is reported to be so
great that the County Court will have to
grant relief to two or three hundred OF the
| Inhabitants. Corn is selling in Adair at So
per barrel.
| The Theological Seminary for colored
people, near Natchez, Miss, has 135 stu
| dents.
Thomas Miller, of Harrison County,
Kentucky, an industrious, Woodworking
man and the father Of twelve children, has
discovered himself to be the only living heir
] to an estate in Lexington worth $50 900.
Strawberries are selling at Savannah,
Ga, at fifty cents box.
A Texan offers 100 acres Of land to
every family of Jewish exies that will move
to the Lone Star State.
Georgia will not produce over 100000
bales of cotton this year, against $4,000 in
1880.
The ladies of Tuscaloosa, Ala, have
placed neat headstones over most OF the
graves of Confederate soldiers buried there.
Messrs. Cawthon & Coleman, Of Sell
ma, Ala, exhibit pig about foot long,
which has perfectly shaped head, TWO
tongues, two bodies, two fore legs and six
hind legs.
One hundred and sixty acres of land
will be given to the person securing the
largest number of articles for exhibition at
/ The Florida State Fair.
The Texas Stockmen's Convention
met few days ago at Austin. Hon. j. f.
Miller, of Gonzales, was chosen President,
and VIM Lambert, of Austin, Secretary.
The Kennedy Pasture Company, with
capital stock of ST, 900, 900, has obtained
charter at Austin, Tex. 1t Is the intention
to inclose immense tracts of land IN Nueces
and Cameron Counties, and conduct gen.
eral ranch business.
Some Chicago capitalists are nego-
tiating for the purchase OF 13,oo0 acres OF