St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-03-11
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

represented Ill lue pfoCeSSlOll, Which, w hs
| honored in various ways on its route from
the church to the grave, even the brokers
quitting the stock exchange to stand uncov
cred on the sidewalk as it passed by. Mrs.
| Haughery was of humble origin, uneducat-
| ed, and had boosted of never wearing 4 silk
| dress or kid glove; but she was famous
sla beloved as Il friend of the poor children
of Louisiana. Many years ago she nursed Il
| dying man. He had little property, which
he left to her for charity. She bought with
the money cheap eating house and bakery
| on the river front, and sold wholesome food
| to steamboat laborers at little more than
cost. "She gave them roll and cup OF
coffee for . cents, to keep them from spend
ing quarter for whisky" says the account.
sand they took the roll and coffee, and then
spent 20 cents for whisky all the same. -
The business prospered, and she might have
accumulated wealth; but she established
| and partly maintained three orphan asylums
| with the profits, and died rich only in repu-
tation.
There are six sreaches'' in the Mis-
| sissippi between Cairo and New Orleans
where navigation is difficult, and the River
Commission has begun work on two of
| them; Plum Point reach, which begins 145
below Cairo, and is thirty eight miles long
with seven shadows, and Lake Providence
reach, Ala miles further south, and twenty
five miles long with six shadows. The wa
ter Is shallow because the stream is wide,
OF course, and the plan Of the Commission
is simply to deepen it by narrowing the
channel. To do this structures are placed
at the sides to partly stop the current so that
sediment will be deposited and finally new
banks formed. Their work is still largely
experimental.
In Palatka, Fla, within the last three
months vacant lots have advanced SO per
| cent. and improved property at least 80 per
cent. on the last years rates.
The cotton factories at Columbus,
Ga, have capital of 81. 96s, 900, give en-
ployment to $3.50 hands, and consume H.
$50 bales of cotton annually.
Some since the Chattanooga (Tenn.)
City Council passed an ordinapce appointing
two men in each ward to kill out the English
| sparrows. 1t has developed that the ordi-
nance is illegal.
In Birmingham, Ala, one night re-
Gently, the police captured and placed in
the caaboose married woman in male at
tire. She was out in disguise, so she said in
the Mayors Court the following morning, to
see if she could discover her husband and
learn where he spent his time.
An effort to purchase the United
States Arsenal in Augusta, Ga, as site for
hotel has failed, as the Federal authorities
were unwilling to sell, the arsenal being the
only one left in the entire South east of the
Mississippi.
Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina, is
dead.
The Exposition cotton factory at At
lanta, Ga, will start with 10000 spindles,
to be increased to 10000, and with looms
sufficient to weave the yarn for all spindles
employed.
The Alice iron furnaces, at Birming-
ham, Ala, cleared $4,000 in January.
By new fast mail service all points
in Florida will be reached twenty-four to
thirty-siX hours sooner.
1t is reliably stated that the Porter
Rifles, of Nashville, Tenn, will during the
spring or summer issue challenge to drill
against any military company in the United
States for any amount. They anticipate
some tough work, both at Nashville and at
Louisville, if prize drill is inaugurated at
the latter place this spring, after which they
propose to 60 on to New York and challenge
the Seventh Regiment, or any other COM
| pany in the State.
The Hessian fly is playing havoc with
many Georgia oat fields.
Gainesville, Fla, has more visitors
this season than usual.
Dalton, Ca. will soon be the location
for an immense car factory. Northern capt.
tai is at the back of this new enterprise.
The widow OF President Polk, says
the american, of Nashville, has not the
| means to keep up the home left to her by
her husband in trust for the State OF Ten
| nessee.
Florida shell mounds are mines of
| wealth. They contain the richest kind of
calcareous mari.
After three attempts, Mechanicsville
has voted to be annexed to Knoxville, Tenn,
which will swell that city's population 3,0OO
and give it 12,94O inhabitants.
A few months ago piece of mineral
land in Murphree's Valley, Ala, was bought
for S., 900. On the 18th ult., a half interest
was sold in it for $50 600.
| There seems to be fearful state OF
impoverishment in Texas. The state mas
S., ZOO, ZOO in her treasury, and is not able
to have safe place of deposit for the
money.
There are /, 100 blacks and 115 whites
in the Georgia Penitentiary.
Sturgeon fishing in the waters around
Georgetown, S. G., has become large and
profitable industry. About one hundred
men are employed in the business, and large
quantities of sturgeon meat are shipped to
| Charleston in kegs every week.