St. Landry democrat., 1883-06-09
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

The Executive Committee of the Cot.
ton Planters Association met by special
request at the State House at Memphis
Tenn, few days ago. It's business re.
| lated principally to the Worlds Industrial
| and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be
| held at New Orleans next year. The com
mittee confirmed it's six United States Com.
| missioners whose names will be forwarded,
| together with the seven selected by the City
of New Orleans, to the President of the
United States for appointment as members
of the United States Board of Manage.
ment.
The largest sale of Georgia gold lands
ever made has been consummated in Lon.
don, Eng. Negotiations between Dr.J Josiah
Curtis, of Washington, D. c., the repre-
sentative Of the Nacoochee Mining Com.
pany, and an English company have been
pending for several months past and have
resulted in the purchase Of nearly eight
thousand acres.
Two men at Monroe, Ga, made away
with los oranges one evening recently, one
devouring fifty-fve and the other fifty
three The affair began in contest to see
who could eat the most, the loser to pay
for all.
The Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service has established quaran.
tine station at Pensacola, Fla.
The cotton mills at Admission, Ala,
have lately shipped thousand bales Of
goods to China, and have orders for six
hundred more.
The Texas Treasury is certainly in q
very healthful condition. A recent inven
tory showed the following condition: Cash,
$215,OO0; school fund bonds, $5,00O,000; uni
yersity and asylum fund, 100000; land
notes, S3,500,00o; university land notes.
$250,000. This makes grand total in
Treasury of S12,000,000 in actual cash and
valuable securities.
The press of Georgia is commenting
upon the increase of lunacy in that State
especially among the. colored people, and
the lack of facilities for the proper care
and treatmant of insane persons.
The Post-office at Forney Station,
Tex, was entered by burglars the other
night and robbed of seventy dollars worth
of stamps and about 500 in money.
the stern and side propellers, a recent in.
vention at Dallas, Tex, was placed in
tank of water, steam raised, and the stern
propeller first put in motion. 1t crossed the
tank in 10h seconds. Then all three
were set going, when the tiny ship crossed
in six seconds. Thus the speed was in.
creased forty-five per cent. and the fact
demonstrated (apparently) that steam
ship which crosses the Atlantic in sever
days can with this new attachment cross ii
in four. The inventor is confident of in.
creasing the speed of steamships sixty pei
cent. 1t runs much faster with the side
than with the stern propellers, and runs
away with the stern wheel working in re-
verse.
Chief-Justice Waite has rendered
decision in the Greenbriar tVa.) White
Sulphur Springs case, sustaining the action
of Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit
Court, in appointing Receiver for the en-,
tire property, with the exception of two
tween the hotel proper and the Chesapeake
g. Ohio Railroad Depot. Estimated value
of these two acres Sc, 100000.
The old stone mansion situated in
Thoroughfare Gap, Va, which had been in
the possession of the Chapman family for
over one hundred years, was destroyed re.
Gently by fire occasioned by defect in
flue.
The Washington Artillery, battal-
ion of historic fame in the Mexican and |
civil wars, held the twenty-second anniyer.
sary of its setting out for the seat of war in
Virginia by public parade and dinner in /
New Orleans, La, q few days ago. One of !
the features was the presenting of the |
original battle flag of the Virginia army to |
the battalion by Judge Alfred Roman in
behalf of General Beauregard. t
Mrs. Lena Rapp, an aged German
woman, of Louisville, KY, was killed by |
the other night. Her husband, in
the same room, was uninjured.
The boiler in a saw mill in Water.
ford, Spencer County, KY, exploded few
days ago, fatally wounding several work.
men and instantly killing John Purcell,
owner of the mill.
The past week closed the strawberry
shipping season at Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t
has reached 600,O 900 pounds.
An old resident Of Hot Springs, Ark,
says the supply of hot water has more than
doubled in thirteen years.
A man and three boys were acct.
ientally drowned at Martins Ferry, w.
Va, the other day, by team the man was
driving in the river becoming unmanage.
able.
At a recent contest in Mobile, Ala,
for the twelve largest and heaviest heads
If cabbage the winner produced twelve
heads weighing 212 pounds.
At Waco, Tex, recently, Fred sche.