The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-08-27
The States.
LOUISIANA.

Jack Doyle, an escaped convict
with several aliases, was captured
in New Orleans lately.
Crops are promising in st. He
lena. Corn abundant, and NO
sign of the worm in cotton.
The crop of cane, both plant and
stubble in Assumption, is a full
average one. Corn prospects are
very good.
All the Instructions to the nav
igatiOn OF the Teche, between New
Iberia and st. Martinsville, have
been removed.
The health of Pointe Coupee
parish has been remarkably good.
The few fever cases are mild and
easily managed.
DIR. B. G. Wren, Quarantine of
ticer at this port, has been remov-
ed. DR.. NJ. A. Roach, a resident
physician of Pattersonville, has
taken his place.
The rain has caused cotton to
shed its forms in some parts of
Avoyelles parish, but the Register
thinks there will be a larger crop
than can be gathered.
The Homer Had says: Crops
in this section were never better.
The corn crop is made, and moth
ing but the worm OF too much
rain can prevent good yield of
cotton.
THE CHINESE CoMING.-Mr.
Shaffer expects to have twenty
five or thirty Chinese laborers on
his plantation four miles above
Franklin before sugar making.
Let the rats take warning!
The Perseverance Rice Mills,
on the coast below New Orleans,
were entirely consumed by fire on
the 9TH inst. They were the fin
est in the country. and were erect
ed at a large expense two years
ago.
On the 30th ult., a number of
young men were bathing in Bayou
LafOurche, when one Henry Hill,
who was unable to swim, sank in
a hole. His brother went to his
assistance, but reached him only
to sink with him.
The Pointe Coupee Echo says
that the cotton crop Of that parish
can not possibly be a full one this
year. The crop has been back
ward, and under the influence of
the recent wet weather it is she'd
ding its forms to an alarming ex-
tent; besides being destroyed by
rust and rot, Modal
The Homer Iliad says that in
going from Monroe to New Or
leans by rail, you leave the former
place at five in in the morning,
and reach the latter at two the
following night. The line from
Monroe to Vicksburg is in good
running order, and has the best
passenger car on the line to. New
Orleans. .r. .. ."s.
The Franklin Banner says: The
corn crop in this portion of Louisi-
ana is generally good. Some plan
tiers did not give space enough to
corn, and gave too much to cane
and cotton and the grass worm
did considerable damage to the
late corn, but generally the corn
crop is good, and we hope the sup
ply for the country will be ample.
Governor Warmoth has pardon
ed John Evans, late tax collector
of Tangipahoa parish, who was
sentenced by the Sixth Judicial
District Court to one year in the
State Penitentiary, it having been
proved that there was no embez-
element, but only the irregular
payment of three or four hundred
dollars on the order Of the Presi-
dent of the Police Jury.
THE SUGAR CROP.-The sugar
cane in the Attakapas parishes
and st. Landry is generally fine,
and it is growing finely. The
prospects for an excellent crop
have rarely been better. The
grass worm stripped portion of
some fields, but the cane was but
little injured. These worms have
entirely disappeared. The proba-
bility is that the harvest in all this
region of country will be abundant.
The cotton crop is decidedly
promising in the Attakapas parish
es and st. Landry. In st. Landry
it was never finer. The cotton
worm has not yet done any harm.
The miller has appeared, suppos-
ed to be the cotton worm miller,
but it is not certain that it is not
anothor hind II 10 now fha fnDth