The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1878-07-25
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Bienville has instructed her
five delegates, to vote for a Com
stitutional Convention Marks,
VilIe Bulletin,
We have been blessed this week
with fine weather in this section,
and our planters have taken
advantage Of it to kill the grass
in their Crops.-P0inte C0Wpee
Pelican,
The Natchitoches indicator
states that white immigration to
the parish has been steadily on
tae increase for two years past,
ssi il has been ever since the war.
IA large amount of land has been
opened in the hill portions of the
parish, while the white popula-
lions of the river sections has
lncE sed to almost, if not quite,
double since 1866. ..
6uperintendent Lusher, in an
interview with a Democrat
reporter, gave the following gratis
tying report of the State Univer>
sitss
State University and Agri-
ealtfFal College at Baton Rouge
Wd be undoubtedly a success.
! attended by upwards OF
eighty cadets, most of whom are
young men between fifteen and
eighteen years Of age, enjoying
excellent practical instruction at
the hands of a corps of very able
professors. They are all taught
practically.
GERMAN MILLETT.-Dg. Il, Il.
Gray presented the Echo last Mon
day with a stalk of German mils
lett, raised in Lake Charles, four
feet long, with one of the heads
larger and better filed than any
we ever saw before. 1t is one of
the most productive and valuable
OF all grasses for stock, aud one
OF the most easily raised. 1t is
extensively cultivated in Western
Texas, and in several Southern
States east Of the Mississippi river
1t will probably do better in Louis.
lana than anywhere else, and we
advise our farmers to give it a
trial. 1t will give at least three
tons to the acre.-Lake Charles
Echo.
The Local Board of Swami
Land Commissioners meets in
Thibodaux tosday to take into
consideration the proposition of
the Chicago Draining Company
TO drain the lands lately donated
TO Lafourehe and Terrebonne,
From what can be learned the
offer is very generous, and it is
more than probable that it will
be accepted. The company pro.
pose doing the work in ninety
days.-Iorreboae Progress.
The jailer of Carroll Parish.
one Conn. Mcclure, while returns
ing from the Jail towards his home
was murdered in the Court yard
at Lake Providence on the night
Of the Sd inst. 1t appears he
was held by one party while his
body was riddled with pistol balls
by another, No clue has vet
been obtained as to whom the
guilty parties are. The Conser-
vative Of that place. prOnonnoes
the deceased q worthy, useful and
industrious Citizen.-PGTiot Dem. |
ocrat.
Baptiste Lafeur, sentenced at
the last session of the District
Court of Lafourche seven years
to the penitentiary for attempting
to Kill merchant Smith, and now
10 Jail awaiting the decision of
the Supreme Court, to which an
appeal has been taken, tried 10
break through the wall of the iaiI.
The poor fellow had forgotten
that between the double brick
wall there was an iron fence. For
his Ignorance, he il now ironed
to the floor ene6oaae Progress
Morgan's Louisiana aud Texas
railroad charge 80 per thousand
feet freight for lumber shipped
TO Houma, a distance of about
eighty miles, and only IS per
thousand on that shipped to 81.
Martinsville, a distance of n
HUNDRED and City miles. His
charges on sugar and molasses
sent to New Orleans in the winter
arc almost double what thew we're
when freights were Skinned
through the canals and bayoas.
The Houma branch Railroad
was built by The citizens II
Terreboane parish, and vet
the freight to Houma is three
times as much as that to a town
twice the distance from New
Orleans. This is what the plan,
ters get in return f0F building
Il railroad and giving IL 10 pri1
vate individual, and allowing all
means of communication 10
he closed Icfrt5aRRe Pyoggess.
THIY IIfh.