The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-28
LOUISIANA.
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ut uuetteb lOths III DAsAINp arc Nuo law
yers and preachers.
Planters are making hay while the sun
shines ere toe rains fsll.
The crop of cotton in DeSoto parish is es-
timsttd NJ about one-half
New Iberia will soon be pu. in telegrsphic |
commune cation with Alexandria.
The drcu,h was so severe in North Louis
isnS Us to kill many OF the dogwood trees
Bayou Pierre, lake and river, we're never
known 10 DO SO low as they were few days
sgo.
Covington is not fast town. but the races /
Of all kinds are popular with tho people f.
there.
A street railway company is 10 be organ.
lied N Baton Rouge with a capital stock of
$50 900
The DeSoto Democrat prsdic,a that Mans
field merchants will handle 10000 bales OF
cotton this season.
Mr.. d A. Bsrrosse, pari,h clerk of st.
Bernard. accidentally wounded himself in
the foot with gun.
Much regret is expressed in Baton Rouge
al the death Of Mrs w. II. Wood, which
occurred on the 1871.
DeSoto is in fair financial condition.
Amount of scrip outstanding is only S2l So
The rate of taxation is eight mills.
Now doth the frugal farmer upsoot his
garden patch and plant the hardy vegetables
that may withstand tho wihLsr frosts
The country papers are advising farmers
to plant oats, rye, turnips, etc, 10 meet the
deticienci ID the supply of corn, etc.
The workmen on the state capitol will
shortly commence the erection OF the i'm
mense iron keep cast in Shskspesr's foundry
The bogus insurance agent Hsrwen, alias
Howard, arrested in Shreveport lately, at
tempted To commit suicide with morphine,
but was prevented.
The tollowlug named people from New
O'esns wee Registered in Shreveport on tho
l3.b: W j Hardee, VIM q Master, IT,, EEI
Moiss and wife, Jno BieIry.
A Texan was lately in Opelousss buying
bones t,r Galveston mills. He paid 90 cents
per 100 pounds, ard large part OF the pop
uIatlon are engaged in making bone collec>
tions.
Al attempt WAS made recently to burn
tho stores OF Messrs. Knight and Millot of
ST. Msrtinsvlle. Had it been successful it
ia probable the whole town would have been
destroyed.
Gretna Courier: The rice crops of this
parish, 81 Charles ST John, ST James, AS
censlon and lberviils are the best ever made,
and the season for harvesting could not have
been bst,er.
The sugar plantres are taking stringent
measures W check the stealing OF sugar cane
from their fields, a practice which Is carried
on to great extent ind entails much loss
to the pl4ulere.
Mr. N th4nicl Windsor, respected resi-,
dent If Il ks CHARLES for several CATS, went
back to | diam expecting to reside there
permanently. But ho has now returned TO
Loke Charles with his family.
A committee of citizens Of Clinton, DR.. L
u. Perkins chairman are sctivolv engaged in
raising money TO pay the expenses Of pre-
limnary survey for tbs route of the proposed
railway from Chiffon to NaChtz
Hundreds of deer have been driven to the
swamp of Grant Parish by lack of water in
the hills, There they are msssscred by the
hunters. The time is not far distant when
deer will be rare in this state unless the
game law is made very stringent.
MISSISSIPPI.
NaiChez is TO have an ice factory.
The real estate of Jackson is valued at
1868 2l5
The tax lew in Pamela county this yesr is
$40 un the III 900.
Mr.. 7. A Vests, an old citizen of Lau-
derdale county, is dead.
Vick.burg received 1862 bales of cotton
from september lsJ to the 18th
Pike county democracy has Endorsed La,
mar for the Uriled States senate,
Cotton is selling In Sands from 10 "a to
II IL cents with prices declining
Ote of the election precincts in Adams
county is known US Dead Mans Bend.
The Vcksburg Herald says cotton pick
era are numerous al 30 cents per hundred.
Mississippi has only thirty towns aud
cities with population of 600 or over.
A Summit Young lady has piano manu.
featured in 1910. 1t is lot yet played out.
There will be fair crop of cotton in
Pike county, and iwo-thrd crop of corr.
BY the new code the game law, so far ss il
Iels'es TO birds, remains in force I'm Il Octo-
Der Isl,
The water in Yszoo river during the
drouth waS very clear and could b. torded
in some places
Vlcksburg ia the Of y citv IN the state that
conS ins over 10 900 Inhabitants, it's popula.
tion bel 1854.
The events developed By the canvass, go
fa-, in Mississippi indicates sweeping viCto.
ry for Gen Lowry.
A colored democratic club hss been or,
ganized at Pleasant Hill, Rankin county,
formerly republican stronghold.
Tho evidence that the negro boy Parish
was the murderer of Gan w. 4. Tucker. of
0kolons, is said to DO very strong
GIL Lamsr's sptccses during tho canvass
have been very popular with the ladies. who
want him reelected to tho senate.
The building for the oyster canning fac.
tory nj Biloxi has hoen completed, and tho
machinery will shortly be put into II.
Toe practice of selling stolen seed cotton
has b'en revived ia some counties. and The
planters arc tskitg steps to suppress 1t.
Business men of Louisville ara supplyinp
Mississippi merchants with FREQ railroad
tickets, in the hope OF capturing their Gus
tom.
Cheering intelligence has been received in