Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-06-09
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LOCAL MATTERS.
The Railroad Landing.

net to hear the views VI y huSe - II.
lennard, the Attorney and q Director
,f the N. O. Pacific Railway Company,
Degrading an ordinance submitted by
President Wheelock, wherein the Com
bany seek to obtain the lease Of GER
ain portions Of river front and batture-.
for o landing for a transfer boat and a
railroad depot.
Judge Keunard desired to preface his
remarks by the statement that he was
n no way authorized to confer with the
3Council on the subject under considera-
tion. He desired merely,as friend Of the
Company, to know what were the OBJ
EectionS, if any, to the adoption OF the
ordinance.
Several objections were made known
TO him by the Mayor and CouncI!men,
who, however, expressed their willing
mess to facilitate the Company as far as
the engagements of the City towards
pther parties would permit.
Judge Kennard spoke Of the self-evi-
dent probability that the N, o. Pacific
Company, after its main line is finished,
will strive to bring to it as many feeders
hs possible, and that one starting from
Baton Rouge, passing through the rich
cotton counties of Mississippi, would be,
in his opinion, the most desirable to
the Company. In support Of his views
he pointed to the Arkansas road, which
the Company had commenced to build
from Alexandria to Little Rock, which
In about twelve months would give di-
rect line to st. Louis, west Of the Mis-
sissippi.
Baton Rouge, the Judge added, was
most favorably situated and would doubt
less be an important objective point for
the great feeder he had mentioned. He
therefore asked the Council not to look
on the branch road across the river as
the end of the undertaking Of his Com
pany. The future, he believed, would
soon bring about developments of great
or magnitude.
At the close Of Judge Kennard's re-
marks, the Council deferred action on
the ordinance until further conference
is had with the officers of the Company.
THE CATERpILLAR.- The Advocate con-
tains note from DR.. K. II. Day, stating
that the genuine caterpillar has appear.
ed on the Guy Samueps plantation, sit
uated in the upper part Of the parish.
II instead of the grass worm it turns out
to be the worm destroyer, then the cot
ton planters might as well chang up the
fiddle and the bow and go to planting
corn, potatoes, peas, raise poultry, hogs,
sheep, stock, and in fact do that, which
to great extent, they should have
been doing for theirs and the States
good for very many years past. We
don't know but what the coming of the
cotton destroyer, at this time, would
prove blessing is disguise. We can't
see much prosperity in the policy of
stalking everything OIL cotton crop at
eight cents a pound, with which the
producer buys his provisions from the
prosperous Western farmer.
The weather since Sunday, has been
as hot as blazes, q foretaste of what
we'll all have to undergo till we strike
the cool Autumn Northers. It's no use
to complain either, so that body must
take things philosophically and when
hi, goes to the corner-tell Jake not to
put toobig a stick in those "grand yer.
res of settler lemonade that he serves
iee-cold to his patients, Brethren, let
US keep cool
The Natchitoches indicator, has
arisen from the ashes of the late contla,
CATION, handsomer than ever and full OF
ardor and hopeful anticipations Of its
career alongside the coming prosperity
Of the burg whose bugle it sounds with
anything else but the lungs of con
sumptive patient. Any man endowed
with Cosgrove's vim deserves success