The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-09-15
In Other Parishes.
A water famine prevails at Alex

CcmpcTauCo CduSc Is Idpiuly iuCItdS
ing in Sparta.
The merchants of Vienna are lib
eral advertisers, aud the Sentinel is
greatly rejoiced thereat.
| Pointe Coupee Banner, 3rd inst
"Sugar cane is beginning to look as
if it were ripening. This is rather
too early.n
The most experienced planter in
Caldwell parish says that the yield
of cotton will not be over one-thirtl
Of crop.
The Bulletin says the railroad
bridge will be completed across the
Ouachita river, at Monroe, by the
first of next January.
And the Bulletin now stands up
and claims for Monroe a larger mum
Der of pretty y. Ing ladies than any
other town in North-Louisiana.
On recent visit to that town the
editor of the Morehouse Clarion
sfound Monroe merchants with long
faces-as long as their yard sticks"
"Indeed the newsis gloomy" says
the Claiborne Guardian. off not
starvation, privation will be the por-
ton of very many in this portion of
Louisiana"
Sparta Times, 3rd: "Cotton is
coming in slowly. In some portions
of the parish hardly any will be
made; in others nearly half crop is
anticipated.n
|. DeSoto Democrat: "The crimi-
nal docket at the next term of the
court will be large one-in fact we
doubt if it can be cleared. It is the
heaviest we have had for years.
The New Orleans Times says the
rice crop in Plaquemines parish this
year is unusually fine; the yield sur
passes all expectations, and the
quality is said to be better than in
former years.
Bastrop Clarion: "Most of the
farmers need many new rails, fences
repaired, old bitches cleaned out
and new ones opened, little patches
of woods in fields cleared no and
such like. Now will be the time to
do it.n
On the night of the 31st of August,
Joe Caleb, colored, was taken out of
the Vernon, jackson parish Jail, and
hung by mob. Caleb was charged
with and confessed having attempt.
ed to burn the residence of Mr.. Full
Ter, citizen of jackson.
Marksville Bulletin: 1.-THE i'm.
provements now in progress in this
town and in every nook and corner
of the parish are full proof of the
prosperity Of the people, and justify
our boast that Avoyelles is not only
the garden spot of Louisianat but
the Eden of the South.n
Colfax Chronicle, 3rd: 1.-THE rail-
road is completed from Alexandria
to Cotile. Ten days more will see
the gap closed that separates Alex
andria from New Orleans. The work |
above here goes steadily ahead, and |
is now completed to a point two
miles this side Of Spring Hill, in the
parish of Sabine.n
Claiborne Guardian, 7th: "We
learn that fire has gotten out in the |
woods in certain portions of the par
ish and is sweeping everything be.
fore it, in some places destroying
the fences from around the yet I'm.
gathered crops. In Bossier parish |
also we learn that the woods are |
being swept by fire."
In the southeast corner Of Calca.
sieu those who planted rice early are
now harvesting, and the indications |
are that the yield will be satisfacto-
~. The late rice, where a supply of
water has been kept, looks fine, and |
will, says correspondent of the |
Lake Charles Commercial, produce
IL to 1S bushels ner acre.