The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-06-24
LOUISIANA GLEANINGs.

A case Of death by sunstroke in New
Orleans on the 10th.
! A good saddler and a shoemaker
are wanted at MarksviIle.
Fine rains last week in Bossier par,
ish has insured good crops.
Caddo parish has taken the prize fol
the first bale of new cotton.
| Mr.. Ogden's revenue bill passed the
house by vote of so to 21.
Crops in Sabine parish are well ad
vanced and in good condition.
New oats are selling at Farmerville
at from $l.25 to $l.50 per hundred.
| A. NJ. Gremillion, editor of the Re,
view, has been chosen mayor of Marks,
vile.
Lafourche parish, says the Sentinel,
will raise the largest crop she has
grown for many years.
Tom Gaddison, colored, who mur,
dered his wife in Caddo parish, last
week, has been captured.
Mr.. James Marks, one of the old
land marks of Bossier parish, died at
Marshall, Texas, on the 18th.
The Iberia Star, among the best
country papers in the state, enters upon
its third year with increased patronage.
Jas. A. Groves has a call in the
Democrat for the people of Ope!ousas
to meet and organize temperance So
ciety.
Keiffer d Gardner, cotton factors of
New Orleans, made an assignment last
week. Their liabilities are reported to
be $4,000.
The feast of Corpus Christi was Gel
ebrated in becoming manner at Able
vile. The procession consisted of nearly
5000 persons.
The postmaster at Houma has in
Cured the wrath of the editor of the
Times of that place, for failing to open
his Office before noon on Sunday.
Peter Hill, colored farmer of St.
Landry parish, has twenty acres of
cotton with ninety bolls to the stalk.
Our authority for this item is the St.
Landry Democrat.
The authorities of Union parish have
asked for sealed proposals for the sale
of not less than 100 nor more than
800 acres of land, to be used as a poor
farm. Good for Union.
The Iong-vexed question of the Hou-
ma land claims seems to be set at rest
after three-quarters of a century of lit
igation. Judge Billings decided that
Slidells claim was without legal basis.
Mr.. Guillotte has signally failed to
substantiate his charge of bribery
against Representative Aitken. As the
matter now stands Mr.. Guillotte is
placed in a very unfavorable attitude.
Dave Young, the negro elected to
the lower house of the Legislature from
Concordia, has been declared inelligi-
BILE. He swears vengeance and says
that the people will hear from him in
1884.
The Catholic church at Shreveport
was robbed of some of its valuables,
recently. The thief, who gave his
name as Louis Demond, and who was
captured, claims to hail from New
Iberia.
The Donaldsonville Chief reports
the arrival of tow of logs that cov-
cred -four and three-quarter acres of
room. 1t contained 1851 tiers, 800 of
which were cottonwood and the bal
ance cypress.
One of our patent-outside contem-
poraries comes to us with its patent
pages dated May ID, while its home
production bears the date Of June 10. !
This is one of the beauties of the CO.
operative plan.
Mr.. Alfred Gondrau, a citizen of |
Iberia parish, committed suicide the |
other day. He had been heavy
looser by the floods, aud this preyed |
upon his mind until he became par
italy deranged. |
Opeloasas Courier: The Jail has been |
finished, delivered and accepted, and |
presents very handsome appearance,
both internally and externally. It's |
strength is as reliable as its architec
ture is imposing.
Washington Argus The corn crop |
is now safe and very fair one. Cotton
on the highlands, which suffered much |
from the cool weather of May, is i'm
proving, and the late cotton, especially |
ia the oyerfowed districts, is doing
finely.
To a reporter of the City Item,
Oscar Wilde said, during the course of
an interview: /" ] am ever SO much
desirous Of seeing your Creole women
] understand they are very beautiful"
We trust the aesthetic youths curiosity |
was gratiiied.
In the State Senate, on Friday,
bill was passed making it a crime TO
fraudulently sell or dispose of any
crop or movables whereby the pledge
or privilege TO any condition under
written contract duly recorded is i'm
paired or defeated, and providing pun
ishment for same.
The Baton Rouge Capitolian says in
every quarter Of that city mechanics
eau be seen repairing or building. This