The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-11-25

Politics, CROPS. cATEHru.LARs, MAILS.
heavy EMlsRzzLENENT, scHooLs.


Goth. comes out for Greeley and Brown
and for the united State ticket. It says
of the latters All tho candidates.. whose
Inen and are Lenisianians, either hy
bsiieve that Il this TICKET TIT Is successful
sTatioa viii dawn ON Louisiana and that
tration TO which she has been brought
carpet-bag Government. which has been
imposed upon her by and with tho as
sistance of the Executive of the United
Mr.. j. A. veasey has been tried at Yer
milionyille for killing q. Il, Cline, and
that he acted in self-defense.
The Advertiser says: Mr.. @. III. Moutou
anu MIR. Alex, BreauA hayo bro,sss ss,t, siiis.
new cotton, raised on their farms near
yermilionville. These gentlemen say
that, from tho appearance of their crops,
they will soon commence to pick cotton.
The cotton crop III this parish is very
The Lake Charles Echo. of tho 18th.
We learn with regret that the cater
pillar Is destroying the cotton ON Grand
Chsniere, Cameron parish.
The Democratio-ReformC Club of Ope-
ios,sas was TO meet GU the Goth, for the
purpose of organizing.
hoists the. full Greeley aud Brown and
the united State ticket, and Is doing
stout yeoman's service therefor.
The Courier complains of the mail
service between New Orleans and Ope-
lonsas. 1t says; Scarcely q week passes
that there is not one or more faiiare;
Wednesdays mail New Orleans papers
that that. We're due her here last SATURDAY but
mails from last week which have not
gprned up yet. 1t is Thought the defect
lies in the acknowledgements of some of
The New iberia Sugar Bowl, of the
18th, commences the publication of u
Terrebonne, based ON the EDITORS per-
sonal inspection. Twenty-three planta-
| tions on Bayou Black, from near tho
Bayou Chacahoula, report 3ig9 acres in
cane, 1851 acres in corn. and 3S4 hands
se aIpS ss Last year these PLACES pre-
belonging to Col; w. Y. Blaskferd, o.
and Tnae ts sse of tha
largest plantations in Terrebonne parish.
The editor says:
exceptions the crop is very good. That
district will make much larger sugar
| crop than last year, and moro corn than
though very good the latter crop is not
| equal to that of Attakapas, as the lands
are not as well adapted to corn,
corn crops are reported good.
There wac to be n grand Democratic
unesting ut New Iberia on the goth.
The Sugar Planter, besides noting the
, advent of thieves and burglars since the
opening of the railroad, reports that a
nasd n9 snS
the confidence of the people along the
line of the route, obtained from them
from $4,000 to $1,000. under pretense
tract he had secured. He then disnp-
peared mud no one knows what has be-
The Houma Patriot formerly a Repub.
lican paper Is for Greeley and Brown
tor Presid 81 and Vice Pf S aud
strongly Liberal Republican.
Mr.. II. Il. Stoddard, Division Superin
tendent of the SECOND school Division
while in Houma the other day. informec
the Patriot that the public schools n
Terrebopne parish will remain close,
the B aaTs ha aTs ipny tss
urer, and Anthony Drayton has beer
elected IN his place.
Gov. Warmoth has just appointed
new Police Jury for the parish of Terre
honne, as follows: Col. ID. $. Cage, Capt
William Bislnnd, I; Il. BRENT, III. Viala
and William A. Sbatfer.
The Patriot, of Goth, says: The crop
are with one or two exceptions very fine
the corn crop is more than abundant
and made, therefore il out of all danger
The sugar cane is excellent and promises
an abundant yield. There are but tire,
plantations that will make less than wa,
Tho Opelousas Journal, of goth, says
The crops are rs. good as can be, nothing
Ike 1t since the war. We have heard
rumors of the appearance of the cater
pillars in one or two observation-disclosures, but
| not in sufficient force to do any damage.
| The present indications are that we will
| have dry weather, which, 10 ia thought
will save the cotton from caterpillars, il
IL was otherwise n caterpillar year.
The teachers of the public schools, oil
Tensas parish have organized n Teach
ers, Association, of which II. A. Barbour
il President and IL LANCE Secretary.
The Vidalia tConcordia parish) Herald
reports the late copious rains as unfavor.
able to the crops. The genuine cotton
worm il reported as having made it's up
pearance. The Herald says:
The croDs are not as good rs we were
led to suppose, from conversations with
planters from various sections of tn,
parish. From personal inspection oil
fields in different localities we find the
stand poor, and in buckshot land the
plant is very inferior, having yellow
sickly look. The most part of many
\ fields we examined tine plant had only
| put forth the two top leaves. The yield
| of cotton for this parish does not promise
large.
The st. Francisville Republican, of the
| 18th, says:
The prospects for large crop of cottor
| were never more brilliant in West Felic
lana than at present. Should the arm,
worms visit this section, much harm
would result, as nearly one-half of tin
cotton Ia yet young.
The death, at Baton Rouge, onithe 18th
of the late John II. Dufrocq, formerl
| editor and DrOuri Ptnr 1f fine Rn tnn Ron a,