The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-07-08
LOUISIANA GLEANENGs.

The prisoners of the Coushatta Jail
made their escape last week.
Corn is going to be so plentiful this
fall that rybody can afford to have
fat stock.
The Washington Argus speaks cheer
ingIy of the crop outlook of St. Lam
dry parish.
Taken as a whole, the cotton crop of
Louisiana can be set down as ten per
cent. greater than last year.
Jules Roland, white man, was run
over by the cars, near Washington. 1t
is the old story, drunk and asleep on
the track.
On Friday, the fourth day of next
August, Jack Chapman, negro muir
derer, will be hung at Bellevue, Bos
sier parish.
A bill has passed both branches of
the legislature establishing the parish
seat of the parish of Livingston at
Centerville.
No further cases of yellow fever at
New Orleans, and not the slightest ap-
prehensiOn is entertained of an epi-
demic this season.
Notwithstanding the damage done
by the scale insect, Mr.. J. n. Rebi-
chaux, of Terrebonne parish, sold his
orange crop for $500.
There is a big squabble going on
over the Shreveport postoftice. There
are about a dozen applicants and each
one swears he will get it.
A new paper, the New Orleans Work
man, has made its appearance. 1t is
designed as an organ for the laboriDg
classes. 1t deserves success.
A. Gomez, who killed Mr.. Defosat
Guedry, some two years ago, at a pub
lie ball in Assumption parish, bas sur
rendered to the authorities and been
released on bond.
Only $4,000. This is all the IegisIa-
ture thought the state able to afford
toward the establishment of home for
MANNED and INDECENT Louisiana SOL
diers. Liberal, indeed
If the effort now being made at
Washington to abolish the tariff on
sugar is successful, Louisiana planters
will be heavy losers. Consumers, how
ever, will be the gamers.
As high as $75 and 800 per acre
has been offered and refused for lands
in TerrebonDe parish. The Times says
"crops in the lower portion of the
parish are magnificent"
District court adjourned at Franklin
last Friday. Nine convictions for the
pcHitentiary and two for the parish
prison was the result of the term. The
entire eleven were colOred.
Congressman Robertson and Senator
Jonas are endeayoring to secure for the
Louisiana State University and Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, lease
at a nominal price Of the United States
barracks at Baton Rouge.
St. Landry Democrat: This section
has been visited by copious showers of
rain, which will do much toward de-
yeloping the late corn crop. We ven
ture to say there will be larger yield
and a greater acreage than ever before.
At Milncburg, near New Orleans, an
old man named John Walker, seventy
two years of age, was shot twice
through the heart by Jules A. Gouguet,
aged %. The murderer voluntarily
surrendered himself to the authorities.
Six hundred thousand feet of lum-
Der and 744O railroad ties arrived at
Corpus Christi last week, with 100000
feet of cypress posts for Capt Kenne-
dy's new pasture in Cameron county.
This timber was sawed by the Lake
Charles mills.
The EcKo was too previous last week
in giving the Crescent Rifles of New
Orleans second prize at Louisville.
They scored a victory over all eompeti-
tors and took the first premium, the
Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis, win
ming second honors.
The bill fixing the payment of wit
nesses in civil suits, as passed by the
legislature, provides that any witness
having duly appeared according to cita-
ton, and asked for and obtained GER
tIfcate of attendance, shall not be called
again in the same case until he has
been paid for bis time in the first in
stance.
Miss Colette Kendig, of Louisiana,
was among those who bore off the first
hoDors Of the junior class at the Mount
de Sales Academy Of the Visitation,
near Captonsyille, Nd, a few days ago,
and was among ten young ladies who
received worthy mention for plain sew
ing, brading, embroidery, etc.-Times-
Democrat.
A bill has been introduced in the
United States Senate which has for
its object the protection of payigable
streams. It is specially Of interest to
mill men, since il makes the throwing
Of sawdust, slabs aud other refuse lum- |
ber into streams misdemeanor, to be
punished BY fine Of not less than |
$500 nor more than $4,000, or BY i'm |
not longer than six months.
Last Sunday eyevipg, at Algiers, a |
young man by the name Of Louis |
Burger, was shot aud mortally wounded
BY Miss Rpth Ford, handsome girl |
Of nineteen years. She gave e Der