The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-11-18
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The newly elected eouncilmen .
! the city of New Orleans have bes
: sworn in.
In some portions of this gloriot
: state Of ours the cane yield is from G
to IS tons per acre.
Louisiana will have two democrat
senators in the next congress instea
Of one she has now.
The shoemaker's strike in New O
leans is at an end, the demands OF Ii
strikers having been conceded.
The ST. Landry Democrat report
the pecan crop of that parish as Large
One man Was seen who had gathereG
nine barrels.
| Four hundred convicts are ssid &c
be employed on the Bonnet Carrie ere
Vase, and it is expected to be eloset
within month.
/ Erwin Carrot was shct and killed
BY mnlatto last Monday . week ago
near Thibodeaux, in Lafourch parish.
The murderer escaped.
The DeSoto Democrat says the
sngaF-cane crop of that parish was
never better, and the yield of molas-
ses is above the average.
That excellent paper, the Ibersille
South, has entered on its seventh year
Of existence. May it live many more
years and continue to grow in useful
ness.
In Terrehonne precinct, to the sur
prise of those who claimed to be well
posted, Acklen's vote was more than
that of Bcattie aud Kellogg put to-
gether. /
The tow-boat Lourey and the steam
boat Chambers colIided on the 10th
nst., one mile below Plsquemine, and
he latter WAS sunk in seven feet of
Eater. She had on board 500 bales
f cotton. /
Benjamin Youngblood, q Mexican
Jar veteran, died on the 5th inst, in
leSoto parish. He was pious and
onsistent member of the Baptist
hurch and had held several offices of
Just and honor.
Senator Kellogg has retired to his
lantation to study the practical needs
the sugar growers. While in his I
.tirement there is another question he {
light discuss in his own mind and g
lat is how he shall retain his seat in
lie next Democratic congress.
Every state exchange we pick up
as something to say about the Mar
age association swiDdle, and they in
ariably wind up with tive told you
}" and yet these journals advertised
ne swindle aforesaid and failed then, ]
hich was the proper time, to warn 4
leir readers to beware.
Tie public schools of St. Landry \
arish are in fourishing condition I
rirty-fvc being in active operation.
he Democrat says a good deal of n
oney has been expended on these
'hools, and during Democratic adj p
of four years no warrant -
as been discounted, being equivalent
so much ready cash.
A mob entered the jail at Vienna, g
n the night of the 9th inst, and took Ii
ut four negro prisoners who had been
mt from jackson parish for safe
seping. One escaped, another there
as some doubt about, while the two
hers we've shot to death. They were
larged with the robbery and attempt
| murder of an old white man, who
covered, however, and recognized
Ie negroes.
MIR. Joe Drawdy. of East Feliciana,
red 50, on the day previous to the
te election rode fifteen miles that be
ight be on hand next day to cast his
st vote, as he believed, for General
erron--a friond Of thirty years stand
6. As he was dressing to go to the
Ills be WAS seized with an apoplectic
and died just as the polls were clos
g. What lesson this shoald be to a.
ose, who, through carelessness, re- Rs
aimed away from the polls on election q
y. The old gentleman died faithful
his duty Al
THERE is much reioieiDor in Gnaip II