The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-07-01
LOUISIANA GLEANnyGs.
Legislature adiourns Monday.

parish.
Crops in Ascension parish are need.
ing rain.
Corn and cotton are fourishing il
Bossier parish.
A great deal of sickness is reported
at Morgan City.
Farmers in Avoyelles parish are as,
sured bountiful crops.
The Baton Rouge Yarn company
employ $50 operatives.
The rice crop of St. Bernard parish
promises splendid yield.
The rice and cane crops of jefferson
parish are very promising.
Planters in Caddo parish are jubilent
over the fine crop prospects.
Scarcely day but there is one or
more suicides in New Orleans.
J. ii. Howell, a citizen of Caddo
parish for fifty years, died last week.
Gov. MeEnery has signed the bill
granting new charter to New 0rleans.
The amount appropriated by the
Legislature for the general fund is
100000.
The Clerks Benevolent association
of New Orleans will celebrate the glo-
rious Fourth.
Herman Lee, an old gEoceryman of
New Orleans, committed suicide by
drowning, the other day.
The bodies of three of the six boys
drowned at New Orleans last Sunday
week have been recovered.
The doctors of Washington, St. Ian
dry parish, complain of the distressing
healtbfuIuess of the people.
St. Helena parish farmers are re-
ioicing at what promises to be the best
crops they have made for years.
Thus far, $3427.5o has been raised
toward the erection of the Margaret
Haughery monument at New Orleans.
Farmers in the overfowed districts
of St. Landry parish will make scant
crops, and in some instances none at
all.
The Gretna Courier says orevasse
water and snakes still have possession
Of the village in the rear of Fourth
street.
Mr.. J. r. Silliman, of New York,
proposes establishing at Alexandria
saw mill with a capacity of 25o,OOO
feet per day.
The people of New Iberia and Able
vile are making an effort to induce the
Morgan railroad to connect the two
places by rail.
The Abbeville Meridional offers the
rich land, in Vermilion par
isb, on as easy terms as can be found
anywhere in the state.
The ladies of New Orleans have pre-
sented the Crescent Rifles with beau
tiful flag. The presentation speech
was made by Gov. Nichols.
The house has passed bill remov-
ing the State University from Baton
Rouge to Alexandria. The Capitoliau
the hope that it may never
pass the senate.
An entertainment given by the Sweet |
Sweepers of New Orleans, company
of the bellies of that city, for |
The benefit Of the Baptist church, net |
ted the sum of $729.50.
Jean Goeblet, recently from Bel |
GUM, died at Habnville, last week, |
from eongestive apoplexy caused by |
intense heat. He was corpse within |
thirty minutes from the time he was
aiken.
The Houma Courier charges its con
.rere, the Terrebonne Times, with offer
ng its columns in the interest of Kel-
ogg for congress for $1,000, and thinks
I would be poor investment for the
after.
Residents of Natchitoches are i'm
proving and beautifying their homes
" the use of the paint brush. The
iame epidemic in Lake Charles would |
sdd much to the appearance Of our
title town.
A bill providing for the establish
Tent Of Home for crippled and indi-
rent Louisiana soldiers was before the
louse on Friday. The Echo would be
dad to chronicle the final enactment
# such law.
Mr.. Jos. Aiken, met a singular death
t Clinton, last week He was cutting
wood when a piece rebounding from
he stroke Of the ak struck him in the
bdomeu. He fingered four days be-
ore death relieved him Of his suffering.
The Louisiana Baptist State eonven
ion meets at Evergreen on July next,
nd will be in session for week. The
ear book shows the Baptists of the
tate to be about 10000. Col. VIM.
|. Jack, of Natchitoehes, is president,
A prisoner in the Hahnyille Jail,
nder sentence Of FIVE years, by the
anne of John Dymond, prevented the
scape Of his fellow-prisoners last week,
nd doubtless the murder of deputy
herif. The governor will be asked to
ardon Dymond. lie deserves it.
Au item detailing the finding Of
ight or ten thousand dollars BY a
egro while plowipg in q field near
'pelousas, recently published in the |
IcHo and credited to the 0pelousas
ourief, las tarned out to be a hoax.