The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-11-24
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.

STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.
The Vicksburg Planters Journal
is doing splendid work in making
known, throughout the wide field
which it occupies, the merits and
advantages of our great Worlds
Industrial Exposition. Its efforts
are deserving OF the hearty thanks
Of our people.
A large lot of iron pipe was
noticed on the cars of the NJ. v.
Road this morning. We were in
formed that this pipe was to be
conveyed to the stations along the
route to be laid in connection with
the steam pumps to fill the water
tanks Capitolian-Advo
A. A. Gallagher, travelling pass
enger agent for the Missouri Paci-
fic and Texas and Pacific Railways,
reached the city yesterday morning
via the Jackson Railroad. Mr.. Gal
lagher's headquarters are at A tlanta,
Ga, and he is here on business
VISIT Picayune.
1t is probable that the opening of
the New Orleans and Mississippi
Valley Railroad will be postponed
until about the first of December,
as the Jackson press property will
have to be turned into freight sheds,
etc, before the road is ready to
handle traffic. Aside from this, no
depots have as yet been erected along
the line between this city and Baton
Rouge and no platforms at the flag
stations.-[Truth.
Editor City Item-Your paper
seems puzzled to know why all the
hoodlums are returning. It's plain
enough. DON'T they get bail as
soon as they turn themselves I'D at
the criminal justice shop? Is it not
all arranged in advanced Are we
not on the eve off primary election,
and are not these the mainstay and
backbone of Bossism?
COMMON SENSE.
Editor City Item-The following
was overheard recently between the
"big" Boss and another party:
''Now that the gang won't work
in harness, how are you going to get
the tally sheets fixed, John?o
Fitz.-'sOh, Pve some slick ones
left, you bet" QUI WYE.
His "slick ones" vii! be of no
avail at the next election. Not a
mothers son of them will be permit
ted behind the POLLOK, or to touch
an election record.-IItem.
Major FL. B. Richardson. chief
engineer of the State Board of En-
gineers, in company with Mr.. Sidney
Lewis, member of the board, has
gone over the river at the invitation
ofthe Police Jury OFF etferson parish.
for the purpose of surveying the
line of the Gonldsboro leyee. This
levee is being constructed by the
Pacific Railroad Company, and
Major Richardson is to determine
the correctness of the line by official
survey.-ITimes Democrat.
THERE'S hardly any thing by which
the Louisiana Legislature coulan
OF more service TO the Stat6nId
the passage of an act thu Rad !
insure good country rqs a noto. ]
roads all over the Stas NOTHING
rious fact and yet tMmpede nro' a
which more tendssay nothing of t
gress and thrift, I'D discomfort to a
the inconvenieDfhg public is sub. t
which the ~! What the nature p
jected by tEt should be we are a
OF such JARED TO suggest but if g
hardly N that at least deserves A
IS a Tion. In the winter season az
consIfnost an impossibility for &C
IL wagon to reach the market nj
lofraveling is undertaken with OF
+ and trembling,-IBossier Ban, in
= G
Every effort is being made to OF
W CuS texas ana Pacific Rail- w,
d in first class order. The an
Intry traversed by this road sa'
ween Baton Rouge and West. tb.
lVlile presents many difficulties he
was last summer subjected to low
rflow from the Morganza ere. I'm.
Sc. A trestlework ten miles Ionn 70
'seS the Choctaw swamp. where Re-
soil is so yielding that it is with o nv
IL difficulty that the road is kent IN,
ood order; but somehow or other na1
Go 1t, despite tie unhealthiness far ,
nat region. NJ NJ
It'll the completion OF the bridoa
IS the Atchafalaya and the sal n
ing of the roadbed, fast time :
be made. The local travel ON Tgol
,ooad is large, aud the trains are Ten an
ny well filled with passengers
Tue road is doing a good freight Son
less'-[Pieayunc. All,