The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-01-20
CHARLES CALCASIEU PARISH LOUISIANA JANUARY 90
LOUISIANA GLEANzNGs.

win be running from yermilionville to
Baton Rouge.
The president has appointed Abra-
ham Davis, the present incumbent,
postmaster at Franklin.
The police jnry Of Lincoln parish
have decided that no liquor shall be
sold there for year hence.
/ At New Iberia, on the 7th, gam
Bier named Strain shot another named
| Allen, without any proVocation what
ever.
0pelousas has fine new steam fire
engine, and the 'tfre laddies" are as
proud of it as a young mother with
her first baby.
| The Clubhouse on the Wells place.
near Rayville, was destroyed by fire
last week, with three bales of cotton
and six tons of seed.
The Arizona levee, eight miles
above Donaldsonville, is completed.
1t was finished just three months
ahead of contract time.
Christine Nilsson, the Swedish
Nightingale, and Joe Jefferson were
both in New Orleans last week, and
both drew crowded houses.
The Sugar-Bowl says the orange
trees, where observations have been
made, have not been damaged so far
by the freezes we have had.
Montfort Cockerell charged with
the killing Of Thomas W. Compton,
at Alexandria, two weeks ago, has
been baiIed in the sum of $500.
A telephone line is being erected |
between Bayou Sara and jackson,
East Felieiana parish, and it is pro-
posed to extend the line to Clinton.
The Democrat says DeSoto parish
is now fairly ahead of the hounds,
parish scrip being as good as bank
note, always cashed when presented
to the treasurer.
Baton Rouge voted by large ma
jority in favor of a tax to aid the
Mississippi Valley railroad which, it is
expected, will establish their work
shops at that place.
On the 9Th inst, in Old Grand Prai-
rie, lightning struck a cabin in which
were a negro man and his daughter,
aged 10, killing both; it also killed a
hog under the house.
The governor has appointed Col.
Ii. N. Favrot member of the board of
supervisors ofthe university, vice Gen.
Allen Thomas, who was elected to fill
the chair of agriculture,
The Louisiana delegation sent to
Washington in the sugar interest have
returned and report that the duty on
sugar will not be lower than that
fixed by the tariff commission in their
report.
The Pointe Coupee Banner says but
little or no preparation has been made
in that parish for the crop of 1883, for
the reason that planters, farmers and
laborers are all still kept in state Of
anxiety about the levees.
The annual conference of the NJ. L.
Church South, for Louisiana, was in
session at Mansfield last week, Bishop
A. w. Wilson, presiding. There
were about rs members present. The
appointments have not yet been pub
lished.
On the 18th INST, about one mile
from Bayou Goula, the steamer Laura
Lee, on the way down the Mississippi,
and steamer City of Greenyille, bound
for St. Louis, collided. The latter
vessel was sunk Meme ofthe passen-
gers were injured or lost.
Gen. Lewis went mapfully to work
stumping the 9th congressional dis
trict for his own election, as soon as T,
he was nominated. The papers Of his
district speak Of his efforts before the
people in the highest terms of praise,
and express no doubt of his election.
John Morgan, who is said to have
been bad man from Texas and who
Rot long siace killed two negroes in
Webster parish, was killed on Tues /
day of last week, in Sabine parish, by !
a sheriff's posse. lie snaeeeded in kill
ing one Of the pssse, however, before
being shot himself.
0pelousas Courier: Deputy Clerk !
B. T. Meginley informs us that 4F5
marriage licenses were issued in st.
Landry during the year 1889, This I
looks as if the steam Of love has
run pretty smooth in our section,
and the probability is if there Should
be many disappoiatnepts in the future
they viii be mostly little ones, Az
least we hope SO.
The Sc. Landry Democrat says
In 1878 o. 1879, coffee-hoase keeper /
in Baylor county, Texas, who had
been fined for violation Of some mu- |
pieiPai law, hired a young man BY