The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-08-11
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.

The State House is to be provided with a
new lot OF gutters
Cotton is beginning to open in Natchitoches
parish.
Tie Ibervile South reports considerable
malarial fever in IberviHe parist.
The fux, raging as an epidemic in parish of
Lincoln, is undated i'll its malignant character
The Amite City Independent, says that the
farmers in Ouachita parish have kindled fires
in their fields to destroy cotton flies, with good
results. .l g.
From the Farmerville Gazette we learn
that cholera is killing up the hogs in the neigh
borhood of Green's mill, in the northern por-
ton of that parish.
The people of Louisiana owe the New
Orleans Picayune debt of gratitude for the
victory that journal achieved oyer the expo
sure Of the Land Office Frauds Free Press.
Col. ]. w. Nicholson, President of the
State University and Agricultural and Me
chanical College, at Baton Rouge, proposes to
canvass the State in the interest ofthe College.
| lecturing on education and the advantages of
this State institution.
The people propose to say who their rulers
shall be for the four years following the next
election and to see tU it that none but honest
men shall till the offices within their gift
when they speak, as they surely will, the ring
will find itself Left shreveport Times
A farmer who lived near here several years
ago went to Texas, wherr he is very poor though
he works hard. He came here with very
little, and stayed three years. He left with a
good team, and about fifteen hundred dollars
| IN money. One of his reasons for leaving was
that he did not want to live where he could
make more crop than he could gather.-lSt.
Landry Democrat.
Ex-Gov. NICHOLS has stated that he does not
| desire the nomination Ex-Governor and several
!
| IN favor OF Ogden. Well if Nichols really
means to decline. why give us some otherna
who win crush out the rings and m0nOpOlles
| and see that the levees are rebuilt, that's the
kind of a man we are looking for. Don't give
us McEnery or any other ring man, Morgan
City Review.
If the Bosses manage Gen. Ogden's cam
paign, the primaries will return delegations
| appointed by themselves. These will in turn
nominate State legislators and city COuncilmen
also selected by the Bosses. Thus ring methods
and ring rule will be perpetuated with only the
nominal gain of a change in the figure head
1t is of vital Importance that the Aldermen
and Assemblymen represent the people, not
the Bosses.-[City Item.
Mr.. Herbelin's silk spinning mills, now
working, are doing admirably well considering
the progress made by the apprentices under
| the direction OF u we'll experienced foreman,
small bale of sample silk forwarded lately to
/ New AOIA CAOdGcu qultO ~ oOuSdtlOu Ny OuO
price it brought, GA francs 35 cen5imes kilo-
gramlne,' or So As per pound, price which
compares favorably with the prices paid in
Italy and France as seen on the Lyon Bulle-
tin" of France Time Democrat
Mr.. Ballentine, the contractor on thesection
OF the New Orleans and Mississippi Valley
Railroad south Of this cityIis in town, xapd re.
ports the work on his section of the road as
progressing satisfactorily. Mr.. Miller, the
| engineer on the NJ. V. road between this city
and New Orleans, is also in town. The road
has been completed to within eighteen miles Of
town, and is being showed ahead with energy
| We are also informed that the grading from
| this city to the State line will be completed il
about ten or twelve days. Capitolian Advo
| cate.
Andrew West, a cOlored resident of the AlmoI
prairie nelghborhood, was bitten on the leg by
a mad dog belonging to his father, en- the 9tl
ult. The wound was promptly cauterized will
turpentine and hot iron, and IN addition t,
| this precautiOn, West ate large quantity o
raw onions, swallowed a piece of paper witt
some mystic letters upon it and used seyera
other preyentives recommended by his neigh
bOrs AT last accounts he was doing finely an,
showed no ill effects from the wound. The do
was killed, as also were several ducks, chick
ems and a cat that had been bitten by the rabbi
ANIMAL DonaldsOnville Chief