The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-05-19
LOUISIANA GLEAN1NGs.

The Monroe Telegraph reports fine
crop prospects in Ouachita parish.
Terrebonne parish has donated $500
to the New Orleans charity hospital.
Mr.. J. NJ. Ducros, of St. Bernard
parish, died on the 9th inst, aged 80.
The colored Methodists of Baton
Rouge want and will soon have new
church.
The estimate of the expenses of
Vermilion parish for this year is
13 l-2 mills.
Gen. Hazen will reduce the number
of signal stations IN this state ON the
first of July.
John Dickenson has been arrested
and jailed in Ibervile parish for kill
ing John Steele.
There have been TIT deaths from
smallpox in New Orleans, from Janu-
airy to May 10.
We the People, one of the four pa
pcrs heretofore published at Alcxan-
dria, has suspended.
The supreme court has rendered a
decision declaring that neither state
nor city bonds arc taxable.
Judge John G. Moncure, of Caddo,
is suggested by the Marksville Review
as good man for governor.
The supreme court has decided that
the munificcnt donation of Mr.. Paul
Tulane is not exempt from taxation.
The police recently raided one of
the New Orleans opium dons and the
proprietor was awarded thirty days.
A fugitive has been arrested at
Beaumont who acknowledges having
killed a man in a saloon at New
Iberia.
The magnificent new Cotton Ex-
change, of New Orleans, was opened
on Saturday last, with appropriate
ceremonies.
VIM. Moore, negro murderer at
Franklin, escaped from Jail last week.
He was under engagement to "jinc de
| Danu on June |.
The gallows in the courthouse yard
at Mansfield has been torn down. It
should have been allowed to remain,
as a hidoous reminder.
Henry RcvoIs, colorod, was hung in
East Carroll parish, on the llth lAst.,
for the murder of Henry uyams,
white, in the fall of 1873.
There Is talk of the resignation of
Hon. E. John Ellis, If lie does resign
he will do so in time for a successor
to be elected before the meeting of
congress.
Mr.. w. S. Sator, manager of the
Spanish Fort railroad, New Orleans,
offers $25O,OOO to have the site of the
Centennial Cotton Exposition located
in West End.
1t is hardly necessary to state that
the holder of $4,000 prize ticket in
the late drawing of the Louisiana lot
terry lives in Havana, or some other
remote region.
The Opclousas Courier says, "From
what we can learn there will be much
larger acreage in corn and rice than
was nlantod last wear This is wise
and timcIv chanGe ),
Tlo ,nnnioinoI ,Joo,;a,, n Aha ,o,,,n
r. I',"",t pa w., s,'U''J" j :" % W." ; Wv"
lively duri5g the dav "Sambo" LcId
the balance Of nower and WAS treated
70 everything he wanted
TLo oi,;aon, r. &, nor,om1 .on;l
~ T,,i~I" ,"1 - H. w. ;oo ;ea'i"," i "''o"
'"r1 sodiai ta f az 1rHI iIJ Jury ,I 10 'Ja
lar for fen vcars 70 MD in tho con-
strnction Of ibc Lake Boronn road
Tlo Ad,orti.o, I,oa roI;o1Io ;nf,rn,
o.;in ~ fnn, o'n"' ""S o'%"1G "a Wn;, "El"
"''G' n,;l 0'T Ie I'G'5 1I"' ''' ~ "'''G,'
p"'n rInndid '"Um9 nondi,ior '""S Corn r"' al" ~
ranidly and cotton is wall adv9nccj
Tho vindiootor sous that IN NotoL;
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Inc lrNIh says me crop prospects
a,' Fot IoPoi Rot 8o4 'n'pI"uro p upon Every i"''
moroood IN aa"o 'a ""9 is" t%a Ioor anu ,b i"p
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-. A correspondent OF the shreveport
! II'moiS' from CoHshatla' nom'naIeS
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