The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-10-27
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LOUISIANA GLEANINGs.
New Iberia is talking about hayir

LOUISIANA GLEANINGs.
New Iberia is talking about having
street cars.
North Louisiana has had plenty Of
rain of late.
Corn sells at fifty cents bushol in
Grant parish.
Forty prisoners are confined in the
Rapidcs parish jail.
Cotton brought ten cents per pound
at Opclousas last week.
]. S. Goode, prominent attorny Of
Thibodaux, died on the 18th.
The public schools of West Baton
Rouge will open November l.
Webster Raider, coIored, has been
appointed postmaster at Berwick.
Grinding has set in for earnest on
/ the plantations throughout the state.
The corn crop Of Red River parish
for this year is estimated at 25O,0O0
bushels.
Out Of a total Of $50 postofIices in
the state. only one ranks as a first
class office.
On Saturday last there were no less
than forty ocean steamships in port at
New Orleans.
The rumored consolidation Of the
Shreveport Standard and Times, las
fallen through.
The yield of cane in Iberia parish
turns oat much greater than was at
first anticipated.
There are two murdcrcrs under sen
tenc4 Of death confined in the parish
prison Of Orleans.
The Town Talk reports great deal
of rowdyism on the streets Of AIc&an-
dna, after nightfaII.
The amount of stock subscribed to
the Worlds Exposition has reached
half million of dollars
COL A. D. Battle, long the editor of
the Shreveport Times, has severed his |
connection with that journal.
DR.. c. B. DarraII, register of the
lard Office, is said to have the finest
sugar crop in St. Mary parish.
Loujsian cotton received the first,
second and third premiums at the
Arkansas State Far, on the 10Th.
Donald 'onviIe was visited by Sc
we're wind and rain storm Oh Saturday
last But little damage was done.
The Orange Tribune says: "The
mechanical get up of the Lake Charles
EcHo is splendid" We think so.
A Texas desperate named John
Sample, from Shelby county, was shot
and killed in DeSoto parish, recently.
The Catholic church building at
OPelousas las recently been enlarged,
recovered and painted inside and out.
The Gretna Courier says the. rice
crop mt harvested and saved is the
largest ever made in the parish of
Jefferson.
The Morgan City Review favors
allowing no man to vote without first
exhibiting his poll tax receipt. Such
a law wouldn't be bad.
The Winfield Sentinel was four
weeks old Saturday, and already the
editor has deemed it necessary to call
a man a liar, in his paper.
A special election, for the purpose
of chosing a successor to the late Jos.
c. Charlotte, mayor of Baton Rouge,
will be held Monday next.
Some of onr state exchanges could
be read much more readily if the pa
per was damPeued more and greater
impression put on the press.
The negro VIM. White who attempt
ed to outrage the person of Miss
Quinn, in Rapides parish, some days
ago, has been captured and jailed.
Allied Fabre, held ip Lafayette
parish for the murder of au old man
named White, some weeks since, has
been released, the grand jury failing
to find a bill against hun.
Alfred Gossett, colored, was tried in
New Orleans, on Friday last, for the
murder Of Policeman Coffee, in April,
and given life term 10 the peniten-
tiary. Many thought he would hang,