The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-07-07
LOUISIANA GLEANHNGs.

Lake Providence.
Gilbert Brown suicided by drown
ing at Monroe, on the 29th ult.
A postoffice Las been established at
Scott station, Lafayette parish.
The boys of Alexandra want mil
itary company, and will organize one.
Measles, scarlet fever and dypthcria
prevail among the children of Grctna.
The Chronicle says stOck-raising is
! getting to be one Of the leading fea-
turc in Grant parish.
The Meridlonal says cattle are fat
in that part of the country, and the
farmers are laying by their crops.
Thomas w. Gilmer, the oldest resi-
dent of Caddo parish, died on the
3Oth inst, at Shreveport, aged 66.
On plantations in St. Mary parish
where whisky is not allowed every
thing is peaceabIe and prosperous.
The Courier says Gretna has a pop
ulation of 5000 souls, and yet has not
a first t-class hotel OF livery stable.
B. F. Taylor has been appointed
assayer of the New Orleans mint, and
Frank F. Claussin melter aud rcfner.
There is not an idle mechanic in
Plaqueminc and the demand for car
penters is great and cannot be sup
piled
At the annual commencement of
Georgetown college, Maryland, Louis
lana students carried off nearly all the
prizes.
Reginald II, Carter has been ap-
pointed United States postal clerk on
the route between New Orleans and
Houston.
The French part of the Lafayette
Advertiser has been discontinued, ow
ing to the death of the editor, Homer
NJ. Bailey.
The Bosser Banner says J. b. Pugh
fell from his horse and broke his neck
while on his way home, on the 10th
of last month.
Judge Houston, before whom the
examination was held, decided that
Eloi, the New Orleans wife-murderer,
was not insane.
The Sabine Southron says crops in
that parish are in a highly PROSPEROUS
condition and there will be more than
an average yield.
The Morgan City Free Press says
every third person in that town has
been sick with the summer collie which
appears there annually.
A sneak thief in Now Orleans stole
a 5000 diamond ring aud sold it for 20
cents. The thief was caught and the
owner recovered his ring.
Mr.. James L. LobdeIl succeeds j.
6. Richardson as register of the state
land office. lie took possession of
the Office on Monday, July 2.
There will be an excursion from
New Orleans to Houston, Galveston
and San Antonio on the 26th inst.
Fare for the round trip, SIG so.
A moccasin snake was killed in Main |
street in the town of Washington last |
week. Business must be dull when |
snakes frequent the principal streets
of place.
Without note of warning or word |
of explanation the Baton Rouge Press
has ceased to exist. The paper was
just two years old, and was thought |
to be prosperous.
The Capitolian-Advocate says the
Baton Rouge public schools will be
opened in October, andSNyith proper
encouragement will be kept in opera
tion for nine months.
The public schools in Plaquemines,
just closed, were kept running nine
months, and the teachers were all paid
in full. What other parish in the
state can say as muchs
An insect which proves disastrous
to orange trees has appeared at
Houma. The Terrebonne Times says
a decoetion of resin, soap, coil oil and
water is an effectual remedy.
A rehearing has been granted in
the case of Oscar and Lawson carrie,
convicted of the murder of deputy
sheriff O'Brien and sentenced to FIVE
years in the penitenuary, from New
Orleans.
The St. Landry Democrat says one
Of Rev. T. ]. Hougt's Jersey COWS
gave three gallons Of milk one morn
ing and two more that evening. The
milk weighed eight pounds to the gal
lons-forty pounds Of milk from one
Gow ip one day.
A majority Of The members Of the
school board Of St. Bernard parish
resigned recently and new appoint
ments we're made. Tho Eagle says
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