The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-04-14
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The Baton Rouge ice factory
: viii soon be booming.
The pestiferous gnats keep the
: people Of Washington busy.
, The governors quarantine proc
lamation takes effect May |.
Sugar crop prospects il Iberia
, are better than for several years.
One hundred acres of Iand near
! Pineville, Rapidep parish, recently
sold for $40 an acre.
A boiler exploded in saw-mill
al Moss Point which had been ii,
use ever since the war.
The expenses Of the Charity
Hospital in New Orleans are four
hundred dollars q day.
Mr.. Frank G. Ulrich. The new
postmaster al Washington. has en-
tered upon the duties OF his office.
4 Jackson has decided By a pop
ular vote that hogs can rooi up
that place as much as they please.
Three COWS belonging to Mrs.
Felrath were struck By lightning
on the night Of March 81, near
Morgan City.
Several Morgan City people
have the Mexico fever and are
Studying the "lihgo' preparatory
to emigrating.
Hon. e. John Ellis has been APP
pointed attorney for the Hunting
ton syndicate of railroads at sal
ary Of $4,000 per annum.
Jas. Woods, called "the pirate
of the gulf has been sentenced to
the Chester (Ill.) peuitentiary for
ave years, from New Orleans.
It was Morgan City and not
New Orleans that carload of oys-
ters were sent from to San Fran
cisco, SO the Free Press says.
The Review says there have
been 46 cases Of small .pox in Ber-
wick and it has cost the parish
over $3.50 to take care Of the same.
Mr.. John Nicks, while drifting
lumber in the Bayou Concordia
swamp, slipped from a tree on
which he was standing and was
drowned.
A heifer 16 months old, At 81.
Bernard, has a beautiful cali.
Three years old is generally the
time for heifers to commence hav-
ing calves
Phe Gazette complains of the
absence Of suu-shiny days around
FafmerVille. Spring half gone and J
garden sass hasn't commenced /
q grow yet. L
Alonzo Thielman studied John 4
Perkins and his son Charley iIr
Catfish Town last week, over D po 4
iticaI discussion. The wounded
will recover. i
The Weekly Press says nothing d
occurred in Baton Rouge on the a
lay Of the late election to ma the i
,leasaptry Of the day--except u i
lalf dozen or moIs&ghts. a
Il is the pretty widows and not !
he SLY mailens that represent he ,
emale portion of New Iberia 10 9
be matrimonial alliances being Q
.rranged there this spring. .
The Sugar Bowl says about ona =
nile of track has been laid on the
'alt Mine road and construction
rain has been put on which will q
transport material as fast as nee q
ssary. W
The Carrie brothers who killed ol
l'Biien il New Orleans have been o.
10 pay fine If five dol ni
srs each hnd to imprisonment 10 10
be .penitentiary at hard labor for ~
We years. q
Three hundred dollars reward v
as been offered for The arrest and d.
Of John A. Sanderson, kt
Vm. g. Sanderson and Dave San az
erson, who murdered S. l., Bra WI
near, in East Carroll recently. th
There is not an unoccupied p
onse in AbbevilIe. III ID number n
new houses were built tenants
1uld be found Immediately. A 10
reat scarcity Of houses for rent de
regails in every town in the state "
The flight Of the sheriff and ia ol
,liector Of Jefferson parish il a da
ct. His accounts are correct, sil
oweyer He ran away to escape -
colored woman he had married u
lrly in life and By whom be had th
'Feral children, en-
The Lafayette Advertiser says al
tlie weather has been very fayor- te
Die for farming operations lately. al