The Lake Charles echo., 1883-10-06

LOUISIANA GLEANENGS.
Terrcbonne is solid for McEnery.

Terrcbonne is solid for McEnery.
Catahoula parish will make but half
crop of cotton.
Red river is so low as to almost cut
off navigation entirely.
The public schools of St. Landry
will open next Monday.
A fine poultry show is to be held IN
Baton Rouge in December.
The Condenser gives the total assess
ment of Vernon parish at $369,772.
The Catholics of the state outnum-
her all of the other religious denom-
nations combined.
Thos. w. Watts gin and four bales
of cotton, in Madison parish, burned
q the night of the 25th.
The Sugar-Planter estimates the loss
to West Baton Rouge parish, by the
flood of last year, at $2l2,145.
Chairman Fitzpatrick has called a
meeting OF the Democratic State Cen
tral committee for the 22d inst.
A company has been organized at
Baton Rouge for the purpose of es-
tabIishing oil-works in that city.
Farmers of Sabine parish are re
joicing over the unexpected increase
in the yield of their cotton crops.
A tweIvc-year old youth was Jailed
at Shreveport, the other day, for at
tempting the killing of another boy
with pocket knife.
The demand for dwelling houses at
Baton Rouge is greater than the sup
ply. A similar state of affairs exist
here in Lake Charles.
The Town Talk asserts that -four,
as well as the other leading staples,
can be purchased cheaper in Acxan-
dria than in New Orleans.
In New Orleans, in the ncighbor-
hood of Broad street and the Old Ba-
sin, people are buying water at the
rate Of 0 cents bucket
A large two-story frame building is
to be erected at the Insane Asylum at
Jackson. Present accommodations are
inadeqnao to the demand.
Nancy Kelley, coIored, mortaIIy
stabbed Frank Williams, also coIored,
at Davis, on Saturday last Whisky
was the cause of the affray.
Henry Bradley, Sr., resident of
East Baton Rouge parish for fifty
years, and a respected citizen, die at
his plantation on the Goth uIt.
The Louisiana State University
opened on the fifth instant. The num-
Der was considerably larger than at
the opening of the last session.
The CapitoIianAdvocate says that
the weather in and around Baton
Rouge is so dry that the human voice
even has a harsh and Darchcd sound
about IT..
Isaac Trowbridge's saw mill, sltua-
ted on the upper line of the town of
Franklin, caught fire on the 26th and
was entirely destroyed. Loss $40, 900.
No insurance.
The cotton crop of Concordia par
ish, according to the Sentinel, will be
from thirty-tive to fifty per cent short
of what was anticipated at the open
ing of the season.
Tomorrow, the 7th, the different
German societies of New Orleans will
celebrate the bi-centennial anniversary
of the landing of the first German emil
grants in America.
The Express is urging Alexandria as
the most suitable place for the holding
of the coming Democratic State con-
vention. The ECHo has no objections
to the choice falling upon Alexandria.
The Richland Beacon reports the
cotton crop complete failure, and
says but for the fact that a good corn
crop was made throughout the parish,
a great many people would be in a
helpless condition.
The Democrat says 500 bales of
cotton have been shipped from Ope-
luusas since the 18th Of August, and
$50 sacks of rice since the lst of Sep
tember. Large shipments of cotton
seed, hides, ETC., have also been made.
Under date of September 26, in
card published in the Picayunc, Gen.
Nichols says: II see that my name
is mentioned in connection with the
nomination for governor The situa-
tion of my private affairs is such as to
place It utterly Out of my power to en-
ter public ife.'
The citizens of Leesyille have peti-
toned the governor to again increase
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