The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-04-21
LOUISIANA en.nANzNas.

Smallpox prevails among tn
negroes 10 Caddo parish.
Poisonous cells are said 10 infes
The waters ut Baton Ronge.
Bayou Sara and jackson ar,
2 nov connected by telephone.
!. Morgan City has q barrel man
nfactory, recently completed.
Amite City is to have 4 nes
court bouse BIZ the .1st Of Nov.
Alexandria is making prepara
tions for a billiard tournament.
Dewberry parties and picnic,
are il order aroand Morgan City
The new Baptist church 10 Ba.
! ton Rouge will soon be completed
The Banner says a patent soar
peddIer struck Bellevue like 4
cyclone.
The Baton Rouge brick compa-
~ is one Of the paying enterprises
nf that city.
Tho Peoples Vindisator thinks
the fruit crop Of that section will
be immense.
Since the death Of Mr.. LeSueur
tits the "Capitolian- Advocate Pub
fishing company"
Willie Bourgeois. 2 years old,
won q handsome barouche in q
rattle at HahnviIle.
The postQffice formerly known
as Live OAK, 10 Terrebonne parish,
is now called Dulac.
Mr.. Zenon Gremiilon, aged 10,
died in his chair while smoking his
pipe on False river.
More corn has been planted in
East Carroll this season than any
season since the war.
A citizen Of Onachita parish has
applied for q patent on . cotton
chopper and scrsper.
Mr.. A. M. Brashear, OF AIexan-
dria, has invented hay press and
will apply for patent,
A little son of Newton Reeves,
Union parish, was killed last week
by tree falling on him.
Fourteen converts were recently
baptised BY the pastor Of Shiloh
Baptist church, Alexandria.
President Parkerson, OF the Lou
isiana Western. has purchased the
Crosse Tete road for $4l,000.
A skating rink has been opened
At Houma; the girls slip mp and
the modest boys are shocked
Town Talk says the shafting and
engines are being placed 10 the
new lumber mill at AIexandria.
Tie Morgan company has re-
ceived the material for building an
iron steamer for the Teche trade.
The Magnolia Mound plantation
was sold recently at sheriff sale.
The taxes amounted to 81 ,403. 10.
Dudley Sanders, white, has been
acquitted At Franklin of the charge
Of numbering Sol, Grimes, colored.
AT Franklin, Thos. Washington
has been convicted Of the murder
Of Antoine jones and goes up for
life.
The Baton RDugs yarn company
offers employment TO boys and
girls between the ages Of IL and
I6 years.
The Viudicator wants to hear
from tho Natchitoches school
board, sId suggests quarterly |
statements.
Fl A
Ble1yiIle parish has $2296 cash
in her treasury, sufficient snm
with whicl 70 liquidate all parish
indebtedness.
The frnis crop Of Union parish
will be very short. Peaches we're
killed and the apple crop will not
exceed one-half.
Marksyille wants some kind of
amusements and would be glad 10
baye even phantom parties like
Alexandria has.
The question Of connecting New
Iberia and Abbeyills by rail il
under consideration. The distance
is about 40 miles,
Mrs. A. j. Simoneaud died re-
Gently Of Jeanerette. The last 10
hours before death ths unfortunate
sady swooned lao times.
j. A. Echulef, 81 Madisppville,
bas been sxhibiting some samples
Of jnts raised by him, toe strands
of which ere ten feet long,
TIE Catholic church Al Donald