The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-10-06
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.

A horse died of hydrophobia in
TerrebOnne Parish last week.
The Baton Rouge public schools
will open on Monday the Sth of Dc
tober, not the LIST.
The Circuit Court ofLouisiana and
the United States District Court
will be in session in Monroe the
coming week.
The prices of lots have materially
increased lately in Baton Rouge.
Lots that would not sell for more
than $75 four Years ago are now
worth and actually sell for $3.50.
Some fool placed a cooked calves
head, with an American flag stuck
init, and ornamented with beans and
four silver fve-cent pieces, on a
bench i'll Lafayette Square, Item.
Canal street. between Royal and
Exchange alley, can boastof having
more. signs than any square in city
There's one electric light on the
street, but that is hid from sight by
the signs. Take some of them in
Estates.
A couple of mammoth apples, from
the farm of Mr.Gwyn, Of Haywood
county, North Carolina, were exhib
tied in the Picayune countlng-room
yesterday. The Picayune Is lndebt-
ed for them to Mrs. w. r. Lyman.
Il Picayune.
Tie editor of the st. Tammany
Farmer receive the other day a
complete new outfit of newspaper
and job type, cases, racks, office fur
nlture and keg of ink. He claims
to know nothing of them. He never
ordered the material and is at a loss
to know who has bestowed upon him
such a prlncely gift.
Paul Caudier, convicted of man
slaughter in killing Antoine Caudier
on Jan. 81, at IL point on Morgan's
Railroad three miles above Gretna,
was, Oh Friday last, sentenced by
Judge Hahn to pay a fine of So and
serve four years in the State Peni-
Tertiary. A suSpensive appeal has
been taken i'll his case.
ooh, but we are howlersw is what
the McEnery papers of the State
are saying to each other They howl
at the stength developed by Nichols
against theirpet, land, like Bob Acres,
howl to keep their courage up as
they read the handwriting on the
political horizon, "The Administra-
tion aud its rings must go!"-[ Farm
erville Gazette.
The attention of Messrs. Fitz-
patrick 81 Co., proposed publishers
Of an "organ" as noticed elsewhere,
is respectfully called to our unri-
vailed facilities of doing 'Jobv press
work. See standing notice, Fl, st
column, second page. Terms mod.
crate, and all encouragement given
to meritorious enterprise Item.
The State University and other
schools of this city will reopen i'm.
mediately, and we are pleased to
note thenumber pupils will be large
~ increased. The University, espe.
cially, will have a larger attendance
than last year, which doubtless can
be attributed to the tour of President
Nicholson throughout louisiana
Truth.
"Levee Governors good. There
is dirt enough iii the McEnery Ring
to make several good levees, but the
Governor is looslng ground to build
OH very fast,
The colored laborers of Louisiana
are forced to compete with convicts
labor from the penetentiary. Pretty
rough on the colored man, is If moi
Mr.. GOVERNOR Free Press.
The Echo building, IN days gone
by, contained a saloon, a ten PIN
alley and gambling den. To-day,
where the saloon was, there is a flour
ishlng school; in the room where the
"knighs of the cloth" piled their bus
mess, this paper is published, and
the long, low building used as ten
pin alley is now filed up with hand.
some bugsieS and well-made wagons,
which are tor sale, cheap for cash.
Time makes wondrous changes.-
Lake Charles Echo.
Not including Orleans, the Parish
of Calcasieu now stands the eighth
parish in the State in the value OF
assessed property within Its limits.
1t is nearly equal to Natchitoches
and Lafoulche,tNo OF the Oldest and
wealthieSt parishes in the State,
falling short only a few thousand
dollars. Ten years ago Calcasieu
stood at the bottom OF the list. In
ten more years it will stand next to
st. Landry, and perhaps ahead OF
Caddo.- Lake Charles Commercial.
Politicians are searching for flaws