The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-05-05
LOUISIANA GLEANENGs.


Rice in st. Bernard parish is about
five inches high and looks well.
H. A. Boyce has more blooded stock
than any other man in Rapides parish.
The mayor of Morgan City declared
the colored Baptist church a nuisance.
Father John Schench, pastor at
Long Prairie, was recently found dead
in his bed.
At Cloutierville, on the 2lst ult.,
Landry Bosco killed VIM. Airhart
with a bar of iron.
Thirty dollars per month is the mu-
nifcent salary paid teachers in the
free schools at AbbeviIle.
The Houma Courier says: milk
culture is receiving attention in St.
James parish" Jerusalem
The Observer says the two brick
factories of St. Martinsvillc are being
worked to their fullest capacity.
A Louisiana man has offered his
services to the sheriff of Bexar county,
Texas, as professional hangman.
Hon. E. John Ellis will deliver the
annual address to tbegraduates of the
Mansfeldfemale college, in June next.
Portions of the iron for the centre
column of the rotunda of the state
house have arrived at Baton Rouge.
At a recent tournament IN New
Orleans Foster DeBuys, youth, was
seriously haEt by, his horse falling
back on him.
The governor has pardoncd Jas. O..
Fem, sent TO the penitentiary for ten
years, from New Orleans, for assault
With intent to kill.
The Weekly Press says Calvin
Smart. who stole Capt. KuowItou's
cattle last year, was recently arrested
in Iberville parish.
Town Talk says Brown, the tele,
graph operator at the Morgan depot,
Alexandria, has skipped, leaving sun
dry creditors behind.
Geo. Osmond, one of the editors of
the New Orleans Mascot, was recently
severely beaten, over the head by Com
missioner Fitzpatrick.
William Pitt Kellogg, the odorifer-
GUS William, has returned to Louisl,
ana, after having given bond in Wash,
ington, in the star-route case.
J. C. IIallam "hornswoggled" $l7O0
and horse and buggy from friend
in Arkansas and goes up tor year
He is well known in Alexandria.
One candidate for governor in the
field, announced by his Alexandria
friends. The Express says he is but
little known outside of his parish.
A Louisiana lady started the small
pox at San Saba, Texas. She caught
the disease in passing through Ne"
Orleans. She and her child recovered
Dismukes, recently shot at Natchi
toches, by Simmons, and reported
!. dead, will recover. The Simmons
brothers, who were beth wounded, arc
doing well.
Capt. VIM. Griffith's horse became
unmanageable while crossing bridge
over the Comite, and tumbled into the
stream, killing himself and severely
injuring Capt G.
Buff Farrar, I8 years old, was drag
ged to death by mule, near Spears
vile, last week. He had one end of &
rope caught around his wrist whlIe tho
other end was around the mules neck
The railroad bridge at Steep bayou
four miles from Quacbita, was burned
on the 26th ult., by an incendiary
The superintendent of the road offers
$1,000 for the arrest of the guilty
party.
7. ]. Boasso, special officer on tb'
New Orleans police force recently
published card denouncing, il th'
worst possible terms, Judge Ford anc
e. S. Whitaker. Duels and gore ar
discussed.
A party who lost $4,000 Worth o
bonds by the recent bank robbery ii
New Orleans, offered $50 for thei
return, and no questions asked. H.
got the bonds through the hands of {
pawn broker.
There is fearful lot Of hungry chi
erpillers around Boggy Bayou, nea
Shreveport. They eat the leaves from
pine trees, and bushel of them cal
] be picked up under one tree. Farmer
, are frightened.
A dentist fixing some false teeth fo
a customer. at Baton Rouge, left hi
room for an instant, when his coppei
kettle on the stove exploded with |
noise like blasting rock. 1t WASH
loaded, but the thermometer was ou
Of gear.
In the Home for the aged and in
firm, in New Orleans, there are sixty
nine inmates, aud no room for more
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