The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-07-28
STATE NEWS.
Crops are good in Ascension.
Smallpox is abatlng in Donaldson

Crops are good in Ascension.
Smallpox is abatlng in Donaldsonyille.
Grant parish is having fine cotton growing
season.
Business is dull at Shreveport Work is
progressing satisfactorily on the railroad
bridge across Red River at that place.
Nachitoches parish has been quarantined, and
passing in or out Of that limit is not allowed.
The quarantine at Montgomery has been
raised.
The Baton Rouge ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SAYS:
'Ihe crops east of this city are tolerably fair
and will compensate the farmers for tAeir labor.
Some papers say the Levee Convention was
called IN the interest of Governor McEnery to
strengthen his chances for denomination. We
do not believe this, as the delegates who at
tended for most part, were not McEnery
men. We have had enough of MeEnery, give
us some new man. Morgan City Review.
Sunday last, picnic organized by Capt
Hustled, attracted q large number of our people
along the Mississippi Valley Railroad to take
special tram which was to convey them to ST.
Charles parish. Mr.. Tom Sellers had rendered
the use of his sugar-house for the picnic and no
better place could be found for the purpose.
There were at least 400 persons gathered there
and they had a high time. dancing, eating and
drinking Meschacebe.
Hon. t. T. Allan, the irrepressible would-be
champion OF the eolored race, in his desire to
make himself the avant courier of the Repub-
l nean party has undoubtedly over sailed his
A few colored men who have the fortune TO
be endowed with education superior to their
fellow men are constantly trying to put them
selves up as leaders of their race but in every
case. within the memory of the writer, when
they have endeayOred to make what they CON
sldered great bargains with their Democratic
friends hey have been remunerated with crow
while Mr.. Democrat walked off with the TIM
keys Free Press.
The Ascension Democrat has this to say con-
corning the Louisiana State Lottery: This per-
Verter Of the youth and deuder of the nature
OF the land is Ostensihly under the manage
ment and supervision of General G.. 4 BeauTe-
gard and General Jubal A. Early, but as n
matter of fact these gentlemen have nothing to
do with the actual management. And it is a
flePtoch to them,and shame on the names they
bear, that for c0nsideration-no matter how
great or saaall-they lend themselves to the
tutheranee OF the schemes of9reed and avarice
OF the owners of the Louisiana State Lottery
1t is no secret that this concern is a corruptina
element IN the politics of our State, and the
people OF Louisiana owe it to themselves and
especially to their children to put it down and
iorever-take from it its privileges, and engrafE
in the organic law of the State a provision ma
KING the revival of such schemes in the future
impossible.
We but echo the wishes of the people ofthis
city and thosaresiding along the river coast as
faras Bayou Sara when we address the reoues +
of the officers of the Texas Pacific Railroad,
that they change the hour of departure from
New orleans, OF the accmodation train aud
mails, to say a. m, instead of $3.50 D. M. as at
present, This change would bring the mails aud
papers to the people ofth iscity by p. m. aud
TO those of Bayou Sara and interveni ng points
not later than OPP m. As it is, this tram leaving
so near the hour of the departure of steamers
many passengers get aboard the latter. The
proposed arrangement would furnish dayll rht
transportation all the way from New Orleans
to Bayou Sara, which would prove a great
the public, and remuRera tive
to the railroad company, whose officials, we
Know are DESTROYS of subscribing both of Il lese
ends We hope that they will give their arly
attention to tins important matter and affect
tne desired change as soon as possible.-IC APT