The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-03-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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lie The Gretna Courier reports oil
mo- death from smallpox in that TOW
Ms during the past week.
so There was an increase in the nun
le- Der of smallpox cases at DOnaldsoi
ID. vile and vicinity last week.
or Our State exchanges are complain
W ing of the irregularity of the mails
70 They say that something must b
Al faulty about the present system.
y. There has been only 3l8 marriag
in licenses issued in the parish of Gran
as since 1878. What's the matter, NJ
is girls in your parish, Bro. Goodwin
y Clinton Watchman We have haC
? recently very heavy rain falls, swelling
= the water courses to an overflow o.
u their banks in every direction, sus
{ pending travel and all farm work.
v The Grand Jury of the parish Of
J. Terrcbonnc has prepared an earnest
d appeal, to be presented to the next
;, Legislature, to enforce the laws
z against the vice OF gambling.
The overflow has caused great die
tress in the Red River Valley. A
= petition has been sent to Congress for
the relief Of the laboring classes. On
many plantations no field work has
$ been done during the past tive weeks,
everybody being at work on the le-
: wees.
N. 0. Chronicle The Southern
Immigration Society adjourned on the
10th inst, after passing a resolution
introduced by Hon. W Ii. Harris, Of
Louisiana, declaring the Worlds Ex,
position an important factor to secure
immigration, and urging Legislators to
appropriate aid for the same.
ST. Landry Democrat Col. VIM
Preston Johnson, during recent lee
ture delivered in New Orleans on the
subject of education, stated that &C
cording to the census Of 1880 Louis
ana stood above South Carolina and
Mississippi, but that it now ranks be
low-in fact, it is the last State on the
list, showing that Ignorance, instead
of diminishing, is gradually increas
ing.
Minden Democrat 1t is a well
known Fact that the hills of Webster
parish contain vast deposit of iron
ore equal to any Of the far-famed ores
near Jefferson, Texas, or Birmingham,
Ala. Deposits of coal Of excellent
quality are found in several places Of
the parish a very extensive bed .
crosses the railroad track near Taylor
station. Even in the avenue leading
TO the Minden Female College is
found vast bed of Ignite coal, said,
by the eminent Professor of Metal
lurgy in Vanderbilt University, 10 be
the best he has examined from any
State.
Vienna Sentinel Louisiana is be.
ginning to experience a business boom
the like of which she has never before
known. The various railroads that 90
into New Orleans are overcrowded
with freight, and arc doing an i'm
mense business. The completion of
the railroads now being built in the
State, together with the Grand Expo
sition to be held in New Orleans next
fall, winter and spring, will consum-
mate plans that will ultimate in one
of the grandest movements toward !
our prosperity ever experienced By |
Southern State. The ewes Of the /
speculative world is now turned South, T
and of the beneficial results to be OBJ, e
tanned thereby, Louisiana will no q
doubt get her share.
st Landry parish has gone earnest !
ly to work organizing and raising o.,
means to make suitable and com. >
prehenslve exhibit at the approaching y
W Orld's Cotton and Industrial Expo. {
sltlon, which opens in New Orleans in
December next. An association of
100 of her most energetic citizens,
with equal representation from each of '
the nine police jury wards, says the =
Courier, has been formed, and the .
following officers appointed to direct s
it's movements, to-wit; Charles N. v
kaIer, president Rev. I. J. Hough, {
VIce-president; c. c. Swayze, secre. !
tary; Alphonse Levy, treasurer. A y
plan has been mapped out and adopt
ed as to the line of exhibits to be
made BY St. Landry. AS means of -,
exciting general interest, and to Sc H,
cure the best exhibits, large list of
premiums will be given for the best
samples of articles and objects to be
/
Washington Argus A Presidential |
is at hand. In 1875 one
vote decided the contest. TiIden was
elected, but swindled out Of the State, I
because the chaotic condition of Loui, !
slana politics made it possible for :
Returning Board to give the electoral !
vote Of this State to the Republicans.
The present stand of the sugar plant
erS, the innumerable divisions of a !
local character throughout the State,
in the party, demand of us sacrifice
of all personal prejndices. The OPP ,
position 10 McEnery should immedi- !
ateIy cease. A united front should a..
forthwith be presented by every .
Democrat Of the State. The evils of
which we complain sink into insing-
nifcance in the face of the fearful
that threatens us ShouId =
the sugar planters, as body, follow
The lead of Kellogg, BY endorsing the Z
of their late convention, = =
The chances are, unless Democrats Z
cease their Wrangling, that we sllall Z
Dnce more be handed over TO the b
,ender nercies of the Radicals. p
letter fsnoln EdgerIy. =
EDGERLY, CALCAsIRU PARISH, La,
March II, 1854. ~
TO the Lake Charles Echo: H.