The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-04-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

William Brooks, colored, is to be
hung In the town of Alexandria, OF
May 9.
Colfax Chronicle: The raising Of
sugar cane and manufacture of syrup
is becoming an extensive industry in
Grant parish. We find that fully
thirty of our planters have been
making their own syrup for the last
two years, and q number of Others
propose to give it a trial this year,
while a few of them propose to try
making sugar.
Thibodaux Sentinel: The major
ity that the Democratic party will OBJ
tain on Tuesday week, in this State,
will very probably be the largest ever
yet given to it. 1t therefore behooves
every voter to go to the polls and cast
his vote, so as to aid in securing that
majority. The Radicals are now try
ing, for the last time, to retain a foot
hold in Louisiana. Let the Democratic
vote, on April %, be large enough to
crush it ont forever
St. Landry Democrat Mr. d. c..
Montan, Democratic nominee for the
State Senate, in the fourteenth dis
trict, recently vacated his place on the
ticket, and Auditor Jumel, an indie
pendent Democratic candidate for the
same position, with a Republican en-
dorsement, has been nominated to fill
the vacancy. This looks as if the
mountain had come to Mahomet Ju-
mel with Republican backing, makes
the Democracy come to him.
Opelousas Courier Most of the
corn has been planted. The first
planting is very good stand, and
much Of it has been barred off, hoed
and thinned out, and hilled up. A
large part of the cotton land is broken
up, and many farmers have made their
first planting. A great many persons
have planted rice, but the majority of
planters have yet to plant cereal, The
area of rice will be increased 80 per
cent. this year; corn about 10 per
cent, and cotton will be reduced cor
respondingly. This is right Now,
increase the hog production, and you
can live at home.
The Democratic Parish Executive
Committee of East Fcliciana met at
Clinton on the 4th inst, fer the pur-
pose of determining whether or not to
hold a primary election for the pur-
pose of nominating parish officers,
and after good deal of argument
pro and Con it was decided by vote
of 5 to 3 not to hold primary. A
majority of the candidates in the field
did not favor primary, as they in no
way entertained any fears that the
State ticket will be defeated in our
parish By the decision of the execu-
tive committee it will be free to-all
race, and the longest pole will knock
down the persimmsn.
OpeIousas Courier We have heard
this question asked by some persons
-Democrats-who seem to have some
doubt as to the proper way to vote on
the proposed amendments. 1t seems
to US, that the action of the Demo
cratic State Convention recently held
at Baton Rouge and that of the parish
Democratic Convention, lately held at
Opelousas, on the subject, will furnish
a good rule by which all Democrats of
the parish of St. Landry should be
governed in voting on the proposed
amendments to the Constitution. The
State Convention pronounced in ia
vor of all the amendments, without
exception. The parish convention
pronounced against the first amend
ment, alone. A St. Landry Democrat,
by voting against the first proposed
amendment, will vote in accordance
with the views of the Parish Conven-
ton, and by voting for all the other
proposed amendments, he will vote
according to the views of the State
Convention on all except the first 1t
seems to us this course recommends
itself to every rejecting Democrat.
The first amendnent-that changing
the debt ordinance, is alone objection
able; the others are all good, and the
adoption thereof will effect the good
and desirable end had in view by the
Democracy of the State.