The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-09-27
STATE NEWS AND Views.

We have four excellent boys and |
girls schools now open, with o large
Lake Charles Echo.
There is some talk ola boat being |
put in the river By parties here, to
run from Montgomery to this place |
In connection with the Morgan |
RailrOad. 1t would pay.-ITown |
Talk.
Tho .CGpitOliGa. AdV0cGte reports
that the merchants of Baton Rouge
are reaping q Eich harvest from
points north of that city on the
Mississippi Valley Railroad.
The Washington Argus says lsnot
withstandiug the many reports of
bad health in Onr town, business is
steadily on the increase, and we are
happy to report large arrivals of
cOttOn.n
The West Feliciana Sentinel say
about the finest lot of corn raised in
the parish during the present sea
son belongs to Mr.. Matt Gilmore.
he has sixty acres which will yield
on All average OF forty.five bushels
to the acre.
Mr.. Simon Kaufman, formerly
editor Of the Baton Rouge Press, is
now engaged in the mercantile bus
iness with Messrs. Fl. a. A. CABIN of
Evergreen We welcome him to
cur parish.-[M arksville Bulletin.
Il is said that in about forty days
work will begin en- the proposed
Louisiana Central railroad, from
XermiIIiOnville to Baton Rouge, and
that the work will begin at both
ends.--lSr. Landry Democrat.
The season is very favorable for
the gathering of the corn and hay
crops of this parish, and our plant
ers are hard at work taking advan
tage of the good weather.-lTOwn
Talk.
Times are duller than they have
ever been known, and money is as
scarce as hen-teeth, and If there is
any here it certainly is not in circu
latiOn. Point C0upee Democrat.
It's an ill-wind that blows nobody
good and a cold day when we all
get left. The dry weather is propi
tious for cotton picking, if for moth
ing else. tits opening so fast planter,
say two piekings will clear the stalks
~ Lafayette Advertiser.
4 1t is gratifying to learn that on
merchants are beginning to reap I
good trade from points north of thi
city on the Mississippi Valley Road
Good shipments are now mad
nearly every day Capitolian AID
vOcate.
We are pleased to learn that MI
I s. q. Samuels, who has been Q.
tremely i'll for more than a week, i
rapidly improving and will soon b
up and about again. This INTEL
gence will doubtless be source q
qualification to his numerOus friend
throughout the parish Truth.
, The parish Conventions of tn
! district have met aud elected thei
delegates to the Nominating 90
vention, and, in almost every i
stance, Governor Kellogg has bee
: Endorsed and delegates elected tina
q will support him. Free Press.
We have been kindly permitte
TO examine the patch or square /
represent IbervilIe parish in th
r great Exposition quilt, gotten u
, by Mrs. d. N. Barrow. On one en-
,, is sugar mill and cane field, an
on the other end is saw mill an
) cypress Forest all beautifully painte
# in oil on white satin. Separatin
r the two mills is the word ssIberville,
in raised letters, worked in silk.
: reflects great credit upon all co
= cerued.-IIberville South.
Four attempts have been made
!. wreck trains OH the New Orleau
i. Pacific Railroad recently withor
# the would be train wreckers bein
caught up with. The last wa
y made last Saturday night one wee
b ago, and this time the guilty parti,
n supposed to be the ones, hav
: been caught, having been traced u
: with negro dogs. They are thrt
! negroes living in DeSoto paris
Q Il Ruston Calegraph.
y The cane crop throughout I'll
. parish will not come up to Il
il average, owing to the lack of SCI
sonable rains. Some fields loo
: fairly we'll, but as rule the cane
D very poor.
n The Parish Treasury is empt,
the Parish Jail Is full--eightee
inmates, 1t is estimated that I'll
r expense of the next term of cou
q will foot up about four thOusan
!, dollars.-ISt. Mary Review.
g The cultivation of ramie, il
growth, Development pOssibiliti,
e aud future has long been 3 subjeC