The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-08-16
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.


The cotton crop in Rapides is
looking splendid, and gives promise
of good yield
Gen. r. B Elliott, one of the
remarkable colored men in the
United States, died on Saturday
morning last, in New Orleans OF
malarial fever.
The colored man who was taken
i'll with smallpox shortly after being
incarcerated in cur parish Jail some
time ago died last Thursday morn
ing and was buried in the jail-yard.
Il Port Allen Sugar Planter.
notwithstanding the dust, CARR
ges aud vehicles of various descrip-
tons continue to come in town.
The occupants of the same appear |
ing as if they had been powdered
with the dry, pulverized soil from
head to foot Feliciana Sentinel.
A branch postoffice will be open
ed at the Exposition, for the accom-
mediation of visitors, and as an ex-
hibit of the mode of transactlng
postal business. A model Office,
with all the appointments, will be
opened to the public gaze.- States.
The fastest time yet made on the
Mississippi Valley Railroad was
made by the excursion train last
Sunday night. The through run
from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,
eighty eight miles, was made in two
hours and forty minutes Capt.
tOlian Advocate.
| Our people should abstain from
the too free use of vegetables and
fruit at this season of the year, and
by so doing will avoid attacks of
chills and fever which invariably
follows III the wake of such uncom
monty cool nights as we are ex-
periencing just at the present.
L Lake Charles Echo.
The reorganization of the School
Board need give uneasiness to none
of the present competent and faith
full teachers. The members will act
with conservative caution and per.
nit of no change unless for sufficient
. cause. There will be no scramble
for teacherships or Notifying can
wasting for s'infuence" required
= Item,
Maria Halpin, the woman said Il
have been kidnapped by Cleveland,
e orders in Buffalo, and thrown int
!. an asylum for the insane, told tire,
reporters in Brooklyn during thu
2 past week that lawyers in the Gov
$ ernor's employ had recently endeav
}. ored to "settle" her case Sh
# added that Growers only way of set
thing the case is by becoming he
, lawful husband New York jour
$ nalist.
e The firm of Miller, Brady & Co
dealers in hardware and machiner,
at this place, ARE really selling good
so low as TO astonish the natives
e They have already, within the shOI
II space of three months, gained
). reputation for good goods and To-
prices in this and surrounding pal
% ishes. There is nothing like To-
F. prices to attract trade, and this
,e true all over the world. Alexal
$. dria Town Talk.
Last Thursday evening the pr
sonerS, confined in the old iron Gag
I. of our parish Jail, broke out of til
OF cage and were III the act Of pickin
S, u hole in the brick wall, when the
II were detected and secured. I'll
: prison is in such dilapidated COZ
~ dition that it is a wonder we al
IT. not called OH to chronicle man
successful escapes therefrom,
There are now about forty thrt
prisoners confined in Jail, most
them for petty offenses, and four
FIVE for murder Iberville Sout
's The Louisiana Grand Consistor
u Thirty Second Degree Ancient al
40 Accepted Scottish Rite, held 81
N. cial convocation on Tuesday, A
10 gust 8, 1884. After proper diSpos
of matters relating to the call ii
hu cOnsistory was closed and the Graz
as Tribunal of the mystic tie TOT
IS, charge of the rooms, the followil
IA named members acting as officer
Alfred Shaw, 33d, President; E
US NETT ID. Craig, SD, First Councillt
he Albert G. Brice, SD, Second Cou
,w c;llor; Rufus L. Slocomb, 32d, Chanc
va lor; w. X. Douglas, SD, Advocat
- Henry w. Coulter, sod, Defend,
raj Eugene Tisdalc, 32d, Provost M
is shall; Thomas Cripps, SD, Secretar
70. Alfred FL, ISaaoSon, 33d, Treasure
n Isaac I. Hutton, sd, Guar
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