The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-10-04
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Inc Alexandra otOfe UeMff0f n
press reports large receipts Of cutto
at that place.
The Hahnville Herald reports con
siderable sickness throughout the par
ish of St. Charles.
4 The Alexandria TolDn Tak report
quite a decline in the value of reR
estate in that town.
i The Sabine Southron wants loca
option law out in that neck of tn
woods. Very good idea, Brothe
Presley.
Vernon Condenser Beef has beer
selling in Leesville at and 81 cent
per pound. This is high, but it is no
any higher than bacon at lB1 cent
per pound.
i n. o. Chronicle The people Of
the Attakapas region want Bayor
Plaquemine opened TO navigation
and wonder why Major Stickney does
not follow the recommendation of the
Mississippi River Commission on the
subject.
De Soto Democrat: Campbell, the
printer, who is well known in this
place, and who formerly published a
paper at Hamilton, Texas, was re-
Gently sent to the penitentiary from
Vernon parish. He was convicted of
burglary.
St. Mary Herald, Rep: 1t iB re-
markable to listen to the logical ~
deductions of the average Republican
POLITICAL crank. Webster and Cal
houn or Clay and Stephens would be
no match for any two of them. Mister
Speekor-Sufering Moses.
There is a terrible chill creeping
through the Customhouse. There is
to be a new assessment for campaign
purposes, and rents are rising and
board is going up, and the washer
women are putting up prices, and the
wailing and the grooming are waxing,
notwithstanding civil service rules.
n. o. Chronicle: The dissatisfied
delegates of the Third District met at
Steptoe Hall, vigorously denounced
the convention of Onstom-House Off
cials, which nominated Kellogg, and
approved the endorsement of Mr..
Gay by the Martinez convention.
They hold that the man who was
bribed once can be bribed again, and
that new leaders are needed.
West Carroll Fatchman How
can we hope to secure emigration to
this parish if the laws of the country
are never enforced, and when crime is
commended rather than denounced.
1t is a serious thing for the property
owners of the parish to contemplate,
and unless they resolve to remedy the
evil they had better be looking out
for new homes elsewhere.
Alexandria Egpress The Ouachita
Valley Railroad is the most import
ant railroad that has been projected in
Louisiana since the completion of tue
New Orleans Pacific. It would sup
ply link in the railroad system OF
the State that is greatly needed and
Alexandria would be greatly benefit
ted, as it is the Southern terminus and
is the most important town on the
line.
Vernon Condenser We notice that
forest fires have been raging in many
parts of the parish during the past
two or three weeks. East of here,
with but few exceptions, is continual
burn to the Rapides line. North of
here is also vast amount of pine
woods that has suffered great dam
age by fire. The obstruction of grass
besides the loss of timber by these
fires will be seriously felt the coming
season.
Farmerille Gazette: We have met
farmers from nearly every neighbor-
hood in our parish, during the past
week, with whom we have conversed. |
It is the statement of nearly all tlat |
the cotton crop will not be more than
one-hslf the crop Of last year. Rust
and blight have checked the plant 10
its growth, causing the shedding of
half grown bolIs, and a premature
opening of those more advanced in
their growth. Reports from Claiborne
and Lincoln parishes are even more
nnfavorable than those in Union. Cot
ton is opening and picking has com
nenced; but up to the present time
not much has been brought to town.
Louisiana Standard, (Rep.): In &C.
sordance with the action of the Re
publican Congressional Convention
held at Plaquemine on the 23rd inst,
We this week hoist the name of the
Hon. Edward j. Gay, of Iberyillc, as
our candidate for Representative to the
forty-ninth Congress from the Third
District. Nominated by the Demo
ratio and endorsed by the Repub-
lean Convention, Mr.. Gay is emf
lently the peoples candidate. At the
PRESENT crisis in our political affairs,
lis election IS necessity to our
Planters and laborers, to our sugar
md rice interests, and to Louisiana.
.et our friends throughout the Dis
riot hold meetings and ratify the
hoice of their Convention. Let us
Il put our shoulders to the wheel and
oil Edward ]. Gay into Congress by :
ronsing majority, thereby freeing
ourselves from the arrogant dominion
+ Customhouse officials and forever I
eIegating the corrupt Kellogg to the
hades Of private life.