The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-09-06
srATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Morgan City Rsvisa0 has gone
to the wall. Sorry, Bro. Woodcock,
but varigated newspaper business
wont pay.
n. 20. City Item 1t Is the boss.
A cotton stalk has been exhibited on
Change in Shreveport bearing $50
bolls and squares of cotton.
Alexandria Tom Taus: We heard
yesterday that every ward in Grant
parish was carried by the temperance
people at the election for Incense and
against license on last Saturday.
Bill Mckinney, a negro prisoner
confined 10 the Lafourche parish jail
under sentence of death, attempted to
make good his escape on the 10th
ult., and was shot and instantly killed
by Sheriff Thibodaux.
Terrebonne Times The hard times
and scarcity Of money has compelled
some of our small farmers to market
their hay and corn earlier than usual,
thus forcing them to husband every
means in order to make both ends
meet.
Gen. L. T. Lewis, the present in
cumbent, secured solid delegation
from St. Landry parish to the Con
gressional Convention which meets in
the city of Baton Rouge on the 18th
inst. to nominate a candidate for the
Sixth District.
Alexandria Town Talk Mr.. Geo.
B. Marsh writes us that the crops be-
tween Cotile and Colfax are very fine,
and that they have had two or three
good rains, which were much needed.
People up in that section are now
busily engaged in picking cotton.
Thibodaux Sentinel: The head
and skin of a monster alligator was
sent to Mr.. Samoan on Thursday,
which was forwarded to New Orleans
to the great Exposition. 1t was "a
feet long, and was killed and preserE-
ed by Marcel Ledet, who resides near
the Cutoff, in lower Lafourche.
DeSoto Herald Fifteen or 90 ne
groes have been convicted at our last
term of District Court, for crimes
ranging from carrying concealed
weapons to shooting with intent to
murder. They are mostly young
"bucks," able to earn a dollar per day
or more on the farm. What, in the
name of reason, is the colored popu-
lation of this parish coming to?
Lafayette Advertiser 1t appears
that the pretext now for the troubles
in Iberia is, that Gov. McEnery did
not consult the wishes of the Fonte-
lien faction in appointing Judge ad
interim. Bontelieu ct ais. appeal to
the law and the constituted authori-
ties in their election contests but in
other respects defy both the law and
the recognized authorities. 1t is time
for a sober second thought--this
thing has gone far enough, and
has grown into State scandal.
Iberia Sugar-Bowl; AT o'clock
last Wednesday morning, at her resi-
dence near Jeanerette, a highly re-
spected widowed lady and member of
one of the oldest families of this par
ish, was outraged by a negro fiend.
AS soon as the alarm was given, the
citizens started in pursuit and at Z
o'clock the brute was captured and
stretched to the limb of a tree in the
woods back of Jeanerette. 1t was
rnmored that he was being taken to
jail in New Iberia and a crowd of
citizens met the 10 o'clock freight
and 1880 passenger train ready to
lynch the villain on the spot.
Lafayette AdVertiser: We learn
from an authentic source that there
was a cholera scare( l) at Carenco q
few days ago, confined, happily, to q
particular locality. 1t seems that a
family of French arrived there-some
three or four months out from Mar
seilles--and one of them dying under
peculiar, if not suspicious circum-
stances, it was not long before the
case was settled as a death from chol-
era-and a telegram to New Orleans
advising thereof, brought up special
investigator; but the man had died of
heart disease! Haze tabatla docet---
don't believe everything you hear.
West Feliciana Sentinel. 1t is a
matter of impossibility to obtain posi-
tive information as to the crops in this
parish and vicinity owing to the yari-
ETY. of opinion and the conflicting
reports, Some sections have had too
much rain, Others not enough--in
some sections the rain came too late
and injured cotton more than a con
tinnance of the dronth would have
done. Such are the bewildering con-
glomeration of reports that reach us,
and it would require the personal in
spection of the entire crop of the
parish, by an experienced farmer, to
approximate anywhere near to the
huel Va VIC oHpJESh' iNuSn llo ud1-
vest comes we can speak adgisedly,
and not until then.
0pelousas Courier We have to
report continuance of the dry
weather and still further injury to all
growing crops. We have had longer
drouths, bnt we have never had as
much damage in the same number Of
weeks as has characterized the pres
ent summer. North and west winds
have prevailed, which with the hot
sun have had the effect Of months, in
stead of weeks, Of dry weather. Even
in favored portions of the parish
where occasional showers of rain have
fallen, the moisture seems TO have
eyaporated 50 rapidly as to be Of lit
tie benehtito vegetation. For the past
ten days the cotton has been shedding
the most Of its forms, and 10 many
fields large numbers Of plants are re-
ported TO have died, and more are
eftlt 1vsnor