The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10

and caterpiilaTs, have been cut short
fully one half
The session Of the Supreme Court
will not commence at Shreveport till
tho third Monday Of this month E0csf
folDcr instead Of the second Monday.
Louisiana mineral exhibit at the
coming Exposition viii be q reveiation
to those who have moi kept posted on
tlic subject 81 recent discoveries of
mineral wealth in this State.
Miss Edith Stockton Rainbo,
specialist Of New York, has been
elected teacher of articulation in the
Louisiana Institute for the Education
81 the Deaf and Dumb, at Baton
Rouge.
The City Council of Morgan City
hiss ordered an election to take the
sense Of the people of thar town on
the proposition tcleyy u special FIVE
mill tax for the purchase Of steam
fire engine.
The present condition of the cotton
crop Of Ouachita parish, sonic say, is
better than it was two weeks ago.
The prospective yield, however, as
compared with last year, will be about
SO per cent less.
NO. City ITEM A private letter
from Washington says 'sRamie is
marvellous product, and will make
Louisiana rich, and@the land q safer
investment than it is to-day in sugar,
cotton or rice
Caldwell parish is having prepared
a map of her vacant lands, to be dis
played at the Exposition in New Or
leans this winter, which no doubt viii
be of great benefit in the way of
bringing the parish prominently be
fore the world.
Messrs. Hines d Riard, two worthy
colored men of Lafayette, have erected
cotton gin in that town. They have
frst-class machinery, a new 25-horse
power engine, two S0-saw gins, feed
ers and condeBsers, press, etc, and are
prepared to gin "a bales per day.
A company styled the Berwick
Lumber and Single Company has
been incorporated with domicile at
Donaldsonyille, for the manufacture of
sawed lumber and shingles at Berwick
City, st. Mary parish, with capital
stock Of $4,000, divided in shares Of
S25 each.
Mr.. John NJ. Avery, Of Avery's Is
land, Iberia parish, claims to have dis
covered a bed Of Ignite or brown coal
north Of the salt mines, which is from
fifteen to seventeen feet thick and
possesses Hseventy-two per cent carbon,
He claims also TO have unearthed
bed of sandstone.
Farnerville AdVOcate We believe
that Union parish could make an in
teresting exhibit for the Exposition
if some interested, energetic person
would take hold of the matter. Won
der,why orr parish legislature-the
Police Jury-don't take steps toward
having the parish properly repre-
sented
The Abbeyille Meridional of the
3rd inst. shows many signs of mate
rial'improyement. 1t appears as full
fedged journal, and is replete with
local happenings and several ably
written short editorials. We recog-
nize the handwriting on the wall, and
wish the MeridionaI many years of
prosperity.
A SIS bill recently found its way
into the u S. sub-treasury at New
Orleans, on the back of which was
written the following words: ''This
islbe last Of fortune. Beware of
women, whisky sand cards" The
faded ink marks indicated that the in
scription had been penncd several
years ago.
Hon. 7. j. Bird, State Commits
sioner of Agriculture, aud Hon. VIM.
II. Harris, State Commissioner of In
migration, will assist the State Com
missioner at the Exposition in making
exhibits, and giving information, in
their respective departments. Maps,
pamphlets, etc, relating to Louisiana,
will be freely distributed.
Albert Fontelieu and G. O. Della
houssaye on the End inst attempted
to file in the Clerks Office, at Frank
lin, St. Mary parish, part Of the
stolen records in the Gates-Fontelien
contested election cases Of Iberia par
ish, and were arrested and lodged in