The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-09-26

Many horses are dying Of blin'

AlAGW sweet ftobdtDes arc 'HeiilhH ~
80 cents per bHshel in the town Of
Alexandria.
Rich deposits of iron ore have re-
Gently been discovered ono mile north
Of the town Of Bellevue, Bossier parish.
Some 0t the Terrebonnc sugar
planters are making preparations to
begin sugar-roiling carly in October.
The cotton crop has been damaged
fally so per cent in the parishes OF
Lafayette, Yermillion and Iberia by
rain.
Mr. William Dupree, Deputy Clerk
of the Supreme Cont, died very sud
denly in the City Of New Orleans on
the 9Th inst.
The ST. Landry Democrat says,
"competent Judges estimate the rice
crop in Prairie Mamon, this season,
at SO, 600 barrels"
Edmund st. Julien has been COM
Inissioncd postmaster at Broussardville,
Lafayette parish, and Robt r. Me-
Bride al Thibodaux, Lafourche parish.
The Opelousas Courier wants the
Police Jury Of St. Landry to make an
appropriation to enable that parish TO
make fitting exhibit at the American
Exposition.
Natehitoches Repieic A sensible
merchant who has goods TO sell adver-
tises the:u. This parish ought to adj
vertise the many advantages she is
prepared to offer to those in search of
homes.
Morgan City Review: Cholera has
KILLED nearly all of the hogs on Belle
Isle, st. Mary parish. Dan Hutchin
son refused $4,000 for a lot that he
owned, and a short time after they all
died but one.
The Police Jury of ST. Mary parish,
at its last meeting, declined to make
an appropriation to assist in rebuild
ing the Morganza leree, as the finances
of the parish would not Justify the
Expenditure.
CapitoliGa- 4dcocate: 1t has leaked
ont that the high cockalorums of Re-
form held close conference recently,
in New Orleans. The distribution of
garden seeds and the development of
the resources of the State are sup
posed to have been the principal sub
| jects of discussion.
The cotton crop of West Baton
Rouge has been damaged about one
half, and the rice seriously injured, by
the incessant rains that have fallen in
that section in the past few weeks.
In East Baton Rouge the complaints
among cotton planters are general
that the continued wet weather has
seriously injured their crops.
Prohibition is now the order of the
day in this State in the parishes of
Rapides, Vim, Sabine, Tangipahoa,
Grant, Cameron, Union, Morehouse
and Lincoln, and few wards in some
other parishes. 1t is only three years
since the movement was first started
in our State, and It's advocates must
feel pleased at its advance among us
The total assessment of the prop.
erty in the parish of Natchitoches fol
1885 is s., 2s9, 500, showing an in.
crease of sl64,4l5 over that of 1884
This increase is due to the increased
assessment of the railroad and the as
sessment of $4,000 acres of land ae
quircd by the road from the United
[ States by virtue of the Backbone land
grant.
Bossier Banner: God helps thOs,
, who help themselves, and the people
of Bossier have got to help themselves
now if they want to develop their iror
interest and industrial resources gen
orally. Be up and doing, good friends
: if you want yonr parish TO rejoice il
prosperity. God has favored GU
land with many advantages. Let III
! develop and improve them.
CGpitolian-adpocaie Senator Eus
! lis, in his remarkable paper, in tn,
: North american Repiev, which ha
been reproduced in the Capitolian
) Advocate, has sounded the key not
that will awaken the defenders of pop
ular government. We will be greatll
9 deceived if they do not rally to hi
e support in overwhelming numbers T.
defend system Of government that il
one century has erected one of til
most powerful nations in existence
: The people will suffer no Reform G
TO be made at the expense of the ind
vidual rights of the citizen, or of th
e right of the majority to rule this, th
! grandest government that the brain 9
man has ever conceived and estal
! lished.
A Shreveport special Of the lit
: inst. to the Picayaae, says: The con
+ nittees appointed by the Police Jur,
! the City Council and the Cotton 3
: change for the purpose of deyising
: plan to secure a creditablc display (
II Caddo parish at the American Exp
! sitIon, met this evening for conference
"A AhS SplItAibtpN ft1VPsNA - tSoDtatlN
Y, inviting all the North Louisiana pa
]. ishes TO cooperate in an exhibit of u
I resources of this section of the Stat
/; The comrsittee recommend that q
= Police Jurg of this parish make !
: appropriation of $1,000 for that pr
= pose. One of the plans suggested
4. n the publication of pamphlets descri
q q ing the lands, timber, minerals aud
n other, products forfree distribution.
Oily Item There is rumor III
whilst Gibson, Blanchard, King a
Ifion are, in the main, apparently la
~ over the distribution of the spoi
~ there is an existing disagreement
On tween Gibson and IFion as regards
appointment of the Louisiana Distr
NJ Attorney. The story goes that G
IA son promised our influential ex-Co
VI gresham, Z. John Ellis, that
IN brother. T. C. M. Ellis, should Ia