The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-04-18

RayFilIc, Rirl.land parish, I with.
ont doctor.
Crop prospects were never better
than Al present IN Lafayette parish.
A disease, commencing with throat
swelling, is killing many cattle IN ST.
Landry parish.
Mrs. Delia Garrigues, rnliet Of the
late Jndge A. Garrignes, died in the
town Of 0pelousas on the 9th inst,
aged Y years
a tremendous rain and wind storm
passed over the town Of Washington
on the 18th inst, deluging the streets
and ieyeling fences.
A man by the name Of Lamb,
charged with a hoinuus crime, who
broke Jail in Lafayette about year
ago, has been captured and returned
10 his Old quarters.
!SHgRr-BoWl. The colored teachers
I'm ST. James parish receive about $40
more per month than the white teach
ers, owing TO the larger Eunber of
colored school children.
Poinie Coupee Banner: There is
still a good deal Of sickness in the
,+Ssrisb the measles in some parts and
diptheria and pneumonia in others,
seem unwilling to give our doctors
any rest at all.
Baton Rouge T'ruM Notwith-
standing the constant cry of hard
times the spirit of building and i'm
provement remains unabated. At no
time IN the last three or four years
have the carpenters and bricklayers
been more steadily employed than at
present.
Morgan City Free Press The
go West fever ha> broke out incur
little city. Several young men have
made the start and have found en-
ploymrnt at Orange, Texas. Others
have the farming fever and will en-
desVOr to secure lands in Calcasieu |
OF St. Landry.
Vernon CeadeHser: Mr. Elias Frank |
liz, came in town yesterday evening |
and informed Dept. Sheriff n. S. !
Smart that two suspicious characters |
were in the neighborhood OF Walnut !
Hill, who it is said, stole some horses |
in Calcasieu parish recently. Dept. |
Smart Immediately started to capture |
them, and up to going to press has
not returned The men say their |
names are Jones and HoRiser
The Baton Rouge papers, comment
ing upon the recent municipal election
held in that city, make serious com
plant of the methods used to bring |
out the "full vote of the town, and .
say the worst class of negroes were
called into requisition to espouse the
cause of the rival candidates, and de-
2lares that the whole affair twas a
disgrace TO the community and to
civilization"
Caldwell WTatchman; Uncle Tom
Meredith, the second oldest man in
he parish, is eighty-two years old,
md a Baptist Minister By profession.
&c walks three and half miles and
.Uck the second Saturday and Sunday
IF every month, to fill his preaching
at a church that be estab-
ished and has preached at constantly
or the past forty years. We called
lpon the old gentleman at his home a
ew days ago. Though bent with the
weight of his four score years we
ouud him hoeing IN his garden
him out and spent an hour
pleasantly with him. He is talkatiYe,
nd full of jokes, says that his gen
raj health is better than il has been
or several years.
City Item: New Orleans Day at
he Exposition was bright and beau
iful success. 1t vindieated the hopes
md prescience of its organizers, and
o all participants, particularly the
chool children, proved a period of
Inalloyed enjoyment. Let prepare
ions for Louisiana Day now go
'ravely on. The Sugar-Bowl State is
lot only great herself, but has been
he mother of SO many great States,
arVed out of her original territory,
hat OIL the thirticth Of April--the
,reat anniversary in her historicrecord
she deserves more than a royal re-
Judging from arrange
nents now in process of being carried
mt, we incline to the opinion that
Day will be the red letter
lay of the Exposition, both in attend
Inee and attractions. /