The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-12-26
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changed 20 red and white.
Mr. j. AZ. Halsa's history Of Ciai-
borne parihh viii soon be ont.
Bayou Lafonrche is 30 low that
navigation Is aoont suspended.
The advocates Of prohibition were
defeated on The 18th inst, IN Consulate.
Arcadia, Bienyille parish, had ship
ped 1861 bales Of cotton up to Dec. 10. /
Ionisiana gets &440o, and some
medals from the Peabody Fnnd this
year
The Democrat eiaisas that Mansfield
Is the best cotton market 10 North
Louisiana.
Capt i. d. Prescott has been APP
pointed postmaster at Washington,
st. Landry parish.
6ilas Moran and Mrs. Eallie Majors,
aged T6 and SO respectively, have
married at Vidalia
Vidalia Ssntfasl. Work has com
menced on the Natchez, Red River
and Texas Railroad westward.
ARGUE entered the sleeping apart
ment of two Shreveport policemen and
robbed it Of all things valuable.
a stone resembling serpentine and
a good fire clay have been discovered
at the Sam Houston mine, Winn
parish.
Morgan City Free Press: The steam
boat '.Sacharinen run into the ting f
johnson, and seriously damaged her
self on Friday last.
a man named John n. Mitchell
has been arrested in Shreveport for
making $40 bills out Of s. bills, and
500 ont Of $40 bills.
Louisiana .4dpaaee: The Police
Jury of Jackson pasisl, has ordered a
prohibition election, to take place on
the 3rd Saturday in January.
Morgan City Revicac: Mr.. w. d..
Mearns, postmaster at Lake Charles,
has returned to his home, a fact which
we are more than glad to state.
Shreveport Ghig The Louisiana
and Texas ends of the Shreveport and
Houston road, are only 320feet apart,
and the approaches over the Sabine
river are completed.
The Police Jury Of Rapides has in
vited Professor Lawrence johnson Of
the q. S. Governments geological
service to visit that parish and inves-
tigate its mineral resources.
ST. Bernard EqgIe: Mr.. .. R. Du-
eros tells us that on and in the vicin-
ity of Sebastopol plantation, Terre-
anxsBenfs, the extremely high aver
age of twenty-six tons of cane to the
acre was obtained.
Donaldsonyille CAief. The bayou
and river are still falling and only the
smaller steamboats, are now able to
make their way to Thibodanx. The
fatboat feet is aaoat again and is
doing rushing business.
Coushatta Citizen: The steamer
HGarrolr' from st. Louis, loaded with |
freight for this part of the valley is
hard aground about seyenty-five miles
below. From present prospects she
will have TO winter on sand bar.
The FarmerYille Gazette. The cot
ton trade on the corner of jackson
and Main streets last Friday evening
was lively. There were several wag-
ons loaded with the staple that had |
just got in from the Northern part of |
the parish and South Arkansas.
Louisiana adeaace: jackson parish
has no representative in the Legisla-
ture. Mr.. Walsworth, who was
elected at the general election, has ac-
cepted position in the Custom House.
Mr. III Smart, Of Daily r. o., is
spoken Of as his probable successor
The Donaldsonyille Chief. in refer
ing TO the sugar production, says
The finest yield Of which we have
yet obtained definite information is |
reported from Hon. E. j. jays Acadia
plantation, in Lafourehe parish, where
$4,000 pounds of sugar have been
realized from ~ acres Of plant cane.
CaFttofla1a1dagooaie: The sudden
abandonment of work on the Louis
lana Central road, appears 10 have
been an unexpected surprise to West
Baton Rongeans. The Platter says
there Is a general impression that
there Is some other reason than the
recent actor of the planters. That
action supplied the excess. See
Baton Rouge Truth: Hon. "A. b.
lrion, our Congressman, viii offer in
the lower House the two following
bills IN which the people of East
Baton Rouge are much interested: To
cede to the Louisiana State University
and Agricultural College $4,000 acres
of public domain, the proceeds from