The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-18
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.

Collector Jonas may succeed |
Senator Gibson in the Senate. |
Il Monroe Bulletia.
Nowhere will honesty in official
life he better appreciated than in
this CITY, Chronicle.
In 1860 the assessed value of prop
erty in this parish was over $4,000,
600. In 1884 it was little over
g., 900, 000.-TTown Talk.
1t is murd r cases that fill the
local columns of the New Orleans
daiIes, and a fresh case at every
ISSUE Morgan CITY Free Press.
flour planters would eurtail their
planting operations and farm little
more, they would undoubtedly sue.
coed better, Try I'LL Terrebonne
Times.
The Agricultural Bureau reports
the growing crops of Louisiana as
higher in promise than those of any
other State. This applies equally
to cane, rice, cotton and corn, which
hA ar III nut COiIulIlOus
The Police Jury adopted the sug-
gesti0n of the Bulletin, made few
weeks ago, to place the parish con.
victs under the charge OF an over
seer and subject them to work orr
levees, bridges, and other public
works. Mdrksville Bulletin.
The cry Of too much rain, too
much rain, comes from all parts of
the parish. Crops are drenched
aud grass is growing with vim
that brings fear to the heart of the
farmers Ruston California.
Mrs. q. f. Moser and Mrs. j. B.
Quimby of this place will leave on
the steamer Gay to morrow for a
sojourn of two weeks or SO at Sea
shore Camp Ground, near Biloxi,
where they have rented ii neat little
cottage. We wish them an agree
able time Chief.
The machinery for the diffusion of
sugar. which the Agricultural
Bureau has ordered constructed for
Louisiana, is about completed, and
will be shipped i'll ~ few days to
Gen. j. Il. Brent's Hermitage
Plantation in Ascension parish,
where it will be put up in time 10
operate upon the present crop.
i Ascension Democrat.
Iberville parish can Justly boast
OF having the most efficient sheriff
and eX-officio Tax Collector iu the
State. At the final settlement in
April for the taxes of 1884, Sheriff
BRUSHES report showed that he had
collected and paid to the State
Auditor, 973 per cent. o. the taxes
due 10y the parish of Iberville.
= lbPrvile South.
The excursion from New Orleans
last Sunday was literally patronized
and the people who came up enjoyed
their trip very much. The rain
during the evening made it some
what disagreeable for them for ii
short while. They left at o'clock,
how EVER, wcll pleased with their
visit to the Capitol City.-ICapitol.
ian-AdvoGate.
To increase facilities for the poor
ard the poor and the public in gen
eral, temporary or permanent
structures should be placed on the
river front in charge of sanitary
officers. Properly directed estab-
lnents OF the kind would be SelfSus
tanning, Let Commissioner Fitz.
patrick take up the subject and
give the Council the benefit of some
practical suggestions Chronicle.
The employment ofconYictS labor
is unfair i'll every way to honest
toll. The agricultural classes are
mainly of nonroying disposition,
and live and die in the same neigh
borhoOd. To bring the criminal
fresh from his crime into competition
with this home labor is both demon
alizing and unjust. 1t develops an
intense antagonism; more intense
because the question becomes a local
One. shreveport Times.
"Nelson Washington, the noto-
riOus Justice of the Peace for the
Fifth Ward, was III the jug this
week on double barrelcd charge
OF forgery and emhezzlement. Mel,
son has furnished an appearance
bond and is at large again, preparing
to perpetrate some additional piece
Of rascality, no doubt Ii is high
time means were devised to deprive
this unpriucipled fellow OF the off
cial lhority which he SO grossly
abuses."- DonaIdSonvlle Chief.
The National Cotton Planters
Association has determined to en-
courage the more skilllul and
thorough cultivation of crops in the
Southern States, and for this pur-
pose will offer premiums to the sum
of $200,000, to be given two years
hence, or in the crop year 1886 81,
this due notice being made III order
to enable farmers TO give the sub
ject ample consideration and eX-