The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-01-10
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS


Elk mayor st. Clair, is proving a
very efficient member Of the coun- 4
cil.-r Morgan City Free Press.
The Daily To,on Tall, Of Alex
andria, La, has changed to a tri-
weekly. We wish the lively paper
success in its new departure.
Nearly every passing boat carries
to New Orleans party OF excur-
sionists, bound for the Exposition
and full Of fun and froiics- Feliei-
ana Sentinel.
Eggs have dropped from twenty.
five cents, Christmas price, TO tif-
teen cents per dozen. At the latter
price we common folks can afford I
to eat them occasionally Cali
graph.
The Clerks Office has been doing |
a lively business in marriage II
eences lately; the foreign deinand
has been unusually largest. Ian
dry girls are popular abroad.-lot.
/ Landry Democrat.
| Our people planted 5000 acres in
iice last Year. Let rs try and
double the area this year, and DIS
tribute among ourselves quarter
of million of dollars next fall. 1t
) can be done; yon have already
, proved it. Il Lake Charles Echo.
The city budget has always been
! a troublesome thing. 1t is under,
stood the city can do very we'll
without policemen, school teachers
ana streets; but hoodlums who work
e elections must have soft places and
Il be paid for having them, and don't
: you forget it, Picayune.
The train ditched beyond Mar
= shall Sunday morning was passen
- per train No. 1, west bound from
Ii Marshall. All the coaches We're
.ditched except the sleeper and M
II one Was badly hurt. The cause o
the accident was a washout on tn
- track over which the engine ran
a. before. the engineer felt i'll fowi
err 4 Talk.
at 1t becomes every day more plai
~ that only through the vigorous al
- interested action of Citizens GoI
Co. mittee Of One Hundred can genuin
pc retrenchment be grated upon on
,e. CITY Hail methods; and the soont
nv such protective body is organize
the better it will be for the "a
repute Of. New Orleans aud for j
~ prosperity.-lltem
w 1t is said that Gen. Butler spel
1856. 600 in tile Ieceut campaign,
IDS the effort 10 he elected PRESIDED
Some men are very silly in their 0
age, inthe parts they play in paliti
as well as in love. Any CONNIE
OF fool could have told Gen. Butler
po' was throwing his money away
ay- spent more dollars than lie got VOTE
cd, -ISt. Landry Democrat.
nd Mayor Guillotte agrees with 4
M States that the New Orleans G
- Company has no right to contra
tba with the city TO furnish gas ligl
~ to the mumeipaIbniltlings, chargil
flV lAtFGIbI OnS cent pei houi lOt "a
light. The measurement must
mo by cubic feet, and not by time. L
viii that reason lie has vetoed the or
tha nance authorizing the contract vi
I'm the Gas Company States.
at In this parish, the caying at b
hat net Care point, west bank, neces
,po. tates new leyee of over 5000 f
are in length which will cause the
ater moving of q large quantity
lily buildings as it happens whore p
lere is very tllickly settled, and the II
air, levee as laid out will oblitel
0 re- several small properties, Effo
10 have been undertaken by part
it of interested to Obtain a m0diticat
gges of the plan of the new leyee, "
rize what result We cannot tell N
gate chacebe.