The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-11-07


Che cotton crop Of the upper por-
tion Of Pointe Conpee parish will yield
bale 70 tic acre.
The City OF Baton Rouge has re-
aaemed 100000 u her Capitol Bonds.
There remains &a5 900 set Is be re-
deemed
DipiiheFia, a disease SO fatal to
children, i prevailing to some extent
10 tlis parish Of Rspides, and several
aestha tllerefrom have occurred re-
GENTLY
a colored woman in Thibod4ux,
named Mary Magee, was sentenced by
Judge Taylor Reattie, last week, to
two years IL the penitentiary for
youdooisn.
AT 4 recent meeting of The DeSoto
parish school board, SO public schools
were ordered established for term
Of three months. OF these SO were
for white and 30 for colored children.
Alcxaadria Tom Tall Very
satisfactory progress has been made
in the construction of the Shreveport
and Houston Railroad recently. Trains
nov RIM from Shreveport to the Sa-
bine river
MindeHl De5aocrat. The cotton
crop 10 this section turned ont much
better than was expected. In some
portions farmers report better crops,
taking All together, than ahey have
had since the wsr.
Natchitoches HeBielr. FIVE wonld
spend more money for public schools
in this State, we would not have to
spend 80 much for conyicting and
maintaining prisoners IN the parish
jails and penitentiary.
Governor MeEnary, prompted by
broad pnblic spirit and deep solici-
tude for the welfare of the State has
issued a proclamation in reference to
the opening Of the American Exposi-
ton, at New Orleans on the 10th inst.
The Grand Jury of the parish of |
East Baton Rouge, at arecent session,
indicted a number of retail liquor
dealers of that city for selling liquor
to minors. They also indicted several
vendors Of Louisiana Lottery tickets
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter
Benz. D. Msgruder, of Chicago, but a
native of this State and son of Prof.
w. III. N. Magrnder, Of Baton Rouge,
recently had the good fortune to fall
heir to a vacant Supreme Judgeship
in Illinois.
LAFAYETTE Adgertiser The pre-
liminary work at this end of the
Louisiana Central Railroad is being
steadily advanced. The centre line
of the road bed was recently located
and in all probability dirt will be
broken shortly.
Rnston Gdkigraph, Four more geo
logist will be sent TO this State from
Washington in the early part Of next
month, for the purpose of making
thorough geological survey of the en-
tire State, not embraced in the terri
tory Of Prof. johnson.
". o. States: The second artesian
well at the St. Charles Hotel has been
sunk to depth of 400 feet, and there
is every reason to believe that it will
ponr forth plentiful supply of water.
The first well sunk now gushes forth
at the rate of sixty gallons TO the
minute.
Morgan City Reviev Cane is very
sweet and brittle. The weather lately
has been favorable, growth has gener-
ally stopped, and it is ready for grind
ing. In a short time every mill in
the parish will be in operation, and
most planters anticipate good return
of sugar
The Reuter-, in speaking of tobacco
raised in that parish, says: "Many
years ago, Natchitoehos tobacco, and
especially Natchitoches snuff, enjoyed
reputation in this country as well as
in Europe, and at one time tobacco
raised in a few miles of this town,
took the first prize at an exposition in
Paris"
St. Martin Reyeille: The cotton
crop will prove to be heavier than was
at first expected. The fields are all
snowy white and present a magnii-
cent aspect. Since the sugar mills have
commenced grinding, hands to pick
mp the cotton are very scarce, and the
cotton planters are suffering in con
sequence.
Abbeville MeridionGI. From in
formation given us the yield of all
kinds Of crops throughout this parish
meet with the expectations of the
farmers. All we need now to make us
still happier people is railroad to
some point, from this place, whereby
we can have qnick and cheap trans-
p0rtation for trade and travel.
Justice Of the Peace jules Dnbns,
of the Sixth Ward of Iberia parish,
has sned the Iberia Farmer for S5, 900
damages for Islander. This shows
plainly that the Judge is not very well
posted lis to the wealth of country
newspaper editors The idea of a
country editor having $1,000 is per-
sectlg ridiculous. Our opinion is the
1adge will have TO try some other
racket 10 ssraise the wind, " as all the
country editors IN The State couldn't
raise that amount Of money.
West Baton Rouge Sugar l'laater
II il reported that Mai. Z, A. Burke,
of the 1'iaessD emocrai, is 10 establish
III New York City a journal that will
be Southern 10 every respect. The
new paper viii make q specially of
Southern news and sentiments and will
have lor its ultimate object the ameep-
ing AWAY Of sectionaIisfn. Had the
Northeri papers taken The trouble to