The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-05-16
sTATE NEWS ETEsEs.

J gan City Free Press A very drench
! ing rain fell during Monday night
much TO the discomfort of the far
mcrs.
The Rev. Il. N. Crowson, faithfn
and devoted Methodist minister, dieI
al his residence in Sparta, Blenvillr
parish, on the 9Th ultimo. Peace IL
his ashes.
Ibcrville South. The river is rising
slowly at this point. On Tuesday il
fell three inches at Memphis, five
inches at St. Louis; and rose foul
inches at Vicksburg.
Baton Rouge GapitoliaR Adroodte
A party of citizens from Gainesville
Texas, pursued and captured a gang
of four desperadocs and cattle thieves,
and also broke up and scattered an
other gang of the same character.
A white woman, supposed to be
Mrs. Carl Heidecker, was run over and
killed near Avery's Island by passing
train, on the 9TH inst. As she had
with her two bottles of whiskey when
killed, it is thought she was drunk at
the time of her horrible death.
/ Pointe Goupee Banner: The water
coming through AEorganza erevasse
has risen considerably within the past
week, and has spread to such an ex-
tent as to gradually cncroach upon the
cultivated lands in the rear of many
plantations. The water now covers a
| portion of the road now leading from
this place to Pointe Coupee ?. o.
Franklin correspondent of the Nor
gan City Free Press The sale by the
Sheriff of the Berwick plantation was
at last accomplished, on Saturday. 1t
went to one of ST. Mary's rich sugar
men, Mr.. V. Swan, for something over
SI4, 900, about two-thirds of its for
mer appraisal, Whom offered on April 5.
1t is quite a valuable place
Pointe CouPec Banner. A negro
man by the name of Panl Johnson was
found dead in the field on the St. Cyr
plantation, in the Ninth Ward, last
Tuesday evening. A jury of inquest
held before A. Pourciau, J. p, re-
turned a verdict that the cause of
death was apoplexy, or heart disease.
There were no marks of violence on
the body.
Brentwood Democrat A cente-
pede invaded the classic precincts of
Coggin academy chapel, last Sunday
night, just as the pastor, DIR. j. F.
Neal, said, "Let us sing two more
stanzas of familiar hymn and be dis
missed" The poisneons visitor Gre
ated a stampede in the congregation,
and put period to penitential devo-
ton. Il was dispatched in "short
meter" much to the delight of the
congregation.
Baton Rouge Capitolian- Advocate !;
Here is what we call quick work. A
man calling himself G: H. Mason, of
New York, entered the room of James
F. Caldwell, the well known turfman,
at the Maxwell House last Wednesday
and stole valuable jewelry belonging to
Mrs. Caldwell, who pursued him. Ma
son was arrested, indicted, tried, con-
victed and placed in the penitentiary
for five years, before dinner time. A
rapid disposition of petty ofienses is
money saved.
Baton Rouge Capitolian- .AdVOcate ::
A scientific wonder is reported in re-
cent London dispatches that has Gre
ated considerable comment and speeu-
lation. 1t is claimed that after con-
siderable time spent in experimenting
DR.. Jaime Ferran Y. Clua, of Valentia,
has succeeded in inoculating human
subjects with bacilla, propagated in
mutton broth, 10 seenre immunity
against cholera. England will proba-
bly, send a commission to Spain to in
Vestigate DR.. Clna's new discovery
with view to its adoption by the
medical practice in that country should
it prove TO be what it has been repre-
scented.
Baton Rouge Capitolian-Advocafe
Hon. 0. b. Steele is cleaning up and
having systematically arranged all the
books, rolls, and documents belonging
to the Office of the Auditor of Public
Accounts, so that he can, at mo-
ment's notice, lay his hand on any
book or paper needed. The tax rolls,
delinquent lists, ETC., of the several
parishes, will be labeled and arranged
by parishes on shelves in alphabetical
order, which will enable him to put
his hand on any document or paper at
any moment. He has also arranged
in the same manner, in the iron vault,
the oaths, bonds and other valuable
documents belonging to his depart
ment. When he has completed this
work, the Office will be in more
thorough systematic condition than it
has been at any time in many years.
Governor McEnery has issued the
following proclamation "Informa-
tion having been communicated to me
by the honorable the Secretary of
State for the United States, derived
from the United States Minister to
Central America and the consul gem
eral of Guatemala, that grcyions impo-
sitions have been praetieed upon citi-
zens of Louisiana and other States by
agents in New Orleans protesting to
act for railroads IN Central America,
and the suggestion being made by the
said consul general that such imposi-
tions can in a great measure be pre-
vented by the local authorities, / there
fore request all persons who desire TO
go 10 Central America to labor on
railroads, to first apply to Hon. w. H.
Harris, Commissioner Of immigration
for the State Of Louisiana, for infor-
nation as to the character and respon-