The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-25

STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.

AervlGo quCe aWnlle Tor Col. James, Pioneer
of Assumption.
Mr.. Claiborne Gibbons has lett at this office
vegetable curiosity in the way of cabbage
stalk with eleven hard heads on it. 1t was
raised by Mr.. Richard Grand in a garden he
is cultivating on the north side of the Garrison
bayou.-l Capitolian-Advocate.
The Directors of the Alexandria Charity
Hospital have purchased for the sire of the
building six acres of ground belonging to Jos.
SterkX, Sr., situated almost in the rear of the
Johnston property, on lower Front street
Price pad $1,000. Tue Town Talk" eonsid-
ers the location to h" Ona of the best that could
have been made.-[T Town Talk.
Several cows belonging to persons in town.
have lately been shot at while grazing in the
suburbs, and a fine one belonging to Philip
Jacobs was killed. The parties doing this
wanton mischief are unknown; but should
their identity be established, they would un-
doubtedly be furnished with board and
lodging at the public expense. Washington
Argus.
More rice has been planted this
year i'll st. Mary than at any three
previous seasons.
From all over the parish the most
favorable reports still come as to
the crop prospects, which, to say
The least, are fattering in the ex-
treme.-[Sugar Planter.
The crops continue to look well in
sections visited by the lain. In
places where the drouth was un
broken the corn has considerably
suffered Marksvile Bulletin.
AS Charlton has app AIRED and is
causing many deaths among cattle,
would it not be advisable for our
city council to appoint an inspector
OF meats for this pldce?-ISt. Mary
Review.
Our planters say they have never
known the stand of cotton to be so
universally good. Nothing but the
army worm can prevent magnitf-
cent cotton crop being made in st.
Landry this year.-[St. Landry
Democrat.
Don't talk about the ''poor down
trodden South" it's all boSh, we are
not poor, we have the richest coun
try in the world. yet dollar bills do
not grow on trees, nor do faiIies
roll barrels of -four into every house
Go to work and stop whining.
i Free Press.
The Baton Rouge Truth saws:
"The only way We Sc to 81 eek
the enormous drain upon the parish
treasury is to make the punishment
of criminals so swift, 81 certain and
so severe as to render crime uupOpu
lar and thing to be stunned by
those accustomed to violations of
the laws"
All OF OWr exchanges report the
crop prospects in this State better
than for years. In tins section the
yield for cane is very promising
AS yet the stock is not very high,
but this is growing weather." and
w grinding season it will be up to
the average height.
The day is fast approaching when
the manifold resOnIc of our State
will attract the attention of the en-
tire country. There is no part nf
her territory that cannot be made
to yield riches to the enterprising,
either from tIIp fertile soil or from
the valuable timber of which almost
every locality has an inexhaustible
supply. : UapitOlian Advocate.
Last Saturday night at about - o'clock, the
valuable sugar house of Messrs John and
Will Kelly, on their BOcage Plantation, was
reduced to ashes. New machinery valued at
$4,000, had been recently put in the building
tor the purpose of milling rice and that to.
gether with q fine sugar mill, was completely
ruined. The estimated loss is $l0,00) covered
by only $4,000 insurance. 1t is supposed to
have been an incendiary act and suspicion
attaches to one Mann Singleton discharged
cOlOred lahOrer on the place, who il seems
had made threats, and was last seen near the
sugar house short while before the fire
occurred. Mcssrs. Kelly Brothers, have or
dered new machinery, and will have to rebuild
Mt once, to be in time to save their valuable
rice crop, OF over a thousand aeres.-GAsce
sion Democrat.
William Ii. Seymour, notary and
attorney of Algiers, has returned
to his home after some forty days
confinement at the Charity Hospital,
i'll charge of DR.. Mi es, house sur.
geon. Mr.. Seymour was one of the
victims of the railroad accident on
the Mississippi Valley route, at
Judse Rests plantation, in ST.
'harles parish, on June z, laSI.
is Ii ad and hand are entirely well,
It wi, lie sometime before be.
~ <, owing to he fracture of
his limh.-I1 Times Democrat.
y good deal of fanlt finding is
beng INDUCED in by some of the
"onnilY panerS with the action of
the State Board of Health on ac
count of the arw departure in the
administration OF quarantine matters.
Aud If they, (the newspapers, J were
asked in what respect does the
present system of quarantine differ
from the preceding, they would
utterly fail in giving an intelligent
and corec, answer, in fact they
show their ignorance and stupidity
III the trashy articles they write.
Il Tcrrehnnue Times.
"The terrible picture of outcast
London which the Pail Mall GA
zette of That city is now publishing
III its columns. and which has