The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-03
State VIEWS nrEaEs.

Soto parish.
Work on the United States couf
building, atshreveport, is progressing
rapidly.
The cotton worm is doing great in
jury to the cotton crop Of Pointt
Coupee.
The prospects for a large yield o.
sugar this year in Terrebonne parisf
was never better.
w. Z. Dixon, editor and proprietor
of the North Louisiana Journal, died
on the 25th ult. after brief illness.
An alligator 10 feet long, With two
well developed heads, was captured
last week IN Bayou Lacache, Terre
bonne parish.
Owing to continued rains for tho
past six weeks the cotton crop oil
Rapides parish will not average more
than half a bale to the acre.
A general order has been issued
notifying postal clerks that mail fol
West Lake Charles, La, must not be
included in direct packages for Lake
Charles.
State Senator Fontenot, of st. Ian,
dry, had his hand so badly injured in
his cotton gin, at Chataignier, on the
23rd ult, that two of his fingers bad
to be amputated.
Tho Alexandria T'owR Talk says
there is a lady residing near Gallo.
ways's Prairie, in Rapides parish, that
has in her possession q hymn-book OF
Psalms printed in A. ID. 1907.
Houma Courier: The Police Jury
at its last meeting passed resolution
authorizing the road committee to
contract with Mr.. Emile Daigle to
clean out Bayou Terrebonne.
Natchitoches Rcview: A few years
ago there was not bale of hay raised
in this parish, but now it has grown
10 be quito an industry, and great
wagon loads of neatly baled hay are
constantly passing through our streets.
The corn crop of Ascension never
was known to be more promising.
The cane is uniformly large on all
plantations, and if grinding is deferred
until the canes are fully matured the
yield this season will be beyond pre-
cedent.
Shreveport Times 1t is said that
anti-prohibition papers never have a
good word for temperance. We have
advocated this idea of temperance
from the beginning, and condemned
the prohibition advocates for intem-
perance in language on every occasion.
The Grand Jury of the parish of
Vermillion in their report to Court
last week at Abbeville, recommend to
the Police Jury of that parish the
propriety of surveying and laying off
by means of stakes, all the public roads
in the parish, that the overseers of the
public roads may know where the pub
lie roads in their respective districts
lie"
Capitolidn-AdUOcate Our reporter
was informed this morning that heavy
contracts have been made with Plaque
mine mill mtn to supply the bridge
timbers, ETC., for the Central Louisiana
Railroad, which is now to be pushed
through to Lsyfayette without delay.
This news is very acceptable indeed
to Central Louisianians who will now
have q short, safe and speedy outlet
to the markets of the Mississippi Val.
ley.
The Iberville South says the de,
mand for cypress logs is very active
in Plaquemine. The established price
is now Sc per Thousand, and the pros
poets are that in the next two months
better prices will obtain. Also, that
the demand for shingles is UMPIRE,
cedented, and great preparations are
being made by our mill men to meet
it. Over twenty-five million shingles
have been shipped from this town
since May last, and the season was A
poor enc.
| The investigation made of the re
Gently discovered iron beds in the
parishes of Webster and Claiborne by
Prof. johnson, of the United States
Bureau of Geology, proves that there
are large deposits of ore in some Por,
tons but in others the metal is moi
abundant enough to attract attention
No coal or lime is TO be met with
and for this reason the Professor
thinks they cannot be worked so as tc
compete with the beds of Alabama
where these are found in juxtaposi
ton.
! 0pelousas Courier One of ou
leading and oldest planters remarked
the other day: "That in all his lif,
he had never seen cotton rot so badly
on the stalks as during the pas
month" He had seen more rain fal
ina given time when the cotton wa
opening, but the bolls did not rot an,
the cotton spoil as in the present crop
Possibly the rain produced som
disease in the plants which caused th,
rapid decay of the unopened bolls
No insect could be discovered in tn
! affected bolls.
The Washington Argas in an ed
torial urging the necessity Of hayin
st. Landry represented at the comm,
Exposition, expresses the following ser
, sible sentiment: "We think it wou
J rebound to the future prosperity an
\ wellrbeing Of orr parish should on
! Police Jury at once inaugurate an
Z put in operation a plan by which on
: natural resources could be representa-
: and made generally known Let d
/ at least have some show 10 Ieapin
q the advantages TO be derived iroi
j this great enterprise"
J, Sabine SoattroR: The last fe
7 weeks have again demonstrated Il
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