The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-09-19
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS.

MISS dannan haynnam opened
private school lib this town on Mon
day with very fattering attendance
Sentinel.
A new rice mill will be erected in
our town in the next thirty days for
tie purpose of testing what virtue
there ia ia direct trade with the |
Wcst.-f Iberville South.
The United States government
should protect the Chinese within
it's limits. This is due to uphold
the idea upon which our government
is acknowledgements Times.
The rice crop of this parish prom.
ises to be the largest ever made.
All that is required il sufficient
good weather to save it. FIST. Ian.
dry Democrat.
Those who are cultivating cane in
this parish will make fine crops this
year. The prospects are becoming
better every day.-ICapitOIian. AID.
vOcaGe.
An exceeding heavy crop Ofsugar
is anticipated in the sugar growing
parishes of South Louisiana this
year. Although the area devoted
to this crop is less this year than
last, very near as much sugar will
be made as was made last year,
which means more money to the
producer.
Capt. Sam Pennywitt the popular
commander of the steamer Prince
will soon replace that favorite little
steamer with a larger and faster
"The Courier" and ii business JUS
titles it this winter will also run the
Prince-thereby giving us a daily
line to Natchez.-l Feliciana Senti
mel.
The cane crop in this parish is
growing nicely this we lther, and
st. Mary will continue no doubt
as the banner parish. The hammer
aud saw az kept busy in different
sugar houses, preparing for the
grinding season. With prices rul
ing for sugar after it is made as
now, the producer will have no
grounds for complaint.-St. Mary
Review.
The merchants arelOOking gloomy
Constant rains and caterpillarS are
destroying the cotton crop, which
means hard times and no money
If the rains will stop and
give planters a chance to pick
matured bOlls, there is, from what
we can learn, still hopes OF picking
threc.fOurths of a crop OH mos
; places, and one hall crop OH others
flown Talk.
Whatever is coming, there is bu
, one way to meet ito 60 straight
! forward, to bear what has to b.
borne, anu do what has to be done
The rate of drayage from til,
Mississippi Valley Railroad depot
5 OH Poydras street, to tue mills To-
rice is three cents per sack, the SAM
AS from any of the depotS on tn,
Levee. The company have made
arrangements whereby drays vii
f be furnished to shippers and ric,
, will be transferred from the depot a
: the stipulated price, Picayune.
! With consistency that is start
ling in its brilliancy, Alderman
Garidel, after Yainly fighting tb,
proposition TO give more money TO
t street cleaning purposes, introduced
= an ordinance to spend $4,000 for ;
e new engine house! 1t is better Il
8 clean the streets and let the engin,
!, houses alnoe, or else one of thes,
II days the cholera will he here anC
9 there might be no one to man tn,
J. engines.
}. City Surveyor Brosnan, estimates
!, that it will cost $4,000 to repair tn
Esplanade street bridge, over til,
old Canal. and this bridge is
q dilapidated wooden one. Mr.. A. P
a StOlts, agent for a large Western
;. Bridge Company, offers to build al
Q ornamental iron bridge for $1,000
! But it's just as probable that tn
( old wooden fridge will be prepared
J, all the same. BrOsnan is reliabl
:, on estimates-reliable from his boss
r standpOint.-[Mascot
2 A fine rain fell here Saturda
d which supplied a need long felt ii
/: this immediate vicinity. The grOun
had become so dry and dusty that
9 was with reluctance that peopl
8 stirred 0ntany.
), Two negro boys, one ten years oil
d and the other six, were playing ira
/. jacket" in Farmerville last Thursda
Q night, when the older one hit til
iOther Oh the head, and brake hi
skull, from tue effects of which til
v younger boy died. The two boy
o were left with other children at til
Il house while their parents were gon
q to preaching.-[R uston Oaligraph.
d The weather is too rainy to sui
d the rice planters, many of whoI
}. are finding the work OF harveStin
n their crops unexpectedly tediou
Of and expensive. Add this draw
y back tn a depressed and failin
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