The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-08-29
CO, - 1870 1TFaEa.

ton IN East Baton Rouge.
Col. chas. III. Pitcher, a well-known
citizen Of Lake Providence, is dead
The prohibition election occurs IN
Natehitoches parish on the Tth Of
September
In Louisiana the Baptists number
10000 white members, who are found
IN an churches.
Several cases of typhoid fever and
deaths therefrom are reported in Alb
beville and vicinity.
Prospects for crops in West Baton
Rouge are good, but there il consider
able sickness, thought to beoccasioned
by the rice farms.
St. John parish claims to have 1888
acres Of rice in cultivation this season,
which will give twelve barrels to the
acre, making total of 95,196 barrels
Iagainst "a, 265 barrels last year.
The following named gentlemen
have been appointed a Board of Ex-
amining Surgeons for the United
States Pension Bureau for the City of
New Orleans; DIR. w II. Hire, DIR.
John Gullan and DR.. VIM. 0lDonnell
Opelousas Courier: Catterpillars
have been reported on three or four
fields, but we hope that it will turn
ont to be nothing but the grass worm.
Cotton is shedding the forms on ac-
count of the frequent showers, and
some cotton is said to be dying from
rnst.
The North, Central and South
American Exposition managers are
working Louisiana. They propose to
make the State exhibit complete in all
particulars. Generous aid on the part
Of the individual citizen will render
the work of the managers effective and
orr exhibits a success.
Alexandria Democrat The rains
continue and are doing great harm to
the cotton. Caterpillsrs are reported
in various quarters, though, as yet,
have not done much damage. The
wise ones arc placing various estimates
on the crops to be gathered; their ex-
perience in,the past as regards such
questions have learned them much.
AT the present time no one can say
what will be made.
The St. Mary Herald in an able and
logical article on the evil practice of
carrying concealed weapons, says :
HThe fact is patent and cannot be
gainsaid, that all crimes committed are
to a great extent, by young men under
age, and it is that class of people upon
whose persons can be found at any
time a pistol or some other deadly in
strument. With drink of bad whisky
aboard, these young devils dare do
anything"
| Thibodaux Sentinel. "The voters
of Lafourcbe, the voters of Louisiana,
the voters of the United States, in
November, 1884, emphatically ex,
pressed themselves at the ballat box,
and said that Republicans had to &C
ont, and that Democrats had to go in. ;
That's what we say, Bro. Grisamore
No mugwump business will take il
Louisiana; We want the pure, unadul'
terated stock put in possession. Then
if the machine is failure the people
l.. will know of whom to complain. This
halE-aud-half doctrine means nothing
more nor less than want of stamina
and nerve.
Farmeryille Gazette: The improve
ment in North Louisiana is as yet but
a drop in the bucket, as compared witt
the room that remains for the profit
able enterprise of farmers, fruit grow
ers, and stock raisers; together witt
all sorts of workers in wood, cotton
manufactures, tanners and other in
} dustries. There is no more pleasant
healthful and fertile locality in oul
broad land than this. Grasses anc
forage crops grow luxurisntly. For
ests of the most valuable kinds of tim
Der cover thousands Of acres Tit
water is soft, pure and abundant, Al
evenly mild climate renders it mos
desirable location for a home.
Sugar Boacl. In this section tbt
corn crop is large and very fine. Thu
cane is growing finely and if no disas
ter befalls before it is harvested, thu
yield this year will rank among tn
highest of past years. The cotton
farmers are experiencing great dea
of annoyance at the continued dali,
rains, They say that the cotton is be
/ ginning to show the evil effects of 81
much water fall. Some cotton field
are suffering from rot, others from
rust; in one or two the worm has ap
, peared, though to no alarming extent
and very generally the plant ia shed
/ ding. "A few weeks Of dry weathe
would be very beneficial and great,
appreciated.
The Thibodaux Sentinel, in CON
menting on the appointment of MI
Glenn Walker, a Blaine Republican, t
an important position in the New o.
leans postofice, through the instru
mentality of Mr.. G. +. Buck, the newt
+ appointed postmaster, says: 18th
4 Sentinel assumes that Capt. Buck
a Democrat, but the Sentinel in
!. rather inquisitive frame of mind, i
! the interest of party unity and part
2 organization, wonld like to know j
4 Capt. Buck has any personal friends j
I the Democratic party who are comps
1 tent to iii the position to which NJ
Walker has been appointedG If b
has not, then be himself ought not /
|. have been appointed postmaster by
q Democratic President. No man VIII
!. voted for Blaine and Logan ought I
!, have aneoffice under any considerable
q in Louisiana