The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-05-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

English Walnut trees thrive j
: Avoyelles parish.
The temperance boom has strnc
Houma, TerrebouHe parish.
The Madison Times says that Tallu
lab has breed of chickens that cato
mice.
There viii be local option elcc
ton held in De Soto parish on the 81
of June.
! All the crops are very promising IL
Pointc COupee parish, and labor i.
plentiful.
Building and improving is going OIL
vigorously in Lafayette parish, and
the crop prospects are bright.
A chicken with five legs, all of which
are used by it in walking, was Matched
ont in Lecompte the other day.
Farming operations are being pushed
vigorously in Terrebonnc parish,
although rain is greatly needed
The Houma Manufacturing Com
pany is in full operation and turning
out a splendid quality Of cured moss.
Peaches, oranges. bananas and
grapes, all promise well in this State,
and growers are hopeful of a big crop.
The Police Jury of Bossier parish
is stirring up the citizens of the parish
in regard to keeping the roads in
order.
Cadet Blakemore, of the Louisiana
State University, at Baton Rouge,
died in that city last week, of a con-
gestive chill
A female base ball club Is doing mp
the river parishes. They visited Baton
Rouge one day hast week and crossed
bats with the Red Stick boys
DeSoto Democrat The oat crop
of this parish, is now secure. A good
crop will be made, and they will hc
fit for use by the middle of May.
The Feliciana Sentinel regards the
Teachers Institutes 10 be held during
the coming year as ian evidence of
the earnestress of State SuPerinten-
dent Easton TO place our public school
system beyond reproach."
MarksviIIe ReViep The hardest
rain perhaps of the season fell here on
The streets of our town
wore the appearance of little rivers,
and with little more water we might
have navigated them in light
piroguc.
Capitolion- Adgocatc: All reports
received from the several wards of this
parish agree that the crop prospects
are very encouraging. The rains of
the past two or three DAYS have hit
the mark exactly, as the planters were
to need few showers to
set their growing crops forward.
Thibodaux Sentinel: Reports say
that in the lands that were overlooked
last year, the bugs are destroying the
young corn as fast as it comes mp.
This will be severe blow to residents
as they lost their entire crop last year
Elsewhere the stand of young corn is
said to be extraordinary fine.
The MarksviIle Bulletin gives plant
ers this advice: "Plant plenty corn,
potatoes, rice and other products;
raise your own lard, meat, etc, and
while the bloodthirsty Europeans are
butchering themselves like so many
you can, in the language
of Boaz, shout back the defiant answer
to the demands of the West for its
high priced goods: Il got You that
time, old fellow, raised them my
self"
DcSoto Democrat in his recent
charge to the Grand Jury, Judge
Hicks, of Caddo, said in substance
that no officer or policeman, not cx-
ceptng the sheriff Or his deputies, had
the right to carry a weapon concealed
about their person, even while in the
discharge OF their duty. This is good
for we could never under
stand why an officer should make a
pistol scabbard of his clothes, any
more than any other citizen.
IbcrviIle South Hon. Z. j. Gay
and lady returned to their home in
this parish last Friday, in the enjoy
ment of excellent health, after
sojourn in Washington. Mr..
Gay informed us that everything was
as favorably as could be
; that President Cleveland was
a man of broad and liberal views, but
very firm and determined when he has
made up his mind to act that he is
fully competent to manage the affairs
of this country successfully for the
next four years.
st. Landry DemocrGt' The mer-
chants who feed our cotton producers,
report the condition of this parish in
The way of bread and meat, as very
bad. OVer-production of these two
very necessary articles has never been
a disease here; and the reverse is now
at an extremely disagreeable point:
the merchants cannot afford to adj
vance without fair prospect of pay
ment, and the laborers cannot work
without something to eat; so some Of
them are on short rations, for the cot
ton crop has moi. yet progressed far
enough for the merchant TO see his pay.
Starvation may be severe remedy,
but little jndicious hunger may teach
our people that farmers should raise
their own food.