The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-09-12
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STATE NEWS ITEMS.
4 The lumber business is on the boon
at Alexandria.
4 Donaldsonville is TO have n two
story brick Court Honse.
A postoffice has been established al
Montagut, Terrebonne parish.
The cane and corn crops of Terre
bonnie parish we're never better.
Rice farmers in ST. Charles parish
are. complaining of a scarcity of labor
The jSagay-Bopi estimates That the
corn and rice crops of Iberia parish
this year will double last years crops,
Only seven mites of rails now re-
main to be laid TO complete the Shreve,
port and Houstonnarrow gauge railroad
to It's terminus, Logansport, on the
Sabine river, the dividing line between
Louisiana and Texas.
Thibodanx Sentinel: Our Senators
and Representatives in Congress should
not forget the children, who are grow
ing up without education. They should
support the Blair Educational Bill and
see that it becomes law.
The cotton season has fairly opened
in 81. Landry. The fields are white
with the aeecy staple, and all the
available forces are engaged in picking,
and if the weather continues favorable
the yield will far exceed that of last
year.
Sabine S0athron: The large cotton
crop of Sabine stands yet unmolested
to any serious extent by the long
dreaded caterpillar. And our farmers
generally agree in the opinion that
they could do but little damage at this
late stage of the game.
Hon. Warren Easton, State Super
intendent of Public Education, has
prepared questions for the examina-
tion Of teachers for the next term of
parish schools, and desires Parish Su-
perintendentS requiring these ques-
tions to apply for them.
The ReUiet0 says that Morgan City
is being depopulated rapidly by the
removal of large numbered families
to other parts of the parish of more
prosperous nature. However, the Re
giey hopes for a boom in business,
which will necessarily add new corners
to the town.
The Condenser reports no serious
complaint about cotton worms among
the Vernon farmers, and the belief in
that section is that no material dam
age will be done to the cotton from
that source. Considerable sickness
has prevailed for some time past in
that parish, but the Condenser is hope
ful of an early change for the better.
J. II. Aufdemorte, the defaulting
clerk in the New Orleans Sub-Treas-
ury, together with his pal Erasmus
Shepherd, were arraigned before a
United States Commissioner, waived
examination, and were remanded-
Aufdemorte under $50, 900 bonds, and
Shepherd under $4,000 bonds, to ap-
pear before the U. S. District Court.
The Morgan City Reoiew advocates
the construction of locks in bayou La
fourche and the opening into that
bayou Of the canal in Assumption
parish. "Seeure these improvements, -
says the ReVie,g, land our people will
have a short water route to New Or
leans, and cheaper freight rates will
necessarily follow"
Capitoliaa- Adpocdte: The man who
would own a pecan grove of five hun
dred nut-bearing trees in Louisiana
would never have need to inquire
about the price Of cotton and sugar.
He could live at home like a Cattle
Baron and spend his summers sat the
springs" like a Civil Service Reform
member of Congress. Following the
example of the States that have an
annual "Arbor Day" might we not
have @Peean Planting Day in Loui-
siana?
Hon. Warm Easton, Superintend-
emit OF Public Education, has prepared
a circular to Presidents Of Parish
School Boards, advising the appropri-
alton Of suitable amounts to enable the
Parish Superintendent to place the
school advantages of their respective
parishes properly before the public at
the approaching North, Central and
South American Exposition. He also
urges them to do all in their power tc
enlist all classes in the preparation Of
school work for exhibition.
| Thibodaux Sentinel: Let it be
known far and wide through the Dem
ocratic press of the State that the good
people, the really honest and intelli
gent are as nauseated with the naked
assertion that they are ruled by 1
set of corrupt ringsters as they arr
nanseated with the slanderons utter
anees of the bloody shirt howlers O.
of the North, The sweeping denun
citation of our public officials is to be
little and traduee the good people who
have seen fit TO elect those officials.
We quote the following from th,
report Of the National Cotton Ex
change for the month of August, rel
alive to the condition of the Lonisin,
cotton crop: There has been con
siderable complaint of unfayorablt
weather dDfinp Anonst oyetno nr;na,