The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-12-05
State NEWS ITEMS.


formed that the stnhble cane on tlil
bayou, about twenty miles below town
is yielding TIVE and quarter hogs
heads q sugar 70 the acre.
St. Mary RspielO Abbeyille ha
neither tailor, shoemaker, or lagar
beer saloon. But that Abbevilli
whiskey will get the best of felle
before he gets inside the corporation
ST. Mary Rsgie1g: We learn tina
on the first of this week MIR. Thomp
son had made over one million pound
Of sugar on his Calumet place, and wa
not half through grinding.
n. o. Times Democrat: DIR. w. A
Robertson has bought the Washing
ton Argus, which will be soon started
as regular Democratic paper, in oP
position to All rings which look fol-
help from the defunet Radical party
Iberyille South: To show the yalut
Of truck farming we refer to the faci
that Mr.. Il. Z. Dupuy made $3.50 of
his garden last wear, and expects tC
realize over $500 this year. He hired
no help whatever to accomplish this
result.
St. Charles Herald: We are in re,
CENT Of a lot of pebbles and pieces OF
gold found in the gizzard of a wild
duck that was killed in our woods by
Mr.. Ellie Lorio. Itremains q mystery
to us where the duck made the raise
of that precious metal.
ST. Bernard Eagle: Snap iudg-
ment was taken on Mike Fitzgerald.
suspicious character, whom Mr..
Burthe. on Monday, allowed twenty.
four hours to leave the town. A first
rate plan to rid New Orleans of the
tramp nuisance.
gbravanort g;D,ee n is proposed
in New Orleans that each of the 5000
sinners of the petition for commuta-
ton contribute one dollar to a fund
for the support of Pat Ford,s family.
This is a happy suggestion, and we
hone TO see 1t carried ont.
Foruorv;I,o E1,v,t,o. Soma farmers
,;y;no, so,,tb e tbn D,Arhnnpe and
nssrar R1ston Than FsrmervilIe we're
in town with cotton and trading with
our merchants on monday. What is
the matter with the Ruston market +?
Is Farmerville paying more for cotton
and selling goods cheaper than the
railroad city of Ruston
wooElv Trvtb. We are informed
that The Western Union Telegram
r,.,,onv have ccDclrdad 10 6;sc6n-
Time their office at Clinton La. some
time in the near future. Should our
information be correct, this would be
a serious blow to that little town, and
as such will doubtless be bitterly OPP
posed by its citizens.
Norman Coade,ser ~Tbe Bows of
AImadapa - have opr THANKS for the
ratnrn Of tho Co,,dcnser which we had
sent 10 James Martin as he has gone
10 nsrts nnkpovp We mpst hold
na,tias to tbe law where Their wberea-
bopts can he asrertained for leaving
their paper uncalled for after making
use of it for ten or twelve months.
Capitolian-Advooate e.. On the oath
inst, in Shreveport, a wagon contain
ing seven bales of cotton, was being
drawn along tho levee, at the foot Of
Crockett street, when one of the
wheels passed over some loose powder
which had been spilled and ignited il.
As uuick as thought all the bales
took fire. and it was with some diff
Guilty they were put ont.
NJ y E;,ayy1e The ,rtss;an well
in Lafayette Square had reached, last
night, depth of $50 feet, which is a
greater depth than that attained by
any other boring in this city. The
well SINK years ago in Canal street
was $50 feet deep. The boring will
proceed until water of a satisfactory
character is obtained Superintendent
Chapman declares that he will strike
bed rock if he has to drill a hole to
the antipodes.
ca,u,..n uyu,.z,,,o.,. E.,,, AZ
o,oDt;tv 81 co,ton s"ed oo;nn n,,t nf
H. - = ~ ~ ~.;,ss 30. g.
AZ, H. AZ, Il " ,r,;,,,
to sell off their only and best home
fertilizer from their lands, that it will
be but short while till they will be
the unenvied tiIlers of broad acres that
will yield them bale of cotton to
every five or ten acres cultivated, and
of corn full thirty barrels to every ten
or fifteen acres Selling cotton seed
means poorer lands and shorter crops.
a..i..,. f,,...;.. a.. g.. e
oP .. T4 GoA, p ~, eO ., "
s n~ D. A.. e., ne',S $500 .e'q I. {
E ~, -. $50 H. 80 -; n"as .
n Sa.sa" 49, IL G 80 n,s 'on, 5
$500 n nslo' 49, 49, i-'n -. a.au
.-as'en up, $50 lily .lon .