The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-07-03
STATE NEWS.

Farmervillc Gaz6tfa Chr editor
still n0ntiuues his bun.p eneas he'll
get tired some time. But editors are
hard to tire out when loaEng.
DeEosD Democrat Mr.. John Dill
ion, recently caught a gar fish, in
Bayou Pierre Lake, that hy actual
measurement was six feet aud ten
inches long, and lis weight was esfi-
mated at $50 pounds.
a 0pelonaas Courier The pear crop
is reported 70 be an excellent one this
year. In town, Mrs w. u. AIeginley
gathered several thousand from only
four trees, and the fruit was Of fine
size and delicious 10 taste.
Minden Democrat 1ri5mne. Mi. j.
w. StuclEey, Of Claiborne parish,
brought in the first cotton bloom for
this year last Saturday. Frank Green,
a colored man, of this parish, brought
in one last Monday, which pleased him
very much TO know that he was ahead
OF his white neighbors.
Louisiana .Advunce: Mansfield is
one Of the liveliest places IN the State.
The people around that honrishing
town take 3 large interest in public
matters and discuss every public isaue
through their newspapers with con
siderable ability. IL would be better
for the country If the citizens of other
localities would emulate the example
Of the Mansfield people.
81. Landry Democrat. Last Tues
day night unknown parties cut up
wards of sixty pannels of Capt. J. p.
Smiths fence, in Bellevue, and let
lot of cattle into his corn field. About
five acres Gff the best corn he had were
destroyed. The fence was made of
four wires and one plank. The ST.
Landry Live Stock Association offer a
reward Of slG0 for information as TO
the offenders.
1berville Democrat. is there such
. thing as spontaneous production of,
or evolution in plants? White clover
has been in this region 30 long, and
grows so well, that IL is considered
one of the native grasses, On the
banks of ditch in garden in this
town, where it has certainly never
been planted, red clover has made its
appearance, and is now as thick and as
the best meadows Of Kentucky can
show.
st. Landry Democrat! During the
heavy rain Saturday evening light
ming struck the residence of Mr.. Mar
lin Medicis, in this town, doing CON
siderable damage. Although his fam
lily were all home at the time no one
was injured; his wife only being
stunned by the shock from which she
recovered in few minutes. On the
following day his crib was struck and
torn to pieces. The distance between
the two buildings is only about fifty
feet.
Lafayette Advertiser: After more
than week of rain and clouds, the
sun showed his smiling face on Thurs
day morning and until evening many
thought that fair weather had set in,
but at O'Clock the clouds again low
cred and heavy rain and wind storm
commenced, flooding the earth with
water and scattering limbs Of trees in
every direction. Up to the time of
going to press we have been unable
to learn the extent of damage done to
the crops in the parish, but il is feared
that the corn crop has suffered con-
siderably.
Donaldsonville Chief. Henry Kane,
the eplored man taken to the Insane
Asylum from here three weeks ago, re-
turned home last week, greatly to the
of his Donaldsonville
family, who have reported the mex
pected arrival TO the authorities. Itl
appears that the managers of the Asy-
Inm became satisfied npon examining
Kane that he is not a lunatie, and &C.
,ordingly discharged him. Charges
IF bigamy and assault and battery
we're pending against him before the
District Conrt, but were dismissed by
ao2le pros. after his introduction.
Ouachita lelegragh The storm Of
did considerable damage to
,he growing crops on Bayou DeSiard
md on the Island. At Johnson's P.
D, on the Bayou, the rain water in
he fields stood three feet deep. On
yapt. Theobald's place in the Island
he cotton plants were blown and
'eaten down by violent hailstorm.
rhe corn crop is almost ruined, hay
ng been broken down and 10 conse-
luence short corn crop in that sec
ion will be made, which will fall
leavily on the planters, who but o
CIV days ago were hopeful for a bonn-
iful yield, but whose hopes have nov
eparted and they are consequently
loomy. On the Logan place and Z
theirs 90 the bayou the corn Is laying /
own and will prove an almost entire
allure. II is predicted that not more
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