Richland beacon., 1888-08-11
LOUISIANA NUGGETS.
GLEANiNGS FROM TIE STATE
PRESS.
I Industrial Nctcs And Other Item. Oi
Interest To Our People. Gathered
For Hurried Re adrrs.

started at New Iberia by A. Fenoree.
A cotton seed oil mill is to be built al
Alexander by the New Orleans Seed Co.
$50 business lots were sold in one day
at Plaindealing, ranging in price from
$40 to $500.
II. Dudely Coleman. Of New Orleans,
has resigned as member of the State
Board of Health.
The building of a cotton factory al
Monroe is proposed. Subscriptions are
being received toward forming a company
to build it,
Act No. 102 of 1888. authorizing the
City Of New Orleans TO issue bonds not
exceeding $40, 900, 900, etc, has been
promulgated.
The third annual fair of the Attakapas
Agricultural and Observation-Disclosures
tion will be held at Jeanncrette, com
mencing October 10.
The Barriet Electric Apparatus Com
pany Is l. Barriet, + VI Emmert and 9th.
erslhas been incorporated at New Or
leans; capital stock, $40,
The Board of Control of the Louisians
State Penitentary met and organized b.,
electing J E Blouin president. The
board adjourned subject to call.
Constable Harry has arrested five
negroes and lodged them in Jail foi
breaking into the store on Oaklawn plan,
tatiOn last weeh.-Franklin Herald.
Northern parties, through Robinson &
Lacey, Of Grand Rapids, Mich, have pur-
chased 23, 1856 acres Of timber lands in
Natchitoches and Vernon parishes.
The bill in the House of Representative.
appropriating 800, 900 for the erection
Of public building at Monroe has beer
amended to make the amount $15,
The Southern Cotton Oil Company, o,
New orleans, which has large cotton-seee
oil mills in that city and elsewhere. will
erect large seed warehouse at Nidalia
The Louisiana Electric Light Company
of New Orleans will light Algiers, Gretns
and Gouldsboro by cable laid across
the Mississippi river to the first-named
town.
Jules Sarrazn. A o Peeou, (directors)
and Others have chartered The Damon
Cooperative Homestead and Building
Association at New Orleans; capita
stock 81, 100000
The stock of the company recently
formed by Z b Wheelock and Richaro
Hsrrick, of New Orleans. to build cot.
ton seed oil mill at Alexandria, is men.
toned at 81, 600, 900.
An enterprise recently set on foot il
Lake Providence is the building of a
large brick town hall, tc be used as an
opera house, dancing hall and a place
Of meeting Tor the town council, etc.
Messrs. Dreibholz & Martin, at the
Ramos, near Morgan City, have complet
ed a new two-story iron-building 4OxS0,
to be used as sash, door and blind fac
tory in connection with their saw mill.
The rice mill at Arcadia is now in oper.
alton. Fine specimens of flaxsced grown
in the vicinity Of the town have been
shown and it is believed that money can
be made by cultivatin2 the plant in tha,
section.
Franklin members of the Louisiana
Legislature are calling the attention OF
Congress to the need of appropriation.
for the Teche and Atchafalaya rivers and
they recommend the opening of Bayou
Plaquemine.
1t is estimated that $50, 900, 600 shin
gies will be produced in the States o
/ Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas. Flord;
and Mississippi during the coming year
which at 81. 15 per thousand will COS
consumers 81 ,430, 900.
The New Iberia Enterprise is inform
/ ed by private advice from the Lake Ar
thur section of vermillion parish that II
a few days engineers are expected to la,
out the route to be followed by the rail
road that is to run from Alexandria, wi
Jennings and Lake Arthur, to Abbeville
Mrs. Burtch, mother of Malcolm Cook
now in the State Penitentiary for the mur
der of her husband, his step-father, die,
Monday of sorrow and was buried tn
following day. She leaves large fam
A, ily of helpless children. and their Gil
cumstances call for the sympathy of tn
philanthropic.
The New Iberia Enterprise Of a lat
issue says that the Bowman House. a
Jeannerctte, has been thronged with Wis
itors from Minnesota and Dakotah 70
several days, and the busy Mr.. +. NJ
Welch has had all he could attend to j
escorting them around with a view t
selling them some of the rich lands c
Iberia parish.
The citizens of Ruston have held
meeting and there decided to make ei
forts at once for the building of a railroa
from Ruston and Columbia, on the Oua
chita River, to connect with the Gu;
chta line of boats to New Orleans. thu
giving them, with the transportation the
now have with the V S and Pacific Raj
road Company, all facilities that could b
desired.
Mr.. +. Duchini brought down at h
expense from his silk farm at Bayo
Pierre, large number of worms and c.
coons, which he displayed in the Sin
mons drug store, on Front street, wher
he gave, on Saturday. an exhibition {
the moths and the moths at work, the c.
coons. and the reeling Of silk, and fu
and interesting lecture on the subject I
silk culture. .-Natcbitoches Review.
A party of Westerners have been pro
pecting in ST. Martin for lands to laca
about thirty families, and we are tol
that they are negotiating for large trac
three or four miles above the town of S
Martinsville. Mr.. Vandermoorman. 4