The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-06-27
This Great State.

organized Farmers Alliance.
There are 1874 Catholic families
in the parish of Lafourche, compris
ing a population of $3.50 Catholics.
Hammond Leader: The Seventh
Day Baptist are getting the material
on the ground for their new churcn
in the Iowa addition"
Pointe Coupee Banner: We have
heard it estimated by persons who
ought to know that the corn crop
this year throughout the parish will
not average ten barrels per acre.
st. Mary Banner: "The public
lands are rapidly being sold. The
Berwick Lumber Company of ST..
Mary has lately purchased 100
acres, the price paid being S1361."
Baton Rouge, June 18.-Register
of the Land Office Lanier to-day
completed the sale of 1O.1O1 acres
Of land lying in Caldwell parish to
James Ellis; S7576 was realized.
Vernon News: s'The report comes
to us from all sections of the parish
that crops are simply fne-could not
be better. The cotton is making
fast and the corn growing rapidly.
st. Martinville Messenger: There
are in this parish 5000 educable
children, only 842 attend public
schools. This is not quite Is per
cent. There are Is schools with an
average attendance of 46 children.
N. o. Times Democrat: Jefferson
Davis was eighty-one years old on
June 8, 1889. Yesterday, clad in a
suit of Confederate gray, he was seen
riding up town in a Prytania street
car of this city, apparently in the en-.
joyment of excellent heath.
Franklinton New Era: ssThe col.
ored people of this Parish are expert
encing considerable difficulty in Sc
curing teachers of the public schools
established for their benefit. But
few of their race are competent to
stand the required examination.
Louisiana Review, New Orleans:
"Supt. Hennessey announces in his
monthly report that the police is well
organized and presents a good appear
ance. During themonth of May / 1874 |
arrest were made, the patrol wagons |
answered 27O alarms and conveyed
$40 prisoners"
Vernon News: tits asserted by an
old resident of this parish that if cot |
ton is planted during the dark of the
moon-that is, on the day before it |
fills, and the day after it fills, il will |
never shed or throw off it's crop. Mr.. |
VIM. Kay says that he has tried it for |
years, and has never had his Cotton !
to shed its form, squares and boIls.
Plaquemines Protector: "Mr. |
Williams Boyle, of Union Settlement,
ships daily to New Orleans, per Grace
Pitt, from z to 8 buckets of okra,
which he sells at rs cents a bucket. |
MIR. Boyle has one acre of land ONLY
planted in okra, from which be viii
gather, now that the rain has set in,
twelve to fifteen buckets day, Weld |
him revenue of SO to $40 daily"
Richland News: "Our parish of
OF late has been visited by quite
number OF strangers, and by their
inquiries as to lands, timbers. etc.
showed that they were hunting
homes. The people of Richland
hardly realize the value of their soil.
A gentleman from the North, and one
Of the hackers of the New Orleans,
Matches and Fort Scott railroad. saws
that every ten acres will support a
large family"
Shreveport Caucasian: "Deputv
Sheriff Martin gave us a sight at a
.hlrty-tive ounce onion raised on the
8. w. Howard place this parish.
The bulb was raised on hill land of
average quality. Experiment has
developed the fact that North Louis
ana is destined to be great onion
country. We know of one planter
Who has ten acres in onions and ex-
poets handsome returns therefrom."
Concordia Sentinel: Glands that
will produce two paying crops in one
rear Is something hard to find, vet
hat is what most of the land in this
section viii do. Mr.. VIM. Fl. Shields.
'ur worthy Clerk of Court, put down
eighteen acres of his plantation in
potatoes, and he tells us that he will
make at least $500 clear on them. He
las again seeded the same land in
'ow peas, which, if this commodity I
commands the same price this year
hat it did last, win pay equally as
veil as the potatoes, besides enrich
ng the sol"
Times-Democrat: "With a good
ii factory to press its raw propuct,
big castor oil farm in this State
1ould probably beat a large sugar
'lantation in its profitable results
nd rival the possibilities even If . +