The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-03-20
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The Parish Treasurer of Caddo
had on hand March II, $23,645 10.
Hammond Leader: Quite lot of
lumber is being shipped from Ham
mond these days.
Richland Beacon-News: Gardens
will be late this season. The late
cold weather ''done them up brown"
The Acadia Sentinel says the grippe
is prevailing in virulent type at
Pointe aux Lou, causing several
deaths recently.
Democratic Review: The Natchi-
toches Railroad Company carried
1881 passengers during the month of
February-or an average of 40 per
day.
The City Council of Shreveport
have order that an annual tax of 81
shall be paid on all male dogs and 50
on all female dogs.
A gentleman from Washington, St.
Landry parish, informs the New Or
leans City Item that a movement is
on foot to start first-class cotton
mill in that place.
Acadia Sentinel: This late freeze
caught a good many farmers with
their corn all up and growing nicely.
All such is killed down completely
and will not come out again.
One of the most disastrous fires
that has occurred in the Third Dis
trict of New Orleans, for some time
visited that section of the city on last
Thursday, entailing a loss of fully
$4,000.
Homer Correspondent of Shreve-
port Caucasian: Within the last
two or three weeks our enterprising
nurseryman, A. K. Clingman, has
shipped to Northern points 10000
rose plants"
The Farmers Union is to erect a
rice mill at Crowley. Acadia parish
produced 100000 barrels of rice last
year, and only one-eight of it was
milled there.
The grand jury of Iberia parish
last week investigated 81 cases and
found 20 true bills. They reported
that they could get no direct evidence
of any violations of the Sunday law,
though it is a notorious fact that it
is openly violated by the back door
dodge.
Baton Rouge, Mar. 15.-The Reg
lister of the State Land Office has Just
completed the entry to Calvin Pardee,
of Philadelphia, of about $500 acres
of land at IS cents per acre, paying
into the treasury therefor about
$4,000. Nine-tenths of these lands
are situated in the parish of st. Ian
dry and the balance in VIM parish.
New Orleans Times-Democrat:
Receiver J. Massie Martin for the
United States Land Office, reports the
following transactions for February:
Fees on 4 cash entries, 10,807 acres,
$725 Sc; fees on 2 homestead decla-
rations, 81; fees received on 121
homestead entries, 16,041.71 acres,
S1491 80; fees received on Al final
homesteads, 1928 81; fees received on
8 lumber culture entries, 80, 052 acres,
$37 90; $2486 AZ.
Homer Guardian, 14th: Mr.. Sam
Gray, Jack Hightower and several
other citizens from ward l brought
in another car load of negroes from
Carolina last Monday. We learn that
there were about so in all. The citi-
zens here paid all expenses to bring
them here and the hands agree to
pay the amounts back out of labor
for this year. So far, all of the ne
groes who came out here are entirely
satisfied and think this much better
country than where they came from.
Lake Charles Echo: 1t is report
ed that quite number of Hollanders
will soon arrive in Calcasieu parish,
and settle on some of the lands of
the Watkins syndicate, and that they
will undertake the reclamation of a
large area of marsh lands, on which
extensive levees have heretofore been
built. Should this report be true,
this new population and the produc-
tons of the rich country which they
will probably bring into cultivation,
will prove material advantage to
Lake Charles, and make rice mill
here of large capacity a paying in
vestment.