The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-03-06
This Great State.

place IN Iberia parish since December.
William Gregg was last Thursday
nominated to be Surveyor General of
Louisiana.
The State Press Association will
meet in annual convention In Baton
Rouge on May 9th.
Mr.. Mott, postmaster at New Or
Orleans, places the population of that
city in 1888 at 248, 1000, as against
203, 439 in 1873.
From a surplus of his corn crop
Mr.. S. @. Hollingsworth recently
shipped $50 bushels of corn to Cou-
shatta from his Bayou Wincey farm
The School Board of Rapides par
ish asks the Police Jury of that par
ish to levee a tax of three mills on
the dollar for public school purposes.
Cost of United States judicial SER
vice in Louisiana during the last year:
Eastern District-total, $33,915 IS.
Western Distriet-total, $23, 087 60.
The total cotton receipts at the
compress in Monroe for the season up
to February 28th aggregated 10000
bales, and the stock on hand amount
cd to 5000 bales.
On February "a the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad Company purchased at
succession sales 1855 acres of uniIn-
proved land in Rapides parish. The
price paid was about S19,100.
st. Mary Banner. We were the
recipients of a basket of japan plums
this week. This fruit ripens in April,
but an abundant crop was gathered
in January. Experienced fruit grow
ers think that there will be three rip
enings this season.
Attakapas, (At-tuk-a- paw is an ex,
tensive and fertile district in the
south part of Louisiana. It produces
great quantities of sugar and molas-
ses. The section called Attakapas
comprises the parishes of St. Mary,
Iberia, Vermilion, st. Martin and
Lafayette.
Shreveport Times: Mr.. ". C.
Perrin, cotton factor and real estate
agent, offers as special premium $50
for the best 2 horse farm wagon man
ufactured either in Louisiana, Texas
or Arkansas, if placed on exhibition
at the next fair of the louisiana State
Fair and Shreveport Exposition.
Gov. Nichols has committed to
life imprisonment the punishment of
Rob't Wright, convicted in Claiborne
parish of murder, and sentenced
February, 1889, to death. The COM
mutation was granted upon the
recommendation of the Lieutenant
Governor and Attorney General.
A party ofgentlemen representing
an English syndicate, have purchased
a two thirds interest in the two story
brick building corner Market and
Crockett streets, Shreveport, and
contemplate the construction of a
magnificent hotel, combining the best
modern improvements. The hotel
is to cost over quarter of a million
dollars.
The United States engineer in
charge says high water navigation on
the Dorcheat, from Lake Bistenau to
the Arkansas line, could be attained
for four months in the year by clear
ing the timber, at cost of SIG, $50
for the whole IS miles. He says the
country abounds in the finest tim
Der for all purposes, from shoe-pegs
to ship building"
The Postmaster General has re-
ported to Congress that he has acted
upon the following claims of post
masters in Louisiana for losses suf-
fered by them through fire or other
casualties: Mrs. NJ. G. Bienvenu,
Charenton, S118 81, funds lost in
transit, allowed James R. Smith,
Haynesville, S54, in transit, allowed;
William w. Brown, Homer, $167, in
transit, allowed.
Democratic Review, Natchitoches
g The fencing train of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad has been side-tracked
at Cypress for some time and large
force has been engaged in fencing
the road. We understand that the
sntire track will be fenced from Ell
Paso to New Orleans, thus saving
the great amount paid for killed
stock, which amounted to $4,000
in 1889. The enormous quantity of
wire required has forced up the price
some cent or more
Farmerville Gazette: G.. w. Hes
ter, near townsville, planted II acres
in ribbon cane in 1888, and received
therefrom 800 gallons of good mo-
lasses. In 1889 be planted the same
ground in cotton, and gathered a
large bale of the staple, and also 100
gallons of molasses that was procur-
Cd from the cane which grew from
stubble of the previous year, in
other words, this acre and half of
and brought him the neat little sum
as R90E