The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-03-13
This Great State.

Red River parish has an area of
about 400 square miles.
Recently 1880 dozen eggs were
shipped from Abbeyille.
The heaviest rainfall for 25 years
fell in Jackson parish last week.
Fourteen Iowa gentlemen were in
Hammond prospecting, recently.
There will be civil service exami-
nation at the New Orleans Custom
House on April l.
An immense amount of commercial
are being purchased this
year by farmers in Union parish.
Mr.. Robinson has appointed Fitz
Louis Sandoz, of Opelousas, cadet to
the Military Academy at West Point.
E. P. Gassier and F. Gurymard, of
Plaquemine, were recently each find
$50 and cost of Court, for violating
the Sunday law.
On last Friday President Harrison
sent the appointment of John F.
Patty as Naval Officer at New Or
leans to the Senate.
With everything favorable the
Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf Rail-
road will be completed from the Gulf
to Alexandria by next fall.
The brick store house of the Con-
way estate, corner Texas and Levee
streets, Shreveport, was sold Satur-
day at public sale to Peter Youree for
;$14, 300.
Sixteen colored converts were bap-
tised in Bayou Bpuf, near Morgan
City, Sunday, I'd inst. There was ice
in the morning, says the Review, and
the water must have been cold, yet
inone of them finched in the least.
There was but one store in Calhoun
Is months ago. Now there are three
and another that is about to open up.
Those in operation are doing salts
factory business. During the past
IL months 10 or II dwelling houses
hBve been erected.
A Pointe Coupee planter has i'm
ported a carload of Sicilians, Rus
SLAMS and Roumanians. He is en-
ploying them in his cane field, and
says that they do more and better
work in a day than he could ever get
out of the native laborers.
The Times Democrat says the large
number of fires which have occurred
in New Orleans in the past three
months, but especially during Febru-
airy, has caused considerable COM
ment. The majority of these fires
have been attributed to incendiaries.
Rayville, March 4.-Seventeen car
loads of railroad iron were received
here to-day and track-laying will COM
mence from here south on the New
Orleans and Northwestern Road. It
lis expected that the road will be com
pleted from Natchez to Rayville by
May /, 1890.
Two planters near Port Hudson
and Port Hickory, in East Feliciana
parish, last week received 81 negro
hands from North Carolina. Upon
being asked as to the cause of their
leaving North Carolina, they stated
that it was owing to short crops for
the past few years.
Jackson Patriot: There have been
about IL new lumber mills put up in
Jackson parish within the last year
or so, and the result is that lumber is
cheap, convenient and plentiful, and
our people have set to work and built
handsome and elegant frame resi-
dences in place of log cabins, and
improved things generally.
According to the last report of the
North Louisiana Experiment Station,
at Calhoun, ''the yield of seed cotton
per acre, Excluding Sea Island,) va
ries from 796 pounds to 1898 pounds,
while the yield of lint per acre runs
from 255 lbs. to 626 lbs. behring's
Small Seed gives the largest per cent
of lint, followed closely by Peterkin."
q. S. Patents have been issued to
the following residents of Louisiana:
Arthur H. Brulard, Fort st, Leon,
cane mill; James A. Campbell, New
Orleans, barrel head; VIM. Forster,
New Orleans, tack strip; William J.
Mercer, Horner, pillow fastener; NJ. w.
Russell, Horner, animal trap; Ella III.
Flory, assignor of oue-half to M.
Fischer, Abbeville, egg carrier.
The Atchafalaya River originates at
the north end of Pointe Coupee par
ish, where the Red River enters the
Mississippi. It runs nearly south
ward to Chetimaches Lake, from the
south end of which it issues and en-
ters the Gulf of Mexico (Atchafalaya
Bay) at the southeast extremity of St.
Mary parish. It is navigable by
steamboats,, and is about 220 miles
in length
The following Executive rewards
have been offered for the arrest and
conviction of the persons named:
$500 for the persons unknown who
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