The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-11
This Great State.

23I students on the roll.
Acadia Sentinel: Tue sweet pc
tatO crop has been large.
The health of the people of the
parish of Lafayette is splendid.
The sweet potato crop of Grant
is very large and of excellent quail
ity.
New Iberia will have another Ma
tiOnal Bank with a capital of fifty
thousand dollars.
President Harrison last Saturday
nominated Louis Desmarais cOiner
of the Mint at New Orleans.
The Sunday law is now strictly
observed III Lafayette, aud every
body is happy, says the Vindicator.
Ruston will not ship as much
cotton this year as in 1889. Up tn
December 4th 5000 bales had been
received.
A party of hunters in Franklin
parish killed three bears in a DAYS
hunt, and report game of that kind
plentiful.
The price of sugar cane varies in
diffeernt l. ,lities from 80 70 to 81
70 per ton, the largest mills paying
the highest price.
The cane growers who sold their
crops to the central factories realized
fully 500 per acre, and are we'll sat
listed with the result.
The sugar crop of IbervilIe parish
will reach 30 600 hogshead. The
highest yield of sugar in the parish
is $4,000 pounds per acre.
1t is estimated that Assumption
parish will this season produce
$4,000 hogsheads of sugar; some
planters claiming 3 and 4 hogsheads
to the acre.
The POinte Coupee Democrat of
the 9th instant says: COnsidsrab BILE
sicneSs is now prevailing on False
River, and our lo;al physicians are
kept going night and day.
TIL. cotton crop of East Feliciana
is from two-thirds to One-half short,
compared with the yield last year.
The corn crop is about 20 per cent.
short.
A venerable Morehouse parish
couple, Mr.. James Mouette and wife,
were married by Allen G. Thurmau'S
farther sixty years ago, at which
time the sold Roman" was youth
II years of age.
Que of the penitentiary buildings
is being pnt in order for the purpose
of being used for the manufacture
of gunny aud other sacks and bags,
and also for making jeans panta
locus on quite large scale.
District Attorney j. G. Gibbs was
accideutly shot and killed by Arsene
Pujo, while out hunting about IA
mile aud half from the Cameron
Court house, at Leesburg, on We'd
nesday afternoon of last week.
Lake Charles Echo: The Daily
Times says that great many new
residences are boing built in Alex
andria, all of which fiud tenants
eager to occupy them before th' y
are finished. Alexandria'S liberality
in subscribing for railroads is begiI5
ming to tell.
Lake Charles Commercial: The
great saw mills of the pine lands;
the rice fields of the lowlandS; the
mimic snow (cottOu) fields OF the
ridges and the sweet genial air OF
the whole section, are working "a
wOndrous change in these wild
prairieS and forests.
Alexandria Times, 9th: The Oc-
tober term OF Court is just about
over. Tue expenses for the jury
term of this Court have been enOr-
nous. The amount paid witnesses
and jurors is something over SO, 400.
This Court has been quite successful
in convictiDg criminals.
Lake Charles Echo: We learn
that settlers are quietly dropping
iuto the eastern portion of our par
ish, in the neighbOrhOod of Welsh
and Jennings. Dozens of families
have located there this fall and 9TH
ers are coming. Money out there is
more abundant than it ever has been
before. Tue proceeds of the rice
crops have supplied the Golfers OF
the farming community, aud mer-
chants are getting their share.
Says the st. James Courier: The
pecan crop of this year has now been
harvested and generally disposed %,
aud this having been a year Oh
abundance, some members of our
community melted handsome reve'
nues from that source. A neighbor
of ours, although not having OBJ.
tanned the top price of the market,
netted seventy dollars from single
tree; whilst others, who possess the
larger quality of pecans, sold them
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