The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-10-02
This Great State.

8 feet red joints.
Mansfield handles about 10000
bales of cotton year
Kentucky drovers are now flooding
Iberville parish with mules.
The Louisiana sugar crop of 1890
is estimated at 100000 tons.
Rabbits, deer and bear are report.
ed numerous in Iberville parish.
H. G. Rogers, Chief of Police of
City of Shreveport, has resigned.
Louisiana has to pay 100000 per
annum interest on her public debt.
Large crops and great expectations
are reported from all parts of Ascen-
sion parish.
The city of Baton Rouge has a total
indebtedness of S31, 400 and a popu-
lation of 10000.
The Caldwell Waterman says 'soon,
very soon will iron bands unite Mon
roe and Columbia.
The rice crop of Duson Bros, Of
Acadia parish, will amount to 10000
barrels. 1t is the largest in the State.
Alexandria Town Talk: In 1880
there was STA public schools in Lou
isiana, and in 1889 the number had
increased to 2,276 schools.
The corn crop of Assumption has
proven UNUSUAL good, and st. Mary
parish will make the largest corn crop
that she has made in many year.
Steam was raised last Thursday for
the first time by the Hervy Plow
Manufacturing Company at their fac
tory on Texas avenue, Shreveport.
A castle of the knights of the
Golden Eagle was organized in
Shreveport Tuesday night of last
week, numbering 81 on the charter
list.
Dubberly correspondent Webster
Eagle Eye: Our farmers are making
a move in the right direction, viz,
planting rye patches for winter pas
turage.
The proposition to erect electric
lights and lay water pipes is soon to
be submitted to a mass meeting of
the citizens of the town of Plaque
mine, Iberville parish.
Bunkie (Avoyelles parish) Blade
eve learn that Mr.. T. A. Stokes, OF
Bayou Claire, will make p bales of
cotton to the acre; this is owing to
very fine seed which he planted this
season"
The pine timber of Vernon parish
is dying from some unknown cause.
In some places the trees have died in
hundreds ofacres. The sawyer worm
is believed by some to be the cause
of the damage.
Louisiana Planter: IF the progress
realized in Louisiana during the last
ten years be continued during the
next ten years, it is fair to say that
she will lead the world in the pro
duction of sugar from tropical cane
in quantity as well as in quality.
The number of convicts in the
State peitentiary, according to Gov
Thomas Overton AToore's message
on Dec. 81, 1859, was $50, of which
number IS were discharged, pardon
ed and died during the year 1860, and
101 were received during that year.
Recently sixty odd storekeepers il
Assumption parish pleaded guilty tc
the charge of violating the Sunday
law. The fines aggregated more than
$1,000 and will go the school fund
of the parish. The merchants say
that hereafter the law will be enforced
to the letter
Rice bran is far more important
by-product of our Louisiana rice croL
than most people realize, says the
Louisiana Planter. The crop now
harvesting will probably produce
about $4,000 tons of rice bran, which
the ''Planter" says at fair price is
worth 100000.
The City Council of Shreveport
last Saturday decided to compromise
all outstanding indebtedness on terms
proposed by creditors, and bonds tc
the amount of S20O,000-enough to
cover every kind Of indebtedness Of
the city-will be issued and will be
foated by st. Louis firm.
The total assessment of Louisiana
for 1890 will reach 1924, 100000, q
gain over 1889 of S8,000,000. Total
net revenue from the six mills State
tax for 1890, about 81, 335,0OO, and
total revenue from licenses, about
S365,000, making grand total Of
100000. Net gain of revenue
over 1889, $4,000.
Liberty Hill (Bienville parish) cor
respondent Arcadia Herald: 8 We
left on the 8th for Grant parish
Crops from Friendship to Winfield
! are almost q cOmn1etn failura. from