The Bossier banner., 1891-04-02
Thas Great State.

Met az AaIVu ASVNSO JOSAOSNSJs
w. P. Ford has been appointed
member of the School Board OF
Caddo parish.
The game of Scraps is prohibited
by special ordinance id the town
of Alexandria.
During thirty days 5,460 dozen
eggs were shipped from CIarencro,
Lafayette parish.
The town of Alexandria imposes
a tax of 800 per annum upon iu-
surance drummers.
There is talk of organizing Brick
Company for the manufacture and
sale of brick ia Homer.
The Peoples National Bank of
New Iberia opened it's doors for
business last Thursday.
Morehouse Appeal Farmers tell
us that they are planting more corn
than usual. This is right beyond
question.
There is talk of railroad from
POntchatOula. on the Illinois Cen
tral road, west through Baton Rouge
to Lafayette.
Ruston Caligraph: The largest
brickyard in the South is located at
Baton Rouge. 1t gives employment
to eighty men.
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A shipment Of II barrels of new
crop turpentine and 80 barrels of
rosin was made recently from st.
Tammany parish.
In the list of amounts to be re-
funded the States by United States
on account of the direct tax bill.
Louisiana is credited With 1885,
866 65.
Joseph Dubon. colored, of Lafay-
cite parish, recently convicted Of
placing Instructions on a railroad
track, will serve twenty years in the
penitentiary.
The contract has been let for
building an auditorium 100 feet in
diameter on the ChautaQua grounds
near Ruston, to be completed by the
18th of next June.
DeSOt0 farmers will plant a con
siderable acreage in sugar With
view of making supply of syrup
for local consumption. Experiments
made last season were very satisfac-
tory.
j. d. Tuggle and |. N. Glover
were waylaid and killed at Beaver
Greek Bridge, about 81 miles from
Homer, on the Homer al d Summer
field road, Claiborne parish, on the
25th ultimO.
Morgan City has shipped this
season 25,0O0,OO oysters, which,
says the Times Democrat, makes
that place the largest shipping point
in the South. Over $1,000 pounds
of catfish have also been shipped.
The corner stone of the new Ma
sonic Temple of the Grand Lodge
of Louisiana, to he erected at the |
corner Of Perdido aud ST. Charles |
streets, New Orleans, was laid with |
imposing cermonies Oh March %
N. o. Delta: From all sec ions |
of Louisiana come complaints that,
owing to the rains, farming opera
tions are very back ward. This does
not necessarily indicate poor crop
this fall, as the same state of affairs
prevailed last spring, get one Of the
largest yields known in the history
of Louisiana was obtained last fall,
Progressive Age: Mr.. Wm. John
son, of has COW which has given
during eight months, from the 18th
of July, 1890, 536 pounds of butter.
He sells butter at about 25 or 80 cts.
per pound. At two-bits, this makes
for the mouths S134. Adding the
value of the milk would increase
this considerably. Who has a bet
ter cows This statement is a true
one, and shows what can be done
with good stock and proper atten-
ton.
The meaning of the Indian word
"Ouachita" is given by M. Penicant
to be black river. The word is spell
ed in Martins history of Louisiana,
Washita, and in Darby's History of
Louisiana, published in 1917, Qua
chitta 1.-TWO t's). The OuaChita rises
in the west part of Arkansas and
enters Louisiana at the northeast
extremity of Union parish. From
this point it runs southwark, inter
sects the parishes of Ouachita and
and enters Red River
about 20 miles from its mouth. Its
length is about $50 miles. Steam
boats can ascend it to Camden, Ark,
nearly 800 miles from its mouth
The part of this river which is below
the mouth of the Tensas is called
Black River.
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ated on having reached its thirtieth
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