The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-09-17
STATE NEWS.

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be put up at an early day.
The Olympic Club Of New Orleans
win have no more colored men in the
ring. Public opinion is positively
against it. a9Y 4
One of the Touro buildings on
Canal street, No. l3l, sold the other
day for s6s, 900 cash. New Orleans
property must be looking up.
The Capitol Item at Baton Rouge,
after the pugihstic carnival in New
Orleans, got new head put on it,
which has improved it muchiy.
Dominick McCaffry has concluded
to fight shy of gentleman jim from
now on. The spat between Gorbett
and Sullivan has satisfied him.
q The new rice mill of jain & Co.,
of New York, which is to be put mp
at Lake Charles, will add much to
the commercial importance of that
! growing town.
There is rapidly growing feeling
of opposition to prize fighting of any
kind between whites and blacks all
over the country, and especially in
Louisiana
Governor Foster has declined to
sign requisition' papers, transferring
Colonel Hopgood to Mississippi.
HIS will hold the prisoner to be tried
for offenses committed in Louisiana.
Alexandria is going to have a
sugar refinery before long, and its
claims to become the State Capitol at
an early day are being set forth in
glowing colors continuously.
New Orleans viii soon become a
clean city. The citizens and board
of health don't intend that the chol-
era shall find it in discreditable
| condition If it should chance to make
a call.
Mr.. John S. Young of Caddo, has
been appointed Sheriff of that par
ish by Gov. Foster, vice Lake re-
/ signed. james c. Soape was an APP
plicant for the position but he had
no show.
WarInoth has said of late many
/ glaringly Improbable things, and
prominent among them is his asser-
ton that 'sCleveland will not carry
a single Northern State in Novem-
ber."
All straightout Democrats in the
Fifth Congressional district and else
where, concur in the conclusion that
Judge Gunby is digging deep his own
political grave by the course he is
purslAtss.
Banditte Hobgood has been
lodged in the prison of Tangipaho
parish. He denies having shot and
killed Bunch, but warrant has
issued for his arrest for that crime
and he will be tried in Washington
parish.
The salary of the Mayor of Lake
Charles. the big city of Calcasieu,
was reduced to S. per month at the
/ last meeting of the council. a five
dollar mayor for such a grand
growing city seems strange to us at
a distance. 1t is certainly false
economy, or perhaps like the In
dams minister. poor preach poor
pay.
| H. L. Brian, Third party represent
tative from Winn parish, collected
$50 mileage with a free pass in his
pocket. His predecessor; Hon. J..
M.McClain, collected only S53. This
is Third party reform with ven
geance. Brian is presumed to be a
leader in the Third party ranks from
the fact of his being chosen to repre-
sent the interests of the party In the
Legislature. Now then, if the lead
ers of the new organization are guilty
of such low down peculations at the
very outset, what can we expect in
the future?
East Felieiana's Executive Com
mittee is solid. At its meeting held
In Clinton last week it was resolved
that no one should be allowed to
vote at the primaries to elect dele
gates to the nominating convention
who is not pledged to support the
regular Democratic nominee for Con-
gress and for the Democratic nomi-