The Bossier banner., 1893-05-18
This Great State.


fedprate veterans at Ruston on the
3rd day of August.
Shreveport is growing at pros
porous rate. New buildings are 60
ing up i'll every direction.
Mrs. Mary HartseI. of Webster
parish, has been inter'llcted aud
sent to the State Insane Asylum.
During the month of April E. r.
Sullivan, Marshal of the town of
Min,ien, collected S4S2 80 on Ii
censpS.
Never before in the history of the
parish Of Iberville have such nnmer-
ous and enormous improvements
been made.
Mr.. John T. Turner and Miss
Annie MonzingO were married by
Rev. J. w. Medlock, near Pleasan-
ton, Webster parish, on the 3rd inst.
A new grain elevator, which will
have a storage capacity OF about
25O, 600 bushels, will soon be built
in New Orleans by the Illinois Cen
trail Railway Company.
The Morgan City Advocate ceased
publication with it's issue of April
q, and reappeared May 4 in the
gnise of the Louisiana Prohibition
ist. 1t will be devoted to the cause
of prohibition.
Mai. Jean Sosthene Mouton, who
served during the civil war as Major
on Major General Alfred Moutou's
staff until Gen. Moutpn was killed
while leading his Division in the
battle of Pleasant Hill, is still living
at the age of 6S years.
Mansfield Democrat Journal: The
authorities of Minden have passed
an ordinance prohibiting the posting
of advertisements on the shade trees
in that place. 1t would be the
propar thing for our city fathers
TO pass "A similar ordinance. The
plastering of shade trees with pat
eut medicine and other signs is both
uusightly and injurious to the trees,
City Item: For the year ending
April 80, 1893, the number of buil,
ings erected or improved in New
Orleans was 1884, AS compared with
1893 in the preceding twelve
months; their value being So, 49,,
919 as against S1,S74,129. The
actual outlay was perhaps one-third
greater than the above figures,
which are taken from the applica
tions for permits. 1t is IA fine ex.
hibit, and beats any previous record
of New Orleans.
Mer Rouge Vidette: The range
for cattle in the pine belt of this par
ish where Lespedeza Or Japan clover
grows in great abundance, is excel
lent. Out in the country, ten miles
east of Mer Rouge, in what is kuowI
as the overflow district, the range
is better than it has been for severa
years, and after about the first o
July, swamp cattle, without being
fed, will be as fat as Western fet
cattle. Hogs that have winteret
themselves on the mass that grow
in the overflowed district, have beer
II fat all winter aud are now in excel
lent condition.
| Louisiana Planter and Suga
Manufacturers: The sugar section
of our State has become one vas
school, with every person interested
therein, from employer down to fire
man, doing his best to obtain bette
results along the whole line of cul
ture and manufacture. We nov
see the old processes rapidly goin,
out of use, and many old suga
houses dismantled and the worI
concentrated in fewer houses Q
modern construction, mechanics
appliances of the very highsrt elias
being erected in various parts G
the State for the coming crop, an,
q determined effort making in al
directions to get the very best re
suits that haman energy, presistenc
and skill can obtain.