The Bossier banner., 1894-08-23
This Great State.

Ihe cane prospects throughout
Avoyelles parish continues very
promising.
The Army of Tennessee, United
Confederate Veterans, of New Or
leans, has on hand $l065 "a.
A telephone line from Shreveport,
via Robson, extending seven miles
below Coushatta, will be completed
in the near future.
The first bale of cotton of this
years crop was received at Shreve-
port on the 10Th inst. 1t was raised
by Ii. A. Story, of DeSoto parish.
Levee building is being rapidly
| carried forward in the Lafourche
district, and solid line of levees
will confront the next high water.
Three colored convicts escaped
from the guard at the convict levee
camp, thirteen miles below Alexan-
dria, on Red RiveI, last Thursday.
Mr.. Wm. Nelson, Chief of Police
of Shreveport, has resigned. Lieut..
Haggarty will have charge of the
Police until Mr.. Nelson's successor
is elected.
At its last meeting the Democratic
Executive Committee of the Fourth
Congressional District adjourned to
convene in Natchitoches, Monday,
Sept. 4, 1894.
The Times-Democrat says: "The
passage of the tariff bill by Congress
bids fair to have a beneficial effect
upon the commerce of the port of
New Orleans, for the present any
way"
The second annual camp meeting
fair of the North Louisiana Agricul-
tural Society will be held at Cal
houn Sept. 10, 13 and ID. There
will be exhibits of live stock, agri-
cultural products, sc.
The Levee Board of Caddo, at a
recent meeting, asked for a survey
of the lines from Hutchinson's to
| Loggie Lea, which has been made,
and the State Edgineer will soon
advertise for bids for the work.
The State will furnish the money
to pay for the raising and enlarge
ment of the levees from Cottonw wood
Bayou to Red Bayou, on Red River,
in Caddo parish, and advertisement
for the work will shortly be made.
The first bale of new cotton crop
of 1894 from Louisiana was received
in New Orleans and sold at public
auction on the 14th inst. The cot
ton was from Avoy parish,
classed strict middling, and sold for
81 cents per pound.
The order of Knights of Py1hias
of New Orleans will locate a Pyth-
ian cemetary in or near that CITY,
The Order numbers about thirty
nine subordinate Lodges in New Or.
| leans, with a total membership OF
over 5000 in good standing.
Within sixty days four brick
storehouses will be erected in Mon
roe. These stores will have iron and
plate-glass fronts, will be one-story
% feet wide and 127 feet long. They
will cost about $1,000 each. The
contract for their construction has
been let.
The budget of approximate ex.
penses for 1894 adopted by the Pc
lice Jury of Ascension parish aggre
gates $4,000, including an increase
of the public school fund from $4,000
to $4,000. The rate of parochial tax
alton was decreased from 8 to u
mills.
The correspondent at the NORTH
Louisiana Experiment Station re
ports that tobacco curing is going
on rapidly. Both cigar tobacco frou
the alsuvial lands and smoking to
bacco from the hill soils are turning
out in the most encouraging manner
promising to make the culture of to
bacco leading industry of Nortt
Louisiana.
During the "a hours ending Wed
nesday evening OF last week 10000
lunches of bananas were received il
New Orleans from different point.
in Central America. "This is proba
bly, the largest amount of banana.
ever received at this port in tha
space of time," says the Picayune
''and affords some idea of the mag
nitude that the fruit trade of New
Orleans has assumed.n
A stone jar containing about s4O(
worth of silver coins, dating as fa
back as 1920, was unearthed by
number of colored laborers, VIII,
were engaged in enlarging and clean
t ing out an old ditch on the propert,
ofthe Second African Baptist church
seven miles above Donaldsonville
There were about twenty partici
pants in the scramble that ensuet
for possession of the money. AL
l the coins are old ones, the most re
cent date found upon any of then