The Natchitoches enterprise., 1899-01-19
state News.

The institute for the Deaf and Duml
ranks among the first of our State insli.
buttons. and a visit to this model place
recalls that 1t is keeping up its record al
| OF old. Ninety-eight students are now
enrolled and the management expect ia
pass the hundred mark in few DAYS, n
is to be regretted that there are still
throughout the state "A number of affiict-
ed persons who do not recognize the
immense advantages offered by this
great Institution whose doors ALWAYS
open 10 the unfortunate, offering them
q harbor and home
II ;f:,,,1nprr - ;1,Er; 9,;a
nomy will accomplish much. We will
take as a case in point Mr., Bartell of
ManSura. THIS gentleman rented a
piece of prairie land and npon it made
and gathered IL bales of cotton, aggre-
eating 6I48 pounds of cotton in the lint,
$40 bushels of corn, 80 barrels of pota-
syrup. This gentleman is not grieving
sorely over four cent cotton, and finds
that he is quite we'll provided to wealth
err the storm that Is brewing over the
heads of the cotton planter,
The success in raising potatoes last
season is inspiring DeSoto farmers to
plant heavily this year. However, we
learn one dealer ia Shreveport, who
bought direct from the producers last
season, now refuses to handle truck only
through local merchants, claiming ~ es-
sure brought TO bear from that quarter
forces them to do so.
1t has now come TO be certainty
that Hammond Is to have q fine new
Hotel. d. Magann, who ID a progress
slVe and enterDrssiDg citizen, is the pro-
iector. The site i on the corner of
Thomas and Cherry streets THIS fine
structure will be about 81 feet front aud
VIII with the ell run back to the depth
of rs feet and three stories high. j. q,
Morton and John VOss are the contract.
ors for the wood work. MIR. Leach has
the contract for the brick work and
q. e. Gate will furnish the |
bricks, and B. III. Morrison the lime Nj.
L. Murphy Of New orleans, inventor and !
builder OF the acetylene gas machine.
has the contract for the plumbing and |
gas works Tue rooms are to be furn-
lshed with hot and cold water, and
strictly up-tO-date IN every particular.
DR.. Magann shows bis faith, ia the fu-
lure OF Hammond by Investing his
money here, and no one can doubt bur
ne Will work to protect his Investments.
Dur space is limited, but later we will
nave more to say In regard to the new
lotel, which is expected to be ready for
by the 1st of June, brick Is
Deing hauleo, and work will be com
nenced &C once Ii Ia not known who
will have charge OF the new hotel. but
is safe TO say the DIR. win carry the
'eys until the proper party Is on hand.
An attempt was recently made 10
reak the Mansfield fail. but the effort
vas frustrated BY our wide-awake sher-
d, w. L Pegues. The implements used
1as knife and file, which had been
onveyed to the prisoner by some out
lde person.
A Union parish farmer recently killed
lot of hogs which avera ged 400 bounds
ach. this considered remarkahle re-
alt. A 400 pound average for wear old
Oga 10 not uncommon IA this section.
!. r. Ewaros. Esqr., CT Bienyille, a few
leeks ago killing eight hogs. fourteen
lonths old, which gave an aogrevate Of
$50 pounds, or an average OF 235 pounds I
hese hogs were in the pen for a short
nile and received no extra feed or at 7
milton. He has another bunch of eight ]
ogs, at large, about ten months Old. z
hich Will average in ordinary condt-
Dndition l50 pounds each. MIR. Ed r
ards. while not regularly engaged in |
ock raising, has . great fondness Tor r
nDroved breeds, and has supplied him j
IL With the best strains and can show
-st class specimens OF porcinc deyeI-
1ment, his experience demonstrating
ut GOCd stock can be handled success
lilY and with profit In the hills.