Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1877-07-14
Agriculture and Its Interests
The Farm Work. Shop Factory :
Homs-Gchool-Ohxrch.
By DAN'L DENNETr.
a Noble Example.

IT. NARY PAkISH LEADS OFF NOBLf.
The Police Jury of the parish OF
81. Mary resolved not long since that
stores and bar-To0ms must he cloeed
on Snndays within the entire hnrd-
ers II the parish. No more selling
goohs orliquors on Sundays In that
parish from this time henccforth
while the present police Jurors arc
the parish lawmakers. s,i
We must get the names Of this pol
lee jurors and publish them, that the
public may become better acquainted
with the men in ST. Mary that have
done ~ noble an net.
The police jury Of TINT parish has
collected fines Of $50 encl, from half
a dozen or more who have ..yjolated
the law. and will prosecntev Nd fine
till the law shall everywhere be OBJ
served, s,,f.e's, s.,a.....l #.
Now, Franklin, Centreville and
other villages in st. Mary are qniet
and orderly on the Sabbath. Now,
a. We nrc informed by a planter, the
men attend church more than they
have ever done before. Now, the
colorel population behave better
than when Sunday was = day for
frollicking, trading, getting drunk,
gambling. etc. q, -.y-.ys
Every father 81 family in St. Mary,
and every mother, ehonld thank the
police jnry for the noble act. Every
planter shonld thank them. Every
honest man who loves SMED43 and
it, stirterrsts should thank them.
Every church and every member Of
every church shonld thank them.
The State Of Lonisisns should thank
them, and the Legislature should
emulate their noble example.
The fact ID that the open atorea
and open bar-rcoms inI ithis State on
Sundays, the trading and drinking,
and disorderly conducf that ma turally
arises from sach practiceA hare ne.
rio1sly retarslcd immigration, aud
have given the State ! bad name
abroad. These things hare depre-
eiafed tlse vslae Of premrty AL ever
~ Stst4 Lat every rniiSh IN sto
stair Mll0w she noble example sst
by Nicholl's police inry in tho par
ish ofSt Mary, and In . few years
We verify believe it will increase the
market valas OF real estate twenty
6veper cent-unsug3 gsft ~ J. N.
Mississiopi has her stores and bar
rooms closed m the Sabbath day in
,aM parts Of the State. and wall closed
Why cannot Louisiana do the same
A Frankiin correspondent Of the
Daily Picaynue, in latter dated
June q, says
may not b. aware Of the fact
that there il = State movement,
what ,sailorx would call q great
sw1Il, rapidly progressing to atol,
the sale of whisky on Sunday. Par
ish after parish il wheeling into line.
and its birth grows out of financial
arguments. Ifz8f
ssThs pnblic records N the psrishes
have Il'een ovrrl,awled, and thry go
to show that largely over onc-hali
vt the crimes committed are pnt On
the criminal docket ON account ot
the sale 1t whiskey on the Sabbath.
Tho planters have becoms disgtste.l
with this nseless, csiminnl tax,
which, in some parishes amennts "
ten, aud sometimes hlte<n thouaand
dollars PER anusm, and when they
add IN this the loss from the demora-
lisation of labor two days in the
week. the tax payers are gvtting rest
i've and wcln determined 70 got rfd
n this incnbua. ! give yam these
gathered Sarts 1T whab they aes
worth, and yonr readess can psaa
jadsncnt upon them. From whst ]