The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-01-26

OudU Will LuC uUtuOSU III
the court is now two
'ears in arrears. AS cases are
continually accommodating on its
docket, it is a sheer imp0ssibility
or the judges ever to hope to
clear it. The Supreme Court of
he United States is in the same
Dredicament as our own State
Supreme Court and from the
same cause. 1t has been suggest
ID that the a~ppealable amount
should he increased. We think
that the same remedy will be
efficient to ease the Docket
Of our State Supreme Court.
There is one more change
we would like to see car
out, especially as it involves
the looping off of a useless Office.
We favor the abolition of the
Office of District Attorney. There
is already in each Parish a law
officer who is styled District At
torney pro tenn and er oticio Pat
ish Attorney. As his name indi-
Gates, he acts as District Attorn
ey in the absence or inability to
act of the District Attorney. He
must therefore, possess the same
qualifications as that officer. He
attends preliminary examinations
and represents the State in all
criminal prosecutions where the
District Attorney is abseut. Why
not invest him with the full con-
troll ami management OF all bust
ness belonging to the Office of
District Attorney : There is no
good reason why the constitution
could not be amended in this re-
spect. Let the Parish Attorneys
do all the business now belong
ing to the office of District At
torney and receive a salary of
five hundred dollars per annum
payable in the proportion of
three hundred dollars by the
State and two hundred dollars
by the Parish, and let him re-
ceive all the perguisites now at
tached to the Office of District
Attorney. BY doing this, a use.
less Office wonld he abolished,
and a direct saving to the tax
payers would he accomplished.
Reform is now the watch word.
The views we have presented in
this paper are in that direction.
We submit them to the respect
full consideration Of the LegiSla.
ture. MORDAX.
As Lent is not very far off,
amusements are multiplying FAST.
Besides a literary aud musical
entertainments which is 10Y III
preparation for the benefit of the
school at the tGuion Academy,
We are happy to announce
Fireman's Ball, at Waverly Hal,
on Wednesday, February 9th.
1878. The affair is to be given I'M
der the auspices of Protector Fire
Co. No. ?. To the lovers of the
Terpsichorean art, we commend
this soiree dansante, as we feel
assured that they will there have
an opportunity of tripping the
eight fantastic toe" to their
hearts content. They will besides
be furthering a very worthy Ob-
ject, the helping Of one of our
most popular organizations, the
gallant boys of Protector Fire
60. No. 2.
When the association OF Su.
gar Planters in New Orleans
asked the Board of Trade in Gin.
cianati the views of that body
CONCERNING any changes that
should be made in the tariff Oh
Sugar, the answer they got was
that the tariff should be raised
on brown Sugars and lowered on
white Sugars.
But the Sugar Planters Associ
alton being run for the interest OF
the few manufacturers of white
Sugar, and not for the many
growers of brown Sugar, the
Association recommended Con.
gress to keep their hands of the
Tariff on Sugar.
On Thursday week MI. j. S
Billleu was seated in the House
of Representatives as a successful
contestant against j. Seveigne
Mr.. G. Gaudet whose seat was
contested by O.. Harang Esq. was
confirmed in his seat.
The Monroe Observer is an
earnest advocate of a cOnstitu-
tlonal convention, and suggests,
if the Legislature should so fal
disregard the plain wishes of the
people as to fail to call one, thai
they assemble i'm the various
parishes and elect delegates to a
State convention whose object