St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
Our Mail.
Louisiana Democrat, June 9th.


Louisiana Democrat June 9th1
1he new mnf utd MOrgan's Road
thence from Nermillionville to this
town, has been i'll actual operation
With our mails daily, the whole OF the
past week, and has come to time, eX-
cept once, supplying us with mail mat
ter from New Orleans inside of 80
hours. This is most excellent and we
nope it will be kept up and no more
changes for the present made. But, in
our humble opinion, though we are
satisfied to let we'll alone, still we think
the celebrity on this route ought to be in
creased, at least six hours, to make it a
speed Improvement on the old route.
We Will explain what we mean: The
new route receives the New Orleans
mail nine hours earlier than the old one.
goes 1913 miles by railroad, 120 miles by
land, and reaches here inside of 36 hours,
Now the old route receives the mail
nine hours later, goes by steamboat 31O
miles, 80 miles by land, and reaches here
III about the sanle time. Surely the ad-
vantages of the railroad and nine hours
time should, at least, accelerate the
time nine hours. However, as we sta
ted, we are srtistied, and only make
the comparison to do justice to the old
route.
We are glad to see from the tenor of
the above notice relating to the new
mail line established that our neighbor
of the Louisiana Democrat is disposed
to do the line justice. In the previous
issue OF that paper there was certainly
injustice done the contractors through
| its columns. They have contracted to
carry the mail from Eermillionville to
Alexandria iii twenty-five hours, and
except when delayed by highwatcr,
once between this place and Nermillion,
and once between Crocodile and Bayou
| Bnuf, they have fulfilled their contract.
Like our neighbor Of the Democrat we
see no reason why the government
should not expedite the time, and send
| the mail to that place at least six hours
earlier, and we join hands with him in
urging the increase of speed on the line,
but at the same time until the govern
ment orders the speed increased, we
shall certainly not blame the gentlemen
who now have the management, for
not doing more than fulfill their contract.
The last Morgan City Review fur
nlslies the following interesting local
items:
The watermelon has made its appear
ance, and you can sec the smile of salts
faction on the small dalkey's face.
Another Irish potato has been presen-
ted to us by Mr.. +. Fontaine, weighing
nnnnI and J,o]f
We are informed that there is proba-
bly, not a sugar plantation from Ricohoc
to New Iberia but what has in its fields
the snsar-cane beetle, in greater or less
numbers.
A mill for the manufacture of print
ing paper from bagasse, if located on
one OF the Water-courses of this parish
could control the patronage of nearly
every, newspaper office in Texas, which
would give II more work than it could
do. The capitalist should think of this.
MORGAN CITY, hIay 31st, 1880.
Editor Morgan City Review:
| send you specimen of corn called
Egyptian corn, though quite different
from common corn in shape, resembling
wheat or barley. It originally came
from the country of the "famons pyra-
mids.' Through the kindness of nv
friend, | obtained peck of the seed
and planted it. Much to my delight
and surprise they are growing finely and
vigorously, proving a formidable siyal
to the Indian, or rather destined to take
the place OF the latter. Its yield is 800
bushels per acre, and it is useful in fact,
as Il food for man and beast, especially
stock. [ opine it will be in great de-
mand here ere long. We intend saving
the corn for seed, and will plant it on a
large scale. skeptics are respectfully
invited to see our crop.
r. B. LAWRENCE.
The following items are clipped from
the last issue Of the Lake Chares Echo
PATENT TRACk-LAYERs.-A cores
pondent of the Lafayette Advertiser,
speaking of the "Chicago track-layer,"
and the one recently patented by Col.
Theodore Adams, general manager of
the La. Western railroad company, says
the former will probably be used be-
tween Verniilionville and Opeleusas,
because it can be obtained for S;2j q
mile, while Adams charges 500 mile
for the use Of his We believe Adams
is the best in use.
A GRAND HUNT.-A correspondent of
the Beaumont (Texas) Lumberman
gives an interesting account of a late
hunting excursion in Hardin county,
Texas, in which three bucks, cata-
mount and Il large bear, were killed the
same day, and inside Of six hours, in
what is known as "the big thicket.''
Carrying concealed weapons is likely
to become questionable in the 22d
judicial district. In two recent convic-
tions for this oftense in the district
court at Donaldsonville, Hon. .Tamos D.