St. Landry democrat., 1880-10-02

OF the State Penitentlary. employed on
the Morgan road, arrived in our town
last Monday, causing unusual excite
ment and curiosity among our visiting
population.-[Iberia Star.
COTTON CROP DEsTRoYED.-We have
been informed that cotton caterpillars
last Friday mysteriously made their
appearance and ravaged a cotton-field
in Petite Anse, being the only place
visited by them in that section.-L Iberia
Star.
STUNG TO DEArH.-Our fellow towns
man j. J. Revillion, Esq, had the mis-
fortune lately to lose one of his buggy
horses from the sting of bees. 1t seems
thatsthe horse had been tied in the gar
den to Craze near several hives of bees,
and when discovered was so severely
stung that death resulted.--I Lafayette
Advertiser.
The Police Jury of Calcasieu Parish
have, with but one dissenting vote,
adopted an ordinance providing for a
vote of the people i'll each ward of the
parish, to determine whether the sale,
barter or exchange, of Intoxicating IL
quors in the various wards, except by
duly licensed druggists and apothecaries,
shall be prohibited on and after the first
day of January, 1881. Each ward will
determine the question of prohibition
for itself only. The election will be
held on the day of the presidential cleo
ton, Tuesday, November 2d.-[Meri-
dional.
During the terrible rain and thunder
storm of last Wednesday, a child of Mr..
Henry Bronssard, of this parish, was
killed by lightning. We learn that
when the storm was at its height, about
- m., Mr.. Broussard and family We're
taking dinner, and as is generally the
death-without warning-the child was
mortally struck and the father and
mother severely stunned. On recover
ing they found that the stroke had been
so violent that the child, who was near
est the door, had been thrown from
the house into the yard. The house
was also considerably damaged.-[Laf-
ayette Advertiser.
RAILROAD SLAuGHTER.-We hear al
most daily of the killing or manning of
stock on the Morgan Louisiana and
Texas Railroad. The Morgan company,
| at very small expense, might easily
allay the ill-feeling produced in the
hearts of the poor people living along
their line, by the frequent loss of ami
mails. BY erecting light wire fence on
both sides of their track, the company
! could prevent the constant occurrence
of such accidents, and also render travel
on this road much more safe. We fear,
if the road authorities do not take the
necessary steps to keep cattle off their
track ettectually, we may be soon called
upon to record some dreadful DISASTER
liberia Sugar Bowl.
In passing by the store Of our friend
| Ed. Pellerin, oD Main street, we noticed
| that some sacks of salt WHICH were being
carried into his warehouse bore the
| brand of the new company now opera
ting the salt mines on Avery's Island.
This proves to be part Of the last cargo
of the steamboat Matte, which stopped
at the Island with freight and took a
return cargo of this justly celebrated
salt. We are now enabled to purchase
a better article of salt than that which
Liverpool or Turks Island were in the
habit of supplying, and at third less
cost; our home made salt selling at one
cent pound. The vast superiority of
the Avery Island salt over its English
competitor consists In the large proper
ton of salt-petre contained in the for
mer.-[Lafayette Advertiser.
Mr.. JAS. NJ. Putnam, of La Clinche
had two horses attacked By charbon, a
disease for which the faculty has hth-
erto failed to discover any infallibly
specific remedy. 1t was determined to
kill these animals in order to prevent
the spread of infection amongst the
other stock, when an old eolored man
named Francis, formerly an empirical
horse doctor in the Teche country, in
| tervened and successfully demonstrated
| that cllarbon is neither contagious nol
incurable, To prove the former theory
he allowed his own horse to mingl,
with those affected-rnbbed them to.
gether, without it contracting the mala.
dy. The two horses were placed in his
care and he returned them, sound as &
dollar, radically cured. Subsequently
he took mule, given up for dead, and
that, too, was cured. The only thing
known of the treatment he pursued il
that the animals were systematically
overfed with any food they would take
and thou gh he has tile reputation OF
using some secret remedy, we think
that in this lies the true mystery of his
success.-[St. Bernard Eagle.