St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-05-28

The Morgan road is completed beyond
the Catholic church on Bayou Beuf, or
bv the public road, about Is miles from
Washington. The grading extends to
within about miles from Holmesville
bv the track. The road will cross the
BAYOU several times between Washing
ton and Holmesville. The erection of
the necessary bridges will retard the
construction of the road. These bridges
have to be sufficiently elevated to allow
boats to pass under them, and the rails
ing of them to the required height,
necessitates the making OF very high
entertainments of earth on each side of
the Bayou. One bridge is completed.
The said bridge by the public road, is
about 10 miles from Washington. The
construction train runs over 1T and the
laying of the track has been completed
up to the place of the second brid &c.
The pioneer force, those who are cutting
away the timber where the road has
been surveyed, are now at work back
of A. M. Haas plantation on Tiger
Bend.-[ Marksville Review, May 2lst.
A SERMON WANTED.-During these
degenerate times sermons are wanted
that will not build a PERSONS hopes upon
faith alone. We need soulstirriug ser
mons, not from books, but sermons
from the heart which will denOunce
men, no matter how fine their clothes,
costly their houses, or fine their equip
ages, who give the short yard or lack
ing weight; against men who cheat
their neighbOrs and walk hurriedly to
church and think that lip service will
wash away their sins through Christ
our Redeemer. Real, practical sermons
are what we need-real sledge hammer
accusations against the shortcomings
of mans inhumanity. When these kind
of sermons are preached men will per-
haps cease to think that they can de-
ceive the Almighty by their bypocritcal
pretensiOns. The All Seeing Eye"
discerneth all things.-[Bossier Banner.
Carlyle generally hit the nail on the
head. He once asked an Edinburg
student what he was studying for. The
youth replied that he had not quite
made up his mind. There was sudden
lightning flash of the old Scotchman' S
eye, sudden pulling down of the
shaggy eyebrows, and the stern face
grew sterner as he said: "The man
without purpose is like ship without
rudder; waif, a nothing, a no man.
Have a purpose in life, if it is only to
kill and divide and sell oxen we'll, but
have a purpose, and having it throw
such strength of mind and muscle into
your work as God has given YOU And
this is the best advice that can he given
to young man.
WHY WEAR PLAsTERs They may
relieve but they can't cure that lame
back, for the kidneys are the trouble
and you want a remedy to act directly
on their secretions, to purify and restore
their healthy condition. kidney-Wort
has that specific action-and at the
same time it regulates the bowels per
fectly. Don't wait to get sick, but get
a package to-day, and cure your
self. Liquid and dry sold by all drug
gists.-[ Germantown Telegraph.
A most telling argument is advanced
by the Sparta (Ga.) Ismaelite in favor
Of farmers raising their own meat. 1t
is, that Western hog raisers have a way
Of killing their sick hogs as soon as they
become unhealthy, and making bacon
of them to sell in the South and else
where. This may or may not be true
but, at any rate, if the Southern farmer
raises his own hogs he is sure to know
what he is eating.-[ Bossier Banner.