St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-11-18
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

Despite the fact that early in, the
season the prospect for the sugar crop o
Louisiana was disheartening, a favorable
summer has materially changed the aspect O.
affairs. The yield thus far has been phenom.
email. Two hOgsheads of sugar to the acre
for the plant cane may prove an average,
| unless some untoward event should curtail
| the yield. The plant, notwithstanding the
warm weather of the fall, has not come to
such maturity for many years. 1t is now
ripe clear to the topmost joints, and exceed
| ingly rich in saccharine mater. Through
out the winter it was checked but little: the
season was exactly right for cultivation, the
rains came just when wanted, and the cool
summer months brought it to maturity. The
weather since grinding has commenced has
been excellent for field operations, and the
work OF saving the crop and preserving seed
is now we'll advanced.
Mary Anderson, a school-teacher in
Louisville, KY, committed suicide by shoot
ing on the 9Th. Immediately after taking
breakfast she put on her wraps, prepara
tory to going to school, and stepped into
one OF the rooms near her own. A shot was
heard, and when the room was entered she
was found lying on the floor, with deadly
wound in her side, near the heart. Miss
Anderson was engaged to marry a gentle
man in Hardin County, and received let
ter from him the day before the shooting.
The contents Of the letter are not known.
Friends OF the deceased believe that the
shooting was the result of instantaneous
emotional insanity. The victims mother
disappeared some years ago, and is sup
posed to have committed suicide.
John Holmes, of Alabama, has raised
eleven children, seven boys and four girls.
He has seventy three grandchildren, forty
three boys and thirty girls. Mr.. Holmes
is ~ years old, weight SOC pounds, has killed
fifteen hundred deer and one bear. The en-
tire family live ia Morgan County, except
one son, who lives in Bount. All the older
ones belong to the Missionary Baptist
Church.
The skeleton of a full grown mastodon
has been found in the Cowee tunnel, on the
auckland branch of the Western North
Carolina Railroad. When the monster was
discovered the convicts fled in terror, and it
was by hard work that they could be IN
luced to return to their picks. 1t was found
six feet below the surface of the earth. 1t |
was in perfect state OF preservation, and
to dust as soon as exposed to the |
,ir.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crow wanted the
heart blood'' of Miss Louisa Price. OF
County, Kentucky, because the
after reported the misconduct of a Young
row to his teacher With that end in view,
Mrs. Crow sought Miss Price and shot her
trough the head, the ball penetrating he
ween the eyes. Miss Price is in precari-
us condition.
The Southern Pacific has made an
ffer to the Santa Fe Company for half in
crest in the Sonora Railway. ..s..
The development of the best lands in
'exas by the recent competition of the diff.
erent lines Of railway has fairly turned the
lde OF immigration into the State, and the
nlldness OF the climate, coupled with the
arlety OF the soil and its products, will un-
oubtedly add to the already increasing
umbers.
An ordinance is being prepared in
louisville to prohibit peddlers from pulling
oor- bells.
The dedication of St. Michael Gene.
Try makes the tenth burying ground for
ouisvile, KY; the Eastern Cemetery has
'irty thousand graves.
Henry Clay, q grandson of the great
entlcky statesman. who was a member of
lie Howgate expedition to the north pole, I
I've an illustrated lecture before the Poly ]
clinic Society Of Louisville, the other even
G, the house being crowded to its utmost
opacity.
Every daily paper in Texas was rep ,
sented at conference in Austin, the 9th. ,
day, at which it was determined to send i
'ank Grice, OF San Antonio, to arrange for t
WIS from the Western Associated Press :
d sever relations with the New York AS
citation. /
Montgomery, Ala, expects to handle 6
} 900 bales Of cotton this season. I
The secretary of the new Carolina, {
mberland Gap g. Chicago Railway Com :
ny states that work will begin very soon i
the Aiken end, and that that portion of a
: road lying between Aiken and Edgefield. O
Gall but three miles of which is graded t.
will be completed by July 1. He will open "
office in Aiken in few days. b
A Covington (Ky.) man, whose child +,
ID with Group, has sued DIR. j. ]. Dulaney, S
10 promised to call and attend him, but a
led TO do so, for $4,000 damages The o
ntiff alleges that the chiId's death was 81
e to the doctors neglect. .,
A Houston, Texas, miser named Mike W W
lltrand, was found dead in his house, 0,
lie and emaciated. He died OF exposure in
starvation, at the same time having over
400 in cash in the house he called home.
The gas company at New Orleans,
er YEARLY waiting for 1920, 900 due from