St. Landry democrat., 1883-05-12
State News.

!
..Aristides Barbin and others" as a can
didate for Governor.
The railroad track from New Iberia
to the Avery salt mine is nearly fin
ished.
For the week ending April sSth, II
whites and % colored died of smallpox
in New Orleans.
st. Tammany Farmer: Never buy a
load Of wood at night. We bought a
load of good oak wood" last Tuesday
night, and the next morning we discov-
cred that it was nothing but rotten pine
knots.
Mr.. Preston Burns snd Miss Mamie
J.tEdgar OF St. Tammany parish, We're
married April Goth. .z
/ The estimate of expenses for the par
/ ish of Vermilion for the present year, is
/ 49, mills 81 mills being for special
Jail tax.
Eggs Is cents a dozen at Abbvyille,
land no chickens for sale.
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Mr.. Remy Broussard and Miss Odilia
Broussard of Vermilion parish, were
married April 25th.
Anthony NJ. Odom of Baton Rouge,
died April ssth, in the 44th year OF his
age.
In the U. S. sub-treasury at New Or
leans are 63 tons of silver and two and
| half tons OF gold.
Fresh beef having been offered for
sale at Coushatta recently, the newspa-
per there says an alarm of fire could
not have caused more excitement.
A case had to be postponed in a New
Orleans court the other day, because
one Of the parties present had smallpox.
Kelso Holmes. colored, was shot and
killed by L. Sheldon Coco, white, on
April Esd, near MoreauvilIe, in Avoy-
Giles parish.
Parties from Texas bought several
hundred head of cattle in Avoyelles re-
Gently, paying ten and eleven dollars
per head, for large and small.
"A colored man died of the smallpox
on the levee in st. Charles parish lately.
The Capitolian Advocate says ''spring
poets are looming u, in the parishes. y
The Rev. B. F. White, of Monroe, and
Mrs. Emma A. Glinn, of Floyd, were
married at the latter place May Cd.
Aaron Prescott, son of j. w. Prescott,
of Rapides, charged with shooting a
negro, had a preliminary examination
| in Alexandria, the other day and was
discharged.
Cesar Morgan, charged with shooting
Richard Turner, had preliminary ex-
animation at Alexandria, and was
bailed in the sum of $3.50.
FL. f. Holly, accused of robbing the
Minden mail stage, has been admitted
| to bail at Shreveport in the sum OF
$500.
An election will take place in Marks
vile. on first Saturday in June, for a
mayor and five alderman.
Mr.. An B. Couyillon or Avoyelles, and
Miss Augusta E. Marache OF New Or
leans, are to be married.
Mr.. Sheldon, Coco accused OF killing
a colored man named kelso, in Avoy-
ellet, has been committed to Jail by the
district judge without bail.
A crayfsll twelve inches long has
. made it's appearance at the office of the
/ Marksville Bulletin.
There is case Of small pox in New
Iberia.
| A colored boy aged IA, named Isam
Liiah, in Ascension parish. last week
was thrown from mule, and, his leg
being tangled in the trace chain, was
j dragged some distance, and knocked
and kicked to death.
i The colored Methodists are going tt
. build a handsome church at Bator
Rouge, 35 by 50 feet, two stories high
4 with spire 40 feet high; one of thu
4 stories will be used for lecture and so
ciety rooms.
A good many towns in the State ar
holding elections this Spring, and the.
!, cause much more excitement than TIL
congressional election did.
Mr.. Henry G.. Braud of Ascension par
isb. and Miss Mamie Donelson of Muir
freesboro, Tenn, were married Apr
25th.
The postoffice at Covington, ST. Tam
MANY narish. ia To become a money OF