Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-05-23

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Of Illustrated historical papers In the
Ma ch Century, with an entertaining
des .ription Of 1.-The End Of Foreign Do
mi ,ion in Louisiana which includes
the following account Of the first success
the e in sugar making:
/. In 1871 the blacks of St. Domingo
lsasa in rebellion. Refugees few in every
dif.s,tion. A few found their way to
Louisiana. They had been prosperous
sugae-n: ekers, and presently the efforts
that had G., ssed for twenty-five years
came again 20 life. Two Spaniards,
Nendez and ST. g, in that year erected
on the confines orNkew Orleans, the one
. distillery and thether battery of
sugar-kettles, and Manufactured rum
and sugar.
than the year before to make cash ex-
periments, struggled against u ., mis-
fortunes that multiplied around '.he
cultivation Of indigo. until 1894 fousd
them without hope.
At this juncture appeared Etienne dc
Bore. He was man Of iifty-four, .
Creole of the Illinois district, but Of .
distinguished Norman family; he had
lived in France from the age o. four to
thirty-two, had served with the kings
ntousquetaires, had married lady whose
estate was in Louisiana near New Or
leans, and had returned with her to the
province, and had become an indigo
planter. The year 1894 found him face
to face with ruin. His father-in-law,
Destrehan. had in former years been
one of the last to abandon sugar-culture.
His wife and friends warned him against
the resolution he was taking; but he
persisted in his determination to abandon
indigo. and risk all that was left to him
on the chance of . success which. II
achieved, would insure deliversnce aud
fortune to himself and the community.
He bought quantity of canes from
where tie seventh event dHistFct t7 7Iafs f Use UasHe
rollton) now stands, and while his crop
was growing erected . mill. and pre-
pared himself for the momcntous season
Of grinding
His fellow planters looked on with
the liveliest-not always with the most
hopeful-interest, and at length they
gathered about him to see the issue Of
the experiment in which only he could
be more deeply concerned than they. In
the whole picturesque history Of the
Louisiana Crcoles few scenes offer 80
striking . subject for the painter AS that
afforded in this episode: The dark
sugar-housc; the battery Of huge cald-
rons. with their yellow juice boiling like
u sea, half hidden in clouds Of steam;
the half-clad, shining negroes swinging
the gigantic utensils with which the
secthing food is dipped from kettle to
kettle; here. grouped at the end Of the
battery, the Creole planters with anxious
faces drawing around their central
figure as closely rs they can; and in the
midst the old moasqnctairc, dipping,
from time to time, the thickening Juice,
repeating again and again his simple
tests, until, in the moment of final trial,
there is common look of suspense. and
instantly after it the hands are dropped,
heads are raised. the brow is wiped, and
there is long breath Of relief lit
gran,lates!'
The people were electrified. Etienne
de Bore marketed $4,000 worth Of su-
perior sugar. The absence Of ipterdic-
tions that had stified earlier trade en-
abled him to sell his product to advan-
, tage. The agriculture Of the Delta was
revolutionized; and, seven years after
ward, New Orleans was the market for
200, 900 gallons Of rum. $4,000 gallons
of molasses, and 1, ,000, coo pounds of SUI
gar. The town contained some twelve
distilleries probably not . subject for
unmixed congratulation-and ! sugar
refinery which produced about 100000
| pounds Of loaf sugar; while on the other
hand the production Of indigo had de-
clined to total Of 5000 pounds, and
soon after ceased.