St. Landry democrat., 1883-04-28
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RAYoU CHIcoT, La, April 81, 1883.

4 OpelOuSaS DEMOCRAT:
Here We come again to give your dear
readers a few dots of what is going on
| in the city OF Bayou Chicot. Since our
last nothing of Importance has hap
pened, only we are sorry to say that we
have good deal of sickness at present
in our immediate neighborhood.
j Among the arrivals in town during the
last few days was Taylor Marshall of
Loyd's Bridge, S. P. Lynch OF Calcasieu,
DR.. John Haas of Chataignier, Rev.
Jno.. O'Quin OF Evergreen and Capt. l..
ID. Prescott and brother of Bayou
BGuf. We have had one week OF
beautiful weather and our farmers have
taken every advantage of it, for nearly
every one of them, at this date, has
done planting and you can now hear
| them say $50 far, so good" Mr.. Frank
Wharton will leave tomorrow with
about two hundred and fifty head of
stock cattle for Cheneyville, at which
point they will be shipped per rail to
Kansas. We have, of late, noticed that
the different parish papers throughout
| the State are starting boom by nam
ing candidate for our next Governor.
Why cannot good Old st. Landry do
| likewise. / am certain that we have in
| our parish men capable of filing the
gubernatorial chair as there is in any
other section Of the State, and the time
has come for the country to go to work
and forever stamp out of existence the
so-called McEnery ring or clique. But
| my dear readers the above is hard to do
and unless You go at it in the right way,
we will never be able to accomplish
anything. Rev. John O'Quin will preach
to the good people of our vicinity, and
| the bad ones too, tomorrow at II
o'clock A. NJ, and we hope large con-
gregation will go to hear him. A few
days ago, having few leisure moments
to spare, We rode up to the public school
on Bayou Touro. taught by Prof. .Bing-
ham Cushman, and stopping a few
minutes we soon learned that the chill
dren, some 80 or 40 in number were far
| advanced in their different studies for
| the short time that the school has been
in sessien. 1t is a pity that one neigh
borhood could not havea public school
the year round, then we could boast OF
| the public school system, but as the
matter now stands public schools in the
country are nothing but nuisance.
/ will lay the plain facts before your
readers. For instance, in this ward
where there are probably five or six
hundred white children alone, who de-
pend upon public schools for their edu-
cation, we have only the small, pitiful
sum OF one school, and that is only for
three months, and where the school is
now located they have not had any ere
this one for three years, and when the
time comes around for that neighbor-
hood to have another school what will
be the result !? Simply they have for
COTTON all they learned and will have to
commence again in their A sc &cs.
Since the above was written we note
with pleasure the arrival in onr town
off Capt. A. NJ. Hass and lady Of Haas
vile, Miss Hattie Hass, of Opelousas,
DR.. F. w. Courtney, Of Carrencro, and
Max Hirsh of Eola. Sunday morning
our vicinity was visited by a severe
storm. The lightning flashed, the thnn-
der rolled and the rain fell in torrents.
But the only damage done so far as we
have learned is that ! was disappointed
in not getting to see that girl of mine.
But Sunday evening Old Sol again
made his appearance and at night every
thing was again lovely, and as sat all
alone watching the beautiful full moon
rise | was reminded of the old song (and
by-the-way very truesone) which be-
lieve goes thus: Kiss me by moon
light, my darling.n We have never
tried it, but we imagine it would be
very nice. We have read with pleasure
of the generous and noble work citizens
of Opelousas are doing in behalf Of the
Charity Hospital Of New Orleans, and
we wish them much success in the good
work, and should we happen in town
soon we will drop some donation to add
to your funds.
At present we will bid you bye-by
Yours truly,
PINE KNOT
The magic lantern entertainment
given by Prof. Walker, on Monday
night last. for the benefit of the CHAR.