St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-04

next field trials to be run at Canton,
Miss, beginning Monday, Dec. 10th,
next. The national field trials will be
held the preceding week at Grand juno
ton, only a few hours run north OF Can
ton. When the New Orleans Gun Club
started field trials in this State, at Amite
City, in November 1881, they We're pop
nlarly known as the Louisiana field
trials; their second annual field trials
were held here last December, and were
known by the same name. But the field
trials to be given by the Club at Canton,
are announced as 1.-THE Southern States
field trials.p So the Club have ADAM
doned the former name OF the trials, and
also abandoned the State. There NUM-
Der OF sportsmen in Southwestern Louis
lana who would like to attend field
trials annually, and patronize them;
but dogs cannot be worked in the high
cover that is in the fields here early in
the season, sufficiently to tit them to
compete in field trials, early in Deem
Der, with dogs that have been worked
all the time in short cover or in the pine
woods, and many Of our sportsmen can
not send their dogs out of the State to a
professional breaker, to prepare them
for the trials. nor be absent from home
long enough to prepare them them
selves. There are plenty OF birds at
almost any place on the line of
Morgan's railroad and the New Orleans
Pacific, from New Iberia to Shreveport,
TO hold field trials successfully. There
are gun clubs at Vermilionville, Opelou-
sas, Washington, Alexandria, and also
probably at New iberia and Shreveport.
They could easily form field trial. as
ISOLATION to hold trials annually, ut one
of these places on these railroads. The
amount of the prizes, which need not be
large, could easily be raised; and the
dogs run could be trained and handled
by their owners unless they felt able
and willing to employ some one to do it
for them. AS the New Orleans Gun Club
have left the State for larger field,
where the most of us cannot follow, we.
hope the gun clubs and other sportsmen
in this section of the State will take
steps soon to organize a field trial asso-
citation. . 81
There will be only seven important
elections held in the Northern States
during the present year. They will be.
held in New York, New Jersey, Massa-.
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa,
Minnesota. All of them will be held in
November except Ohio which votes in
October. With the exception of New
Jersey, each Of these States supported
Mr.. Garfield in the last presiden tial
election, and this State went for Ham
cock by very small majority. The
Democrats can reasonably expect to
achieve victories in at least four of
these States this fall.-States. ..
One Of the amendments to the milf
itary law in France, introduced in the
French Chamber, wages war upon
bachelors. It proposes to put all the
bachelors in the first class. of reserves
to be called out first in time of war, and
compelled in time of peace to extra
drills and manGuyres. It also retains
them on the list of reserves for twelve
years instead Of six years, the term for
married men. The amendment is con-
ceived in the hope of forcing the smart
young bachelors Of France into matIi-
mony. States. 97t9tf &.
The people of this State want a State
government that viii not Cypress the
people under the forms of law, or other
wise. They want officers whose main
object is not to enrich themselves out
of the spoils Of Office, nor to use. their
positions solely to supply themselves
with the means to indulge their vices
and extravaganza. s,.. III
Judge Roman of New Orleans has
sentenced four hoodlums, for aggrava-
ted assault and battery, to imprison-
ment for two years and fine OF $1,000
each /; and in case Of failure to pay the
fine, they are each to serve another
year Of imprisonment. A few such
judges in New Orleans, would termi-
nate hoodlumism there. !, =,
Tie town of Cassamicciola on Island
Ischia near Naples, Italy, was nearly
destroyed by an earthquake last Sun
day night, and the lives lost estimated
at one thousand, and eight hundred
wounded. lt
1t has been estimated that in the dis
aster on the island near Naples, about