St. Landry democrat., 1888-08-18
LOUISIANA NEWS,

! Mrs. Mary Read Gondale national or.
ganlzrr "f the Wnmam's Christian TEN.
petancr Union, lectured at Aexaudria
last Saturday.
Alfred Blenny, colOred, sulci.led last
Saturday night at West Baton Rouge
Caused. it Is said, by shortage IN bis
accounts.
The outfit of the Assertion Demo.
craf Company has been seized and will
he advertised for sale Oh the 1,t Sep
| tember.
| The prize offered Ivy the Ascension
branch of the Louisiana Sugar Plan
| irrS' Association for the best essay ON
ASCENSION parish, WAS won by Thpmp-
son Brown of New River.
The eighth annual session nf the Old
Fellows of Louisiana which WIS
nt'" az Plhqntminr. elected j. B
Rnuss"I, District Master, aud had .,
parade ami banquet few days since.
The building of II railroad from Lake
Providence to Macon hills is spuKen
of.
At Blynn Gnula section-i,nuse on Sat
nriay last Moses Edwards. cninred.
shot and Killed CorneIius Brown, alsn
r"Iored. Edwards tried to shoot the
constable who went tn arrest him, but
was shot in the ahionien, and was
lodged in Jail at Paquemin-.
The first sack Of rice from Acadia
parisi, was shipped from Crowley on
the 18Th inst. hv Kahn & Smith of that
nacr tD Kahn & Lew, of New Orleans.
II WAS cultivated by NJ. E. Moore, re-
siding in the vicinity of Crowley.
At Rlyon Gnnia on the night of the
18th. Buckles Johnson. coI"rad, shot and
killed John Dorsey, also coiorpd.
A permanent survey of the Inuisiana
d Arkansas railroad ia being made by
l.. N. Polk, who with his assistants, had
"n the 90 uIt. reached the State line.
He will prohahly reach Delhi, La, by
lst September.
Large quantities of red Ash are being
shipped from Leesbury, Cameron par.
iSh.
u .ited States engineers are inspect
ing Bayou LafoncIle in order to facili.
tate the Improvement prnpose1.
The following levers have been
staked out hy the State Board of Engi-
neers and contracts will l,e. let Upnar
Winn tract, Av"yelies parish. Atchafa-
1aya river right hank Snuadia, AS
sumption: L"fert Crevasse. Lrfnurcl,e
Waverl Y, Lafnurche Lilaire Clement.
Lafnrche; Lucky Hit and VeIa, As.
Trial. Lafnnrcic-all on
Baynn Lafourche and all on the right
bank. except the last two. which are on |
nnposite shore. P"ytlras. ST. Bernard,
river, left bank Pnint |
Michel. Plaquemines, Mississippi river, |
right hank.
Willis Jackson. tried before .I,.lp.
B'ackman for the killing nf B. F
Brnce, in Grant parish. some week.
since, was put under $500 appear
ance bond.
Lake Charles Echo: Representative
Warren. minister of the gospel from
Bienrille parish, q reform4r of the first
water, tried in rnin to cnt down thp
Fees Of the sheriff. throughout the State
20 per cent. H.. offered two morning
prayers In the Honse, Of which he was
| member. End accepted th"rfnr TWEEN
v-fise dollars ariere ana drew aizty
1"ilars mileage. II there is any reform
iere we fail to ace it.
Western capitalists are, we learn
in the parish of ST. Martin
With vies' fn locating n colony, Mr.,
p,or,nent farmer
IT Nebraska. ~ also prospecting in that
,a'is'i with view to locating.
Two white men named Gregg and
NO nagras were .ilei ut Alexandria on
l,a 10Th inst. charged with breaking
nts a ear 9Th intent to steal.
The iberia EnsrFDsise will snnnort
Ion. E. j. Gay for Congress, third dis
rict.
.s,1, !
veragrs seven miles in width and ak.
y-sTa miles in length.
Twenfy-aRa peraoDs were recently
oisoned Mt EhiHeza SciiG0lb0nse, five +
liles east Of Hammond, it ia sppDoapd
rom eating fresh pnrk at picnic din :
rr. Tiney Booth, one Of the number e
as since died. i(
Mr.. j. B. Clark, of Araaia, saws
rsssley special. has for five wears c
! surersssns1 brolght the fist bale of
,ttnn of the seasaa, c
Colfax Chronicle: Tt Ia fiaoa CHR the
nnd nf Sewers, the absc0ndino sheriff. :
WinD parish, cannot he collected. ~
,ess are many techniralisies to fight II
\. The charge ia openly made that
le instiumens sGpgilt to be enforced
v the courts is f"sQagy that the 7
gners declare they did not siga Il in 1
If order in which their names appear. !.
Or for the amounts designated. h
The Ascension branch of the Sngar \
lan:ers Assnciatinn met at Donald :,
'nville on the 9Th inst, on which nc a
sinn resolution vas passed saiutine a
10 new nantr, the Louisiana Sugar :
'anter. and urging members to snl,- O.
ribe for it. A paper on Ascension o
irish, its condition. resources and in.
scfments to immigration" was read. :,
Charles j. EastOns of London, Eng Il
nd, has lately purchased fourteen hun n
ed acres of land in Winn prrisll. o
The collection Of taxes in the country j.
liishes is reported by the Auditor to y
good. reaeliing 95 per cent. of the. II
sessed value. p
A man wis hanged at Monticello. .