St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-25
LOUISIANA NEWS.


last week.
| Crowley celebrated "Arbor Day.u the
I'd inst, by planting water oaks along the
avenues and streets.
| Sunday last Guy, son of Judge S. l..
Taylor. 0! shreveport, was accidentally
drowned in Red river.
At st. Martinsvile last Sunday Rufus
Fades was struck by a west-buund
engine and instantly killed.
Mr. Geo: Dickson, shot by colored de-
putty, JACOB Marshal, at Franklin short
time ago, died on the 9Th inst.
In DeSoto parish last Saturday, Pat
Fate shot and killed his brother-in- law,
Mr.. Wright. Pate is in jail.
:. An agricultural, horticultural and
live stock association has lately been
organized In Calcasieu parish.
A cyclone passed through Vernon the
other day almost destroying the place.
and killing and disabling many persons.
A; ). Lafargue, of the Marksville
| Bulletin, is a candidate for Senator of
Avoyelles and Pointe Coupee parishes
Caddo parish could not furnish the
requisite kind of soil, and will not be
allowed to compete for the experiment
station.
At Plaquemines, on the 10th inst. Mr.
Thomas J. Gildy shot and killed Mr..
IhomaS Herbert, treasurer OF Iberville
parish.
:. A few specimens of coal have beeu
discovered on Cross bayou, in this State.
at depth of two hundred and eighty
five feet.
A few days ago Mr.. Toussant Duplap
yIpl,
gun, had his right hand shot to pieces
by an accidental discharge.
Primaries will be held on the goth
inst. IN lbervllie parish to elect dele
gates to judicial and senatorial con-
vention.
Peter Ebeyer, a witness in the Judge
Ford murder case, sentenced for pur-
jurlng himself, has been pardoued by
the Governor.
On Thursday night, 9th inst., Mrs.
Lewis Fortler, keeping grocery in
Carollton, was murdered the object
being robbery.
!he n. .. picayune received last week
the earliest bunch of Louisiana straw
cries. They were grown by Mr.. James
Lawton near Algiers.
A shipgle company has lately been
organized with capital of 100000 to
operate twelve miles above Melville on
the Atchafalaya river.
On the 9th ult. the Morehouse Senti-
mel, |. g. Brigham publisher and pro-
prietor, was sold to j. A. Cason owner
of the Morehouse Clarion.
Last Monday the boiler of the shin Gle
mill belonging to Mr. George Bemiss at
West Melville exploded, killing four
and scaldipg twelve persons.
Last Saturday night negro named
Joe Cox, in Gouldsboro, across The river,
had his face split open ny an ak in
the hands OF an unknown party.
Hero for Minor, Ray for WILEY, Elan
ders for Hero. land Breaux for Superin-
tendent of Education, ale the changes
on the Republican ticket nominated.
The State Democratic Campaign Com
mittee which held meeting in New
Orleans last week, elected Governor
MeEnery member of that body
The senatorial convention OF the
twenty-ehi,d district met last Monday
Ouachjta, and J. J. Davis, of Caldwell.
On the 10Th inst. the police jury of |
CaddO parish appropriated one hundred |
doliavs for advertising the advantages |
of the soil, climate and location of the
parish.
Richard H. Halle, grandson of Col
onel R. H. Halle, aged SO years. died in
st. Fiancisviile on the 18th inst. He |
was buried by the Knights of Pythias
last Sunday.
On the Both ult. Congressman Isaac Stew
enson, of Marinette, Wisconsin, pur-
chased fifty thousand acres of pine land |
within twenty miles of Alexandria, La,
for 100000.
1t is prophesied that the Republicans
of the First Senatorial Dist let will run
but one Senator, r. +. Guichard, pres
ent incumbent, who it is stated, controls
many Democratic votes.
A boiler explosion took place last
week on the plantation Of Mrs. J. N.
Harp, near Bastrop, in which two white
men, Reemes and johnson, were killed
and sour others badly scalded.
Mr.. Jas. Hewitt and wife with eleven
children and lot of fine cattle and horses
passed though Houston, Texas, few
days ago en- route for Calcasieu parish.
They are all the way from Kansas.
East SATURDAY. ght, on the Ayondale
plantation ju Jefferson parish, white
mau named Dominick Counter was
shot aud killed by drunken negro
named William Smith. Jealousy was
the cause.
The sale of six thousand barrels of SUI
gar from Governor Warmotll's Magne-
10 plantation, for one hundred thou
sand dollars about ten days ago is con-
sidered the largest from one plantation
since the war.
A Washington telegram announces
hat Hon. S. NJ. Robertson is preparing
! bill for term of the United States
lircnit Court for the Eastern District
IT Louisiana to lie hetd once or twice a
year at Baton Rouge.
While crossing the Mississippi river
it La Requisite plantation, Bienville
parish, seven ont Of eight negroes were
drowned last Saturday. The skiff in
which they embarked vas dashed to
pieces by the waves from passing {
teamer. IL
Last year Mr.. P. r. Rooney, Of Pointe
,oupee parish, made one hundred and
lightly hogsheads of sugar, from eighty
ores of cane, and from ninety acres of 7
otton he gathered one hundred and
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