St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-08-11
LOUISIANA NEWS.

Col. D. F. Boyd, for years connected
with Tie Stale University, has leasea
the keutacky Mliitaiy Institute al
| Frankfort, Ky, aud leila tew days as.
tor that o,ate.
Hon. L. L. Attain, of Ibervile parish,
has annuunceu his Intention To suppoIt
Harrlssou and Morton lor President
aud Vice President, aud Nj. Guy Ion
| Congress.
Ruston hunters lately killed thirty
one deer III len days, aud us high ae
I ten III one day.
Edgar L. Lrche, expresiient Board
! ut A,>rssuls parish o Orleans, 10 40"
! Commissioned ut PUBIC Works Iu pace
! vi Cen. u. j. BcauttAalu sighed.
| A stsslun ut the State Buaid of Edu
Cation will Ue held ON li,c 1911 ot AL
gust, When all local Uoaius VIII he ap-
| pIiutcu.
| The number of hands employed in the
Rn>,ou cannlns factory 10 seventy ~
eighty.
| Tine new College ut Ruston is in
cDuI 50 al cuuslI uction.
1t is stated that in Sabine parish
which has fifteen thousand Inhabitants
not farm Is tnurtgdgru.
Three cuioied memhtls of the town
cnuncll Ut ST. M4itiustillc nave beth
waited upon toy Il cuiitniiire at srveniJ
five cu'Zris aud r.qleslei u
resign, winch they did. Inc Governor
has urcu !. q iesl1u ~ iii these sacdn-
cieH.
Tue color bearer of the Louisiana
Tigers Visited Virginia The n.sl ltnir
slice The war not hong ago and mas
Killed III d falliOal acctirnl.
A negro, IL. e. T.. A>twUud, United
States Consui at ST. Domingo, iui nelly
ot luuisIand, tried io least lie reiialn>
%. Cnil~Lopin CuumUus To put on ex
hihltl"n III il tiaretlng SHOW.
Tie fair at Jennings closed on Fri
day ot last week. IL Is said 10 have
be, u Il grand SUCCESS.
At D.,naldsunvIII., un the I'd August
Joseph a. Guidry was j Tiled cilai geu
With shooting Lewis RluAs tile night
before.
The r ,ilway Review says that w. C..
Aguew aud Otnrrs of youngstown, o.,
are having surveyed IL line IN Lollisi-
ana some two hundred miles III length.
VaIahie local subsidies are hrlng
secured, the country being rich ami TEL
TIE. A part Of the lIne Is located on
the itvee and therefore cunsti uctlun
Vii not be expensive.
The steamer Edward j. Gay burnt at
her wharf III New Orleans IL few day b
ago.
AT DunaldsOnville, on the 4fh inst,
JOHN Graham wasjailf'i, charged with
shouting Wnllam k-uHrr, cuiurtd. A
WOMAN VAS he cause ut the troublr.
At New Ibeiia nn the 5tl inst. Edgar
A. Brra,lx, aged twenty -slx ytais, was
d.owted v h.ie bathing ~ the Ttche.
In the sixth ward. pa,i~i, at East Ra
tou Rouge, white engaged IN a Raise al
craps, n row Occuritn I'D which Ruf11i.
White was shot through the heart aud
instantly killed, Marshall Vaughn in the
thigh, producing il fatal wound, anti
JOHN 5YiJHsyil u the arm.
AT AitKahdsaa, nj. TIE Oh inst. Rnt'-
ert s. DibBry Ut S.apbs NihiEt, aged
fifty-twD years. Was brought AstMr |
Judge Blacknan by number vi |
his friends aud inter.ilcted.
AT Baton Rouge on the morning of
the 1 II it,st, an unknown man commits
ted suicide by jumping from the ferry
bnat at the head Of VAN street. The
watcllinan saw him walking islSg,sle |
the boat indicating distress, and tried |
to sis,p him but failed to be Needed. /
The New Orleans Seed Company have
located the siis ~, Whii.h to builti the
oil mill near Alexanilsla, and ghIlgaIe
aud PM ~ i. taiitlf ip l,ase |
the mill IN running gttier 10 take Oft the |
crop OF 1889.
There being good deal Of lawl4as-
ness il, the viclntty of Slaughter Sta
zion. East Feiiriana parish; "f late;
fla eii,grnp If that l'rali'y have held
stop "a II. kEvrraI ipitllliys haze bern
ordered to take up their beds and Walk.
The pnstnffire ut Oak Grove. near
Floyd, was burned ON the 28tll ult. I
5ne'e Sam il the greatest lnser.