The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-02-23
Local Lights.

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R1T Beer always on ice at B. Audi
bert's.
Our thanks to Senator Gibson for pub
lie documents sent the Messenger.
Several families from Canada arrived
here Thursday evening going on Ste,
phanie plantation in this parish.
After wet and warm spell of weather
for several days, the weather Tuesday
morning was very cold.
Fire wood is getting to be scarce, and
with the bad roads sells readily at 81 q
cord, which is quite good price for the
seller, and a bad one for the buyer.
The Crusader is new paper which
made its appearance last Saturday. 1t
is published in New Orleans, with l.. A.
Martinez as acting manager.
Several new members were given a
ride on the "billy goat" at the last
meeting of the lodge of the Knights of
Honor. This lodge is in ilourishing
condition.
Monday the thermometer reached -
and Wednesday fell to IS >. The cold
est days this winter were the 10th. and
2lst. of fDeccmber when the therlnOme
ter registered 49,.
Mud. mud. mud. every thing is mud
dy. And the ground is so wet that plan.
ters will not be able to commence to pre-
pare their land for new crop for few
days.
Immigrants begin to understand
where the best lands are, and also I'M
derstand it is cheaper to buy good lands
at higher price than they would
pay for poor lands.
When you feel depressed don't dose
yourself with mean bitters. Hodges
Sarsaparilla renOyates and invigorates
the system. and cures all diseases arising
from an impure state of the blood. 81
per bottle, six bottles for s.. Manufac-
tured by Rangam Root Medicine Co.,
Nashville, Tenn. For sale by all Drug
gists.
Several new buildings are going up
and many more will be commenced in
avery few days this is certainly an in
dicatiOn Of prosperity.
St. Martin parish will, inside of five
years, be the garden spot of Louisiana.
Her resources are unequalled, and are be
ing rapidly developed. Our vast prai-
ries are being transformed into beau
tiful farms, and business is increasing.
The boys and girls assail the postmas-
ter from the morning to the evening for
vale ntines, and some of them get those |
interesting missives while others return
with great disappointment painted on
their an sweet and love ly faces.
There is balance Of about one hun
dred and fifty dollars due on the statue
Of Father Jan which by the way is not
and the committee in charge
do nOt seem to take much interest in its
Let us make another effort
to raise the balance Of the money needed
and to complete the statue at the ear
lieSt.
Criminal prosecution In this parish is
sham, farce. Not because
the officers of the law do not perform
their duties, but simply because the jury
is strongly prejudiced. and the witness
es perjure themselves as easily as they
would swallow good cup of creole
coffee, aud they do this in such way as
to evade prosecution on that score. In
the case Of HOllier'and also in that of
Guitroz there was perjury committed,
but still there seem to be no ground OH
which they could be prosecuted, except
to increase the amount Of perjury, with
ont any satisfactory result. The situa-
ton is decidedly serious and menaces
-o'iaty. Law sni order