St. Landry democrat., 1889-06-15
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2O3. 600, 900 feet of pine timber yet stand
ing in her forests.
The Herald and Journal, of Georgia,
says the prospect is good for the farmer II
he will drop cotton and take up grass and
stock.
There has been an enormous develop
mept in the native production of opium IN
China. and in only one of the ten large dis
tricts the production reaches annually
value of $30,O0O,OOO.
In the South it is estimated that for
every bale of cotton made 8 half ton OF
seed is produced and mostly wasted. 1t is
estimated that at least $500, 900, 600 has
been wasted in the last twenty years.
A live exchange published in the western
part of New York State says: ''Let us
look squarely into the future of our vii
lage, and much good will be accomplished.
Men of doubling minds never build up
prosperous community, nor did any other
creditable and commendable act. 1t is
men of nerve, men of progressive ideas,
and men of public spirit, broad minded
and liberal who are the builders and
boomers of villages"
War veterans who are entitled to COM
mutation for the loss of the use of thei
limbs by disease or injury are now filing
their claims in vast numbers 1t is stated
at the office of the Surgeon. General of the
army that considerable percentage of the
money which Congress intended for those
disabled soldiers is unnecessarily wasted
in attorneys fees. Notice is given that all
such claims can be settled by letter to
the Surgeon General of the army without
mourning expense to the claimant.
The State legislature of Minnesota, has
passed q capital punishment law, SIM
liar in some respects to the New York
law. Under it's provisions the prison
er is to be kept in solitary con-
fnement and see no onp but his fam
lily, his lawyers and his spiritual ad-
visers. He is to be executed before sun
rise, and may invite three persons to be
present. The sheriff invites six persons
besides the surgeon. 1t is made misde-
meanor for any newspaper to publish any
thing more about the execution than the
mere fact.
A gusher oil well was struck near Le-
eronville on the Fort Wayne road, nine
25th of April. When the sand was tapped
now flowing about 700 barrels day. No
provision was made to save the oil, and it
is estimated that 1000 barrels will be
wasted before arrangements are COM
pleted to tank it. The well is the first
gusher ever struck in that vicinity, and
the inhabitants of the country are wild
with excitement. Lots cannot be bought
for any price, and land has doubled in
value during the day.
The boomers, who are focking out of
Oklahoma in disgust, and are intending to
gobble the Cherokee strip, will meet with
another backset. General Merritt, in COM
mand of the military for the Oklahoma
country, has ordered troop of the Seventh
Cavalry to join Captain Hayes command.
The latter will have full control of the
strip, and he has been ordered to permit
boomers three days for rest in crossing
and then to drive them off. Captain Hayes
will probably issue his order day He
will have his headquarters at Ponca for q
few days, that point being exactly in the
center of the Cherokee country.
In case brought before Judge Travers,
at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, he decided that
while ciTer is at first non. intoxicant, it be-
comes intoxicating in course of time. Since
the law prohibits the sale of all intoxicat-
ing liquors, it prevents the sale of cider.
Judge Travers also overthrow another in
genious evasion of the law. In shanty
near Mount Pleasant board partition has
made large room on one side and small
room on the other. A barrel was SET in
the partition and the customer could de-
post his money and get his drinks without
seeing the man in the other. room. This
l.. - Ill fon e%o ~
that he did not see the liquor seller, and
in this case is now in jail serving SEN
tence of four months. Presbyterian Ban.
ner.
E. B. Cowgirl, the State Sugar Inspec-
tor, says that there will be number of
new sugar factories started in Kansas this
year, and that the sugar product Of the
Ssa$e will be many times gSeater than it
Zig last year. In addition to the Ness
City institution, factory is now being
built at Medicine Lodge at cost of $75,
900. The Conway Springs factory is being
rebuilt at an additional cost of $50, 900, so
that it's capacity will be doubled. The
Kansas State Sugar Company is now erect.
ing sugar works at Attica to cost $75, goo.
Bonds for sugar works have been voted at
Liberal and Shirley and Meade Center is
making preparations to establish factory.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has ap-
pointed w. W. Scott, of Medicine Lodge,
to be superintendent of the government
experimental work in sorghum sugar
manufacturing. He will visit all the
sugar factories in the State and report his
observations to the Agricultural Depart
ment.
The annual State temperance convention
of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, held at Alexandria last week, had
thirty-three regular delegates from various
parts of the State. Tt was not so largely
attended as the Baton Rouge convention,
last year. The chief speakers were Miss
Willard, Mrs. Sallie Chaplin, Mrs. Merrick,
Miss Anna Gordon and Mrs. Goodale. The
president of the Alexandria Union, Mrs
B. T. White, is young woman with much
culture, refinement, and with all the social
graces. The Alexandria ladies' welcomed
their guests with right royal hospitality,
and showed them the sweetness and
graciousness of Southern women. The
convention was held in the courthouse,
and its use was presented to the women by
Judge Blackman, who made a graceful
speech of welcome, and who, In his kind
ness and gallantry, only stopped short of
wearing white ribbon on his coat The
next convention will be held in New Or
leans.-N. O. Picoyatne.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for May
says: But the most startling condition
which confronts Chicago is the New South,
with its vast deposits of natural wealth
and its growing development, which must
soon exceed the widest dream ever ind, 1&ped