St. Landry democrat., 1889-06-29
LATE STATE NEWS.
Donaldsonville wants electric lights.


st. Martinsville is about to be furnishes
with street lamps.
Lake Charles will soon have electri
lights and street railway.
Mr.. J. q. Jackson, leading merchant o
Arcadia, died last week.
The Gretna Pantomine Club will Civ
their first performance on the Gath o
February.
There have arrived at Arcadia, La, dur
ing the past week, about eighty familie
of immigrants.
The people over in the riparian parishes
are still hopeful of their numerous rail
road enterprises.
At late election the town of Gibsland
Bienville parish, went for prohibition by {
handsome majority.
Carloads of luscious strawberries have
been shipped North from Amite City
during the present month.
A national bank is soon to be established
at Natchitoches. 1t is much needed anc
will prove of much benefit to that city.
The scribe of the Acadia Seminal was
caned last week by Mr.. Geo. Fl. Stein, OF
New Orleans. Whose turn will come
next2
The State Board of Pharmacy will re.
ceive applications for registration and ex.
animation up to the first Monday in Feb.
ruary.
The tax collectors are settling up with
the State Auditor for the collection of
taxes and licenses of 1888 and previous
years.
Mr.. James FL. Hammett has purchased
half interest in the Eienville Neao Era.
The firm name and style is now Mangham
and Hammett.
The North Louisiana Agricultural Socie-
ty hold their annual reunion and barbecue
at Monroe, Jan. %, "a and 25. A grand
time is anticipated.
Baton Rouge is to have twenty electr
lights by the middle of March, so that her
side walks may no longer rise up to smite
the belated pedestrian.
We have heard that there is to be a
grand match hunt between the sportsmen
of Rayne and Crowley, which is to come
off as Acadia at an early date.
Governor Nichols has instructed the
several assessors of the different parishes
that their assessments must be made by
themselves and not by employees.
The joint resolution passed last session
restricting public lands in Louisiana and
certain other states for homestead entry
will not be operative after March next.
Homes for All in Louisiana" will be
the title of the address of DR.. s. A. Knapp,
of Lake Charles, before the meeting this
week of the State Agricultural Association.
Judge g. Braughn, New Orleans, died
in that city last Wednesday. He was
loved by his family, highly esteemed by
his fellow citizens and respected by his as
sociates in profession.
The city of Monroe is soon to have cleo
trio lights. The company has been formed
and chartered and has already contracted
with the city to light up the streets, also
new government building.
The Woodlawn plantation, Houma, Ter
rebonne parish, belonging to Pugh Bros,
New Orleans, was sold some time ago to
Mr.. Hubbard Barton, of Assumption par
ish, La, for the sum of $4,000.
Experimental Farmer: Mr.. T. F. Mill
saps one of the most prominent business
men of Monroe, died at his residence in
that city on the 18th, inst, from heart
disease. He was buried with Masonic
honors.
A convention of the railway conductors
of the states of Arkansas, Texas, Louisi-
ana and other southwestern states will be
held at Little Rock, Ark, February 81,
when it is estimated that 300 members will
be present.
The Electoral College of this State met in
the governors parlors at Baton Rouge on
the 14th inst, and cast the electoral vote
of the state for Cleveland and Thurman,
Senator E. A. O'Sullivan, of Thibodeaux,
being chosen messenger to bear the vote
of the state to the President of the United
States senate.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded the contract for the plans Of the
proposed building at Monroe, La, to Chas.
7. Barney, of Washington, at $S75. The
contract for wire guard and Lereen of the
K taey order officer of the postoffice at
New Orleans has been awarded to G.. Cast
of that city at 1858.
Mr.. ]. B. Wilkinson, Jr., associate edi-
tor of the City Item, New Orleans, will |
issue, about the first of February, PAM
phlet on Diffusion as Applied to Cane"
It will contain complete record of the |
diffusion work in Louisiana and Texas,
with full description of the diffusion ap-
paratus, illustrated by engravings.
Miss Addie McGrath, (vivian), one of
the most accomplished daughters of Louis |
the Baton Rouge Weekly Truth with inter- |
esting and graphic accounts of the recent |
editorial excursion to the City of Mexico,
the beautiful land of our gracious neigh |
Dor.
A few nights ago near Keithville on the
Shreveport and Houston road, by the spread
ing, of the rails train was thrown down a
high dump and badly wrecked. There were
twenty-five or more passengers on the
train, but, strange to say, only two were
hurt-two drummers, Fl. M. Rutherford,
of Keachi, and A. w. Pinkard, of st.
Louis.
At recent meeting the School Board
of Bienville parish divided the parish into
districts co-extensive with the wards,
selected and provided for the payment of
two assistants to the parish superinten-
DEM. and ordered that public schools be
opened In the several districts of the
parish on and after the first Monday in
April 1889.
BY the official statement of the Secretary
Of State of registered voters, made. Jan. 6,
here is total of 254, S07. OF these, $685.
712 are natives and 81, 095 are of foreign
birth; 1875, 1884 are white and 127, 926 are
,olored. Of the whites, 101, 1929 write
heir names and %, 47S make their marks
Of the colored, "a, 097 write their names
md 101, 673 make their marks.
Hon. Geo. Moorman, President of che
Mate Tnnn,iyration Association has ;sa,1od |
MS call for the delegates to the convention
af .ni4s "a Lab AIicc;c i