The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-02-15

| Sohcisucuec, thcy WOuu hppiOp1io q
small amount for the keeping of the
two lamps on the bridge. Our council
meh do not seem to care much about
what our people need.
Richard Hawes who is to hang in
Birmingham, Ala, on the 18th instant,
for the murder Of his wife and two child
rem, has confessed that he did not COM
NIT the murder, but paid one John Wylie.
fellow conductor, two hundred dollars
to put his family out Of the way, so he
could take unto himself another wife.
The planters on the edge Of the woods
ia the grand BOis section are alarmed at
the threatening appearance Of the high
water. Several fields are already under
water, and il the rise continues for few
days more. as We may well expect from
the indication Of the rising rivers, sever
al of the planters will have to move their
families to the high lands.
Our popular friend, - has been
commissioned General agent of a "cure-
all-medicine." lie has also received a
diploma and knows everything ah1ut any
disease. We may soon have the pleasant
/ opportunity Of hearing him upon the
platform crying out the merits and yer
tue Of his never. fail 10 cure medicine"
and at the same time enjoy the pleasure
of his "Kickapoo Show No ," which ha is
, organizing now.
The Abbeviile MeridiOnal says: The
people Of NatchitOehes are going through
the useless and senseless form of having
the police jury declare banks, congresses,
oil mills, and other enterprises, exempt
from taxation from five to ten years.
This, like resOluting remission Of tax
utiOn to railroads, is all rank nonsense
The State Constitution defines what
property is exempt from taxation, and
police juries can 10 more add to or sub
stract from that therein mentioned than
they can stop the revolution Of the
earth around the Sun.
We made trip to New Iberia Mon
day and we were really surprised to see
the large number of people, negroes espe-
cially, from this town and adjoining
country. in that place making purchases.
Cannot our merchants give these people
as good inducements and as low prices
as the merchants Of New Iberia or are
they only the victims Of their own ignOr-
ance. These people-can certainly not go
10 New Iberia, distance of eleven miles,
lose whole day to save few cents.
The merchants OF New iberia either un-
dersell ours or our merchants do not
take the necessary steps to keep this
business at home where 1t properly be-
longs.
-MiscegenatiOn is a statutory crime
in the State of Georgia, as 1t Is In many
other States Of the South, and in this |
connection United States Judge Spear.
Of Atlanta, has just rendered decision
which IL interesting. inasmuch as 1t
shows that State has the right to regu-
late and control Its own affairs. 1t ap-
pears that white man named Tully, a
citizen Of Liberty county. went with a
negress, Rose Ward, to the District OF
Columbia, where they were married, af-
ter which they returned to Liberty cOnn-
ty to live rs man and wife. and were
INDICTED under the State law. The de-
PENDANTS asked for removal Of their
case to the United States Court, but
Judge Spear refused to grant the petit
tiOn and renMnded the case to the State
Court, anil the chances are that Tully
and his dusky bride will have to pay the
fiddler,-Ststes
The City Item says: The attempt Of
px-Trpasurer Burke to shunt the moral
onus of the plundering Of the Treasury
upon "sOme subordinate for whom he
was officially responsible" is the most
brazen evidence Of his unscrupulousness
that has yet appeared. When the full
details Of his crooked twistings and
turnings, by which he converted the pu
bile wealth TO his private use. shah have
been made known, as shortly they will
be in civil suit to be instituted by the
Attorney General, there must be profound
astOnishment at the daring, shrewtlness
and extraordinary goOd luck with which
his rascality was shielded from detection.
One evidence Of Burke's foresight is given |
in the fact that when his portrait was