The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-04
Local News.

lOtttTys
The weather Sunday morning last
was very cool, and we remarked se.sral
ladies with shawls OIL.
The Republicans of the Second Con-
gressiOnal district renominated ii. tudly
Coleman as their candidate.
We call your attention to the notice
of Mrs. Anna CARRIER, which appears in
the first column Of this page.
Mr.. NJ. L. BrOussard had his horse in
his yard Sunday morning which fell
into we'll and was drowned.
Our young friend RObt. d. Voerhies
left here Wednesday for ThibOdaaux
where he IS employed in drug store.
For restoring the color. thickening
the growth, and identifying the hair,
and for preventing badness, Halls Hair
Renewer is UNSURPASSED.
The Republican convention of the
sixth congressional district which met
at Baton Rouge last week decided not to
put candidate against Colonel s. NJ.
Robertson.
Mr.. j. Y. Sanders has retired from
the editorial management of the st. Mary
Banner. Mr.. Raymond Breaux has also
retired fr0!t the editorial charge u the
Abbeville Meridionai.
The Republicans of the, Fifth Con-
gressional district met at Delta. last
week ad1 nominated s. W. Green, 3 ne
gro, as the. opponent of Congressman
BOatner, the Democratic nominee.
The boys of this place who went to
Jeanerette last Sunday to play game
of base ball were defeated by the jean
erette boys. The score stood Jeanerette
Z rounds and St. Martinville rou.,ds.
Charles Burgess, young nr'n Of
New Iberia who was employed as drug
clerk at Royville, committed ss.rcide
Sunday morning by taking morphine.
Love affair is said to be the cause 9! this
unfortunate event.
MIR. Robert S. Day, of New Orleans,
was in town Sunday last. and entertain
ed about twenty persons. The purpose
of his visit here was to organize Pro-
gressive League which was done. They
met at Duchamp's hall.
Some i'll disposed person played a
malicious and bastard trick last week. to
Doctor L. Culkin by horribly clipping
the tail and name of his buggy horse.
And this was done while the horse was
in Mr.. NJ. Bakers stable.
Don't fail to read tho adves.isment
of the White Sewing Machine Co., in this
issue. The success that this Co.. has
met with thus far is indicative of the
fact that they have been CO tering to the
wants of the public in highly satisfac-
tory manner.
The Cade post office which was on
the postal guide since its establishment
as i'm Iberia parish, has been cha. ;.gad, to
st. Martin parish, where it belongs.
Cade station and post-Oflice are in st.
Martin parish, not in Iberin, as 1t is be-
lieved by many.
Mr.. 7. E. Wiley. lag Chambers ST..
New York City, says that Ayers Sarsa-
parilla cured him of a dry and sealy hr-
NOR, from which he had suffered intOler-
ably, He adds: Il have not now ble-
mish Oh my body, and my cllre is wholly
due to Ayers Sarsaparilla."
The editions of the States of Satur-
day and Sunday were thrown out OF the
mail by the Postmaster of New Orleans,
on the ground that they contained prohl-
bited matter. The proprietors of the pa
Der were not notified Of the fact, but the
papers were kept as evidence.
A Vienna dispatch says: The body
Of woman named Goeda was exhumed
Al Szegedi to-day for the purpose OF an
autopsy. When the coffin was opened it
was found that the woman had been
buried alive and that she had give birth
to child in the coffin.
If the two young white men who are
reported to have gone to the cOuntrT and
broke negro ball Saturday night, last
think they have done an act of chi7alry,
they are greatly mistaken. We lock up
ON the matter i'm different light. AZ
sdo,.;t, rora made AGAINST them hut the