St. Landry democrat., 1890-06-14
SOUTHERN MISCELLANEA.

$1,000 spent and no water yet at the ar
tesian effort in Uniontown, Ala.
Reform is demaAded in the judiciary
system of Louisiana. Legislators, notice.
Farmers and planters don't buy of the
North. Raise what you need, as well as
cotton.
With capital stock of 5000, 900 the
American Fire Arms Company starts az
Bluffton, Ala.
A box, pail and bucket factory is needed
muchly on the Mississippi coast. VINO
will furnish it2
TAYLOR, of the Lafourche Comet, hits Off
the alleged protection to sugar as the "two
cents bounty hoax"
Lafayette, La, wants an artesian well.
and hopes to raise, by subscription, money
enough to get water.
1t requires ten cars to take $500 worth
of grain to market, while the same value
of butter can be carried In half car.
Cuero, Tex, has raised one-half of the
$4,000 for a cotton seed oil mill. 30 she
will have it; also new telephone line.
The telephone line between Marksville
and Bunkie, La, is an assured fact vi
the 5000 required, $500 has been sub
scribed.
Building has commenced on the Caffrey
Central Sugar Refinery at Franklin, La
The factory is named in honor Of the Hon
Don Caffrey.
The bonded Indebtedness of San An
tonic, Tex, is $853, 500; receipts, 1886,
O29; expenditures, $723, ,598; rate of tax
alton, 81, 10 per $780,
Mansfield, La, is ON healthy boom
New building associations, cotton com
press, bank, and q number of other indus
tries, bespeak lively future.
Greenville, Miss, is looking to the es
tablishing of a cotton gin factory. As
usual with Greenville when she want:
anything in the industrial line, she gets it
The artesian well at Canton, Miss, i:
now TO feet deep and it is thought tina
another 100 feet will give flow. New
machinery and men have arrived and gone
to work.
The canning factory at Lafayette was /
failure, and was sold by the sheriff. 1t il
q most complete plant, but needs mel
capable of understanding the duties Incl
dent thereto.
In the northwest portion of Logan county
Kentucky, very rich discoveries of genuine
asphaltum have been made. Lands jumped
from 81 to $50 an acre. Wonder il this il
salted AFFAIR."
Plaquemine. La is to have steam ferr.
boat across the Mississippi river at tha
point. The boat is well adapted to th'
purpose, being seventy-two feet long. ant
fourteen feet beam.
A contract has been concluded with
Nashville firm to furnish all the machiner.
necessary for cotton oil mill at Belton
Tex, the mill to be in running order il
ninety days and to cost $62. 500.
Fernandina, Fla, is gradually assuming
huge proportions. Another railroad in
tends building to that city; the jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West. This cit,
has as fine beach as there is in the South
The cooperative tannery that was estab
lished at Philadelphia, Neshoba county
Miss, has proven success. There ar
ample opportunities all over the South fo
the establishment of such industries
Better keep the hides at home and max
our own leather.
Silk worm raising has started again
Two ladies in Brookhaven, Miss, recent,
commenced with $4,000 eggs. A gentle
man of Opelousas, La, is also engaged il
the business. We wonder that more d
not embark in this. especially ladies, as
is well adapted to them.