The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-01-25
Local News.


weather.
Our swampers are getting ready and
expect big float shortly.
Several small steamboats, were in
our port this week.
We have seen several orange trees
in town in full bloom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Martin left for
New Orleans Wednesday.
The Bayou is high enough to allow
the small boats to reach Breaux Bridge.
Our district court, jury terms, opens
here on Monday the third day of Febru-
ary.
The Oil Mill of Messrs. Gates and
Veazey Of New Iberia is lighted by elec-
tricity.
Constable sale at the Court House
door to-day. see advertisement in another
column.
Our steam engine will be tested by
an engineer sent by the Silsby Mfg Co.,
the coming week.
Foot ball is now the popular game
at this place, and every evening we wit
iness interesting games on the church lot.
La grippe, in mild form has made its
appearance here this week and several of
our citizen are afflicted with the dis
ease.
"A large number Of the Italian labor
ers who were employed on the St. John
plantation have quit and gone to New
Orleans.
j. F. Woods show played here Tues
day. Two performances were given to
very large audiences. Quality Of the
show. ordinary.
Blast Pitre, the young man who was
employed here the past summer as bar
ber in the shop Of Mr.. Vim. Boucvalt, died
In Lake Charles this week.
AS you like it. Gray and faded
whiskers may be changed to their natur-
al and even cOlOr-brOwn or black-by
using Buckingham's Dye. Try it.
Our bakers have come to an under
standing and since Monday give only
"a sixteen once lOaves Of bread for one
dollar, instead Of 30 as heretofore.
The New Iberia electric light com.
pany will charge one dollar per incande-
scent light. and nearly every business
house of that town will have Onesor more
lights.
Mr.. George Greig who was assistant
overseer on the st. John plantation last
year, has been engaged as Overseer, and
now has full charge Of the plantation.
Mr.. Greig is an experienced planter, and
will give entire satisfaction to his en-
plOyer.
without the means at hand for cOmba-
ting it. cold may prove more dangerous
than the small pOx. No family is safe
unless provided for such an emergency.
In sudden attacks of cold, Group, asthma,
etc, Ayers Cherry PectOral is an inval-
uable specific.
The committee having in charge the
disbursement Of the money allotted to
the fire department, special tax, met at
the engine house Wednesday, but as Sc
veral members were absent it was decid-
ed to postpone the meeting to to-day at
10 O'Clock, at the engine house.
A petition has been circulated here
this week for signatures,-and it has re-
ceived many-which will be sent to our
representative In Congress. MIR. Price,
asking him to take the necessary mea-
sures to secure a sufficient appropriation
for the cutting Of the Charenton Canal.
The Moagan City Free Press Says the
Democratic choice for the next Governor
of Louisiana lays between Mr.. Foster and
Mr.. Jeffries, with Foster in the lead.
Well, we guess we will very soon hear OF
many more candidates, not only for the
governorship, but the little bugs will
also begin to stretch their wires.
We believe the Firemen should or
ganize some excursion or some fair in
order to raise enough money to meet the
payments of their steam engine. Time
is passing rapidly and the maturity of
their notes is approaching in a like man.
ner. Hurry up boys! 1t is time that
you should move.
Some persons have complained that
bones from the market are thrown back
of the market house, on the bank of the
bayou, and during the day large num-
ber of buzzards are attracted there by
the bad smell that emanates from them.