The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-07-12
LocKPoRT NEWS.
LocKpoRr, La, July 9th, 1890

Bucket Brigade, was held on Tues
day, 1st inst, with the following re-
suits. viz: G. Abribat, Jr., president /;
p. A. Barrics, vice president; j. P.
Bourg. treasurer F. II. Hautot, secre-
tary: EN-. Barrios, foreman : Jos. j.
Brown, assistant foreman; and Fran
co.'s Parr, tyler.
We feel compelled to bring to the
notice of our police jury a serious evil
that is growing worse day by day.
We mean the cribbing of our levees by
crawfishes and fidclers. Ten years
ago, these last named little pests were
unknown here, even 40 miles below a
fiddler was a curiosity but from year
to year they have been creeping high
er and higher, and even as far as Race
land, they now do their work; as tor
crawtish, never were they known to
be So numerous: with such enemies at
lacking our ~levees, it comes next to
an impossibility to keep them in good
repairs, unless the jury interferes, and
the only remedy we can think of, is to
prevent the killing of alligators, which
is going on now at a very rapid rate.
Some years ago., if we are not mis-
taken, one of the parishes on the low
er Mississippi, st. Bernard, we think,
seeing its levees perforated by musk
rats passed an ordinance forbidding
the killing of the saurians, and the re-
suit was quite satisfactory. Let us,
at least for a year or two, try if this
action would not afford us some relief.
The tair at st. Sauveur's church on
the 2Sth and 29th of June proved, as far
as we have been able to ascertain a
financial success. We were overjOyed
to see so many strangers, some even
with extra sized noses, come to con-
tribute to this good work, and as for
the ladies we dare not name a single
one they all did so much to make it a
never-to-be-forgotten occasion. and
we could not name one without doing
injustice to all the rest.
What is going to be done about the
st. Mary Pamela Creyasseq or, better,
will anything ever be done? At one
time We spoke in this very correspon-
dence about a certain cat being in a
certain bag, and we were candidly an
swered that such cat had long been
let out, &c, &c. At the same time
however, it was said, that whenever
said cat, to keep up the metaphor,
would be out of danger from drowning,
it would come to our help to close the
crevasse.
1t was tacitiy understood that, after
all danger from overflow would be
over, each district to which some OF
the lottery funds were apportioned,
would join in to close the break. So
far we have not seen the least sign OF
such a move, and we begin to think
that the aforesaid cat will not only re-
fuse the risk of getting its fur wet, but
means also to hold on to a good fat
purse when he has it.
All we wish to remind said feline
now is that we have our eyes skinned,
and let high waters come again when
ever that may be, we to talk
long and loud. and if talking will no.
do, we mean to ACT. Let the matter
rest there. To come to another set OF
ideas concerning the crevasse we will
say, hut We know no one will pay at.
t%ention to II QUIET protest that some
ofour best laborers and their families
have been forced by the waters te
abandon their homes, and many have
gone to'the A~ttakapas country. Only
last week six men with their wives
and children have left us; now gentle
men of the feline species, have long
articles published in the country pa.
pers inviting immigration here when
by their own acts they force old and
trusted laborers to seek elsewhere
what such takers might have % easily
secured to them. that is a protection
from overflow, IocKport was numer-
ously represented at both fairs ofthe
Roussel School, and it pleases lis to
thank most heartily DIR. John Gaze
for his acknowledgement of u pre-
sence in the speech he made las. Sun
day. We know we are a unit In re.
gard to our wishes for public educa-
ton and we can assure him that il
this respect he eau rely on US as we
ourselves do rely on him. We under.
stand that financially the fair proved
quite a success, and we need not sa,
how much we rejoice when such is the
case in so noble a cause as that ofedu.
cation.
Mr.. Q. Breaux, from st. James col
lege, quite a nice young gentleman
spent a few days with us, and left
again to attend the commencement ex-
ercises Of his "Alma Mater.n His
charming sister to the great sorrow o
our youthful friends, accompanied
him.
We hear that a certain friend o.