The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-04-05

brass band, has returned here to lOcat
permanently. We welcome Mr.. Tapis
sier back in our town and hope he viii
take the lead in the brass band whicl
our young men are organizing now.
The democratic convention held a
FOurnet's Hall last Sunday selected tn,
present board of trustees to succeed
themselves. We would have liked to Sc,
a change of the ticket, but as they wer,
selected this time by democratic mass
meeting, instead Of a regulator CLOSED
door meeting, we are satisfied.
Mr.. p. ID. DelacrOix, an esteemablt
citizen of Cypremort. st. Mary parish
died at his home Monday the 3lst OF
March. His remains were brought here
Tuesday and inferred in the Catholic
cemetery. Mr.. Deladrox was native OF
this parish and almost all his family
still reside here. A large number OF
friends and relatives followed his re.
mains to their last resting place. We
tender our sympathies to the family.
We acknowledge receipt of an ele-
giant invitation to the marriage of Miss
Marie Aimee, the accomplished daughter
of our esteemed Assessor, Mr.. S. Y. Mar
tin, of this place, and Mr.. +. +. Palms, a
wealthy anu prominent citizen of Detroit,
Mich. This event will take place at the
Catholic church in st. Martinville, on
Saturday the 18th instant, at half past
nine o'clock in the morning.
The st. James Courier is amused at
the efforts of some people to carry water
on both shoulders by praising Gov. Nj
chOlls for refusing and Mayor Shakespeare
and the police juries for accepting the
lottery donation. Our contemporary be-
lieves that an obligation follows the ser
vice, not the intermediary, and it fails
to see how the people can be under less
obligation in receiving money through
the Mayor and police juries than they
would have been had the money come
through the hands of the Governor. But
logic and consistency are hardly to De ex-
pected where game of politics is being
played.-City Item.
"A Lafayette special to the Picayune,
lated March 81 says: A negro was kill
ed last night near BrOussardville by Mr..
Martial Billaud, one of our most extern
'ive and enterprising farmers. It ap-
pears that the negro, Louis Green, had
'een to Broussardville during the even
ng, in company Of several of his kind,
md had indulged too freely in bad whis-
KY. Returning home he became invol-
'ed in an alteration with the proprie-
or, Mr.. Billaud, who shot him with a
lOuble-barreled shotgun. Death ensued
n few hours.
The cOroner's jury returned a vercict
# justiflable homicide.
During the alteration Mr.. Billaud's
laughter bravely shielded her father un-
il he realized the murderous intention
4 the negro, who. by the way, had
cry unsayOry reputation and stood in
icted for a heinOus crime.
"A lady who was summoned as a wit
less before court in Philadelphia, was
worm by the clerk but refused to kiss
he Bible when ordered to do so on the
round that the book had been pressed
y so many ringers and lips that the
Overing was filthy. The judge examin-
d the Bible and declared that the lady
vas right. The average court Bible be-
ONES by constant use as dirty and
reasy as the hand-strap in a street car
nd therefore any witness who declines
D kiss it should be promptly excused un-
ess it has been freshly washed and fu
ligated. The.fact of the matter is the
ustOn of kissing the Bible is a senseless
ne and should be abolished. All that is
ecessary when an oath is administered
D a witness Is to have him raise his
ight hand to heaven. That simple act
ignifes to the dullest mind that the
ath is being taken in the sight of God
nd is token of the sincerity of the wit
ess. No judge who has any dellcacy or
efnement could insist on witness kiss.
ng book no matter how holy it may be,
pom which has been laid the filthy and
iseased lips Of persons stepped in degra-