The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-09-20
state News.

some portions of the State.
New syrup wax on sale in New her
ia last week.
rs CANNES were F'pulled" by the dog
catcher in Algiers last week.
The Point Coupee Democrat reports
the screw worm still on the rampage,
many head o stock having died from
their effect.
The Carroll Democrat reports the
death of two estimable woman of
that town, between sunset Tuesday
and sunrise Wednesday.
A negro by the name of G. Il. SUIT
ton, shipped from Carroll So bales OF
cotton i'll one load. he has 425 acres
of the tiebcs staple.
A dramatic troupe has been organ
ized in Algiers, iy the young ladies
of that town. We think our young
people should organize one too.
Lafayette is to have a rev race track.
The Watkins company has bought
the Huron plantation, in st. Martin
parish, for $4,000.
The Messenger says the Oil Works
at St. Martinsvil1e are paying $26 per
thousand pounds for cotton seed, a
price the planters lind too low, and
many hesitate to sell.
The Vernon News boasts of a FIVE
pound sweet potato, brought to that
Office last week. We win wager Is cts.
that Vermilion can knock that into
a cock-hat /?
According to the Algiers Review, Mr..
H. Willet, Tunisburg, exhibited a fine
specimen of ramie, which he raised and
decorticated and spun into a thread.
1t bears close resemblance to silk, and
is to become a great industry and
source of revenue for the South.
Lake Arthur Herald: The inability
of Southwest Louisiana's scores of saw
Glills to supply to supply the demand
for lumber indicates the amount Of
building being done....E. Desehamps,
-Jr., Of Shell Beach, has bought and
shipped about three thousand pounds
of second-clip wool, during the past
tkree weeks.
Pt. Coupee Democrat: We are hay
ing fine melons for sale in our village
iage, but are indebted to the State of
Georgia for them. We cali the atten
ton of our gardens and truck farmers
to this. II melons from Georgia can
lie sold at a profit in New Roads, GER
tainly it would pay to raise to raise
them where thele are no transportation
and commission charges.
DonaIdsonville Chief. There we're
nineteen prisoners in the parish jail
last Wednesday morning. This week
letter list, burdened with nearly 200
unclaimed Progressive lottery
League" circulars, is unavotdably
crowded out....A brief hailstorm
visited a portion Of st. James parish,
Tuesday before last, ranging from St.
James station on the T. Il P. railroad
across the Fortstall plantation. Hail
stones as large as pigeon eggs descen
ded, but fortunately the shower lasted
only a few moments, and did no appre-
ciable damage. Master Stuart Ham
son was severely injured last Saturday
evening shortly after nightfall. While
riding on horseback up railroad avenue
at a rapid gait he collided with DR..
McGalliard's buggy in the darkness
and the point Of one Of the shafts
passed entirely through tho young
mans right leg, about midway between
the knee and ankle. Fortunately no
bones were broken and the wound,
though painful, is healing nicely. -.
About four weeks ago Mr.. Lawrence
Gautreau, a well known resident of the
New River section of this parish, took
his 6-year-old son into the woods with
him, and while the father was chop
ping down a tree the boy sat on a log
distance off watching the opera
ton. When the tree fell it struck
against. another tree, breaking off all