The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-03-01
Local News.

llt poilCc july duu toWu Oouheh
meet Monday.
Curtain poles and window shades at
Labbe's, cheap! cheap! cheap!
New Iberia has board of trade
which was organized last week..
Come and see the wall paper you can
buy at t. j. Labbe's for s cents per sim
gle roll.
Business is beginning to be dull and
the town does not show the activity of
few weeks ago.
We thank Hons. Andrew Price and
R. L. Gibson for public documents sent
to the Messenger.
Work was begun on the steel cells
in our Jail this week and will be cOmplet-
ed in about ten days.
The steamer Linnie Boy passed here
Sunday morning with two barges loaded
with lumber for Arnaudvllle.
Twenty two citizens of Lafayette
parish were indicted by the grand jury
last week. They are all regulators.
Sheriff Gardemal was invited to a
dinner given at Breaux Bridge Thursday
by the officers of the fourth and fifth
wards.
Several gentlemen of this town and
from New Iberia had dinner at the
Castillo hotel here last Sunday, and had
most enjoyable time.
Halls Hair Renewer eradicates and
prevents the formation of dandruff, thic-
kens the growth, and beauties the hair
as no other preparation will.
The girls of this town have a fancy
for red calico; Wednesday evening after
prayer we counted Is of them dressed in
red. What does this mean?
We direct the special attention Of
our readers to the card in another col
umn of Mr.. |. A. Bell, Master of the
steamer Linnic Boy engaged in the Teche
trade and jObbing.
John Jacob Astor, the New York mil
liOnaire died suddenly at his residence at
4 o'clock in the morning of Saturday the
22d of February, of heart failure.
There are at present four small steam
boats and several flats employed in the
trade between New Iberia and Arnaud-
Vile, and they seem to be doing good
business.
Our young men speak Of organizing
brass band. which is greatly in need
in this place. Let them have all the
encouragement necessary to affect this
organization.
Chicago has been selected as the site
of the Worlds fair to be held in 1892. af-
ter hard fight. The cities in the fight
to secure the fair were, Chicago, st. Louis
New York, and Washington.
We are pleased to announce that DR..
Culkin who was seriously sick the past
week, Is better and will in the course of
few days, we hope, be able to attend
to the callings Of his profession.
-Messrs. Felix VOOrhies and c. II. MOu-
ton attended court in Lafayette this week,
in the interest of the young men of this
town who are charged of interfering
with the last municipal election in that
town.
We had a visit this week from our
good and jovial friend, j. o. Bourdier of
Breaux Bridge. Mr.. Bourdier has been
appointed justice of the Peace for the
fourth ward of st. Martin parish vice j.
A. Domengeax, resigned.
-"All signs fair-except pimples and
blotches. These meyer fail to indicate
an impure condition of the blood, which
may be thoroughly cleansed and renew.
ed by the use of Ayers SarsapariIla
The most efficacious and economical OF
blood purifiers.
The two little negro boys who struck
Mr.. Henry Berges Thursday evening last
were brought before Mayor Harrison
Friday morning and fined ten dollars
We are informed that beside the fine i'm
passed by the Mayor, they We're given a
good whipping by their parents.
|. The States says: The double bab!
(which was heralded all over the worlt
as the curiosity of Buffalo, n. Y, is dead