St. Landry democrat., 1891-06-20
News Items.
Jos. K. Emmett, the actor, ia dead.

A man living near Carencro owns
hog that weighs an even 1000 pounds,
= Over one hundred persons were kille
IN railroad accident in Switzerland O
l. the 14th.
A State convention of the Farmer
- Alliance will be held in Lafayette j
9 August. WV
Twen ty- five of the county Alliance
/. IN Kansas have already repudiated tn
third party.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois. is men
toned as probable Republican candi
date for president.
Y Maj. VIM. Mckinley, author of th
present tariff law, is the Republican
, canldate for governor of Ohio.
Baton Rouge will have special deliv
cry lnaugurated next month, it's post
office receipts being over $4,000.
The police jury of Ascension parish
have reduced parochial taxes from ter
to nine mills, without curtailing appro.
priations.
Hon. o. B. Steele, Auditor of Public
Accounts, is mentioned as q probable
Democratic candidate for governor next
year.
Mrs. DR.. L. G. Richardson, of New
Orleans, has donated one hundred
thousand dollars towards building new
quarters tor the medical department of
Tulane University.
In response to a pressing invitation.
Hon. ". 5: Parkerson, of New Orleans,
he OF March IA notoriety, has consented
to deliver an Grafton at Bloomington,
ILL.,, on the 4th of July.
The Louisiana State University and
A. and NJ. College of Baton Rouge will
lnaugurate commencement exercises
| "Wednesday, July /, and continue to
July 8: An excellent programme is ar
ranged for the occasion and the affair
will wind up with hop.
N. o. States, June 13: The Colorado
conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church met yesterday at Denver, and
its first act was to drop from the mem
bership of the church the notorious ex-
evangelist, Sam Small, whose plnnder-
ing of the treasury of the Methodist
University of Utah has aroused the in
dlgnatlOn of the members of that
church in all sections of the country.
N. o. States: 1t is quite probable that
the baccarat scandal will soon occupy
the attention of Parliament, and the |
chances are the Prince of Wales will |
share some of the disgrace beaped on |
Sir VIM. Gordon Cumming, by being
compelled himself to retire from the |
army. The radical and liberal mem |
bers of the House of Commons, it ap-
pears, are getting ready to make it
warm for the Prince Of Wales.
The New Delta is strangely silent on
the slaughterhouse bribery cases, and
has mo editorial comments on two
changes in the personnel of the Board of
Health made by the governor, nor any
suggestions as to changes that ought to
be made by the anti-lottery league and
alliance on the same score. The soiled
doves are of its own flock. II they had
then ?-Baton Rouge Advocate.
There have been some changes sug-
gested at West Point which will, no
doubt, be adopted. 1t is proposed to
double the number of cadets, and for
to appoint one every two
years instead of four, and that instead
OF making a cadet go to the expense of
travelling all the way from California or
Texas to stand his examination, that
his fate be decided by an examination
conducted by the local school authori-
ties under the supervision of an army
O. States. !
The heir apparent to the throne of the
British Empire, who is liable at any
to be king, travelling about the
country with kit of gamblers tools,
ust as a plebian blackleg might be
to do, is terrible reproof to
he loyal BIitisher. The baccarat !
scandal is another nail in the coffin of
'oyalty, and indicates that what has
heretofore been considered the halo !
lround the Lords annointed was only
he emorescence of moral depravity.- I
Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Cafery refinery made about 1893 :
pounds Of sugar per ton of cane, and a
he average juice extraction was s5 per
ent. This is the most effective roller q
'rOcess in Louisiana. Per contra, the T
Infusion plant at Magnolia plantation 1
made 215 pounds of sugar per ton and =
xtracted SO per cent OF the juice. The 8
cost of each is not stated, y
ut it will be seen that the results from :
illusion are much higher-in fact, al y
lost perfect. The next seasons work T
t these two great refneries will fur !,
her prove the respective merits of the :, ~
wO processes.
The game of baccarat, now attr acting i
ONE attention on account of the great Al
,ondon scandal in which the Prince of 8,
Wales is mixed up, resembles the we'll ii
nown game of vingt et ue or twenty o.
ne. 1t is played with ordinary cards, +.
ealt around the board, and the object m
{ each player is to hold cards making "
le numbers 8, 10, 80, or as nearly those b.
) possible, bat not more. In all other q
aspects it is virtually the game of
tWenty-one. 1t will thus be seen
lat his royal nibs was not engaged in y,
very elevating amusement, but only a =,
ebeian pastime under a somewhat y;
tic name "a
n. O States; Maxim, the American, ri
ho invented the greatest machine gun D;
lat the world has ever seen, and who q,
nited States government, disposed of as
in England and realized a fortune, ia
now at work on what he calls q mill az
ry flying machine, which is to be used re
the time of war in the destruction W
the enemy's strongholds by scoot- tll
q through the air and dropping thous- y1
ids of pounds of dynamite into cities III
I'd forts. Maxim's workshop Ia locat- w.
aE Keut, England, and he says he W.
sure that his machine will be sue ma
IS. or
The st. Bernard Voice thinks that in
ose gentlemen who have remained 90
re and undefiled in politics during is
9 twenty-five years of the lottery in pa
,uisiana, having themselves so i'm to
aculately escaped its contaminatiDg ha
anences, ought to be charitable Ia
ough to concede that some other peo- go
) may also not have been utterly 10
in their morals by an influ- OF
ce that operated about equally on all pc
sses of people. II the lottery left ro
lftitude of political saints in the cur W.
1t calendar, why should it be infer Of
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