St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-06-06
News Items.


The Chiiian steamship Itata was de-
livered to the American Warshlps at
1quique on the 4th.
Senator J. 3. Eustis has been ap-
pointed commissioner to Europe Of the
Worlds Fair, and will soon sail.
A prominent merchant of Bastrop es-
Inmates that Morehouse parish VIII nave
spent $3.50, 900 for corn and oats by the
end of the present season.
The Catholics of Monroe have decided
to build a $4,000 church edificc. The
structure will be of brick and stone, and
will have a stately tower $50 feet high.
Judge Baker, of New Orleans. charg-
ed the new grand jury on the 4th that
it was their duty to indict the guilty
parties in the slaughter house scandal.
as they can be punished under section 7
of act Sc OF 1873.
In our exchanges We notice occasion
ally that arrests are made for cruelty
to animals. A few arrests, prosecu-
tions and convictions in this parish for
cruelty to animals would have a whole
some effect Claiborne Guardian.
Crop reports from Texas indicate
that the grain crop of 1891 will be the
largest ever produced in the Lone Star
State. The estimated value of the
wheat crop is placed at $10000,000 and
the oat crop at S;7,000,000
The Colfax Chronicle thinks that
now, since ex-Secrctary Strong has been
pardored, eff the gentlemen whose
friendly impositions were the direct
cause of Mr.. Strons's defalcatiou will
chip in and pay his fine, they will par
TALLY mitigate the trouble they have
given"
The contractor for the new buildings
at the State Insane Asylum at Jackson
states that the work is being rapidly
pushed to completion. The three story
brick annex will he completed next
week. 1t will have ninety-six bed
rooms with a wide ball running through
Oh each floor.
1--WE have too much confidence in
the good Judgment of our people,"
says the Madison Journal, "to believe
that they will reject this opportunity
i. e., the adoption OF the revenue
amendment-to secure perfect and
permanent system of levees and a
school system second to none"
Gretna Courier, May 30: The back
water is falling at the rate Of two
inches every twenty four hours, and if
this rate keeps up it will require only
il couple of weeks to carry it ont Of
of no sickness caused by the water or
by the sediment deposited in the houses
by il, but it is very probable that q
number CT cases of fever will yet be re-
ported as resulting from it.
graduated four ladies in New Orleans.
The business is started and profess
ional nurses for pay will soon be cs-
tabiished in business in New Orleans.
A bout the only trained nurses hereto
fore were the religious order of Cath
Ollie nurses, who devote their lives to
this occupation for the love of God.
They nursed from charity and are very
efficient but not sufficiently numerous.
Lake Charles Echo.
N. o. States: 1t is understood that if
the Attorney General acted on the ad-
Gov. Nichols, contidentially, the names
of those members of the Board of
Health who were connected with the
slaughterhouse scandal, it must have
been touching to see the Attorney Gen
eral telling tho Governor something
that the whole city knew weeks ago.
N. @. City Item One of the morning
papers confirms the current street re-
port that the two unnamed members
of the Health Board whom the grand
Holloway, one of the moral" lights
of the anti-lottery league, and T. A.
Clayton, moral" member of the
"anti" State committee and chief lee
turer of the Farmers Union for the
First Congressional District, by recent
appointment of State Agricultural
Commissioner L. s. Adams. 1t ia also
alleged that Clayton drew up the cor
rupt agreement to have the Board of
Health confirm the new slaughter house
ordinance on condition that the pro-
moters gave up" three-eighths of the
stock in exchange for the necessary
votes. And such are the "moral !"
guides in the anti camp!
The Baton Rouge Advocate in COM
menting on an article in the Shreve-
port Caucasian, noting the conviction
and sentence of "Elbogen, the procurer
for Shoenhansen & Co.'S dives in
that he had no political influence in
New York" and that Shoenhausen
g. Co. still defy the authorities in New
Orleans and thus the dives flourish in
all their glitter" calls that journals at
tention to the fact that not "a single
member of the last Legislature whose
name is borne on the anti-lottery roll
of honor voted against the 'recharter'
of these dives in New Orleans, and if
they now flourish in all their glitter
that fact is due to the kindly favor of
men who went into spasms of virtue at
the mere mention of lottery ticket"