St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-05-02
News Items.

Won Moltke, the great German gener
al, is dead, aged 80.
Garland NJ. Dees, a prominent citizel
of Lake Charles, died last Friday.
Nearly eight million dollars suga
bounty will be paid to the Louisiana
planters.
The sale of pews of the Abbevill,
Catholic Church on Easter Sunday net
ted $2936.
The Grand Lodge knights of Pythia!
will meet in Shreveport May 10 to rs in
elusive.
The commencement exercises of Cen.
tenary College, Jackson, will be held
on May "a.
The Ascension News is the name of q
tri-weekly to be published at Donald
sonville.
East Feliciana is making extensive
preparations for its fair, which will open
next month.
The mansard roof is now beiug plac-
ed on the new Calcasieu courthouse.
When completed it will be one of the
handsomest public buildings in the
State.
All the material necessary in the con-
struction of the United States govern
ment building at Monroe has arrived,
and the work will be rapidly pushed to
completion.
A. d. Won KalcksteiD has in use Oh
his rice farm the first steam plow ever
operated in Lafayette parish. 1t turns
over ten acres day.
Nearly 1900 carloads of rice were
shipped from Acadia parish the past
season. The acreage this year will he
double that planted the previous sea-
son.
The executive committee of the Con-
federate Veterans Association of
North Louisiana have decided on hold
ing the annual reunion at the Fair
Grounds, Homer, on July 2.
The official statements of the receipts
of cotton from Sept. 1, 1890, to April Is,
at the places named are as follows: Ar
cadia, 11,OS1 bales; Minden, 11,057;
Houmer, $4,000; Ruston, 1O,465.
Work on the Chautauqua Taberna-
Gle at Ruston is ranidly progressing:
The framework has been erected and
the roof will be completed this week.
The contractor states that he will have
the building ready to receive the Press
convention which meets in Ruston in
May.
General Will A. Strong, ex-secretary
of state, who, two years and a half ago,
escaped from the courtroom as jury was
coming in with verdict of guilty of the
INSTRUMENTATION of election ticket
money, surprised the Baton Rouge
public last Tuesday morning by walk
ing into the sheriff's office and sur
rendering.
There will not be many negro votes
cast at the next election in Clay county,
Miss. An examination of the records in
the sheriff's Office disclOses the fact
that more than 1000 negroes are disfran-
chised for the next five years through
failure to pay their poll tax. One hun
dredaDd eight white men also failed to
pay up before Feb. and cannot now
vote.
The efforts looking to the establish
ment of the Lafayette High School are
in fair way of being crowned with sue
cess. The City Council last week, in
special session, appropriated $500 for
this purpose, which, with $500 donated
by the Police Jury and the proceeds of
the recent entertainment given by the
Amateur Dramatic Association, aggre-
gates $500. DR.. T. A. Hopkins, gen
erous citizen of Lafayette, has donated
the ground of @ suitable site.
The Farmers Union, of Ouachita, at
their last meeting declared their deter
mination not to support any candidate
for any Office who is not nominated by
majority vote of the legal white voters
at primary election called for that pur-
pose, and that il no candidate receive
a majority of all the votes cast that
second primary election of the legal
white voters shall be Immediately held
between the two leading candidates.
They further recommended that all ap-
pointmeDts by the Governor or other
wise be made on the recommendation of
legal white primaries.
N. q. States, April 25: The Chilian
war has become the most brutal and
bloody of modern times, and the fact
of the matter is, it is little better than
q savage butchery of helpless men, wo-
men and children by fiends drunk with
human blood. 1t is clear to any mind
that the Chilians are race of people |
who are unfit for self government, and
despite the fact that they profess the
Christian religion, they slaughter the
old and the young with the mad fury
of barharians upon the very threshold
Of their magnificent cathedrals, The
accounts of the destruction of life,
which the telegraph brings us daily, are
horrible in the extreme.