St. Landry democrat., 1891-09-19
News Items.

News Items.
The artcsian we'll at Hammond has
been completed at a cost Of $170.S0.
A new switch is being constructed at
Crowley to better handle tho large rice
crop that is expected there this coming
season.
There are at present twenty-five pa
pers in Kansas edited by women: These
ladies all have the reputation OF being
brilliant writer's.
The annual session of the ColOred
Farmers State alliance Vas held in
Shreveport last week. IWenty-seVen
| parishes were represented.
Work on the cathedral at Natchi-
tocles is progressing very satisfactorily.
When completed this place OF worship
will be one of the finest in the State.
A man who can ride successfully can
get his plice. On the race course much
depends on the Jockey and the owners
of the flyers know it. A New York
Jockey has been offered $4,000 for 1892.
New Orleans, La, Sept. 10-The cot
ton crop has deteriOrated several points
in Louisiana and represents not
over 81 or 90 per cent. of last years crop,
promising a prospective yield OF 53o,O0O
bales.
Alexandria Town Talk The wolk on
the Houston Central Arkansas & North
ern Railway bridge, which is being
erected across Red River, about one
mile above the mouth of Bayou Ra-
pides, is getting along very well.
A Texas lawyer gave certain intorma~
ton to his local newspaper about a GER
tain lady, aud after the newspaper
printed il lie brought suit in the name
of the lady, as her attorney, claiming
damages OF 100000 for libel.
News of a terrible calamity comes
from Spain-tlie result of devasting
storms and floods in various portions of
the country. Official information from
the Providence of Toledo places the
loss of life at 1000 and reports Immense
destruction of property.
Alexandria Town Talk Mr.. T. l.
Palmer, of Lake Charles, the General
Manager of the Kansas City, Watkins
& Gulf Railroad Co., informed US that
about 54 miles Of track las already
been laid. and enough steel is OF hand
to track 90 miles more
n. O. City Item: The citizens OF
Kockport and Corpus Christi, Texas
evidently have faith iii the artificial
rain theory. They have raised $4,000 to
continue the experiments, and Gen
Dyreniorth and party will begin opera.
tons IN the Gulf coast within the next
ten days.
The Clinton Watchman, which was
among the first to endorse Mr.. Adams
for governor, has a call for Il democrat
ic mass meeting of oil who are opposed
to the Lafayette combine. There ATE
a number of signers to the call, among
them two members of the parish exccu-
tive committee.
The peripatetic PETER hopes to PETER
ize the South, and in his paper, the Kan.
sas Farmer, says: "1t the alliance
should fail in everything else it pro-
poses, and should succeed in breaking
up the Solid South by absorbing
majority of tie democratic votes of that
section, it will deserve the everlasting
gratitude of the whole nation. 1t will
have accomplished what the managers
Of time and several million dollars in
vain to do, and 10y so doing demonstrate
its greater potency as a political diplo-
mat
The Lake Charles Echo calls the
Anti politicians to task in the following
forcible language. 1t saysi
Away with all this rot OF the i'm
mense harm the lottery ia doing
Take off your mask, gentlemen of tue
opposition, aud fight it like men, not
like highway robbers. Yon know that
it is all fabrication, that alleged harm
the lottery is doing. luu know we'll
that this institution which proposes to
~nr q ~favir IirurSn nf Z ON Mn RI 70 yrs
its evenue from all over the country
in quantities so slight and insignificant
that 1T is impossible to tell whence they
come. You know you cannot cite a
single instance of the ruin and poverty
it has wrought. You know that your
talk about it robbing, the 'unsuspicious
pool and ignorant is so much rot
You know from the ticket you are car
ryiEg in your pocket at this very mo-
ment that the none comes from a
source that can we'll afford to pay it
You know that, like Richard the Third
the mouth is reading one text and the
heart another-a very sinister and base
one. Now, as a matter Of fact, dom
you know, you glorious bevy Of practi'
cal politicians, you are not making your
threats ioarse in the cause OF morality
for nothing. Don't you know that YOU
would not be arraylng yourselves sc
fiercely on the side Of morality al
struggling for the first place, if there
wasn't something in it for youq Dc
you think the people are blind? Do yor
think they have watched your varie-
gated patriotism and doubtful saintli'
ness through all these years to no pur'
pose? Don't you suppose they know
as we'll as you do the amount of harm
or the amount of good the lottery is do
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