St. Landry democrat., 1891-02-14
News Items.

, The Louisiana Chautauqua has casl
fund OF $500 on hand from subscrip
tons to date.
The Calcasieu police jury has remit
ted parish taxes on the Kansas City
Watkins and Gulf Railroad.
The statement is made that England
has lost three hundred million dollar!
in South American investments.
With one exception all the fruit can
ners in California formed a trust Will
S5,0O0,0O0 capital, to last for fifty years
The first digging began last week Oh
the lake 'front.' opposite Harrison street
Chicago, in connection with the Worlds
Fair.
\ movement is on foot to finish
dredging Bayou PlaquemiDe, so as to
open navigation. 1t is hoped that the
work will be pushed forward.
A New Orleans white convict named
John Hessian escaped from camp, went
to see his sick mother, and, after she
got well he returned to the pententiary
! to serve out his term.
Blind Tom is dying of consumptjon.
and 100000 which lie earned bv his
skill as a pianist has mysteriously dis
appeared, leaving him as a pauper in
mate of a lunatlc asylum.
The question that is just now aeita-
ting the minds of the Worlds Fair di-
| rectors is how to raise that additional
| S5,0OO,0OO required to make the fair a
success. Nothing less than S15 200, 900
will fill the bill.
The City Item says that the people of
HOuma have gone to work in a practical
way to raise the 100000 capital for
their central sugar retinery-by can
vassing for stock subscriptions among
the nelghborlng farmers.
The man who checkmated Hoar at
almost every move, and defeated Ifar-
rlSon at last, was German, of Mary land
and i'll his manner of doing it he gave
as fine an example of parliamentary
leadership as has been seen in this
country tor generation.-Boston Her
aid, Ind.
Crowley Signal: On Wednesday, Jan.
%, Mr. Wesley F. Stakes died at his
home in the Roberts Cove neighbor-
hood, OF Brlght's disease. Mr.. Stakes
was member of the Methodist church,
justice OF the peace, a useful man in his
community and highly esteemed citi-
zen OF Acadia parish.
n. States Senator Sherman saws
that the Farmers Alliance movement
will blow over in 1892. Yes, but not un-
til it has blown the Republican party
over. That rlcketty old concern was
made decidedly shaky by the political
gale of November last but there will
not be anything of it left after the great
blow in 1892.
The Sioux Indians who have gone to
Washington to see President Harrison
will be astonlshed when they are usher
ed into the presence of the Great Father
to tind that he is very small of stature
and his legs shaped like pair of hams,
and when they return to their home in
the West they will have much to say
about the Little Chief with the Big
Paunch.-N. o. States.
n. 0. Daily States: Now that the
force bill Is as dead as picked her
ring, we take pleasure in informing the
Inter Ocean that the Southern States
will attend the Worlds Fair and do all
they can to make it a bowling success.
Liberal appropriations will be voted by
the State Legislatures, and every effort
will be made to have tie exhibition Of
Southern products complete, and to
make them take a place among the
great attractions OF the Fair.
Canada is no small dominion. Its
area Is estimated at $4,000 square
miles, not including its water surface. |
1t constitutes 40 per cent of the whole |
British empire, which has a total area !
of eight million square miles. 1t lacks |
only $4,000 square miles of being as |
large as the continent of Europe, aud is
100000 square miles larger than the |
United States, exclusive of Alaska.
Elections of United State Senators by
the people would, at least, put an end to
the interminable balloting that has SO
often to be carried on in the Legisla
lures when a Senator is to be chosen,
1t would also keep the country from be-
ing shocked by statements of those
members of the Legislatures who an
nounce that attemps have been made to
bribe them.-Louisville Courier Jour-
nal.
N. 0. City Item Another Progress
i've League" has been organized in Liy-
ngston parish, this time in the sixth
ward, and the sturdy farmers of that
section show that they have "no non
sense about them." Senator Amacker
was roundly denounced for voting
against submitting the lottery amend
nent to the people and Representative
Settoon endorsed for supporting that
public measure. The outra-
yeous and undemocratic anti-lottery
aw was titly scored.
n. O. States According to the dis
patches this morning q test was made
at Chicago, of the Penning-
on air ship, and those who were pres
mt declared that the test was success
n every respect. If this report is true
We would not be surprised in the course
# few years to see the sky dotted
With air ships sailing in all directions at
speed greater than that of carrier
pigeon, and that the railroads will be-
ome obsolete just as the old fashion
tage coach is to-day. II we have the
telephone why not the air ship.
Crowley Signal: Mr.. "Coco" Richard
lied at his residence in Coul6e Croche.
N the Goth ult. after many days of ex-
1uciating suffering. A few days before
lis death, while in the enjoyment of ex-
client health, he was covering bouse,
nd, in some way lost his footing and in
alliDg stuck nail in his eye. Violent
Inflammation supervenedlin in the destroy
d member and nothing but death re-
ieved the terrible agony of the unfortu-
ate man. Mr.. Richard was one of the
nost prosperous farmers of Coul6e
,roche and leaves widow and child
o mourn his untimely loss.
Baton Rouge Advocate The Woman's
Temperance Union publishes
ver it's own signature several little +,
paragraphs in the Arcadia Herald bear
ng on current topics, and among them