St. Landry democrat., 1891-02-07
News Items.

IN switzerland.
3 Baton Rouge is getting up centra
sugar factory boom.
Sophia Johnson, Baton Rouge ne,
gress, died recently, aged 115 years.
Alexander Smith has been appointed
as the postmaster of Baton Rouge.
Emperor William of Germany cele-
brated his thirty-second birthday Tues
day.
> The Falk oil we'll in Lafayette parish
is flowing freely, and yields oil of high
l grade.
The pioneer street car line of Alexan-
drla will be completed and running cars
this week.
The Supreme Court has recognized
the constitutonality of the act creating
the parish of Troy.
A movement is Thoroughly organized
for the establishments of a central sugar
factory near Houma.
Mr.. F. NJ. Welch is briskly engaged
in organizing an Agricultural Fair AS
sOclatlOn at Alexandria.
Tie venerable Mrs. Marie Louise De-
Clouet, widow of Gen. A. DeClouet, died
recently at Lafayette.
There is a bill now pending to abolish
the last and only turnpike toll road
in the State of Connecticut.
Congressman Coleman is trying to get
| congress TO establish a fish hatchery
somewhere in the gulf waters of Loui-
| siana.
a committee has been formed at
! Hamburg to receive 90, 900 Jews. en- route
to Brazil, who have been expelled from
Russia.
! Several hundred heads of fine cauli-
flowers were raised this season by Gen.
| Dudley Avery in his garden on Petite
| Anse plantation.
The new courthouse Mt Abbevile was
completed last week and turned over to
the parish. 1t tbs handsome brick struc-
ture, and cost $4,000.
A solid bed of good coal has been
struck on Mr.. Falk's place in LAFAYETTE
parish. Another proof of the wonder
ful mineral resources of Louisiana.
Jas. S. Richardson, tue big cotton
planter, is to be king of the carnival this |
year, aud his queen will be Miss Bessie
Behan, daughter of Gen. W. j. Behan.
A movement is going on to build a |
Methodist Church at Welsh. Mr. Col |
man ID. Wesh of that place, has kindly |
donated the land on which to erect it.
An artesjan we'll at Monroe, on the |
Houston, Central Arkansas and North
ern Railroad property, is $50 feet deep
and flows os40 gallons OF water day.
A ProgressiveL League was organizedin
Hahnvllle, St. Charles parish, last Tues
day, and $50 members, all farmers,
signed the roll.-St- Tammany Farmer,
Jan. 81.
Archbishop Janssens has ordered the
erection Of new Catholic church in
Donaldsonyille. This is the outcome
of the recent trouble in church affairs
in the parish.
St. Tammany Farmer: The splendid
generalship displayed by Senator Cor
man in conducting the fight against the
force bill has won him a host of admir-
ers IN the Democratic party, and bis
name Is now being mentioned in con-
necion with the Presidency.
A writer in the Liverpool Mercury as
SertS that the worst case of small Dox
can be cured in three days by the use of
cream of tartar. An ounce to be dis
solved in pint Of water to be drank at
intervals when cold. This is pronounc-
ed to be never failing remedy.
Attakapas Vindicator: The Shreve-
port Caucasian admits that intemper-
ance does more to ruin men and bring
degradation on their families than all
the lottery gambling one could indulge
n. But that same paper opposes the
ottery and favors the whisky traffic.
Such conclusions must either be based
IN a lack OF Judgment or pure mean
ness.
N. 0. City Item: The terrible "black
ever" which ragged near Big Bend. L
Avoyelles parish, and 80 greatly alarm L
ID the surrounding country, is no more. V
80, also, are sixteen persons Give adults r
n one family who were stricken with d
t. When the people of the vicinity, /
Who had run out Of cistern water, stop Il
,ed drinking the poisonous contents of I
N old we'll, the malady disappeared. S
James Gordon Bennett proposes to 4
rect of stone and iron "a story busi-
ess house in New York, to be used by
he Herald and others, at cost Of !.
bout five million dollars. A hall, to Q
old 5000 people, will be in the build 3
ng. 1t will be 400 feet high 1t will be o
he greatest business building in the y
World and have all the modern im- u
rovements and appliances known to i i
nan.
When Senator elect from the State of il
Iansas, and that senator-elect success b
or of the hydrophobic Ingalls,, says 81 W
'ould like to see the Mckinley bill torn S
D pieces" and adds, "The race issue is O.
Or the Southern people to settle among cl
it is time for the President tt
} issue proclamation setting aside a.
,me happy day for national thanks 81
living. Benny, SEQ to this.-kansas II
ity Times, Dem. 81
The Lake Charles American makes a IL
)mewhat Ridiculous boast that "tlle
lsane asylum of this State has never
cen kept up by lottery money" More's sa
le pity, for if it had larger revenue it sa
)uld take better care of the unfortu- ia
ates and fewer of them would be left to al
nguish in parish jails. The Charity N
ospital has had lottery money for over c.
yenty years, and it has been great II
esslng and relief to sick and suffering er
o. Times Democrat. of
Washington Star: 1t was yesterday III III
ternoon. The house was in it's wild ~
It turmoil. lmpotent rage, uugentle- r.
anly English and unparliamentary -,
anners were holding high carnival. Fl
man sat in the gallery looking down ~ u,
ION it all and weeping. A kindly ~, ~
'igbbor touched him on the shoulder. ia i;n
g looked Up. Its nothing much," he H. ~
Id, brushing the tears away, Pm a ~