The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-03-14
Local News.

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leans was in town Sunday.
The weather the past week has been
damp, cloudy and very disagreable.
Tomorrow evening the firemen will
make trial of Evangeline and will also
test the hose.
The water has about entirely retired
from Cypress Island, but the roads in
that section are very rough.
Another cold wave struck this town
Sunday morning. but no ice was report
ed in this section.
Father All. Bacciochi is on a visit
to his friends in his former home, New
Roads, Pointe Coupee parish.
We are informed that the Messrs.
RObicheaux on both sides Of the bayou,
have commenced planting rice.
DIR. L. Culkin is lying in bed criti-
cally i'll. we hope however, that he will
pull through this spell of sickness.
The steam engine Evangeline will
soon be placed in the Market house, to
the great satisfaction of our people.
When in need of any printing come
and see the samples we have and get
our prices, they will surely suit you.
Mr.. Henry Walters, grand chaplain
of the Knights Of Honor: left for New
Orleans, Sunday, to attend the meeting
Of the grand lodge which met there
this week.
In four trips the steamer Expert
ment took 997 bales OF cotton from
Arnaudville. a few days since. and yet.
the Teche is reported unworthy of i'm
prOvement.
There is not single brick for sale
in this town at this time; /: seems to us
that there would be money in a brick
yard IL properly conducted and good
brick be made.
The great John L. Sullivan gave an
exhibition at New Iberia Sunday last,
and large was the number of our people
who went there just to look at the heavy
weight champion pugilist Of the world.
st. Martin is one of the few parishes
which have no Farmers Alliance, is ii
not strange that the Farmers of this
parish have not as yet taken any stey in
organizing branch of that associat ion
in our midst.
$50 envelopes with your business
card printed on for the small sum of
One dollar; they are loosely packed in a
box, and will not stick in damp wea-
tner. Call at this Office. Also the very
hest linen note paper printed in elegant
city style for only $2.15 per half ream
put up in elegant tablets with blotter
cover.
Mr.. Carlos Olivier will plant about
90 acres of rice on the COrmier plantation
near grand ,marais. Before long all
those lands on the west side Of the bayou
known as the black land. will be plant
ed in rice, and will no doubt give ex-
cpllant results, as 1t seems well adapted
for the cultivation Of that crop, which
is made with very little trouble and ex
pense.
The state evidence In the Henessey
case has been very strong and direc,
against several Of the Italians who art
on trial now, some Of the witness hav,
seen them fire at the chief and recOgniz
ed the parties who did the shooting. AM
they are those on trial. But now th'
witnesses of the defense come before tn,
jury and swear that at the time tina
those parties were seen committing thi
horrible crime, that they were elsewhere
most of the witnesses for the defense ar
Italians, what weight will be given t
the evidence of either side remains to b
seen. One of the Italians. POLITE is still
playing crazy.
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