St. Landry democrat., 1891-01-31
News Items.

Alaska wants delegate in Congress
kossuth is eishty-four years old, fee
bic, poor, and sad hearted.
Shrevepo,t's cotton receipts to Janh,
ary "A amounted to 49, bales.
The cotton compress at Monroe has
squeezed about 81 900 bales this season.
The Town of Lake Charles is enjoy
ing ripe Strawberries, raised by Mr.. A.
NJ. Mayo.
Millet the famous French painter and
sculptor, died last week in Paris, aged
seventy-fve.
A venerable Lafayette darkey, known
as Coco, died in that town last week =,
aged l1S years.
| There are now several feet of water
against the new Nita levce, and the
river is rising rapidly.
Major S. L. James has made an ad-
vance payment of $4,000 for his peni-
tentiary lease for 1891.
The Carencro Sporting Club has had
handsome steam yacht built for cruises
on the Gulf and nayous.
The Supreme Court of the State set
tied the courthouse question in Bossicr
parish by locating it at Benton.
The farmers Of Lafourche are plant
ing lI1>h potatoes and expect to send
100000 barrels to the early markets.
The Ayoyeles parish papers saw moth
ing about the black fever" which was
SAID to be prevailing in that parish.
1t is estimated that 100000 negroes
LETT the Southern, for the Eastern and
Western States during the past year.
The Firemcn's Charitable Association
OF Baton Rouge is in tlourishng con-
dltlon, with net available cash assets
of :,12S5.
The b z sugar crop Of Lafourche par
lsh makes business PROSPEROUS, and
every man who has worked has money
in his pocket
Judge john T. Labelling. ex-Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Louis
ana, died in Ouachita parish last week
at the age Of 81 years.
A floating sawmill, or rather sawmill
plant on steamboat, is one Of the new
industrial enterprises of MOnrOe. 1t
came from Memphis.
\ number OF planters in Red river par
lsh have sent to North Carolina for la
hOrcTs. They expect about 100 in the
cOul ST or Tie next two weeks.
Alexandria Town Talk: The colorcd
people in Cheneyville ward have erected
a nice, two story building, on Bayou
BOeuf, at Cheney vile, which will be used
tor school purposes.
The town of Marksvilie will celebrate
Mard Gras in good style, with day |
light procession Of chariots aud floats, |
and grand ball at night, at which the !
OF queen of the carnival !
will take place. |
Alexandria Times: The Provenzanos, !
with shooting into Il vehicle .
containing a number Of the Metranga !
pa'iy, last May, have been acquitted. |
Is this acqulttal a toIeruuncr OF what ,
we may expect 10 the Hennessey case !
The MorgaDZa lcvee contractors have |
bullt dixie across the washed out canal !
that leads to the new levee, in order to
protect their work from the encroaching
waters. The llver is rising alarmingly
fast and threatens further interference.
The New Iberia Enterprise reprints
from Kansas aud other Western news
papers several articles written by mem
Oers OF the recent editorial excursion
Oarty to the 1eChe country. All these
articles ale highly eulOgistlc of that
section of Louisiana, its soil.
climate, people and many advantages to
rome seekers, and ought to result in
giving fresh impetus to immigration
n that direction.-N. O. Times Dem
)crat.
A new process Of COMPRISING cotton,
which is claimed will be a boon to cot
on planters" has been invented at Gal
7eston. The cotton, it seems, is COM
pressed by rollers as it comes from the
gin and condenser, making sort of
compact cotton batting, and the final
PRESSURE is simply to consolidate or
lose up these layers. The new process,
f successful, will dispense with the COM
PRESSING of bales at central points and
esult in a saving of freight and expense
# handling.