St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-28
News Items.

IN las, Tex, to Alexandria.
-; The Franklin ice factory will beg
~ operations next month
The Louisiana Press Association vi
III meet at Ruston on May 90.
Do you want good job work at tt
Is lowest cash price 1t 50, call at til
office.
IS The Review says that Mr.. E. Bas
brought 733 coon skins to Morgan Cit
, last week.
b A big log tloated down the Calcasie
river to Lake Charles mill containe
4455 feet of lumber.
The reunion of Confederate Veteran
OF North Louisiana will be held a
Homer next July.
A Pennsylvania capitalist has Dur
> chased $4,000 acres of forest lands il
Livingston parish.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision OF the lower court in the East
Baton Rouge buildozlng case.
The Illinois Central Railroad will
probably build branch from its maiu
line due west to Baton Rouge.
Alexandria Democrat: Mayor McGin-
his has ordered fifty street lamps from
the Dletz Manufacturing Co.
A telegraph and telephone line is COM
pleted from New Iberia to AbbevilIe,
st. Martin and Breaux Bridge.
The Committee of Agriculture at
Baton Rouge has issued a circular warn
ing against spurious fertilizers.
The fund of S2,5OO,O0O which Mr..
Peabody left for the poor of London,
now amounts to over S5,0O0,00O.
A shipment of twelve barrels of new
crop turpentlne and thirty-two barrels
OF roslu was made last week from St.
Iammany parish.
London and Paris have at last been
connected by telephone, and conyersa-
ton has been carried on with perfect
success between the two cities.
An enthusiastic Shreveport Democrat
sent rabbits foot to Gen. Palmer,
wrapped in ID Times extra announcing
his election to the Senate.
The Avoyelles police jury has con-
tracted with Pittsburg company for
the construction of two iron bridges in |
that parish at cost of $19,400.
A fine central sugar refinery will be |
erected on the Fuseler Home planta-
ton, In st. Mary, now owned by New
York parties, in time for next seasons
crop.
Judge Taylor Beattie of Lafourche is
an applicant tor the position of circuit
judge under the bill for the relief of the
Supreme Court, which recently became
law.
The Chalmette monument, on Andrew
Jackson's historic battle-ground, has
lately been repaired by Col. Edwin
Main, the superintendent, and is now in
excellent condition.
The people of AshvilIe, N. c., which
is not considered very much of a CITY.
Will In May next vote upon a PROPOSE
tlon to issue bonds to the amount of
$780, 900 for street improvements.
The Advocate says that the Baton
Rouge Brick Yard Company has the
largest plant in the South, south of =
Memphis. 1t has an immense capacity
and furnishes employment to eighty
men.
John D. Rockerfeller's bequest of
100000 to the American Baptist Edu-
cation Society, notice of which has inst
oeen received by the Executive Board.
makes S3OO.OO0 in all that be has given
% the same fund.
The Watkins dredgeboat will soon
widen and deepen Bayon Lacassine,
opening it as canal for the drainage
It the Grand Marais. 1t will not only
edeem a large area of land, but i'm
'rove navigation.
The Calcasieu fruit crop promises to :
'e very abundant. Thousands of trees
nd vines have been planted during the
ast few years, and the parish is rapidly
oming to the front as fruit producing
egion.
The Council of Nice, in the year 3a5. /
dopted the rule which makes Easter
ay the first Sunday after the first full
loon after March 81. By this arrange
lent or Things Easter may come as
arly as March %, or as late as April IS.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The police
Try of Avoyelles parish appropriated
1000 from the license revenues to the
ublic schools. Thus the evils of the g
hisky traffic are made to contribute TO
worthy object for the right of ex-
tence.
The we'll sunk by Mr.. Richard Ware th
,r the ice factory is grand success. W
Is capacity was tested last Monday and
lowed 1920 gallons of pure water in XII
hours. The contract called for 25O,- "
10 gallons. The we'll is 16O feet deep. in
Iberville South. n
A merchant at Syracuse, N. Y, Offer pc
young woman twenty yards of silk '"
II dress if she would saw half a cord ru
wood in front of his store. She bor- d!
wed a saw and completed the task in WI
rec hours. The admiring crowd TO
ought her $12 hat to go with the no
'ess. "a "a,
An epidimic of glanders on Mr.. C. w, vi
sruth's plantation in Rapides parish ,
'cessitated the killing of twenty-one ,.,
ules, valued at $1,000, to prevent the 50 sis
read of the disease. Chambers also un cn
peared in Madison parish, but the s,o so
lice jury adopted measures to check "
progress. -. ~
R. X. Lailing, private secretary of tio
I'm A. Morris, has come out on ten M
d Don E. Sorrelle and J. E. Howe, fu,
10 intended to get up big furry and f1e
in an innocent mans name, have loo
en- left. Their little scheme has ex,
en- exploded and the " celebrated" do
ter has been proven to be a forgery, for
.Attakapas 'lndlcator. w,
Times: There is no ques-
n but the action of the citizens of
w Orleans in taking the law in their pla
n hands meets the approval or con- of
nation Of nine-tenths Of the people of cad
8 country as we'll as of those of cor
rope, outside of Italy. Only here and Ins
,re may be found fierce or maudlin -
tor who denounces or weeps over