St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-04-11
News Items.

S The Cooperative Union Store at Le
cOmpte has gone out of business.
, The White Cloud Steam Laundry j
now in operation at Alexan dria.
+ A citizen of Bunkie is shipping mos
and palmetto to Texas towns at gool
profit.
A grand excursion from Lake Charlie
to Opelousas will be given on the 10tl
of May.
A stock company now own the CAT
ferry refinery, and will build railroad
to Abbeville.
The Attakapas Pharmaceutical Asso.
citation met at the City Hall in La.
fayette, La, on Tuesday last.
The Alexandria public schools have
received $3.50 from the Peabody fund
through Hon. w. H. Jack.
A choice site for the proposed new
high school in Lafayette has been do
mated by DR.. T. B. Hopkins.
The new hall of the w. C. T. u, at
Morgan City, was dedicated last week.
1t is the gift of Capt. Pharr.
There has been some loss by injury to
plant cane, but this is offset by the ex-
cellent condition of the stubble.
A large barrel factory, with capital
of $4,000, will be established at Frank
lin, to supply the local demand.
1t is said that the Farmers Union, of
jackson pa ish, propose to nominate "a
candidate for district judge in next years
| election.
The venerable poet, orator and law
! yer, Albert Pike, who has for MANY
years held the highest position in Ma
sonic ranks, is dead.
The track laying crew on the Watkins
Railroad is busy north of Lake Charles.
A tracklaying machine is used, and
work goes on rapidly.
A white insane man named Chenille
Hebert remains in Jail at Donadsonville
because there is no room for him at
present in the Jackson asylum.
The erection of Confederate monu-
ment in Donaldsonvile is being dis
cussed. Mr.. Henry Mccall has started
the subscription with a donation of
$10O.
The damage from the Ames crevasse
will be greater 10 st. James parish than
at first supposed. The entire Vacherie
settlement will probably be over
flowed.
The New Orleans incident, deplorable
as it was, has had at least one pleasing |
effect. 1t has shown that the American |
people are An Anglo-Saxon unit.-Bal-
timOre Herald, Ind.
= Senator Pfeffer, the Alliance repre-
sentative from Kansas, says he will |
work with the Republicans when issues
are involved that do not directly bene-
lit the Farmers Alliance.
Shreveport Caucasian: Rapides par
ish gives $4,000 per annum towards
supporting its public schools. The re-
suit is, that it has better schools and a
longer term than any parish in Louisi-
ana.
The citizens of St. Francisvile pro-
pose to erect monument to the mem
ory of Capt. Chas. G. Toorean, of the
Fourth Louisiana Regiment, who was
killed at Shiloh and buried on the bat
tie field.
The Farnum Land Company's expert
mental farm near New Iberia, will
plant sixty acres of sweet potatoes,
thirty acres each of Irish potatoes and
eight acres of cucumbers
and six acres OF tomatoes this season.
The First Union Baptist Church, COL
ored, at Alexandria, celebrated the ad-
vent of Easter by a foot washing, in
commemoration OF the similar incident
mentioned in scripture. Twelve men
dressed in white sat in a row and Elder
George Washington, arrayed in purple,
washed their feet.
The Farmerville Gazette says there
are two prisoners in the parish Jail, one
sentenced for selling liquor without
license and the other charged with
insanity" Two criminals and one
crime.
A special from Upelousas to the Plea
7une says: John Sonnier, the life con-
7ict, who escaped from the penitentiary
our years ago in company with ex-
chief of Detectives Boasso, died at bis
liding-place in the Nezpique woods.
Sonnier, who had been captured in the
indian Nation by the then sheriff, Du-
on, was convicted Of the murder of one
Iicbel Prudhomme, of this place.
Dominick O'Malley, the notorious de-
ective, who has been keeping very
|uiet ever since the killing of the italian {
nurderers in New Orleans on March IA, :
|rove to the Criminal Court on the Sd l
nd surrendered himself. The grand !
ury has three indictments against him
-one for attempting to bribe juror, :
ne for PERJURY and another for con-
piring to procure perjury.
The Attakapas Vindicator says that
roken levees bring hardships to every
odv. That part of the State is now cut
nd fG pershabe w1l fressts Aes must t'eeasSe go
way to reach New Orleans,
Up to this time," says the Vindicator, p
the ants have made no move toward G
epairing the levees. We wish they
would hurry up and make start"