St. Landry democrat., 1891-05-23
News Items.

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Texas produces more cotton than any
other three states.
Nine blocks were destroyed by fire in
Houston last Wednesday.
The citizens of Monroe have subscrb.
ed over $500 to the Louisiana Chautau.
qua.
| Large numbers Of immigrants from
Sweden are settling in Caddo parish.
An exchange says that the largest
peach Orchard is at BrownwoOd, Tex
| which contains II 900 trees.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The city fa-
theirs of Plaquemine have contracted
with the Sun Vapor Light Company, of
Ohio, for street illumination.
Ten carloads of iron arrived at Alex
andria last week for the Houston, Cen
tral Arkansas and Northern. Track
laying will commence at once.
Pineville will have an election on
June s, on the question of voting a
| five mill tax for ten years in aid of the
Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf Rail-
road.
1t is serious thing to testify in Il
Japanese court. When a witness is
sworn bis finger is cut, and the blood is
used to seal his declaration when writ
ten out.
The bridge over the Pecos river in
! Texas, on the Southern Pacific road,
when completed will he the highest in
| the world, except one few feet higher
in Bolivia.
Lafayette is making q strong effort to
! have the town lighted by electricity.
| Once this is accomplished sysem of
| water works is expected to be the next
| public improvement.
| The present freshman class of Prince
| ton College has very senSibly decided
! to abandon hazing and greet next years
freshman class with d banquet instead
of the old-time nightly visitations.
Madame A. Broussard died at her
her home near Lacasine, last week, at
the age of one hundred and five years.
She was born and reared in Louisiana,
and was the mother Of eighteen
children.
A resolution will soon be introduced
in the Dominion Parliament inviting
the New England States to join the
Canadian confederation. AS old Greedy
said to the Southern States when they
seeded in 1861, -" Let the erring sisters
depart in peace
The State Press Association Of Mis-
sissippi held its tWenty-tfth annual
meeting at YaZoo City last week. One
hundred and twenty editors were in at
tendance. Governor Stone participat-
ed in part OF the exercises, especially
those of an epicurean nature.
The Times-Democrat has put in it's
Office four Meganthaer type setting
machines, which will be used on that
paper, under management of a detail of
union printers. These machines are the
most successful ever invented, and
many persons believe they have solved
the problem of type-setting by ma
chinery.
The st. Landry Clarion says that
when the anti-lottery members of the
legislature wanted to Investigate bri-
hery, the lottery people voted it down.
The Clarion is reminded that the courts
have been open for the prosecution of
bribery ever since the legislature ad-
jourred, and yet nobody has been pros-
ecuted.-Baton Rouge Advocate.
1t is said that Queen Victoria has
been giving some good advice to her
grandson, the Emperor William, of
Germany, but he is not likely to follow
it. The old lady thinks that for the
sake of cementing the peace of Europe,
Germany should restore the province of
AIsace to France, to which country it
belongs by the traditions Of many CEN
turies and the allegiance Of its people.
A pamphlet has been issued by the
postoffice department at Washington,
presenting facts and arguments in favor
of the establishment of postal savings
banks under control and management
of the government The system has
been adopted by all the leading coun-
tries of Europe with wonderful success,
as it encourages habits of thrift among
the people that lead to accumulations
of money out of small savings and pro-
mote general prosperity among the mass
of the people.
The Alliance has received a stunning
blow as national party by the refusal
of Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, to
join his forces in the movement to hold |
general convention at Cincinnati. He |
says the Alliance will work for reforms
inside the democratic party in the
South, because division would be fatal
to white supremacy and must not be |
thought of. The reforms he names are |
free coinage of silver and tariff reduc-
ton, which are two grand objects of the |
Southern democracy.
The democratic motto of 1884 was
tell the TRUTH" and the anti-lottery
press should not permit it to 20 wholly
into innocuous desuetude. The st.
Landry Clarion asserts that "some of
our contemporaries" meaning the Ad-.
vocate, say that gambling is not a
vice.H Another esteemed anti had al
d. ht trfa 4hnk IL
"a good thing" The proverb says that
-" lie will travel a league while truth
is putting on its boots" and as these
two have got good start, we propose
to let them go. The Advocate never
said any such thing, but quite, the
CONTEMPLATION Rouge Advocate.
On the recommendation of the par
doning board Gov. Nichols yesterday
80 much Of the sentence of ex.
Secretary of State Strong as condemn.
ed him to six months Imprisonment in
the State penitentiary, leaving him
still liable for the amount of the fine
imposed.
When the ez-Secretary of State was
being tried before the Baton Rouge
District Court in 1883, on charges of
money col llected by him for
eiectiou L!CheG pdpeis no Wdlkeu OUT OF
court just as, the jury was about to
bring In a verdict, and remained q fu-
gitiVe from justice until recently, when
he surrendered and was sentenced as
above.-N. y. City Item, May 16.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The New
Orleans Cotton Exchange re- re.,ort for tho
week ending MY Wy shows an aggregate
U o,2O3,4Sl, an excess of over LOO. 900
bales up to the corresponding date last