The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-05-09
Local News.

quite large.
Get your printing done at the Mes
senger Office if you want first class work
at low prices. a.
II. j. Liable has just received an i'm
mense stock Of mating. Curtain poles,
Matts, Rugs. Oil. Paint etc.
Since the first of May prayer is held
at the church every evening, and quite
large number of our people attend.
If any of our readers or the public
in general need anything in the cloth
ing line, Mr.. Rousseau's store is the place
to get it.
business. apparently is dull in this
place, but ONE is astOnishtd to see the
large stocks of g,'OdsOur merchants are
receiving daily.
The police officer has been kept busy
this week killing vagrant dogs. and a
number of them have been sent where
they will no more be nuisance.
The True Friends. a colored beHevo-
lent association of this town, celebrated
its fifteen anniversary by attending mass
at the Catholic church in body We'd
nesday morning.
Constable George Malagarie. of
BrOussardville, arrested white man in
this parish Monday morning. charged of
larceny ard brought him to Lafayette to
answer to the charge.
The attorney general has fled an
application in the Supreme Court for a
rehearing in the lottery case and has
been granted ten days to file brief in
support of his application.
Our friend Chas A. Thomas who
arrived here last week from Houston, to
spend few days with relatives and
friends, has been called unexpectedly.
and left Friday evening for Houston.
Breaux Bridge held its municipal
election Monday. there was but one
ticket. with the following names: Chas:
DelhOmmer, DR.. II. P. Guilbean, Adolph
Patin. A. f. BrOussard and A. F. DOmen-
geaux. Hon. Chas. DelhOmmer, was re-
elected Mayor.
The cry of the planter is still for
rain. the crops are witheriTfg, the ponds
and cOulees are dry. the roads are dusty.
and drinking water is getting to he
scarce; several families in town have to
have recourse to their neighbOrs for
their drinking water.
Thomas jefferson, son of W. b. Eas-
tin and Gabrielle Guiereniere. aged 5
years and months, died at half past
three o'clock Thursday morning after a
short illness. He was buried at o'clock
the same evening. The Messenger SYM
pathizes with the family.
We ara informed by gentleman
who keeps a record of the weather, that
the thermometer registered 81 9 Tuesday
evening. at 6 o'clock and at 8 o'clock the
next morning it registered So, dife
ference of "a degrees in - hours. in this
season, is something remarkable.
The weather was very cloudy Tues
day evening and the planters were some
what hopeful at the apparent signs Of a
coming rain, but were disappointed
the next morning to find the situation
still worse. instead of getting rain dn-
ring the night, they arose to see a cool
north wind, which dried the land more
than it was and produced very bad
effect on the plants.
The mass meeting held at Opelo,isas
last week to protest against the appoint
ment of Henry Block as postmaster. was
not as largely attended as it was expect
ed it would be. The papers of the ap-
posing faction say the meeting was
large and enthuriastics while the oppos-
ing organ claims that the meeting num-
beted about forty persons. Resolutions
were passed and a committee appointed
to inform Block of the fact, but he how
ever, took charge of the Office the follow.
ing day and is still holding it. Hon. H,
L: Garland spoke in opposition to the re.
solutions, and Judge Lewis mounted the
stand and informed those who had taken
\ part in the meeting that If the resOlu-
tions were intended 70 intimihate Block
he had instructed the Sheriff to arrest
every member of that committee. II
looks as If there is more local polite In
this affair than there Is opposition to