St. Landry democrat., 1891-03-14
News Items.

A Shreveport beet, of the blood red
variety, weighs forty six pounds.
The buffalo gnats have appeared il
Richland and other northern parishes
They are great pest.
The Morganza levee is entirely com
pleted, except sodding, and New Texas
levee will soon be finished.
The Southern Pacific Railroad will
soon be baIlasted with gravel from Lake
| Charles to the Sabine river.
A Georgia farmer has bought only
| tifty-five cents worth of meat during
twenty-five years of housekeeping.
The champion cabbage was raised by
| Mr.. Joseph Hickey, of Point C0upee
parish, and weighed eighteen pounds.
The Ruston Chautauqua has invited
Arkansas and Mississippi to cooperate
with Louisiana in making it success.
The Alexandria Fair Association pro-
noses to give it's first exhibition next
October, with a liberal list of pre-
mlums.
The Pointe Coupee police jury appro-
prlated $500 to defray the expenses of
committee to secure national aid for
levees.
Louis Gathmann, of Chicago, has in
vented Il formldale new cannon that
will throw large explosive shells dis
tance of five miles.
Ia boring the artesian we'll at PLAQUE
mine the drill went through two cypress |
logs one at depth of thirty feet and |
the other ninety feet below the surface.
A Boston firm has contracted with the |
Plaquemlne Lumber Company for 400
000 feet of cypress lumber, to be shipped |
by schooner to that city and Provi-
dence, r. |.
Glucose is produced in the United
States at the rate of 100000 pounds per
day, principally in the Western States.
The bulk of it enters into home con-
The mules, implements, provisions
and other supplies for the men now
waiting at Alexandria to begin work
on the Watkins railroad, We're shipped
by boat direct from st. Louis.
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Plan
Ter has invented a new title for the
head of the State administration and
styles him Gear Nichollsoffsky." His
political methods are modelled some-
What after the Russian plan.
The scheme of Cuban annexation is
,ne that Americans favor, aud Secretary
5lalne Will have tremendous popular
ointment behind him in the use of any
air method of achieving it.-Cincin.
lati Times-Star, Rep.
Mrs; Kate Doescher, living few
niles from Welsh, has an orchard of 300
ear trees, besides 300 select peach
reeS, and the most of them are now in
uli blossom. She has done the work
nth her own hands, as her husband is
way from home teaching school in
'exas.
Alexandria Times: By the time the
district and Supreme Courts have rem
ered dozen or more decisions adverse
the qualification of his petty spite,
le distinguished chief executive of
will have learned how pre-
ous little he knows about the laws
ven of his own State.
n. 0. City Item: Gen. Lew Wallace. III
le author of " Ben Hur," saws rbenma,
SIN can be cured in one night without
Ill by a poultice of mustard and garlic y
oplied to the feet. The remedy is sim- I
e and within the reach of everybody.
I'D as rheumatic cases are always on
and, it need not take long to give the
Duted specific fair test. If it even
Tres one-half the cases large portion m
the human family will have found a i
essing, indeed. .
Baton Rouge Advocate: The blue rih-
~ farmer of Acadia parish is Mr.. Bud
)lligan. who resides near Church
,int. Last year he made II bales of II
tton, weighing 4S0 pounds each 400 III
shels OF, corn and plenty of fodder;
bushels of sweet potatoes and q
rge supply Of tobacco. He had no
lp except two children, aged and 10
ars. After he finished his own cron.
and his youngsters picked another K
le OF cotton for neighbor, perhaDs
Alliance man, who sat on the fence
d talked politics for a living. We
reby appoint Mr.. Colligan the Grand
lster Workman of the Blue Ribbon
rmers' Reliance for Southern Louisi-
a.