St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-11-05
General Notes.


home in st. Mary.
The Farmers Union of Carencro has
established tannery.
The Lake Charles telephone system is
in successful operation.
Duson Fire Co. No. 2, is the name OF
a new corps of tirefghters in Crowley.
The Lake Charles dummy line will be
in operation in Il month
The rice crop of Acadia will be large
and it is bringing big business to
Crowley.
Bunkic has Womau's Christian
| Temperance Union with Miss Flora
Watson as president
No less than twenty-five buildings OF
various dimensions are going up just
now in prosperous Crowley.
Sixteen prisoners we've sentenced to
penitentary terms at the close OF the
recent term of court in Lafayette.
The general conference OF the 81. L
Church, South, will meet at Lake
Charles the second week in December
The rice planters of LafourcIle are in
organized opposition to the rice tiume
law and will make Il test OF its legality.
The new rice mill at Westlake, Cal
casieu parish, has gone into operation,
and has its large warehouses full Ut
rough rice.
| Messrs. Nixon and Cheney, of the late
| Alexandria Times, are publishing IA
daily paper in Monroe called the Even
| ing News.
Mr.. John W. Walker, hill planter of
NachitOches, has cultivated wheat this
season with satisfactory yield Of 25
| bushels per acre.
DR.. r. j. France, the oldest physi
clan of Lafayette, died OH October %.
He was prominent planter and widely
esteemed citizen.
The recent Confederate Netcrn's re-
union I'D Lake Charles was a memorable
success. The attendance WAS large aud
| a parade, speeches aud Il barbecue were
enjoyable features OF tie event
The planters of Avoyeles subscribed
$4,000 to the fund for the new sugar re-
tinery last week. A meeting to organ
ize substantial company, elect officers,
etc, was held at COttoDport on Sunday.
Fifty thousand people have been
drowned in China by the breaking of
the banks of the Yellow river. 1t is
estimated that 100000 will starve to
death unless the government furnishes
them food from now till next spring.
Private John Allen, Of Mississippi,
says the men who are leaving the Dem
ocratic fold and going over to the third
party reminds him of the calf that lived
all the winter and died in the spring
just as tie grass was coming i'll.
The Marksyille Bulletin says that the
rebuilding of ievees along the Achafa-
laya and Bayou des GLASSES is progress
ing well and rapidly. The entire leyee
system Of the Red River, Atchafalaya
and Bneuf District will be strengthened
aud put in thorough condition.
1t is now settled that the Worlds Fair
will be closed Oh Sundays. The COM
missioners have issued statement to
the effect that they have accepted the |
government appropriation with the con-
diti0n of Sunday closing attached. The |
laboring classes who are at work six |
days in the week will be deprived OF the
pleasure of visiting the fair on the only
day which is their own.
A bothered Michigan clergyman asks
the Springfield Republican whether ii
word cannot be coined to designate the
OF the marriage ceremony.
" 1T | say I married Miss So-and- Son.
says he, it is liable to the construction
that am now her husbaud.' Marli-
fled" is the new verb he suggests, as i" !
Miss Brown
Gov. Fosters new police jury for
Madison parish has gone step farther
than any OF the others in promoting the
much talked of harmony" Ignoring
the old established newspaper the Jour
nal, it has given the parish printing
to the Delhi (Richtand parish) New Era,
recently established for the purpose of
serving as the official organ of both
parishes. This is fragrant violation
If the law which says that where there
s no paper published in the parish the
printing shall be done by posting. Liti- .
cation for Illegal PRONUNCIATION of Off I
ldding to the harmony" so much de- ,
ired.-N. 0. City Item. /