St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-09-17
General Notes.

Babb's Bridge is now a money order
office.
Morgan City is paving her streets
with shells.
Five or six deaths from ch"icra have
occurred in New York.
A steam laundry is tic latest enter
prise at Lake Charles.
The public schools of Lake Charles
opened last week with $50 pupils.
! Marksville Review: Teal ducks, the
| first OF the season, were SOLD III town
| this week.
/ A force Of 300 convicts were put to
work on the new Belmont levee, ST..
James parish, last week.
Mr.. Joseph Babb, the first settler of
tho town of Rabb's Bridge, died at his
home ut that place last Wednesday.
At the last meeting of the Police Jury
of Iberia $500 was appropriated for a
parish exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Marksvile Review: We noticed this
week several wagon loads of corn for
sale on our streets, at 80 ceutS Il barrel.
John G. Whittier, tie poet, died at
| his home in llaverhill, Mass, on the
7th inst, in the eighty-tittl year of his
| age.
! John 5. Young has at last been re-
wardcd. He has been appointed sheriff
of Cadlo parish vice john 5. Lake, re-
signed.
a warrant has been issued for sjl4 600
due the State OF Louisiana in reimhul Sc
meilt of the direct tax collected during
the war.
The American Legion of Honor has
Il;
idend check for 1892 equivalent to two
assessments.
Bunch is dead. but "who killed him =
is very live question. 1t is now ciarg-
ed that Hobgood, one of his so-callcd
friends, gave him his quietus.
Four Spanish Hebrews and seven
Greeks, sent from Constantinuple to
build Turkish villa at the CoIum biun
exposition, arrived in New York last
| week.
| Work will he commenced Oh the gov
eminent building ut Alexandria in
about two weeks. The square upon
which it is to be erected was cleared of
all debris last week.
DR.. J. +. Noftel, formerly of Macon,
| ILL.,, has purchased the we'll located and
improved farm of Mr.. W. W. Duson,
bordering Oh the town of Crowley, con-
tanning 700 acI es for $4,000.
The New Iberia Building Association
at its last meeting of stockholders in-
creased its capital stock FROM 100000
to ) 100000, to meet the constant de-
mands for money anu stock.
The Supreme Lodge, knights of Py-
thias has just declared that salooukecp-
ers are ineligible to membership in the
order. The ruling does not effect sa-
| loon keepers who were mem bers OF the
order before its passage.
Lord Marlborough estimates that the
cost Of keeping hounds aud maintaining
the hunts in the united kingdom is not
less than S22,O00,0OO. He states that
| there are 800 packs of hounds in Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland, and about
| 100000 horses were engaged i'll the hunts
| last year.
Col ID. B. Penn, Sd vice president OF
| the national commission AND commits
| sioner to the worlds fair, says the $780,
900 appropriated by the legislature will
be increased 10y private subscriptions to
100000, which will enable Louisiana to
make creditable show at the Column
bian Exposition.
The Shreveport Caucasian takes the
lOllUWlDS view OF Il matter tllat de-
serves serions considerations with
the alien owners Of Ianl, the paupcls
and anarchists of Europe which arc be-
ing dumped at Uuited States ports dali
ly, the American citizen viii soon he
crowded out unless Congress shall I'M
pose necessary restrictions"
Sir Edwin Arnold says cholera is "a
disease OF dirt and cUWardict.' 1t is
not a thing for d healthy person to fear.
Drink" lie says, no milk or water
that has not been boiled, scald your
vegetables and take five drops hydro
chloric acid in half a cup of hot tea and
you can walk unframed in the midst of
cholera.' Cold weather, he asserts, will
check the disease.
From Morgan City to Melville, La, |
there are between 800 and 1000 men en-
gagged in catching catfish. They live
on the water during the fishing season
say six months-and cut wood in sum
mer. The shippers keep stcam-tugs. |
They go up into the lakes and tow down
the boats (wells) in which the fish are
kept alive until ready to be shipped.
Some of these boats will hold 5000
pounds of fish.