St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-05-07
General Notes.

The Legislature will convene on Mon
day next, the 9th.
Eeuezuela's revolution RACES with IN
abated ferceness.
The construction of the Donaldson
yilie waterworks has commenced.
The Kansas City, Watkins q Gul
| railroad has been completed to AleXan
dria.
The sugar bounty received 10y Loui
slana sugar planters mp to April q
amounted to S5G25 900.
The Lake Charles Waterwo,ks Com.
pany have completed all arrangement,
and in three months hope to have theil
plant III operation.
Queen Victoria will send specimens OF
paintings and fancy work, the creation
of her own royal hands, to the woman's
department OF the Worlds Fair.
The presidential election occurs tUiS
year on Tuesday, Nov. 8, that date be-
ing the Tuesday next after The first
Monday i'll November.
The citizens OF Abbevillc are subsciib-
ing stock to The establishment of a cen
trail sugar factory that will he in opera-
ton by next September.
Disastrous crevasses have occurred on
bayou Lafourche, in the parish Of La
fonrcbe, and on the Mississippi river, in
the parish of St. Bernard.
Wages are so low in India that men
may be hired for So a month to do
household work. 4 dollar is a great
sum to them and one meal a day the
rule.
Lake Charles American: The new
arteslan we'll just completed at the X .
C., w. g. G. car shops east of the city
Is flowing at the rate of about 1000 gall
ons per hour.
The outfit Of The WelsI, Crescent,
Mr.. K. Harrison editor, has been carried
to Lake Charles, its future domicIp.
The new name OF the paper will be the
Lake Charles Patriot"
Washington died shortly after II D.
M, Saturday, Dec. 15 1899, the last year
OF the century, the last month of the
year, the last day Of the week aud with
in the last hour Of the day.
The kite shaped track is conceded by
horsemen generally to be 9 to3 seconds
faster that the oval shaped track. Sunol
made the worlds record Of 2:0S on the
klte-slIapcd track at Stockton, Cal.
Cow peas, raised especially for, and
fed to good milch COWS, and the milk
devoted to butter making, and the but
ter properly made and handled, consti-
tntes a profitable crop, and improves
the sol! it sprung from.
An acid is now mixed with sawdust
and the whole mass moulded into blocks
or any other form, resulting in a fine
material for building purposes. The
blocks assume extreme hardness of sur
face, and are practically noncombusti-
BILE.
Morgan's Louisian aud Texas Rail |
road Co. will erect u handsome large |
denot at the head of Poydras street. 1t !
will be of brick and its architectural |
style in keeping with that of buildings
OF its class. Its cost will not be less |
than $4,000.
1t is said that six hundred trains a day
pass over the tracks that run within a |
stones throw of the site where the great
wlgwam is being built in Chicago for
The use of the Democratic National
Convention. The building is designed
TO accommodate $1,000 people.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The chief
usticeship on the State supreme bench
3 still vacant, and it now looks as il
Jov. Nichols will not make the ap-
continent during his term of office.
Who knows but that the judicial light
ing may strike his exceIlency himself
lfter Foster comes in
The New Delta glolilics its faction in
aging it fought for principle and not
or place" and in the very next para
raph states that the lottery amend
lent was hardly considered in the
oting" at the late election. What
reat.prlnciple was at stake is not there
ore very visible to the naked eve
'aton Rouge Advocate.
The names of the stations on the K. {
b, W. and &. going south from Alex
ndrla are as follows: Anuandalc, Chen
70 pot named), Glenmora, Oakdale,
berlin Kinder, FeDtOn, Iowa, Bonair,
aklDs ten stations between Alexan- ,
TIA and Lake Charles, the average dis +
nee between stations being nine miles. l.
lie total distance is sc miles.-Alexan- L
ia Town Talk. d
The new apportionment adopted at u
e late primary election gives New G
rleaas ia delegates out of total of I.
lnTuture democratic State conveD-
ons, or nearly one third of the entire II
lmber, thus giving preponderance of
'Wer to our great city in all party " "
uncils. This apportionment was l
opted mainly by the Foster vote, and pi
ny also have bad results ia two or CT
rec congressional districts by giving "
due strength to the alliance parishes. 81
b. X. Advocate. q
The el ection last Tuesday will not be f. f.
e last held in Louisiana, and we sim 10
rely hope that the people of Louisiana ~
IL remember, and teach their children
I'M generation to generation to re-
'mber, that the two greatest frauds N.
er committed against the State of
uisiana was by j. Madison Wells re- ~;
ming board that went behind the re- ~
ns and made u fraudulent President. a.
l john S. 7 ouns's returning board. a." a"
0 falsified the returns and attempted "a of
the people OF the State to SUM- VI,
t the fraudulent nominee for Gov 70,
or Let tho people aud their children TN r.,
lem Der them. ~!
Louisiana T,auds -.