St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-05-21
STATE NEWS.

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At st. Martinsville on May sth, I
j. GardenaI and Adrien Roy shot a
each other with pistols, but no on
| was hurt.
Rayne ships bu1lfrogs to New o.
leans.
The removal of the Farmers Vidett
| to Baton Rouge has been feconsidered
and it will remain at Alexandria.
The river and harbor bill appropri
ates $150,o00 for bayou Plaquemine
100000 for Calcasieu river. SIS, ,G0t
for Vermillion bayou and 1000 TO
bayou Lafourche
According to the New York Trib
une's list, there are 80 millionaires il
Louisiana.
Fernand Clement, a young man o
st. Martinsville, has been taken te
New Orleans, for treatment for insan
|ity.
BY joint resolution the legislature
has transferred $4,000 of levee funds
to the fifth levee district, to keep the
levees intact against the high water.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature, to prohibit lotteries and
the sale of lottery tickets in this State
after Dec. 31st, 1898.
In row at Dnson station, Friday
last week, between Willie Foreman
and Solomon Spell, J. G. Bertrand, who
got between them to prevent blood
shed, was shot and instantly killed, and
Spell was severely wounded in both
shoulders.
An unknown negro who refused to
pay his fare at Donaldsonville, on the
railroad, knocked the conductor, j. d.
Miller, off into hole Of water, and
jumped off himself and escaped. The
conductor was badly wounded on the
head, and will probably die.
The Washington Artillery Battalion
OF New Orleans, gave the children a
May festival and ball on May 18th.
A subscription is being raised there
to build college at the town of Lake
Arthur.
The grand lodge of the Knights Of
Pythias was held at Alexandria last
Monday.
Willie Fleetwood, of Thibodaux, a
brakeman, fell from the train at Ra-
mos station last week and vas killed.
May 10th, grand picnic was given
at Maj, j. S. Mouton's park, Lafayette,
to celebrate the Inauguration of Gov.
Foster.
Recently, AIphe, the. 14-year old son
OF Oleus Thibodeaux of Nermillion
parish, was thrown from his horse,
while his arm was entangled in rope
tied to the horse, and dragged to death.
Mr.. Placide Breaux, OF Carencro, and
Miss Coralie Cochrane, of Lafayette,
were married May 9Th.
Horse-thieves are reported about
Crowley.
New oat hay sold at Abbeyille last
week at $40 per ton.
The parish tax of Vermillion parish
has been reduced to mills.
VIM. Sewell, a we'll known old dar-
key there, fell off boat in Vermillion
bayou and was drowned last week.
Edward sonnier, of Vermillion par-'
ish, has been jailed for FIVE days for re
fusing to work on the public roads,
The State Normal School at Natehi-
toches has enrolled this session 1e3
students, 139 females and "a males.
Charles Gayarre, the Louisiana his
torian, is over so years old, and is said
to be in destitute circumstances.
A new paper, the Lake Charles Pa
triot, has appeared, published With the
materials of the late Welsh Crescent.
The police jury Of Calcasieu have
paid the entire Indebtedness of that
parish, including the cost of the new
courthouse, and have a surplus OF about
$1,000 in the treasury; moreover, they
have reduced the rate Of taxation from
10 to I mills.
A game of hazard-Mr. Hazard Ber-
nard and Miss .Adonia Bernard, of Yer
million parish, were married last week.