St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-05-06
General Notes.

| III ZIG Ldut0 earthquakes.
A fine Confederate monument was un-
yelled at Vicksburg last week.
Mr.. Joseph r. Roller, of Illinois, has
purchased $4,000 farm in Acadia
The Southern Pacific Railroad will
erect new passenger depot in Lafa-
yettc.
The Grand Lodge Of the knights OF
Pythias will meet in Lake Charles on
May Is.
The reform press convention that met
in Alexandria last week endorsed hon
est election laws.
Mrs. A. T. Theriot, and Misses Therot
have gone to Chicago to take charge OF
Nermilion's Attakapas cottonade ex
hibit at the Fair.
A rock fell from an overllanging bank
at Kansas City, crashing through the
house of Rachel Lightfoot, and killing
her while she lay in bed.
A handsome parish map, Photographic
views and an exhibit of Acadian cloth
are features of Iberia's display at the
Worlds Fair. The exhibit is in charge
of Mrs. P. B. Leeds, parish delegate.
The Louisiana Lottery has officially
announced that it would change it's
| base of operations on Jan. 1, 1894, from
New Orleans to Puerto Cortez, Hondu-
ras, Central America.
The town of Cisco, Texas, was wreck
| ed by cyclone on the night Of April 20.
| Only two buildings escaped destruction,
and over 800 people were rendered
homeless. A number were killed and
many injured.
Five college students at Delaware, O.,
were branded on the cheek with caustic
in being initiated into a secret college
society. The caustic burned into the
cheek and left marks that will perma
nently distgure the young men.
The strong expression of Southern
public sentiment against White Cap
ism," and the determination of the
courts to punish such lawIess deeds, are
| most favorably commented upon in the
|. West, whence the best class of our i'm
migration comes.-N. 0. Daily Item.
"A Post-Dispatch Tom Watson has
NOW turned democrat and hopes to be
made governor of Georgia. IT the ex-
| congressman is to flop around in this
way, how are his fellow citizens in
Georgia to know "where he is at ?"
Lake Charles American: Miss Della
Neal, of this city, was elected fraternal
delegate from the State Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union to the State
the historic city OF Natcbitoches on
May 8.
Lafayette Gazette: The fifty odd
street lamps ordered some time since
by the city authorities have arrived and
are being placed in different parts of
town; combined with those we now
have Lafayette can boast of having
first rate street light system, and one
that will prove a great convenience to
the public.
The Picayune has officially announced
that its special correspondent at Chi
cago will be Mrs. NJ. r, Field, better
known to the reading world as the
brilliant Catharine Cole" Mrs. Field
is one of the cleyerest newspaper wri-
ters in America and her daily letters
from the Columbian Exposition. will
emb0dy all that is most attractive and
best worth knowing about the great
Worlds Fair.-Loulsiana Review.
Georgia knows how to do the right
thing by desperadoes. The other day
nine white caps in that State were SEN
fenced to the penitentiary, and the pro-
liability is that they will serve out their
full terms. Ii the people all over the
South would treat white caps as they
are treated in Georgia, white and black
farmers living in isolated sections would
be secure in life and property.-Mans-
field DemOcrat-JOurnal.
Lafayette Gazette: The suggestion
Of our neighbor, the Advertiser, for the |
calling of an immigration convention |
Of the parishes of Vermiion, Iberia,
Acadia and Lafayette, to be held in this |
town encompasses splendid idea, and |
one to which the Gazette gives its warm
est concurrence, and would further sug-
yest that the parishes of st. Martin and
st. Landry be added. We think an Or
ganization formed of representative
men from each of these parishes could
10 world of good.
Telegraphic information from all Dor
ions OF this and surrounding States is
o the effect that the cotton acreage ia
Utmost the same as that of last year, but
hat there may be reduction of the
rOp owing to the late cool and unfavor-
bile weather. Hence it would seem
hat the only manner in which reduc-
ion of the cotton output can be secured
8 by an act Providence.-Baton Rouge
'ugar Planter,
1t is surprising how enormously the
se and consumption of articles of food,
lothing, or even of luxuries, increases
TitE the decrease of price. This is {
hown by the recent increase in the use
t sugar. When sugar was selling at
even cents the consumption in the {
United States was reckoned at twenty {
We pounds a year to each person. {
When the price fell to five cents the
consumption rose to sixty pounds to the
erson.--Baltimore Sun, Dem.
The police jury Of st. Mary has
lcreased the pro rata Of parish taxes
} the public schools of the parish from r
wo to three mills. Last week the town
ouncil of Franklin, appropriated $500
)ward the erection of central and
Ugh school building. We congratu-
Ite our neighbors upon the practical
vidences of the interest they manifest
! the upbulding of their public schools
AN example worthy of emulation by ev- !
~ parish in tue State. Money expend-
d for education and good roads can
OF be better invested, and our st. Mary
lends. appreciate this.-New Iberia
nteprise. r