St. Landry democrat., 1893-02-18
General Notes,

Cotton seed is selling at SO POI ton in
! the Yazoo Valley, Miss.
ST. Mary parish has 81 colorcd school
teachers, and IS white.
The planter is busy putting in the
cane crop.-Morgan City Review.
Lake Superior was frozen last week
| for distance of thirty miles from
! shore.
| Citizens of Alaska are agitatng for
| the esta Enlistment of Il Territorial Gov
| eminent.
Hon Louis St. Martin, ox-congress-
man from New Orleans, died Oh the 9th
inst. at his home i'll that city.
Mr.. w. w. Duson, of Crowley, has
purchased the Hotel Arthur, situated on
the north bank of the lake of that
| name.
Albert Leonard, late Republican CAN
! didate for Governor, has moved from
! New Orleans to Shreveport, and is prac-
ticing law.
| Washington Argus, 9th: Work was
commenced in our cotton factory Mon
day morning, preparatory to again put
ting it in operation.
A young lady in Newark, n. j., is
suing man for $4,000 damages. lie in
jured her ankle by accidentally kicking
her while Waiting with her.
Tho people of Colorado have been
holding a sugar convention in Denver
for the purpose Of encouraging the es-
tablishment of beet sugar factories in
the west.
Good lands, pretty homes, industrious
and frugal men, moral books and news
papers are the best advertisements a
country can have toindnce immigratit /
of desirable kind.-W ebster Signal.
The most important demand upon the
legislature Of Louisiana is that Just as
soon as it ConveneS it abolish the court
Of appeals. The people are getting tired
If paying taxes to support a needless
luxuly.-1'he Ranger.
The Pope is anxious to bring into geu-
eral use d severer and more ecclesiasti-
cal style of church music. iio is OPP
posed to the modern operate style, and
an allocution and an order on the sub
ject are said to be i'll preparation.
A young man Of Battle Creek, Mich,
purchased Christmas present for his
"best giIlH on the installnent plan.
but, as he was unable to meet his pay
ments, the creditor called Oh the girl
and carried away the gift.
Late dispatches from near HE scenes
OF the recent White Cap outrages in
southwest Mississippi state that they
have about ceascd, owing to the pr0cla-
nation of the Governor and The de-
tcrmined stand taken by the better class
of CltlZGuS.
Things are looking more hopeful i'll
JENNINGS. Several new cases of small
pox have developed, bnt with one or
two exceptions the disease has been of
a mild form. Those infected have been
isolated aud the htrctest rules Of SAM
tation are being enforced.
1t will be a matter Of interest 10 the
many friends of Hon. C. &. Duson to
learn that bis son DIR. w. ". Duson, is
now taking a special course in the treat
ment of diseases OF the eye, nose, ear
and throat in Vienna, AustrIa, at one of
the most celebrated universities of Eu-
rope.
There is Il buom in property situated
on the new railroad from Abteyille to
New Iberia. Land which a yea, ago
cOnld have been purchased at from $40
to $50 an acre is now held at from S2j
to $50 an acre, It promises to be tiue
sugar region and relinel will soon be
required 10 that locality.
All Europe, from the Arctic to the
Mediterranean, is eSperlenciuga wiutry
severity this season such as it has not
known III many years. 1t is necessary
to 20 back forty or fifty years in most
regions, even III the far north to find il
precedent, while i'll some parts the
weather is unprecedented.
A number of the Democratic journals
are demanding that the law creating
the Circuit Judges be repealed at tile
next session of the legislature These
officers have nothing in reality to do
aside from drawing their salary, and
we believe the $4,000 is needed for bet
ter purposes.-Morgan City Review.
The governors of New York, Ohio, .
Massachusetts, Illinois, Kansas, Mon
tana, Nebraska, Virginia, New IIamp- |
shire and South Dakota have all men |
toned the matter Of better roads, in
their messages to their several Legisla- !
lures. The question is also being
brought to tue attention of the Federal :
'~'rHrnment. !
eating the Whisky Trust, " l4Ye .,
last, watched experiments made NV Mr. =
' eazey, witness, in producing liGuors
by adr'teration. BY the use Of oil. es- 3.
sences and coloring matter he produced.
~ I: y minutes, WHISTLES, runs and
gins similar to those placed on the mar .
ket and sold as pure goods.
The Harvey Peak Tin company per-
shut down its mines and mills
last Thursday. These mines and the
Iemescal mines in California are the
on y places in this country from which
It has ever been claimed that tin could
DC obtained in paying quantities. The
l emescal mines were proved to be a
Failure some time ago.