St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-09

The Triiby Social Club will give
: grand complimentary soirce in
NadiaChsille tonight.

; grand complimentary soirce in
Nadiacnville Tonight.
TIE Police Jury and Sc,,oo
Board were m seesion this week
We will publish the proceedings
next Saturday.
There viii be three judicial sales
by the sheriff, At the Cour ,house
to-day. For particulars, see adyer-
tisenents. in another column.
We are short Of local and news
items this week, as much of our |
time vas taken up in attendance At
the meeting Of the Police Jury.
The schooner Old Hickory is
still in The Covington trade, with
Mr.. H. 5. Karstendiek as master. |
We call attention 10 The advertise
ment, IN another column.
We learn that the accident to the |
schooner E. u. Pippo was not so
bad as at FIRST reported. and that
she was only on ground about two
hours.
II . bad beginning makes q good
ending. the present year will 60 out
all right, for it came in with stormy
weather, rumors OF war, ana bank
failures throughout the country.
Services will be held at the G amp
Ground, by Rev. ]. b. Kent, Sun
day. Jan. 10. at II 4. n, and at
the Methodist Church. in Coving-
ton, Sunday night. at the usual
hour.
The prosperity promised BY the
Republicans ii Bryan and free
silver was defeated" is coming
now with . vengeance. Big banks
closing, factories shutting down :
that's the way it goes, and will go
for the next four years.
MARRIED by ]. Y. Crow. j.
p:
At the residence Of the brides
father. Dec. p. 1896, Walter
Smith aud Miss Annie Grow.
Al tie residence of tue brides
father, Dec. %, 1896, Henry
Berceagay, Of Mississippi, aud Miss
Mary Ellen Parker, Of st. Tammany
Parish.
BUSINESS CHANGE. = Mr..
Eddie Dcnhanmann has bought out
the interest Of Mr.. II. McKiliget.
OF the firm OF Roubion & McK,Ilget.
livery stable and funeral directors,
and has assumed all of the formers
debts aud liabilities. in connection
with the above firm. See adver-
tiscment, in another column.
PUMPKIN SEEDS KILL HOGS.
An exchange says when you feed
pumpkins to hogs be sure to take the
seed out, Is the seeds are said to
cause Indigestion. All over the
country hogs have been dying OF
BY tho hundreds, supposedly from
cholera, hut the real cause OF their
death was indigestion caused from
pumpkin seeds.
IL response 10 our hill for ad-
verli5ing, we are Informed that the
Crescent Candy Co. has suspended
business aud is unable to pay bills.
It looks very much like this Co."
played = game: At any rate, it
shows that newspapers had better
etick ~ the rule of cash IN advance
for al transient advertising.
The principal railway corporation
Of New England has been setting :
good example BY eqniping some Of
its branch lines With electric
''plants," 80 that short trains and
even single cars may be run fre-
qnently and At lees expense than it
locomotives we're used. A similar
change IS to be desired on almost
al American railways that are not
trunk lines, for on most Of them
the passenger trains are limited
to two a day aud the service Is
hamperea by attaching freight cars
to the trains. Electric service euch
AS the New England people are es-
tahlishing, is quite as cheap as
trolley service, aud speedy enough
to satisfy the general demand; q
single car can be run at handsome
profit where locomotive and train
would entail loss, and the trips may
be ~ frequent As the demand js,s,i-
lies. II has been predicted that