The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-01-28
STATE PRESS.
Items of Interest and What the
Newspapers Have to Say.

DOnaldSOnVllle Chief: MrS. Ella
Bently was able to leave the house
last week for the first time since her
recent severe illness, which extern
ded over period of several weeks,
and she availed herself of the pri-
vilege by strolling up town Saturday
and again on Sunday, Mrs. Bent
ley has just passed through dan
gerous spell of sickness and her
numerous friends were extremely
glad to note her recovery.
Baton Rouge Advocates: The
Press dispatches state that Governor
Foster and his party have arrived
at the Capital and have been the
recipient of marked attentions and
courtesies. In addition to the in
vitation to visit Louisiana which the
Governor will ent-nd to President
Mckinley, his business is also to
look into some claims against the
State of Louisiana on the pretext of
which the Washington government
has declined to reimburse the State
for the money paid out by it in
mastering in troops at the begin
ming of late war. Is is extremely
bad policy on the part of the Gov
eminent to Withhold the money from
the State on this pretext, as this
money was advanced by the State
upon the explicit promise by the
government hat it would be refunded
and to thus 'hold up" sovereign
State is an act of bad faith of which
this government should not be
guilty. Moreover, the war with
Spain is perhaps not the last war in
which this country will engage, and
if she acts in bad faith in this mat.
Inter, the States will be likely to go
slow in advancing money to the
Government for the equipment Of
troops should any future calls be
made. 1t is to be hoped that the
Governor will be able to convince
the War Department of the folly of
the course 1t has proposed to pur-
sue.
Thibodaux Sentinel: ST. Landry
has resorted to a high liquor license,
the license being $4,000 for the pres
ent year. St. Martin has stuck to
the 500 license. Arnaudville is
town in St. Landry parish on the
line dividing that parish from St.
Martin, and all its saloons haze
been moved into the latter parish.
The Arnaudvillians now have to
jump the parish line to get at their
swill but they get at it all the same.
Thibodaux Sentinel: Last We'd
nesday's advices from Washington
were that the following Louisiana
nomin atons had been sent to the
senate the day before: James Lewis,
for surveyor general; Walter Cohen,
for register OF the land Office; J +.
Breda, for register of the NatChito-
ches land office, and John G.. Lewis,
for receiver The e'brother in black"
has been well taken care of in the
foregoing distribution of patronage,
and it is said there is still more
coming to him. Jones, of sweet
Iberville, is booked for the naval
Office. 1t does look as though Mr..
Mckinley was much in love with
his .sbrother in black, and that he
does not care one pinch Of snuff for
respectable white Republican
party in the South. Well, he neve r
fooled us on this point.
ST. Martin Messenger: James
Fuselier and Felix Olivier were
arrested and jailed by Constable
Ben Bertrand Tuesday night, under
a grievous charge. Fuse.ier shot
and seriously wounded a regro
boy aged or IS years, load of
bird shot entering one side of his
body, coming out at the other side,
making a serious wound which may
prove fatal. They are also accused
of beating the mother when she
tried to relieve her wounded boy.
The boy is said to have been inso-
lent towards MIR. Fuselier, which
was the cause of the S-:ooting. The
details of this unfortunate affair are
conflicting, and the exact truth will
only come out when the preliminary
otinn will The