Saint Jean Dacre

See Acre.

Saint John The Baptist

Saint John The Baptist, a S. E. parish of Louisiana, intersected by the Mississippi river, bordering N. W. on Lake Maurepas, N. E. on Lake Pontchartrain, and S. W. on Lake Des Allemands; area, about 250 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 6,762, of whom 4,044 were colored. The surface is level and the soil fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 106,884 bushels of Indian corn, 1,360 tons of hay, 4,962 hogsheads of sugar, 346,100 gallons of molasses, and 632,670 lbs. of rice. There were 337 horses, 1,570 mules and asses, 1,157 cattle, 294 sheep, and 381 swine. The parish has railroad communication with New Orleans. Capital, Edgard.

Saint John's River

See Florida.

Saint John, A Lake Of Canada

See Quebec, vol. xiv., p. 135.

Saint Joseph's River

See Saint Joseph.

Saint Landry

Saint Landry, a S. W. parish of Louisiana, bounded E. by the Atchafalaya river, and W. in part by Bayou Nezpique, and drained by numerous bayous; area, about 2,200 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 25,553, of whom 11,694 were colored. The surface is high and undulating, and the soil fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 368,897 bushels of Indian corn, 58,811 of sweet potatoes, 14,305 bales of cotton, 1,350 lbs. of tobacco, 33,375 of rice, 5,026 of wool, 1,988 hogsheads of sugar, and 118,110 gallons of molasses. There were 5,843 horses, 2,052 mules and asses, 8,455 milch cows, 3,049 working oxen, 15,074 other cattle, 9,398 sheep, and 17,188 swine. There were 17 molasses and sugar establishments. Capital, Opelousas.

Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence, born in Rome about the beginning of the 3d century, martyred under the emperor Valerian, Aug. 10, 258. He was one of the seven' archdeacons of Rome under the pontificate of Sixtus I., and had the care of the church treasury and of the poor widows and orphans. He was summoned before the praetor and ordered to surrender the treasures of the church, whereupon he brought forward the poor and the sick under his care, and declared that they were his treasures. For persisting in his refusal to give up his charge to the Roman prefect, he was scourged and then broiled to death on a large gridiron. His heroism under the torture is said to have caused the conversion of several pagans. A church was built over his remains outside the city walls in the reign of Constantino the Great.

Saint Mart

Saint Mart, a S. parish of Louisiana, bordered S. W. by several bays of the gulf of Mexico, and N. E. by Lake Chetimaches, and drained by Atchafalaya and Teche bayous; area, 860 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 13,850, of whom 9,607 were colored. The surface is flat and marshy, and the soil highly fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 186,842 bushels of Indian corn, 11,882 of sweet potatoes, 69,327 lbs. of rice, 6,591 hogsheads of sugar, and 341,-445 gallons of molasses. There were 958 horses, 1,861 mules and asses, 3,717 cattle, 1,704 sheep, and 2,960 swine; 25 manufactories of cooperage, 2 of machinery, 5 of brick and stone, 31 of molasses and sugar, and 7 saw mills. Capital, Franklin.