The Opelousas courier., 1882-04-15
some Little Comfort.
[N. o. Times-D ID Democrat.

it has destroyed, the stock it has
drowned, the levees it has washed away
and the planters and farmers it has
ruined /; and yet let us console our
selves, as much as we can, with the
knowledge that there is a portion of
the community that it will benefit--a
very small portion, unhappily, of the
whole people. The "swampers who
get mess and logs from the swamps,
the lumbermen and many others, will
find plenty of profitable work to do in
the present season of high water and.
c~revasses
The high wafer washes the moss
from the trees and collects it in I'M
mer,se masses in the swamps. 1t more
over, makes these swamps navigable
throughout and allowsthe moss-gath-
erer to penetrate easily into the inner
most portions of the wooded region, a
land neither land nor. water, that, in
ordinary years, defies the most adven-
turoussman. 8
The crevasse year ofs,1874 was the
greatest ever known in the moss busi
ness of Louisiana. One parish alone,
St. Mary, shipped 5000 bales of moss
to this city, for which the sum of $780,
0OO-equal to 1000 hogsheads of sugar
was paid over directly to the swamp
ers, and which moss, when cleaned,
brought $3.50, 900 to the city. This re-
presents only a fraction of the moss
crop of that year, which certainly ex-
ceeded in vaIns our rice crop, and
which. paid a considerable portion of
the expenses of the ~crevasse.
We learn that 1.-THE swampers" are
already at work in nearly all portions
of the overlooked section, and we may
expect to see the story of 1874 retold.
The present season promises to bene-
fit the log and lumbermen and the
owners of good woodlands even more
than the swampers. There will be no
difficulty in getting the legs to the mill
at once, whereas in many portions of
this Stats and Mississippi the logmen
regard 1t as a piece of great luck if they
can get their logs to the mill within
eighteen months of the time they are
cut. The drouth last year caused many
mills ut Beaumont, Texas, Lake Charles
and other points in this State to run
short on account Of a lack of supply. u
Tie President having signed the
anti pelygamy bill the suppression OF
5tLe crime which has so long Haunted
itself in Utah will now begin in earn
est. No differences have existed as to
the desirability Of legislation which
would relnove this rank offelfse from
the soil of the United States, though
there have been disagreements con.
corning the policy which ought to be
pursued to make it effective. Now
that the bill has passed into law there
will be general aeqniescence in the
desire that it should be executed Will
the simple intent of removing the evil
With wise management it is not i'm
probable that polygamy will 10 tw,
years have become a thing of the past
ii Washington Post.
An exchange says: "a cheering sigr
of the new era which is dawniDg il
the South, isfound in the number D
inventions patented by Southefners
During the decade Just ended, they
average I,44i each year. In the pre-
vious decade. emitting the years o
the war, only 371 a year, being some
thing more than one-fourth MS many
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennesss lear
the van, but Texas shows a wonderful
advances ten field increase, indeed
-
Louisiana will elect her members o
Congress in November next. The can
didates will, we presume, soon begir
Ia canvass the subject before the PEG
pie in y way or another. The peo
pie need have no uneasiness that tlt
country will suffaer for candidates
Scarce as is everything else We Woule
be willing to guarantee that we vii
have candidates in abundance.-Olai
borne Guardian
The Philadelphia Press gives thu
startling information that Presiden
Arthur remains at the dinner table
three hours, { andaWhen it is over ht
swallows a glass of Appollinaris will
his cigar IF Mr.. Arthur can swallow
4 cigar flooded in Ap~ollinaris, he cal
stand anything.
The HAvERHILL FIRE.-BostonA Apr
4-The Underwriters have adjusted
their losses BY the great fire at Haver
hill, and the total Whiehthe companies
are obliged to pay is within a few
thousands of 20. 900, 900. The salyag,
of the average amounted to hardly
per cent.
Tricks In business do not pay in tn
end. Square dealing is always the bes
10 all your transactions. Be frank
honest and sincere. "A tricky man i