The Opelousas courier., 1883-08-18

'n.'iSt VI IHe sun. JnieSS we nave
rain very soon there will not he more
than half crops of cotton and rice made.
and about one fourth of potato crop.
There doubtless will be enough of the
first planting Of corn to supply the de-
mands of the parish. The drouth and
North wids have been rapid in their de-
structive influence, as they followed up
on the disastrous footsteps of an excess
lively wet season. The crops and soil
were not in condition to withstand
such burning, witherng drOuth.
The COURIER has been favored with
the premium list of the twenty third ST..
Louis Fair which is to open on October
lst and continue for six days. High
premiums are offered for all sorts of do
mestic canimals,t the premiuA list amount
ing to no less than $4,000. There are
prizes for fruit, vegetables, wines, etc
The list may be seen at our office.
The New York Court Of Appeals has
just confirmed decision by Judge
Nelson, of the Brooklyn City Court, in
which it was held that the provision
for educating white and colored chill
dren in separate schools was not yio-
lation of the fourteenth amendment to
the Federal Constitution. The case
arose out OF the refusal to admit col
Ored girl into one Of the white schools.
The New York Herald writes approx
ingly OF the decision and says: "When
separate schools as good as those estab-
lished for white persons are open to
them there is no denial OF equal rights
and no Discrimination on account of
color, such as is prohibited by the four
teentll amendment. Both the letter
aud the spirit of that amendment are
met when equal educational facilities
are extended TO white aud black chill
dren, aud this can be done as well by
separate as by mixed schools. This
fact is generally recognized BY the col
orea people, the most sensible Of whom
prefer to have their children educated
in separate schools"
The Capifoiian 4drocate says the
conits have narrowed the scope of
homestead exemptions until we practi-
ralIy have no homestead. Ii considers
tHiS SiCttG HC
homestead is Il safeguard SD highly
valued in public opinion that we ven
tnlc the opinion that no healthy imnli-
grafton will ever set in to our State,
until our laws are amended in this res
pect. Texas guarantees home to her
citizens, and that one consideration will
operate OH 80 per cent of persons seek
ing homes as an lndneemeHt TO prefer
Texas to Louisiana. We have held our
noses long enough to the grindstone OF
usury and ayarice. The homestead ex-
emption should be secured to the poor
man, whom we invite to come ameng
rs, and the tyranny of lien laws should
he everlastingly destroyed
Tom Thumb died comparatively
young for Il dwarf. Richard Gibson,
miniature painter and court dwarf to
Charles l., lived TO be Is, and his dwarf
wife, Ann Shepherd, to be s5. Sir
Geoffrey Hudson, dwarf and diplomatist
to Charles H., expired at 63, and the
little gentieman's span of life was short
ened by his incarceration, on suspicion
of conuivanee in the Popish plot, in the
gate house Mt Westminster, where he
died. The far famed Polish dwarf,
Count RorniaWski, for whom George
Nv. provided, died also at an advanced
age. Dwarfs are better constituted, SO
Barnum says, than giants, both men
tally aud physically.
Sone unpiineipled dealers, because
they could set few cents more profit,
have been guilty Of offering wotbless
substitutes for the only original and
genuine Sulphur Soap GLENN's by
name. Therefore, the public should
guard against this deception, and al
ways ask for GLENN's SULPHUR Soar,
by its full name, and take 40 other.
Read The following evidence from a
highly respectable source:
G. N. CRITTENToN, ESQ.
Dear Sir: have travelled foi three
years for Messrs. Charles Seribner's
Sons, publishers. New York, and desire
to inform yal that have used yonr in
comparable GLENN's SULPHUR Soar
exclusively for about four years also
have recommended it to very many per-
sons my constant experience has been
that it possesses all the medical advan-
tages that you claim for it. All to
whom I have recommended it say as
well as myself, that it deserves its estab
lished reputation as the best and most
effieacions Sulphur Soap that can be
used for all skin cleansing, as well as
toilet purposes. Some unprincipled
Druggists have endeavored to substitute
other kinds of sulphur Soap for Glenn's
saying they we're just az good. but ,
having myself tried other kinds, | find
NONE so good OF 50 beneficial as the
Genuine Sulphur Soap stamped
.sGLENN's,'' and this have observed
always bears the name of &C. N. Crit
tenton, PROPRIETOR" on the packet.
Yours, truly, C. T. 2. DURAND.
Hilns Haif. and Whisker Dye, black OF
l,,ow1. fifty certs.s