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The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

Les chiffres qni suivent don.
nent une idee des distances aux
Etats- Unis: El Paso, Texas, qui
est a mi-chemin du grand sys-
tsme de chemin de fer qui' relic
la cote du Pucifique a celle de
pAtlantique, est situ6 q 1168
miles de 10 Nouvelle- Orleans, a
1886 miles de San Francisco, a
1850 miles de la vile de Meyi-
co.
Il a 6te mis-, en- Louisiana, 49,
7S2, lS4 lettres q la poste, en- 1880
-moyenne de IA lettres par habi-
tant.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13
Joseph COrlBet,

-Entreprene,r de Ponspes Fu1aebres
EESIENT constamment en- mains ct fait sur
commando des CERCUEITsS de toutes
sortes 3 des prix rnod6res.
Atelier rue du Nord, pres luton, deFriare
ID groesrie de Chris. Dsitlsia. 9aectf
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

M. Pendleton, auteur de la
loi sur la r6forme du service
civil, est un des hommes les plus
riches des Etats- Unis; il de-
pense 800, 1000 par an pour l'en-
bellissement de ses diverses resi-
dences-son elegant hotel a
Washington, sa maison a Gin.
einnati, son cottage" a Con-
way, New Hampshire, elsa villa
au Mount Desert, Maine.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

true and s Correct m % COW Of the osainal op file
aud Of record in my Office.
Given under my hand aud seal Of Office. at
Opelousas the 5th day Of October, A. D. 1882.
j. B A. FONTEN0T,
Deputy Clerk aud Deputy Recorder.
Oet7.5t
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Posamasters

Are requested to notify us when any of our
subscribers fail TO take their papers from the
pestofice. We believe blanks are furnished
them for that purpose.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

OPELoUsas, La. Oct 5th, 1882.
Having carefully examined oil the provis.
ious contained in the foregoing Act Of Iucor.
poratioD. and finding none of them contrary
to nor conflicting with the existing laws,
hereby approve the same
T. FERREOL PERRODIE,
District Attorney, 18th Judicial Dist.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

La loi sur les ALLEGATIONS pour
le maintien de l'armee, discutee
par la Chambre des Represen-
tants, d Washington, aIloue $24,-
681, 700, pour pann6e 1884. La
tlemande primitive 6tait de $685.
644, l45.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

w A rentree des classes flu Convent aura
IL heu1e lundi septembre Les parents
sont instrument prizes d'envoyer leurs enfants
dies le premier jour. aue27
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

il" Tn fills ne doit pas douter de sa
mere; lie t5uncais qui desespere de
la France a'est pas Francais"--LEoN
GAMBETTA.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13
OPELCUSAS DIRECTORY

4 ATREYTE, ETIENNE-Dry goods, bar
- ware, croekeryware, staple and fsncS
groceries. Main street, opposite Postofice.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

yEsHE OPELOUSAS COURIER.-Establish-
- ed 1852. Published weekly, English and
French; terms, $3.50 in advance. Main st.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-01-13

DOOS, DAyID-Dry Goods, Clothing Hats,
II Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Hardware, Go,
Corner Main and Bellevue streets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
A VITN FFEORT

The Democratic newspapers OF this state are
now hard at work endeayoring to make their
readers believe that the last Legislature did Its
duty by the people, was model OF economy
and efficiency, and looked out for the interests
of the taxpayers rather than those OF the tax
eaters. When confronted by the cold fact
that the State tax leyied by this same Legisla-
ture amounts TO $40 mills on the hundred dol
lars, "a against 2.45 mills last year, they all
with one accord begin to cry: OF course the TAI
sis higher than it was in 1882, but then 1t must
snot be forgotten that the adoption of the free
@canal amendments throws the expenses OF the
supcrintendepce and repairs of the canals upon
@the State" This explanation OF the increase of
taxation would be satisfactory were 1t not that
it was within the power and within the plain
duty of the Legislature, by passing tho meas
ures recommended by the nOn-partisan Tax
Commission, to raise a sum moro than suiii-
cent to defrsy the cost of free canals, independ-
ent of the State tax.
This point these eulOgists of the Legislature
carefully and persistently ignore. But folks
that have taxes to pay do not ignore it, and they
can be counted upon to remember 1t upon cleo
ton day. The least the friends and admirers
of the Legislature of 1888 have TO say about 1t
the better for the party that was responsible
for it, 1t fiagrantly neglected public interests.
1t labored with an eye single to partisan adj
vantage. Governor Cleveland went through its
main achievement. the Supply bill, and found
it so full of Objectionable features, jobs and
the like, that before be got through with it
one-half of its appropriation of the public
moneys had been Topped Of. 1t is easy to con-
lecture from his course on this leading bill OF
the session what the Democratic Governor
thinks of the genius of this Legislature for
prudence and economy.
We presume that the Democratic press will
continue to raise the cry of "free canals" all
through the coming campaign whenever the sub
ject of the increase of taxation is referred to-.
But it is not a cry that will deceive any candid
voter with head on his shoulders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
RID FOR RITTER.

Governor Buffers advance toward a Presi-
Dental nomination cannot be called a triumphal
progress. Like the frog in the well, he Jumps
ahead two steps only to fall back three. He is
much further away from nomination now
than he was six months ago. When he entered
upon the Goyernorship he had considerable
following of voters who had supported him
chiefly out Of curiosity to see how the old man
would actn Their curiosity is more than salts
fed. They have seen how he would act. and
are in no mood to take further responsibility
for such extraordinary conduct. He has not
only lost friends at home, but he has failed to
gain friends elsewhere aud in quarters where
lie had the most hope of gaining them. He is a
most strenuous friend Of the workingman,"
and spares no effort to aggravate every symptom
Of conflict between labor and capital. No DEM
agogue in the country has done more dirty
work of this sort than the Governor of Massa-
cbusetts. His whole administration has been
conducted as if he were defending a criminal in
a police court and rs If the prosecutor were the
State itself. Yet he has rolled in the mud for
nothing.
The workingmen Of the country have given
two striking illustrations recently that they
take no stock in him. When the Central Labor
Union met in this city ten days ago to ar
range for their annual picnic in September, q
motion was made to appoint Governor Butler
orator of the occasion. This was amended by
opposition to having him present in any ca
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

pacity was 40 violent, and so interspef-,d with
coarse allusions to sspoons," that the ssibject
was laid on the table by a large majority. ne
member said that he had been asked in 1877
to 90 into a scheme for making Butler the
workingmen's candidate for President ana had
declined. He was opposed to 1t then anu OPP
posed to it now. In the Chicago Anti-Monopoiy
Convention last week, Governor Buffers
name was proposed as q candidate Tor the
Presidency and was voted down by crushing
majority of so in total vote OF ia. lie
was able to muster only 81 votes. lie never
had any following from the conservative
order-loving classes; if now he is TO lose tne
support of the agitators also, his hope Tor the
Presidency is slim indeed.
In fact, there ia no support visible In any
quarter now. The Democratic journals OF the
South declare that if he were to become tue
Democratic candidate for the Presidency there
would be a sudden dissolution of the Solid
South and a tremendous increase in the major
ity of the Republican candidate. Not good
word for him Is heard anywhere. His issues
are all melting away also Even his beloved
Tewksbury investigation has become burden.
None of his charges have been sustained. All
of his witnesses have been shown to be worth
less. He tried to prove. among other things,
that there had been stealing by the managers,
nut as he could get no evidence to sustain such
a charge, he was forced to let the matter rest
by exclaimiDg In the court of inquiry: "They
aole like the devil" Then he lost two bills
which had been sent to him by the Legislature,
and inHmated pretty plainly in message that
they had been stolen by his political enemies,
adding that he was investigating the matter.
When the Investigation resulted in showing
that he had drOppel them carelessly In the
bottom of hired carriage where they were
found by stable-boy, se did not think it
worth while to withdraw as insinuation
about their being stolen, or to sats how they
had been lost. When he accuses State officers
for not calling upon him, they are ftrced TO
explain that he is so discourteous in his Ian
guage toward them that they prefer to remain
away. These are few Uf the chief fruits OF
his administration, and they are clearly not
the sort OF stuff from which campaign issues
are made. lie has lost the respect of the re-
spectable and has failed to win tho confidence
of ANYBODY else. 1t is our opinion that II he
runs for the Presidency next year he Will have
to nominate himself and go it alone"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
Neluialork Daily Grihma1e.
FOUNDED HORACE GREELEY
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY IL.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

ForEIGN-The American riflemsn made good
.cores at Wimbledon Yesterday both in practice and
In shooting for prizes. - An important witness
Cor the defence in the Jewish murder trial has com
mitted suicide. - The joint Parliamentary
Committee has reported against the Channel tunnel
proiect; a railway bridge from France to Englandis
talked Of - The French Foreign Minister out
lined the latest attitude of France to the Ton
min affair. - The feeling Of hostility to tho
Vatican is growing in England. - The Com
mittee of the House of Lords has made an adverse
report on the Irish Land Act.
Observation-Disclosures to the Pennsylvania Re-
publican State Convention were arriving at Harris
burg yesterday. - Riotous miners at Ely, W.,
were released. - Francis NJ. Ker of Chicago
accused of stealing $50 OOO was brought by detec-
tiyes to San Francisco. 80 testimonial OF the
Grand Army of the Republic was presented to the
authorities of Baltimore. - An increase OF the
State canals tonnage was reported. 80 Electric
lieht wires were cut by the city electrician of
Chicago - The National Archery Tournament
began at Laurel Grove near Cincinnati. &C. The
crops of the Red River Valley were reported to be
ruined owing to a lack Of rain.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The Monmouth Park
races yesterday were won by Haledon, Eccola, Miss
Woodford Volusia, Clara B. and Bally. - The
tenement house inspectors began work in earnest.
- The yacht Romeyn beat the Daisy and the
uderan. Tile first Civil Service examination
under the new law was held at the Post Offce--
William Ellsworth. the Oldest insurance president
ia the two cities, died in Brooklyn. 80 The Mer-
camille Exchange took action against the trade
dollar. - A boy died at Fort Hamilton from
hydrophobia caused by a cats scratch. - Slight
hopes of the recovery of the burglar wounded in
Jersey City we're entertained. 80 There is talk
Of reviving the Citizens movement. - Gold
value of the legal silver dollar (4122 grainsl
e. rs cents - Stocks were active at declining
figures and closed unsettled.
TIE wEATHER.-TRIBUYE local observations in-
Sieate fair or clear and slightly warmer weather.
T.mverature Yesterday Highest. SIC; lowest, $50;
average. 1882
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
GENERAL NOTES,

One of the advantages on the side of the mis-
sonarles IN Alaska says the Row. 8. Hall Young. who
has recently returned for short from Fort wrange
hes IN the fact that tho In all RESPECTS tho
equals of the men, The principal obstacles TO he over
superstition and drunkenness. There are at
present twenty missionaries In that Held and their labor
Is meeting with "a satisfactory reward.
The sixtieth semi-annual statement OF the
Home Insurance Company of New-York appears In
another column It shows that July the cash assets
of the company $7,l7l.27o g.. distributed as fol-
lows Cash Capital $4,000 600 reserve for unearned
premiums, S22122 OF reserve for unpaid losses and
claims, S2o9,71l 81; net surplns, III 9292 6l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
Office lately. 1t would be interesting to knowh
these four men still hold their old places.

Timid Englishmen get little rest. The joint
committee OF the two Houses OF Parliament
has rejected the scheme for tunnel under
the English Channel; but simultaneously with
that decision comes the announcement that a
plan has been started in Paris to build bridge
across the Straits of Dover. A bridge might
not be quito so bad as tunnel. The French
army could hardly start to cross ii without
being seen from the English end as soon as they
began to march, while they might have got half
way through tunnel before being discovered.
However, the English will think they would
have to keep just as large an army to guard
against invasion by bridge MS by tunnel, and
there would be the same liability to panic.
The anxiety of certain Britons on these points
seems ludicrous at this distance. Moreover, 1t
is difficult to refrain from the thought that the
French get up such projects chiefly to torment
their neighbors. If that is their plan, they are
succeeding well.
slThe present designs of France in TOnquin,
as set forth yesterday by the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs, are much less am
bilious than they were few months ago.
When the troops were first landed near Ha- MOI
French officials declared their intention of as
suming the protectorate of the entire peninsula
from Saigon to the Chinese frontier. The
province of Tonquin was to be occupied In
force, and routes were to be opened into the
Chinese province of Yunnam. Hostile infu-
ence was to be driven from the Court of Hue,
and the suzerainty of China over AMMAN was
to be denied. But now NJ. Challemel-Lacour
announces that all France wants to do is to
occupy the Tonquin delta; that the Republic
has no intention of conquering AMMAN; but
that her treaties must be respected. After
such decided modification of the Govern
ment's former attitude, it is not to be won
dered at that NJ. Paul de Cassagnac made
some unpleasant remarks in the Chamber
of Deputies about the inconsistency OF the
Prime Minister.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

dividend q sweeper cent rs ben declared peyss's
demand.
Anew Indictment was brought against the
unhappy trade dollar BY bride Of six months Last Mcos
day In philadelphia Her husband. william Hartley
had beaten her, but # was al on account OF thesa
dreadful trade dollars" she whispered into Magistrate
Ftndays ear william had given her TIRES Of them On
Saturday to purchase family supplies for Sunday but
as she could not pass them and william declared that
he had no other money, their table Yves esld nIshed
forth with naught but bread and water Then WILLIAM
away Sm ssG rot 0r on sS
he was angry and maltreated her'
An epidemic of suicide has visited the Hun
earsn capital Within two weeks three eminent publia
officials shot themselves dead two OF Thorn because they
hsd been guilty POPULATION and feared exposure and
the third he had become convinced that his long
services had no prospect of being adequately recognized
The wretched pay of public officials has doubtless been
the cause OF many suicides but Magyar journal taxes
broader view and thinks that the pessimsm preached
nv schopenbauer "a q philosophy. has filtered down
through ali ranks of society the rule OF NE me same
journal remarks From the Minister OF state 10 the DAY
laborer from the lover out OF luck 10 the rned specu-
iator on ;Change comes one and the same CON plsin
Life is of no value Why should proongitp
A correspondent living at Franklin, Sussex
County. N. J.. sends to THE TRIBUNE the following
count OF the queer caper OF tempest Wncn s"epe
through that village last week: Like AN avengng sps
IL concentrated all its fury and rage on par Oh large
willows one forty feet In height and eight rect around
the base and the other nearly as large striking IN
direct line at their great 1t ripped them up a.
thew had been nothing but weeds thenwhich seemed
remarkable freak-sped ts way without disturbing
branch q twig anywhere else In tne sclnty;
These great twin trees that nad in &
were not divided IN death No SOUND was neau - 'acy
fell demoshing both lines OF fence Leading 70 tns
grounds Of the house, and completely blocking up inc
road"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
NO DUBIOUS ALLIANCES Ian. WANTED.

There is no tonic that can bring QUA
states that the Republicans must gain they
win 1t the next election, to the extent thas
An utter freedom from dubious than dubious
alliances can The results in last November point un'
erringy to the sensitive character of tho Republican
vote and the wisdsm OF Straightforward campaign.
they signify that the hands of certain class OF schmers
must kept OF the party machinery aud they 90 nos
leave any Tor doubt to who OF the ndivid
uals composing that class are.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
THE INDEPENDENT VOTER AND THE DE
MOCRACY

The Democrats are beginning to un-
derstand that they cannot DEPEND upon the
ment given TO their party iast year. Tns
which they at that time made them 50 con-
dent OF victory year that they became Immediately
reckless after their stupid old fashion. Not snsc
convention has repeated the pledges OF sup
port Civil Service reform with which they nusn
last year, and their leading organs openly deride II
Scarcely OF them hes had the courage 70 sy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

The prospect is that the Republican State
Convention at Harrisburg, Penn, to-day will
be harmonious in working out It's nominations.
So far from having its candidates already
selected, it will be seen by our dispatches from
Harrisburg that the aspirants for office are
about four times as numerous as the places to
be filed. The most interesting part of the
proceedings to-day, and the most significant,
probably. will be in relation to the platform
and the election of chairman of the State
Committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

Persons leaving tocn TOR the season and summer trar-
s1ers. can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE mailed TO them.
yestpaid for 81 90 per month"; the address being changed
~ often as desired The DAILY TRIBUNE ,ciH be sent
any address in Europe for 81 60 per month"; ~hioh in
e3Haes the ocean postage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

Dr. B. G. Jenkins, who claims the credit Of hav-
ing predicted the present outbreak of cholera eleven
wears ago. contends III The Pail Mall Gazette that
tho disease which has periodically visited England
Is not Indian but Arabian, IN origin. The Indian
cholera no says. has uniformly exhausted itself in
Russia and Germany, whereas the Arabian in
every instance where Egypt has been attacked has
been communicated to England. For example, ia
March, 1865, the disease broke out In Mecca; IN
June it appeared in Alexandria. killing 10000 per-
sons In Egypt within three nohths nine days after
the first death occurred in Alexandria, the pestl-
lence was III France; and in September 1t was in
England. DIR. Jenkins takes the glUomest view OF
the present outbreak in Egypt, predicting that be-
fore tho year closes the disease will be making raw
ages in every quarter of the globe. The generally
accepted theory makes the Gauges the point Vt
origin in every periodical visitation the outbreaks
corresponding to the tweve-year pllgrimages to
the Hindoo temples IL Is easier in tho present In
stance IL must be admitted the progress of
the disease TO Mecca.
II 10 rumored that owing to the heat the allgators
are leaving the South for cooler latitude One OF
them was lately seen in Mill River, near New
Haven. 1t is earnestly to be hoped that the ALI
gators win neglect no precaution that is likely to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
PUBLIC OPINION.
CAPTURING rnE SPANISH VOTE

CAPTURING TIE SPANISH NOlh.
Prom TIE Cincinnati Enquirer Deta.l
Judge Hoadlys Toledo speech shows that the
Democratic candidate has wonderful fund OF informa
ton about affairs ln Spaiuainost equal TO sam hunrs
knowledge OF the Pyramids And this suggests that u
Hoadly will see ure us Spanish vote, and Mr. Hunt
can DE induced make lew speeches to the late SUB
ects OF Arab Bey, victory Will surely clap her wings
upon the Democratic banner In October.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

The extraordinary trial of the Jews in Ny
rsghhaza. Hungary, on the charge of numbering
3 Christian girl, abounds in sensational fea-
lures. One of the main witnesses for the de-
fence, coachman, has committed suicide. He
was the mao who stated that he heard the girl
talking in her house several hours after the time
the murder is said to have taken place. In All
ordinary trial the loss of such witness would
be great blow to the defence; but in this case
neither the evidence for the prosecution nor
for the defence seems to be worthy of belief
Worse wholesale lying, bribery and intimida-
ton have hardly been exposed in legal pro-
ceeding since the middle ages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

Mr.. George Washington Stuart. the cold,
calm, self possessed secretary OF the Brooklyn
Board of Education, who helped himself to sew
oral hundred thousand dollars in public funds
about two years ago and then fed, does not seem
TO have lost his calmness or self-possession even
In fight. If tho dispatches are to be believed,
he went directly from this city to Montreal and
registered himself and his wife at hotel with
out assuming fictitious name. Then be con-
suited lawyer and coolly prepared to resist
demand for eAtradition. The demand never
came. He was not even arrested. And yet ut
the time referred to, there were four New York
detectives in Montreal looking for the fugitive.
They must have been particularly stupid per-
sons, or they must have taken great pains not
20 find this cool thief. There has been reor-
1anization of the detective force at the Central
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11

The fifty young physicians who yesterday
began the work of looking after the health OF
the poor people in this city during this month
and next have neither an easy nor pleasant
task to perform. If the districts were numeri-
cally equal in population each would contain
about 5000 persons to be cared for. Most
of the occupants of tenement-houses have no
other medical treatment. The doctors, there
fore, will have their hands full If they work
ten hours day. and do not loiter by any
bedside longer than is absolutely necessary,
each one may be able to make the tour OF his
district once at least There is no doubt that
these young men will earn their 500
month. Some idea of the dimensions of the
charitable work to be done in this city is
gained from these facts, which pertain only to
one branch OF it.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

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