The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-24
General Notes.
The Atchafalaya is yet rising.

1ut Atcntldiisyd Is yet rising.
Red River is rapidly falling above
Shreveport, but slowly below.
The town of Plaquemine is raising
the purchase money for steam engine.
A large stock of Writing and Wrap
ping Paper, Paper Bags and Twine at
the Star Grocery.
Ouachita River and Bayou Bartholo-
NEW have risen and inundated several
fine plantations.
Samuel L. Boyd & Co., of Orleans,
have failed, and their business been
given into the hands of receiver.
The amendment extending the cor
porate limits of Lake Charles was car
ried by a majority of twenty one.
| About $500 have been subscribed
and collected for the purchase of
steam fire engine for the town of Pla-
quemine.
The bite of a cat two years ago
caused, so said, the death from hydro
1 phobia of Alphonse Trichard at New
I Orleans on the 10th instant.
The public schools of st. Mary parish
will be opened on the fifteenth inst,
and will be continued for three months.
Morgan City Review.
LaureauyiIle is small town midway
/ on the Teche, between st. Martinsville
! and New Iberia, 1t has seven stores, a
hotel, butchershop and a first-rate
/ bakery.
/ Catherwood's Old Stock and other
Whiskies, Peach Brandy, Jamaica
Rum, Cherry Cordial, Peach and Hon
ey, Port, Sherry, White and Claret
Wines, Porter, Beer, ETC., at the Star
! Grocery
Out in Dakota they are planting box
elder orchards for sugar making pur-
poses, and it is declared that the yield
Of sap is about the same in quantity
and superior in quality to that from the
maple tree.
I'll. T. Yaryan, of Toledo, o., has in
vented a new apparatus for converting
cane juice into sugar, which is expect
ed to work revolution in expediting
and cheapening g taking off " of. sugar
crops. Capt. Ker, of Iberia parish, has
gone to inspect and test it-City Item.
II is said that $I5O,OOO,OO0 over and
above the sum needed to carry on the
government is lying idle in the treas
ury vaults in Washington. And still
the honest working man is heavily
taxed on the very necessaries of life.
Is there no cure for this TN. .. Eve
ming Chronicle, May 90.
The Declaration of Independence,
made at Charlotte, Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina, one hundred and eight
wears ago to-day, May Goth, l775-an-
tedates that proclaimed at Philadelphia
1876, by more than q year. Nortf
Carolinians are justly proud of this his
torical incident, and many continue tt
celebrate the anniversary of the same
', with spirit and patriotic feeling.-N. .
Daily States, May 20.
So great is the rush of visitors to the
Exposition grounds that the three Of
+ four lines of cit. cars running from
Canal street to the Park are INSULT
cient to accommodate comfortably the
crowds of people seeking transportation
! AS the buildings and improvement!
progress the number of visitors will in
crease until the demand for additiona
travelling facilities will be SO great as t
REQUIRE some other method of transpor.
!. tation than that afforded by the stree
] ears.-N. o. Daily States.
# The Governors inaugural address
an instructive State paper. 1t review
& the manner in which the administra
tion was assailed and subsequently, ap
i, proved by majority of $1,000 votes
/ and asks for it the moral support an
d active assistanceof good citizens. Tax
q alton has been reduced from 2l5 to
g mills on the dollar. Confidence has re
is moved financial embarrassment. Illit
i eracy in the State is alarming and hig
if branches of education should be th
d privilege Of all ali primary accompanle
Ii by industrial instruction. The Cover
q nor pays tribute to the newspaper as
Ie teacher, notes the great natural capi
d bilities of the State, and favors q tarl
le for revenue that will incidentally pr
tect industries until they become sci
1t sustaining. Evening Chronicle, May 2
q Gov. MeEnery was inaugurated ye
DC terday at Baton Rouge in the presen'
Of 4 large concourse of the peopi
e The oath of office was administered
ie Chief Justice Bermudez The Cove
Dor's inaugural was brief, but clear an
o. comprehensive. The new adminlstratlo
ae has our best wishes for its success
The public welfare demands thatitshou
not be recklessly assailed either +
Id mere personal animosity or for partiss
O. nagnoses, nor blindly followed wheth
It be right or wrong. The interests
Louisiana are paramount to either e
nt malevolence of his political enemies
IS. the personal success, or popularity
M the governor. But he is now out
8. poltics aud at the head of the Stat
ia and honest and patriotic. men Of
factions and of all parties should do
4; id their power to uphold his hant
- second the wise measures OF his adml
I I;s istration and assist him in advanci
), IS the prosperity Of the State. IN. 9. u
IL States
There is an air of general thrift
I'd New Orleans which shows the city
II be on q quiet boom. Real estate
H. firm and held for high prices, q grs
We deal Of building is going on, while
or pairing is almost universal. Ihe wal
sar Of builders are not moro than comic
lie ably supplied with help, for every
advertisements are seen almost Deggl
for carpenters, bricklayers, plastere
IL nainters aud all Of the trades general
70 r1he boom, which is now beginning
Nd earnest. Is not of that tfeverish charac
,xt which sometimes attacks a city, bull
.st ,ts,., l,v,s q mn sIayanfn growth and I'll