The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
General Notes.

A piano mas been made IN Paris from |
paper, taking perfect polish and having
sweet tone.
The Baton Rouge Building and Loan
Association has been fully organized
and is now working finely Truth.
Ireland, according to recent official
| reports, now has less than 5000, 900 in
habitants.
Gen. B. B. Simms, of Louisiana, has
been appointed chief Of special agents
of the General Land Office
The steamboat Ranger on her trip to
Upper Red River sank above Shreve-
port. Total loss.
In view of the recognized prevalence
of immortality, large cities in England
are compelled to form vigilance com
mittees.
A Florida editor snapped his paper
for mule. We mention this to show
some Louisiana editors that there is au-
other field open to them
The Grand Army of the Republic pro-
| pose to erect monument to Gen Grant
by getting each Of the 300, 900 members
of the body to subscribe ten cents
The Pointe Coupee Banner has been
shown Burke peach from the Hill Side
nursery, j. l.. Normand proprietor,
which measured twelve and three
quarters inches in circumference.
Sagacious leaders in St. Petersburg
and Berlin are watching English politics
very closely. The meeting of the three
emperors of Germany, Austria and Rus,
sia is an ominous event in the political
situation of Europe.
President Cleveland at Albany de-
clared he did write letter of rebuke
| to a petition signer, and if politicians
misled him much more i'm favor of un-
worthy applicants for Office he would
print the names of the politicians and
let the public see how the improper ap
pointments came about.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and Messen-
ger. sit is popularity supposed that the
whole South is in the saddle again, but
this is frightfnl error. Many poor
devil down here is still riding bareback,
and the worst of it is, the Democratic
mule has gotten himself tangled np i'll II
wire fence
The main reason for Austria's decli
ming to receive Minister Kelley is be-
cause his wife, though now Roman
Catholic, was born Jewess. If the
Jewish bankers were to foreclose their
mortgages on the Hapsburgs, Francis
Joseph would have to grind an organ for
living. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
The boldness Of the Cleveland strik
ers is unprecedented They refuse to &C
eede to the demand of their employers,
and openly resist and frustrate all at
tempts to resume work At meeting
held recently the red flag was waved
and the use of dynamite recommended.
The strikers are mostly foreigners.
The anomaly is presented in Rapides
parish of tr;tdesmcn taking ont u. 5. In
ternal Revenue licenses to sell whisky,
while TO the State tax collector they
make preteHce of strict compliance with
the loc:, prohibItory law. Auditor
/, Steele should be granted special agent
!, or two charged to solve sach tax puz
zles.
In the eleven months before prohibi-
+ tion went iato effect i'll this parish there
. were eighteen persons killed, al! attrib-
uted to whisky. SInce prohibition went
into effect, about thirteen months ago,
!, only one killing affair has taken place.
? This was caused by whisky, as both the
slayer and victim were drunk at Ne
i gro ball Alexandria Town Talk.
4 The newspapers from New York to
{ San Francisco published the lie that
: there were a dozen cases of yellow fever
9 here, and an epidemic imminent, with
b displayed headlines and much conspic-
tx7I, laiu IN
: notice the contradiction Of the meTda-
: cious report, did SO in "A slurriDg, OBJ
scure manner. Why is New Orleans
selected for such malicious misrepre-
r sentation-snch injurious defamation
q Like attacks arc made on no other city
4 of the country Certainly, New Orleans
. has never given the least evidence, to.
4 ward any one of them, of so devilish q
spirit of hate. IN. O. City Item
e An unknown man wearing long
d linen duster and accompanied by small
q party of men passed through the New
= York entrauce to the Brooklyn bridge
II Thursday Then the man with dust
er hastily threw off that garment and
e showed himself attired in close-fittins
b jumping suit. He quickly ran to th,
side Of the bridge and, climbing through
the wire netting, jumped off. He stood
a perfectly erect for about 100 feet of thu
.. fall, then he suddenly doubled up, anG
=. a second later struck the water like I
1t bullet from rife. His body y-disappear
i ed and did not come to the surface
n again. The men who were with th
&. jumper quickly disappeared. It's sup
J. posed he sought fame in doing wha
t. Odlum failed to do.
,r The Shreveport Times, of Wednes
q day, says: Mr. EndeIle, the mininI
d expert, Of tile Times Democrat, reaches
Shreveport yesterday morning on his re
l. turn from the Lou Ellen iron furnace
j near Kellyville, ID Texas. He informe'
Is us that this furnace was establishe
q about 1868, and that the ore yields abou
so per cent of pure iron The sectio
from which this ore is taken is entirel
/ similar to the iron fields of North Lou
l. isiana, and we have every reason to be
il lieve that there is sufficient iron in thi
m section to make it profitable. Mr.. En-
le derle goes this morning to Lincoln parish
i He will sink drill on the farm of MI
ID Al. Il. w. Reed, thirteen miles north
Of west Of Ruston, near Knowles pos
J. office. The sinking of this drill ha
D. been. determined on to test the questio
ri If the presence of ore iii the clay strat