The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1885-11-07
General N otes.


Four hundred beeves have been ship
ped to Chicago from Lake Charles.
The choir at Cardinal McCloskey's
funeral numbered over 1000 voices.
The State Normal school opened at
on Nov. 2. Tuition free.
Over 1000 Christians have been mas
sacred in AMMAN, including ten native
priests.
The Confederate veterans of Shreye
port are raising funds to erect monn-
ment to their dead.
1t is generally believed in Rome that
the Archbishop of Baltimore will short
ly be made Cardinal.
The broom handle factory at Gads-
den, Miss, shipped two carloads of
base ball bats recently.
Mrs. Black Bear. a Piegan sduaw,
died recently at the Black Feet reserva-
tion, Montana, aged l24 years.
An artesian we'll is now being bored
in the yard Of the st. Charles Hotel.
New Orleans, which is to be goo feet
deep.
The resignation of DR.. c. B. Darrall,
as Register of the u. S. Land Office at
New Orleans has been rendered and ac
cepted.
Since the beginning of the summer
5000 Frencbmen have died from cholera
in Tonquln and large numbers are still
daily succumbing to the disease.
Two Shreveport liquor dealers are
being prosecuted criminally for selling
liquor to miner, John Daley, who was
run over by train, and killed while
drunk.
At recent wedding in London the
bridesmaid and groomsman were chill
dren of the groom by his first and di-
vorced wife, who was also present at
the ceremony.
Somebody ought TO tell John Sher-
man that among the rightssguaranteed
to the negro is the privilege Of voting
for Democrat if he chooses --Phila-.
deIphia Times. Ind.
The municipal authorities of Alexan-
dria have contracted for the erection of
a Charity Hospital. The building is to
be of brick, two stories high, 100 feet
long, 90 feet wide and so feet to the top
of the dome.
The Republicans still hold a, 900
fourth-class postmasters to the Demo
Gratis $500, and 1900 presidential post
Offices to $50 filled with Democrats.
The equilibrium is still good ways off.
Boston Herald
The fret transfer of ears over the
Mississippi between Delta and Vicks-
burg, was made last Tuesday. Through
freight and passenger trains are now
run from Shreveport to Meridian with
out change Shreveport Chief, Nov. 2.
Railway men are beginning to con-
denim the locomotive headlight, which,
by the way, is not in use in Europe.
They say that il is, of little or no utility,
and its powerful illunination tends to
render indistinct the colors of signal
lights on the track ahead.
The Importance and value of the to-
bacco crop in Virginia are very clearly
shown i'm the statement of the Lynch
burg Advance that Lynchbnrg pays
more revenue i6to the United States
Treasury, on the single article of to-
baeco, than any ono of Che New England
States pays on everything it produces,
It appears that the United States
Consul at Moscow, Russia, E. G.. Van
Riper, has been putting up q job on the
exhibitors from that city at the New
Orleans Cotton Centennial Exposition.
He has been charging them so much Q
piece for the medals which were award
ed by the Board of Administrators oi
the Exposition. He will be bounced
promptly.
The preliminary work at this end Oi
the Louisiana Central Railroad is being
steadily advanced. The centre line o.
the road bed was recently located and il
all probability dirt will be broken short
IN. Judge Parkerson was III Bator
Rouge during the past week where, by
the way, there seems 10 be sone con
tention al to the location of the depot
Lafayette Advertiser, Oct. 81
ST. Louis, Nov. 2.-The wife of Po.
lice Officer Michael Gallagher, Of thii
city, to day gave birth TO d quartett,
Of healthy girl babies, at her home, 100
Biddle street. The lady is a medium
sized woman, about twenty mine years
OF age, and was the happy mother of sil
children before the advent of the fou
strangers to-day. Mother aud children
are doing well, bat the gallant police
officer has not ret recovered from hi
surprise.
Some of the South Carolina planter
are abandoning cotton as an unprohta
bic crop, and entering with enthusiasm
upon The cultivation OF tobacco. Theg
say that North Carolina and Virginia
have grown rich on tobacco The fin
golden-colored leaf of North Carolinl
and Virginia, such as was once used
after the war, to make smoking tobacco
iii the kind the South Cnrolinians pro
pose to cultivate In the middle and ssup
country distrieta, q kind which ha
found favor, under the generic name Q
Virginia tobacco, among smokers il
England e upper classes For the s1os
country region the Cuban seed -leaf ]
thought To bA the best and the Chariea
ton News and Courier announces tina
that establishment Is prepared 70 dis
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