The Opelousas courier., 1885-07-11
General Notes.

When Mrs Lucille Yseult Dudley
who shot Rossa, left New York for th
Middletown Insane Asylum she carrie
in her satchel over $4,000 she receive
from persons all over the country sine
: the rendering of the verdict declafin
her insane.
Washington, July 6.-United State
,;sREsnn.' G,,aREssn' N. Mason M It Marseiles, inform
the Department of State that5 5IlGis InlG&ser :.
has again appeared in that city and
Toulou 4 general exodus from Mar
seilles has begun. He reports that the
apparent death rate is below the aver
age.
The moss backed croaker and grum
bier. who is too lazy and trifiing to dc
anything for the prosperity of the city
is the sort of man who will make all he
can out of the Exposition when it proves
the success it is destined to BEN. O
Times Democrat.
Georgia has l43.47I colered voters
the largest number of any of the South
ern States. Mississippi comes next
with 13O,278: then Virginia, 123,257
South Carolina, 1883; Alabama; LIS,
423 Louisiana, l07 ,977 North Carolina,
l05,018, Tennessee, 80 O,25O; Texas, 78,
$50 Kentucky, 5s,6 ,643; Arkansas, &c,
827, and Missouri, 33,042.
The Commissioner of Pensions, in
Secretary Lamar's department, is Civ
ing attention to the extravaganza hith-
erto practiced in that office, and has
decided to dismiss fifty or sixty of the
special examiners, as so many useless
employees of the Government. At this
rate the population of Washington is
evidently destined to be considerably
diminished, if this wholesale turning
out of Office continues as it has begun
since the Inauguration of the Cleveland
administration.-N. O. States.
! Mr.. E. N. Butler, of Liberty Hill.
Bienville parish, in this State writes to
notify us that his little daughter Geor-
giana, about five feet in height, dark
complexion, dark eyes, weight about 90
pounds, and fourteen years of age, has
! been kidnapped. He is anxious to get
some trace Of her. He is am old man,
in destitute condition, afflicted with
the palsy. Our exchanges will confer
a favor by republishing this. Any infor-
nation of the lost child should be sent
to Mr.. E. N. Butler at Liberty Hill.-
Shreveport Times.
If, at length, the time shall come
when an Indian State shall be organ
lied and admitted as member of the
Union, on the basis of common citl-
zenship, with it's resulting rights and
responsibilities, then those who are
living in that day will have abundant
occasion to hail it as an exhibition of
justice to a long injured race. Some
thing like this must occur or the Indian
race must at last become extinct on this
soil 1t cannot, IN it's present condition,
permanently resist the causes of its
final destruction. York Indepen-
dent.
A dispatch to The Times Democrat,
from Shreveport dated 4th inst, says
Cap. E. A. Carmonche, of Bossier,
died yesterday at Little Rock, from
Swamp fever. He was on his way to
Eureka Springs. He was q native of
Pointe Conpee parish, and at one time
represented St. Landry parish in the
Legislature, and during the war served
in the Second and Fourth Louisiana
Regiments He was one of the Confed-
crate prisoners on the Federal steamer
Maylowes during the war, who cap
tured her and run her into the Confed-
crate lines. His remains will reach
here to night.
The closing exercises of the Louisiana
State University took place Saturday
evening last President Boyd delivered
a baccalaureate address; Gen. Jastrem-
ski, on the part of the Supervisors, pre-
sented sword to Cadet Capt. A. T.
Prescott, and the latter presented gold
medal to Cadet A. *. Amacker ON the
partfof Company A. Gov. McEnery pre-
sented diplomas to the following cadets
Master of arts, L. p. Pugh, I'll. S. Chinet
and A. L. Prescott; Bachelor of arts,
Walter w. Bynum and B. A. Barbe;
bachelor of science, j. A. Williams |;
and the degree Of master of arts was
also conferred upon John w. Pearce, a
former pupil Of the University.
Pail Mall Gazette prints a hitherto
unpublished proclamation of the Ameer
of Afghanistan to his subjects, issued i'm
1882. It reviews the history of the AT
ghans, claiming that they are descended
from the ten lost tribes of Israel. 1t
traces their descent from Adam through
Jacob, their subsection in Egypt, their
deliverance therefrom by Moses,
their Wanderings in the desert, their
settlement in Syria under the Ameer-
ship of Saul and Solomon, the Baby
1onian captivity, their release, their
wanderings on the hills Of Ghour, and
their final settlement in Afghanistan.
It concludes by exhorting the Afghans
to trust in God, who will preserve them
from their terrible enemy, Russia, who
Is waiting to devour them
In regard to the retention Of Office by
Republicans, Gen. Logan's head is pret-
ty level. just before his recent visit to
Washington, he is reported to have
said to friend 81 hope every Repnb-
| lican who asks to be retained by this
Administration will be turned out of Of
/ flee. have received letter after letter
from Republicans IN Office, urging me
10 exert myself TO have them retained.
] shall not humiliate myself in that way.
| would rather help to get Republicans
of that sort ont. In fact, it is strange
! TO me that Republican would ask q
| Democratic Administration to keep him
in Office. No Republican would as x
Cleveland to appoint him, if he was out
Of office. Al petition for retention stands
on the same principle. It is virtually