The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-01-09

General Notes,

General Notes.
A party of travellers recently made
the journey from Sau Francisco ta Lon
don, via New York and Liverpool, in Il
trifle less than fourteen days
The small pox still fingers in Chica-
go, bat is closely watched to prevent its
spreading. In Montreal it has been
nearly stamped out and ceases to cause
much alarm.
The Howard Artesian well IN Lafay.
cite Square, New Orleans, is now over
one thousand feet deep and the layers
are brcoming 30 hard that progress IL
becoming daily slower.
Gen. Crook cuts into the Indian bust.
ness with this keen sentence: "Greed
and avarice on the part of the whites
in other words. the almighty dollar-is
at the bottom of nine-tentbs of all our
Indian troubles
The salary of the French President
is $l20, 600 year, with an additional
$4,000 for household expenses, making
a total of $4,000. NJ. Gr6vy, who has
just been reelected for a term of seven
years, is now 72 years old.
From a friend and correspondent at
Rayne, we learn that a colony of five
European French families recently 10
Gated at Prairie Hayes iu st. Landry
parish. This is one of the healthy signs
Of the times.-Lafayette Advertiser.
Congressman Hahn stated, recently.
to the Washington correspondent of the
Times Democrat that the majority of
the appointments made by the Presi-
dent in Louisiana will not be contested,
but he is sure hat at least two will be-
Mr.. Hahn declined to give their uames
The States is Of the opinion that in
iln loud clamor about the wrong to
society and outrage upon justice in the
Ford and Murphy reprieve, there is
more politics than anxiety to see the
laws vindicated, aud so are we.-New
Iberia Enterprise.
Much ill feeling aud disgust exists in
New Orleans aud throughout the State
as we'll as Texas, at the close listed ac-
ton of the Morgan Railroad in refusing
to reduce rates for even il few weeks,
when the existence Of the Exposition is
SO lnucli jeopardized by an absence of
visitors iberia Enterprise.
A careful poll of the Sehate and
HeuS. of Representatives, shows a very
decided maturity III each house opposed
to any tilkasis,g With the silver cur
reiIcy of the country Tie West and
South are satisfied with silver and the
North aud East will have to cave in
and swallow their disgust for a base
metal,
Gov. McEnery has Issued u proclama-
tinn ordering that ~ election be held
in the parishes of rebonne aud st.
Mary, these parisaeH constituting the
Nineteenth Judicial District, fer dis
tiict Judge, to fill he vacancy caused
by the death III Hon. E. $. Goode, said
election 10 he held on Wednesday,
March 81, 1856.
The Police Jury of Union parish have
fixed the license of selling Intoxicating
liquors for 1886 III $500 This action
will at least have his one good effect,
if III, other, it will close all tile cross
road country gragshops, which are such
potent factors III dlsorganizing labor IN
every neighboihooa whore they are al-
lowed to exist. Batan Rouge Truth.
It appears now, that the Balkan ques-
ti0n aill be settled without any more
bIalslslled between Servia aud Bulga-
ria, sH BIZ insoising airy of the greater
poWels IN tile difficulty Bulgaria car
fies het point III becolaing united with
Roanaiia. which seems TO be earnestly
desired bs both prineipalitres. and
agreed TO by contiguous European
governments,
The Clinton Southern Watenman
says: From the quantity Of cotton
seed going oui Of this parish to the oil
mills, it is safe to predict, that If our
farmers continue 10 sell off their only
and best linnie fertilizer from their
lands, that it will be but short while
till they will be the nnenvied tillers Of
broad acres that will yield them bale
Of cotton to every five or ten acres eul-
tivated and of corn full thirty barrels
Co every ten OF fifteen acres! Selling
cotton seed means poorer lands and
shorter crops
1T is noticeable,r remarks Life Lon.
donl, ssthat the Queen, after returning
to Windsor from Scotland or elsewhere,
always pays an early visit to the En-
press Eugenie. The difference in their
fortunes, fit has any influence with the
Queen, only makes her more sympa-
thetic and affectionate. But while the
Empress ID the survivor of d fallen
DYNASTY, and the Queen is M Empress
whose throne is the firmest III the world,
they are women who have peculiar
griefs in common, in presence of which
tile difference 10 their external fortune
10. rs nothing"
Saws the Baton Rouge Truth: Tho
respite Of Ford and Murphy has been
pretty generally commended By the
press throughout the State. Tho fol-
loving taken from the Morehouse Clari-
Oh is q pretty fair sample of the senti-
ments they express: Every man In Bas-
trop. 80 far as We know, exults over the
action the Governor took when he
granted Ford and Murphy another res.
bite If the ladies of this town and
parish desire to make a move in the
interest Of mercy and justice, they will
initiate the noble ladies Of the city Of
Baton Rouge, who are signing q psti-1
tion to The Palaloning Board for y com I
mntation of the death sentence OF those
two men to life imprisonment. Let