The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-12

st. Mary parish has 608 square miles
OF territory, incorporated in 1911, and
1881 inhabitants.
Morgan City Review: We learn
that Judge Beattie will commence pro-
| ceedings in the Fontelieu- Gates case in
the second week Of the June term ot
Court, in this parish
Morgan City Review: Business men
OF New Orleans have protested against
passing the Sunday law, and a heavy
influence will be brought to prevent it's
passage by the Senate.
The fee which President Cleveland
gave DR.. Sunderland for performing
the marriage ceremony was a new,
crisp $l00 bill. Mrs, Sunderland in
tends to have il framed and preserve
it as a souvenir Of the marriage.
The statement of the Louisiana and
Texas Railroad aud Steamship Com
pany, for the year ending Dec. 81 last,
showed: Gross earnings, $4,32 ,0l8 /;
operating expenses, So, ,629, ,542; other
charges, 1914, ,469; net surplus, $758,
OO7.
His enemies are predicting that Gov
ernor McEnery will not be reelected
in 1888 as confidently and positively as
if he were now q pronounced candidate.
His friends do not believe McEnery de-
sires to be Governor again, although it
is questionable if a better Governor for
this State could be found by her people.
Governor McEnery is seeking and de-
serves "softer place" and that is a
seat on the Supreme Bench. Will bis
traducers "give him Il rest" should he
succeed Judge Todd in 1882 We
hope they will.-MorehoRse Clarion.
The Republican party has done moth
lug fof the negroes since emancipation,
except to get them into trouble with
their white nelghbors, by using them
as the ignorant instruments of foisting
corrupt State governments upon the
people. A year of Democratic rule
having shown the colored people that
their tights and privileges are as secure
under one party rs under the other, a
good many more of them will cease to
acknowledge the Republican mortgage
upon them hereafter.--Boston Herald,
Ind
In all tile Southern cities the high
license candidates have defe;Ied the
Prohibiiioms;s ut he recent elections
License should be adjusted to the de-
lnands s,f reeentt.. 1t should be high
on the sale III liquors, because the sale
of liquors occasions large expenditures
a,.1 t,f,Iioa a,t1 fnp tho polin E
of pauperism. A high license works
advantageously to the taxpayer in two
directions first, by making the liquor
trade contribute adequately to the ex-
pense which it creates, and secondly,
by making the trade less productive of
public expense by intrusting its man
agement Ia responsible men.-Indian-
apoIis Times, Rep.
The EGYPTIAN SPHINX. some
months past, excavations have been
carried on at Ghizeh, near Cairo, with
the view of freeing the famous Egyp-
tian Sphinx from the masses of sand
which have gradually buried the mon,
ument. M. Maspero, the Director of
the Boulak Museum, has superintended
the operations, which have proved re-
markably successful, and in recent
letter he states: ,'The result is beyond
all my hopes. The face, raised fifteen
meters above the surface, is becoming
expressive, III spite Of the loss of the
nose. The expression is serene and
calm. The breast has been good
deal injured, but the paws are almost
intact. We have nearly reached the
limits Of the diggings of Mariette and
Caviglia. The work now going on is
in beds of sand, which have not been
disturbed since the first centuries of
our era