The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-12-04

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Official Journal Of shn Parish Of ST. Landry.
prnlisnsnts SATURDAY NJ
4 LE0NCE u L. A. SAMDOZ.
ofEa.sstsAs:
-hiiiRt DECEMBER A, 1856
Congress meets next Monday.
The new artificial stone pavement in
front Of the store of j. Meyers & Co. is
nearly finished.
Choice lumber at cost see notice of
Mount Pleasant Saw Mills in another
column.
Our eportsneu are baggiug plenty of
jack-snipe md ducks now Snipe are
worth 75c. per dozen, large ducks 125 to
15c. sach
Sweet potatoes were selling at 75c.
per barrel on our streets during the
past week Still the general crop was
not heavy one.
Sam Malvean, one of our best eolored
farmers, died on last Saturday, aged
about 70 years. He was a qniet man
and an honest and Industrious citizen
4 colored man by the name OF
Adolphe Joseph was killed near Villo
Plato 90 last Sunday. We have re-
eeived 10 particulars Of the homicide.
Rice continues to pour into the mar
ket and several wagons laden with new
sugar and molasses have passed through
our streets during the past week.
Our new Courthouse, with its Man
sard roof, is looming up INTO grind pro-
portions. It sill doubtless Be III or
nameut To our tuwn and reflect credit
upou the skill and taste of it's builders
-Messrs. Harmon & Voss, III Baton
Rouge.
Thr Shreveport Tiu,es say :-0nl
exchanges will confer favor on THEFT
young Democratic readers and upon tlie
Times as well, BIZ giving prominence II
once t0 the fact that civil set vice ex-
animation for admission 10 ile postal
service, u i'll BIZ i,rid IN the city of New
Orleans on January litlt, 1887
There Is no lack If candidates III the
new parish Of the Acadia MIR W. &
Hornsby informs us that l, aid Mr.J
G. Lyons Are candidates foi the HOUSE.
Messrs. II. r.. Clark, G.. A Prrln.lia ai,d
O.. A. Bandro are candidates fol Clerk /;
and Mesars. e. W. Lyons, Frank
Brooks mid Homer Daigio ale caldi-
dates fnr Sheriff Al lively carnItsisn il
anticipated.
NEArHEE AND FAnM We iiase had
clear mud pleasant Weather dntiag iie
past week. The clouds were tilrt.atell
ing ~ "Wednesday morning btt the
wind shifted norfil Hpd tnrntd modsr,
ateiy eoal wiihs;nf any rain. The eol,
ton in the fields has sustained no mat
rial damage, and ID 4 few days n.t,it
the entire crop will be picked ant
ready for tie gil,.
4 Telegram from R,.yne gives the fol
loving account of tbs killing III D rner.
chant of that tuwfl, on Sunday evening
last: .Mr. r. NJ. Levy was accident
ally shot this evening Tie ball enter
cd his abdomen and caused his death il
one honr. It is supl,assd he was sllo
by negro to whom he was selling car
tridges The negro left town immedi
ately aud has not been idsntifiYd.n
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Tie Ableville Meridional of las
Saturday cnntains lie following p;ira
graph. We know nothing uf the sebem
referred to- Who soesf
It was whispered III ouf ear II ftu
days ago TINT, while thu citizens b
Rayne aud Prairie Hayes are discussing
the question It's to whicl, place woult
BIZ the most eligible point Il, build !
courthouse fui; the nfn parish of Acadia
sone partits iii Olaelousas are prisateI,
discussiDg tiae pfoplirt aud artaHgiii,
D scheme of hasiltg i heated six mile
west III tie former nalned place, an
calliug Hi ns.w san'u I'aikerAonyiiie.
The Scientific American, 1silbiislic,
by tli. gieat I,atent agency Glns 4
Mnnn g. Ga. New York, il the iD1s
praci icaly useful publication 1T II
kind iii the canntry Indeed, il occli
pies field distinctivels its own. No
alone for the rnachinist, manufacturer
or scientist, but II is i journal for pop
uinr psrusal and study. tits tie stand
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