The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-03-06
General Votes.

Lake Charles is to have an ice fac
tory.
There are six one legged men in Con
gress
Extensive nail works are to he start
cd in Birmingham, Ala
Millionaire Mackay has contributed
$1,000 to the Hancock fund.
Florida is now spoken Of as the land
of frozen oranges and sick Yankees
A colored woman named Fannie died
Mt New Iberia, Il few days ago, aged
I08.
The Rev. C. c. Kramer has accepted
the rectorship of the Church of the
Epiphany, New Iberia, La.
Five negroes were killed in Hemp
stead, Texas, from eating the flesh of
hog whose owDenhad poisoned it with
strycbnine.
Gov. McEnery has fixed Friday,
March le, as the date for the execution
of the sentence in the case Of Pat Ford
and John Murphy.
New Iberia is to celebrate the ap
preaching Mardi-Gras. The 'Comical
knights of Cork" have left the city of
"Bungs," and will arrive at that town
on March 9th.
The New York "Grant Monument
Fund has got stuck in hole. The
Irish parliamentary fund has left it far
behind in amounts contributed. This
is practical age, very-practical in its
patriotism, even.-N. O. City Item.
Our Washington correspondent dubs
it the Morrison tariff gouge" The
term ''scae" applied to the former bill
seems to be considered an inappropriate
designation for this one. OF course the
''gouge" is chiefly into the sugar hogs
head.-N. o. City Item
The Colfax Chronicle presents the
educational question now agitating the
State press briefly:
Louisiana pays So cents per capita to
educate her children, while Massachu
setts gives $l8 "a per capita for the
same purpose.
The Catholic directory for 1886, re-
ports I'D this country 1896 priests, a
gain of 253; 1921 theological students,
a gain of "a; 6755 churches, Il gain of
129; S5 colleges, II gain of 2 61S acade-
mics, gain of 81, and 1921 parochial
Schools, gain of l57.
In accordance with the ordinance of
the town council, in regard to tramps,
the constable last Tuesday commenced
picking them up aud putting them to
work on tue streets. We noticed six
of them at work last Wednesday mos n
/ ing. If the tranps continne arriving
here as they have for some time past,
it will not be long before we will have
all the streets in town put IN order
Lake Charles Commercial, Feb l3.
Three Senators have only three legs
between them-one apiece. They are
Butler aud Hampton, of South Caro-
lima, and Berry, of Arkansas Butler
lost his leg at the battle OF Brandy
Station, ou the 9th of June, 1868.
Berry lost his ut the battle Of Corintb,
Miss, October 4, 1862 Hampton, after
riding CALAMITY through the war with
out serious injury, lost his by fall
from his horse. He has to walk with a
cane and Berry has to have two canes.
The Southern people favor Federal
ai,l to education. not for themselves but
for the millions of black citizens whom
the Kansas Senator's party clothed
with citizenship before they were ready
for it, not for their good, but to per
petuate its own power. The aid is
needed to make these black citizens un.
derstand what citizenship means, and
the North is as much interested as the
South in having them understand it
Savannah News, Dem.
On Tuesday last in the New York
Cotton Exchange there was All exhibi.
ton of a ''cotton harvester" designed
to solve the problem of picking cotton
by machinery Cotton plants were
fixed in rows on the floor, and the har
vester passed over them. Sixty five
per cent of the cotton was picked clean
aud the inventor, Mr.. Owen +. Bugg
explained that the inability of the
wheels to revolve on the slippery floor
prevented much higher percentage o
stripping.
There is, it is said, an uuderlaudee
opposition at Washington to the con
UEtUhIiOu U CupOtiH1GAudHb paoHtCou
of the New Orleans Mint. This is no
to be wondered at. He was gallan
Confederate soldier and has been {
staunch working Democrat all his life
The fact that he is honest and eficien
cannot mitigate the offensiveness 0
. such a record. Public positions, ac
cordiug to the new Evangel of Reform
should be given to the non combatant
only. To the nondescript belong th'
spoils. s.-Capitolian- Advocate.
Referring to the revision of the crimi
nal and civil laws by the commission
appointed by the last Legislature, tn
Times says:
The next Legislature should maxi
haste slowly in ratifying the work o
. the revisers; three minds, and thre'
j able minds, have felt the magnitude o
, the work /; they do not desire any hast.
action in verifying what has been done
, We know we speak for them when W
say that they would much prefer t
have their work discussed fully by TIN
bar, the press and the people befor
! any action is taken toward accepting
and ratifying their revision of the law
of the State.
Most Excellent.
j. j. Atkins, Chief of Police, Knox
vile, Tenn, writes: my family and
are beneiciaries of your most excellen
i medicine, DR.. Ling's New Discovery fo