The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-02
General Notes.

In Union parish the liquor license
has been fixed at $500 for this year.
Congressman Trion is erecting a beau
tifnl residence at Eola, Avoyelles par
ish
Artificial eggs are sold in New Jersey,
SO like the genuine article that they can
be cooked any way but boiled.
Sixteen vessels with their crews were
sunk by the terrific cyclone which
swept over Panama, December IL.
The cotton crop of Mr. Richardson,
of Mississippi. is greater than that of
all Egypt, and his plantations are worth
100000
Mr.. Jules Grevy was reelected
President of the Republic of France
by an overwhelming majority, on the
28th of December.
Chicago now claims population of
100000, and the Times of that city
thinks she will outstrip London ID 1910
'if the present ratio is maintained"
w D. Mearns, the absconding Post
master of Lake Charles, has returned
and satisfactorily arranged the appa-
rent shortage in his accounts.
The Edmunds telegraph bill would
reduce the average cost Of kilograms
from thirty mine cents to twenty five,
and after five years to twenty.
The negro families which inhabit the
Welsh Mountain, fifty miles from Phila-
delphia, are reported to have rGlapsed
into semi barbarism. They are said to
live in the ground like prairie dogs,
and are entirely destitute of provisions
and clothing.
When aeountry editor who is strug-
Cling along, trying to build up town
and rear large family on $500 a year,
discovers that Il baseball pitcher hauls
$4, 600 for seasons play, it makes him
sit down ON roller-bo and think
Chicago Ledger.
The Illinois railroad commissioners,
it is said, have determined to enforce
the rule literally, under which railroads
are prohibited from charging passen-
gers i, higher rate than 3 cents per
mile, and under which the railroads are
required TO charge uniform rate be-
tween all local points along their lines.
There il crusade going on against
dogs in Newark, N j., where the four
children reeenlly sent over t.B Pasteur
In Paris were SO terribly bitten short
time ago The professional dog steal
ers are at work. assisted by the citizens
generally. Strychnine in meat is used
to dispatch them instead of shooting.
Butte City, NJ T., has population
of 1000, 1000 TO 5000 OF whom are em-
ployed in the mines ut 81. SO per day,
while fully as many men are idle. The
town supports FIVE newspapers, Ave
brass and string bands and fifteen gam
bling establishments, four variety
tlleatcrs and one opera house, which
are doing a rushing business every
night.
Lieut.. Guy E. Hnse, of the Fourth
Cavalry, has written a letter urging an
increase of the regular army to SO, 600
men at least. He says 1t Is II farce TO
expect an army OF 25, 900, to perform
the various duties imposed upon them
on the frontier, in lhe seacoast defenses,
present and prospective, and in protect
ing the large commercial centres and
mining districts during riots, ete
The Texas and Pacific railroad has
been placed in the hands of receivers,
on the application of the Missouri Pa
cifc Railway Company, creditor of the
first named corporation to the tune Of
nearly two millions of dollars. Judge
Parsier, of the United States Circuit
Court. has appointed ex-Govs. j. G.
Brown of Tennessee and Lionel A.
Sheldon of New Mexico no the receivers
Of the road and the general impression
is that their administration and the ul-
innate transfer of the T g. r. line to
the Missouri Pacific corporation, which
is regarded as almost certain to ensue,
will insure the placing of the road in
first class condition, consummatiOn
never yet reached in its existence.