The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-03-20
District Court.

sion of the District Court:
Joe Clinton, larceny plead guilty !;
sentenced to one year in the State pens
itentiary.
Jos. Fort, Blackstone Foreman, Louis
Ferguson and Bob Oliver, carrying con-
cealed weapons-plead guilty SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $3.50 each and
costs of court, or Parish Jail for 10 days.
J.F. Morris, resisting an officer; plead
guilty and sentenced to pay fine of
$50O.00 and costs or Parish Jail for 3
months
J. F. Morris. assault and battery !;
plead guilty sentenced to pay fine of
$4,000 and costs or Parish Jail for 8
months.
j. r. Morris, assault and battery
plead guilty-sentenced to pay fine
of $4,000 and costs or 3 months Parish
! Jail.
M. D. Levy, selling liquor without a
license, plead guilty sentenced to pay
a fine of $4,000 and costs or mon tbs
Parish JAIL
Frank Phillips and Martin Gilbert,
larceny, 3 indictments guilty.
Geo. Davis, larceny guilty
T0ledan0 Robertson, disturbing the
peace and carrying concealed weapons
plead guilty and fined S. and costs
in each case
j. A Mcclellan, carrying concealed
weapons plead guilty; fined $5 and
costs
Alfred Taylor, rape guilty in man :
ner and form as charged in the bill of
Indictment
A movement is on foot throughout
the country to raise fund for the re-
lief of the family of the lately deceased
patriot. Gen. w 8. Hancock, who are
in straitened circumstances. A blank
subscription list has been sent Mr.. d.
Roos, the popular Main street merchant,
and he requests us to state that all
sums, however small, will be thankfully
received, and a list of the donors as well
as the amounts received will be pub
lished each week in the local papers.
Gen Hancock has strong claims upon
his countrymen, both North and South.
In the North he is remembered, in the
words of the N. O. Picayune, as the
hero who rode, hat in hand, along the
whole front of his line at Gettysburg
mons, and there is not one soldiers
heart in all the land that does not thrill
with an answering throb at the recital
of that story. But in the South he is
revered as the author of the immortal
General order No. 40, issued on assHm
ing command of the department com
posed of the States of Louisiana and
Texas, Nov. 90, 1867, in which he an
nouneetl that "the great principles of
American liberty still are the lawful IN
heritance of this people, and ever
should be- 'sThe right of trial by
jury, the ilabeas corpus, the liberty of
the press, the freedom of speech, and
the natural rights of persons and the
rights of property must be preserved =
added this generous hero and incor-
ruptible patriot, who thus in our time
of sorest need proved himself our true
friend and defender The debt of graft
tude which we then incurred it is now
the privilege of our people in part to
pay, and we trust that Mr.. Roos will
soon be enabled to forward a respecta-
Bile sum as the contribution of St. Ian
dry.
Mr.. Joseph Frozard, who resides in
Prairie des Femmes, dropped in our
office last Thursday morning and during
the course of conversation alluded to
some experiments he had been making
in planting the seed of fruit and nuts.
He showed us the sprout of a Young
peach which had germinated in il few
days by simply removing the shell aud
soaking the kernel lib water AS hours
before planting. BY this method the
kernel will come up as soon as corn,
care being taken not to bruise or break
the kernel III cracking the shell. He has
also succeeded in terminating tho al
mond and other nuts by the same pro-
cess. Mr.. Frozard is fond of expei4ments,
and being a man of fine Judgment and
much natural genius he has succeeded
in developing many interesting nlecllan-
ical and agricultural facts. During the
late war, il will be remembered, that he
successfully made q good article Of luci
fer matches. percussion caps, and castor
oil. He can also get mp very attractive
fireworks, and is pretty good aeronaut
besides. He learned it all BIZ personal
experiments.
The election for delegates to the
Democratic Parish Convention, held in
the Opelousas ward last Wednesday,
resulted in the election of the following
gentlemen
John NJ. Ogden, Henry Estorge, John
Roy. Tllos. II. Lewis, A. C. Devillier,
G. r. Garland, Alphonse Levy, G, n.
Thompson.
Minefv. nina votes we're cast. sall for