The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1888-08-04
General Notes.

Gen. Beauregard has resigned his pc
sition as Commissioner of Public Work
of New Orleans.
orhe fine steamer Edward j. Gay wa
totally destroyed by fire last Sunda,
night at her wharf in New Orleans.
The West Baton Rouge Sugar Plante
says that Hon. Don Caffery, of St. Mary
is out as candidate for Congress il
the Third District.
The Shreveport Democrat announce
the withdrawal of Mr.. Chas. Med
Puckette, from editorial management
of that paper, owing to his acceptance
of similar position in another field.
Boulanger is recovering from biz
| wound in the neck, but he will never
recover from the stab of the man who
called him the Foraker of France
Chicago Herald, Ind.
The Eastern manufacturers of bag
ging refuse to fill orders at less than
eleven cents per yard to conform to the
prices ruling at st. Louis. This ad-
vance by the trust of four cents per
yard involves tax of two million dol
lars on the cotton planters.
N. o. Chronicle The Louisiana press
should lever drop the subject of public
education until intelligent public opin-
ion is 'arrayed on the side of the schools,
to the extent of taxation for their sup
port.
A man who votes to take the bread
out of his mouth, the roof from over his
head, and the clothes from off his back
is an idiot. Yet that is what the Re-
publicans expect workingmen to do
when they ask them to vote for Harri-
son and free whisky.
N. o. City Item: The Montgomery
Dispatch warmly congratulates the peo-
pie of Alabama upon the fact that Ma
.jor E, A. Burke has become a citizen of
their State, and especially felicitates
Bessemer upon acquiring what to New
Orleans and Louisiana is so serious
a loss.
Uncle John Robinson, the veteran
Snowman, is very ill at his home in
The old man is eighty two
years of age. Still his mind remains
clear and his memory good. He says
the cause of his disease is drinking all
the bad whisky that he had to drink in
his early days when there was great
deal of rough. and tumble fighting.
Feliciana Sentinel: Major E. A.
Burke, the patriotic and enterprising
citizen. has sold out his property inter
ests in New Orleans and has located at
or near Bessemer, Ala. While our
State will gain vastly by
such an acquisition, Louisiana will lose
it's foremost man in all that pertains to
the interests and permanent prosperity
of the State.
B. R. Cap Jolian Advocate The
name is legiol in Louisiana of those
who. view, With regret, the departure of
Major Burke for new field of labor.
and Bessemer gains tst in the person
Of the organizer of the grand Exposition
which made the South take leap of
fifty years toward the attainment of the
greatness that the future has in store
for her. The heartfelt good wishes of
teLs of thousands of Louisianians will
follow Major Burke to his new home.
The western member of Congress
who votes to cheaper the means of get
ting drunk and to maintain the beastly
81 per cent tax and bounty on the
woolen clothing of his constituents
stands first class chance of being re-
legated next fail to private life; and
the Tribune will do what is in it's power
to enlishten the constituents of those
Congressman as to how
they betrayed the interests of the peo
pie which they were elected to repre-
sent and promote Chicago Tribune.