The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1888-09-01
General III Totes.

Pointe- Coupee has instructed its del
egates for Col. T. G. Sparks.
In st. Martin parish the damage t.
the crops is now estimated at 20 Pc
cent.
In the Teche section the number o
sugar houses destroyed is 9; badly
damaged IL.
/ Rosedale plantation, in Iberia parish
was sold recently for $3l 800. The
purchasers will subdivide it and sell il
to Western people.
The Town Council of Alexandria do
mated $50 toward assisting the Town
Talk in getting ont a Trade and Immi
grafton Edition.
The barn and stables of Mr.. Alphonse
Landry, near New Iberia, were struck
by lightning and burned to the ground
last Saturday.
The Presidents message is a striking
illustration of his happy faculty of do
ing the right thing at the right time and
in the right way.-New York Times,
| Ind.
DR.. S. L. Posey, of Louisiana, on the
recommendation of the State Board of
Health, has been instructed by Surgeon
General Hamilton to visit the Florida
towns and ascertain their condition
w. B. R. Sugar Planter: The State
Board of Education has taken a new
departure in the matter of appoint
ments by placing two ladies on the
school board of West Carroll.
The Right Rev. Samuel s. Harris, the
second bishop of the Protestant Episco.
pal Diocese of Michigan, died in Lon
don, England, on the 21st ult. Bishop
Harris was born in Alabama in l84l.
The discussion and rejection of the
fisheries treaty is perhaps the most re-
markable instance of narrow partisan
ship in the treatment of a great interna-
tional question ever known in our his
tory.-New York Times, Dem.
Marksville Review: Much damage
was done to the growing crop in this
parish by the storm of Sunday last.
Cotton and cane were beaten fat to the
ground, and unless we have fine wea
ther from now on, the cotton crop will
be considerably injured.
The rejection of the fisheries treaty
yesterday by the United States Senate,
foreshadowed by caucus action long
ago, is humiliating evideNce of the
extent to which men in the highest
places may be controlled by partisan
bias.-Philadelphia Ledger, Rep.
Senator August Levert of West
Baton Rouge, sustained the heaviest
loss in that section. Six fine mules were
killed by falling stables, one sugar
house was wrecked and another unroof-
ed. His crop was mercilessly handled
and his residence was damaged to the
extent of one thousand dollars.
Congress has been appealed to in be-
half of the hungry people who live
along Bayou Tsrrebonne and Little
Caillou, in Terrebonne parish. but lit
tie hope is entertained of relief from the
gene 81 government. Several l..sndred
famili, are still homelf q and desti-
tute.. They want food AID clothing.
Iberville South: The storm of last
Sunday was the most disastrous to the
crops that we ever remember to have
seen. The destruction of buildings and
live stock and human life although
confined to two personals unprece-
dented. There IS scarcely sugar house
that Is not more or less injured, and
many outbnildings were completely
destroyed. The pea and corn crop will
suffer materially the sugar crop is in
iured 40 per cent and the rice crop 20
per cent. This is heavy blow on both
planters and laborers.
The Democratic party is committed
to policy of tax reduction, and Judge
Thurman asks his fellow e0untryman if
they do not believe that they will be
better off by keeping in their pockets,
or otherwise using, the dollars they now
annually pay out in unnecessary taxes9
To suppose that they can be made
richer by paying out in taxes their hard
earned money when If they were mot
taxed they could keep their money to
themselves, is an absurdity which the
Democratic candidate 1or the Viee-Pres-
iilency insists shall be made evident to
every voter in the land.--Boston Her.
aid, Ind.
The Republican spider, thinking it
had a Democratic fly in sight, coyly
sang it's invitation to "come into my
parlor." When the fly accepted the in
vitation, by sending to Congress that
retaliation message, the Republican
spider glared at him in astonishment
for a moment, then cried with shrek,
"Great Scott! It isn't fly it's hor-
netm and the picnic began. The Re-
publieans are in bad predieament.
They have played for high stakes-a
return to power at any eost-have done
their best to get the administration
into a corner, bnt find themselves in
the corner instead, and will be mighty
lucky if they get out of it.-New York