The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1888-09-08
General Notes.

Rapides parish appropTiates mills
for the support of its public schools.
Hurrah for Rapides
The parish of Ascension appropriates
81, 900 for its public schools. Hurrah
for the parish of Ascension
The parish of Pointe- COupee apprO
PIRATES $500 for it's public schools.
Hurrah for the parish of Pointe Coupee !!
The assessment of the t. & p. road
IN Rapides is fixed at $4,000 per mile.
The effort to have it reduced failed.
The police jury of Ascension parish
at their last regular meeting appro
priated 5000 for parish display at the
State Fair in Baton Rouge.
The death warrant of Pet Overton,
who was convicted of murder in the
parish of Morehouse in July last, has
been signed by the Governor. Friday,
the 28th inst, is the day named for the
execution.
DR.. j. w. Jones, who for the past
fourteen years has been superintendent
of the State Insane Asylum at Jackson,
La, has resigned, and DR.. Lewis Per-
kins, of East Feliciana, was elected to
flu the vacancy.
When it comes to twisting the British
lions tail President Cleveland exceeds
all contemporaries. The same vigor
ous twist that makes the lion howl
forces a shrek of agony from the Re-
publican leaders. The first pressure
doubled up Senator Edmunds like a
jack k-knife. Arkansas Gazette. Dem.
Dame Rumor has 1t, that Messrs.
Kennedy, Fitzpatrick, DaVey, Jastrem-
ski and Guiliotte are aspirants for the
q. S. Marshalship, made vacant by the
death of Marshal Peasants. The Office
is one of honor and trust, as we'll as of
peeuniary value, and President Cleye
land will not lack the material from
which to make good selection.
The action of the members OF the
School Board of this parish in donat
ing their per diem to the building fund
of the, School Board speaks volumes in
their behalf and is an example that
other school boards would do we'll to
emulate. Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.
Hurrah for the School Board of West
Baton Rouge!
President Cleveland's recent message
has attracted attention in France.
French newspapers are busy explaining
to their readers tha-t Canada is large
body of water filed with valuable fish,
and that the quarre turns upon the
ownership of Three Mile Limit, an
island which lies near the mouth of
River Montreal. -
Col. r. B. Peasants, q. S, Marshal
for the Southern District of Louisiana,
died at New Orleans ON Sunday morn
ing last, of hemorrage of the lungs. He
had been attending to his usual bnsi-
ness up to the day previous to his death,
and had shown no appearance of DIS
ease, and his sudden demise was sur
prise and shock to his many friends.
Iberville South All the bayous and
rivers west of our town are literally
covered with dead fish. The storm of
the 10Th ult., stripped the trees of their
leaves which, owing to the tannin in
them, poisoned the water, causing the
fish to die by the thousand. There is
scarcely live fish left in any of the
streams. The stencil from the dead
fish is uncomfortable and swamp work is
discontinued for the present.
B. r. Capital Item: The many friends
of Col. Moorman, of New Orleans, had
strong hopes that he would be selected
to fiji the position of State CommIs-
sioner of Immigration and were very
much disappointed when the appoint
ment was not rendered to Hm Col.
Moorman has givGa to the present i'm
migration movement pretty much all
the life there is in it, and he would
have made a most excellent commits
sioner.
We learn that some of the ladies of
Marksville have in view the giving of
an entertainment to procure funds with
which they intend to purchase furni
ture for the Marksville School House.
-Marksyille Review.
Hurrah for the ladies of Marksville!
I'VE intend to hurrah for every rything Of
that kind that we hear of, and when
our people do anything for their schools
land we can hear of it,, we will hurrah
for them tool
b. e. Capital Item: The appointment
of Mr.. George Flynn TO be supervisor
of registration in the parish of Orleans,
udc osAtkCU u = o tASSOkOuS pAotOE1 W thO
opponents of the old ring in that city.
It appears that Mr.. Flynn was chief
clerk for Mr.. John Fitzpatrick during
the latter's official career, and the idea
has got abroad that this appointment
places the election machinery into the
hands of the old crowd who were re-
Gently repudiated at the ballot box in
that city.
N. O. City Item Rosh Hoshana, the
Jewish New Year, will occur on Thurs
day, September 6, and it will usher in
the Jewish holidays which are so uni
yersally and SO joyfully celebrated by
the people of the Hebrew race. Yom
Ripper, the day of the atonement, will
follow on September Is, and on Sep
tember 90 the feast of Sukkoth, the
gathering of the harvest, will occur.
The holiday season closes with the mi
nor feast of Atzereth on September "a.
The Times Democrats LIST of Septem
ber edition was an immense paper, con-