The Opelousas courier., 1888-05-05
General Notes.
Shreveport is taking the necessary
steps to have a creamery.

Shreveport is taking the necessary
steps to have a creamery.
East Carroll Banner: McEnery is
more glorious in defeat than he ever
was in victory.
The General Assembly of New York
adopted a Prohibition Constitutional
Amendment by a vote 65 to 81,
There are 1870 newspapers and Pc
riodicals in the United States, a gain of
800 in twelve months and of 7136 in ten
years.
The Legislature of South Carolina
has passed a bill, to pay o pension of
IS a month to disabled confederate vet
Grams or their widows.
"Critic," in the Shreveport Democrat,
says: That q candidate for constable
who failed to Hget there" was heard to
remark that he intended to "quit poll
tics and become a gentlem an"
Lafayette Advertiser: From the
number of carloads of lumber that have
been unloaded at the several yards
here recently, you can form some idea
of the extent of the Improvements go
ing on in Laatuette. ..r
For saving the life of C. w. David
son, at the battle of the Wilderness, w.
II. Daniels, of Bath, Steuben county,
| NJ. T., has just received a fortune of
$4,000, willed to him by his grateful
friend.
The New York Tribune is authority
for the statement that the value of SEN
ator Conkling's estate is $780, 600, and
that a number Of bills for professional
services remain unpaid. 1t also says
that no will has been found.
The Governor of Virginia sent this
telegram to Nichols "Accept coDgrat-
ulations of your old friend. The Gov
ernor of Virginia has a remark to make
to Che next Governor of Louisiana when
they meet.-Fitz Hugh Lee"
Judge Kelly would preserve the su-
gar duty. In this he is at least more
consistent than Senator Sherman, and,
in fact, it seems difficult to understand
why sugar should not be protected, if
everything else is to be, unless because
it is grown in Louisiana and not in Ohio.
Providence Journal, Rep.
DR.. McGlynn that he has
put his hand to the pillow and viii not
turn back. That's right, DIR. McGlynn.
That is what you and Henry George
ought to have done long ago. If this
! country had more good plowmen there
would be less demand for anti poverty
societies .-Savanah News, Dem.
Lafayette Advertiser: The new
clerks Office is nearly finished, and
looks quite 'tony,' and we begin to
feel proud of it. You will always find
this to be the case with all public i'm
provements, even those who opposed
them at first get interested in the work
aud are always glad when the thing is
accomplished. F.
The Annual Convention of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
Louisiana will be held in Baton Rouge
the 18th. 10Th and 13tlby of May. En-
tertainment will be. provided for all
delegates whose name is sent to Mrs.
NJ. j. Hatch, Baton Rouge. Mrs. Cha
pin, Supt. Southern Work, and other
prominent speakers are expected to be
present.
The American Constitution, though
by no means faultless, is the best model
yet produced, and under it France
would be safe from those sudden chan
ges In government that give opportuni-
ty to monarchists and destructives alike
to keep her government in an unsettled
condition. So long as Boulanger takes
the United States for a model, Vive
Boulanger Philadelphia Ledger, Ind.
Lafayette Advertiser :JThe raising of
the large bell to its place in the Church
steeple was safely and rapidly accom-
plished by MI. Mcneil, the architect,
with the assistance of only Eve men. 1t
is now firm and secure in its place, and
its heighth (about so feet above the
ground) gives its tones much wider
scope. We are glad to be able to state
that the work upon the steeple is pro-
crossing rapidly and in the most salts
factory manner gesa
The shooting Of a big dog by French
custom house officer in the north ol
France the other day has given rise to
some queer stories in the French papers
The officer shot the dog because lie was
suspiciously fat. The post mortem ex-
animation revealed the fact that the
dog wore a leather coat made to look
like Ills own skin, and skillfully fasten-
ed at the shoulders and launches in
such a way as to completely conceal the
ends of the hair. In this coat the dog
carried several hundred cigars.