The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1889-06-29
General Notes.


Shreveport has collected more than
$1,000 from her dog tax.
Louisiana gets five thousand dollars
from Congress for its Experiment Sta
ton ut kenner.
\. Catahoula parish has an area of 100
square miles, and the Herald wants it
divided into two parishes.
There are 475 pupils in private col
r nored schools in the city of Baton Rouge.
One dollar per month is the rate of tut
ton charged.
The Louisiana State Fair and Shrcve
port Exposition, (4th annual fair) viii,
be held Oct. 8th to 18th, inclusivel
1899. 100000 in premiums and purses.
The Eiffel tower, at the Paris Expo
stion, is nearly 1000 feet high, and the
great French journal, Figaro, prints Il
daily edition in the thirty sixth story
of the tower. :.
The Rayne rice mill was bid in by
Meyer WE'LL, of New Orleans, for ST.
500, and afterward sold to Nj. Arenas,
, of Rayne. The property originally cost
between $4,000 and 100000.
There are hundreds of artesian wells
in Covington, and more aDeing bored
every day. Good6lear water is found
at depth of from 20 to 100 feet. <oInhey
are much better and cheaper than wood
Ell cisterns.
; Mr. Harrington of Mansfield gathered
last week g. pounds of Irish potatoes
from three potatoes, weighing one
pound, planted in the spring. He was
contesting for 800 prize, offered by
Philadelphia seed house.
Col Geo. w Carter, at one time a
prominent figure in Louisiana politics,
has gone back into the Church, from
which he was backslider, and is now
lay preacher of the NJ. E. Church
South in Virginia.
The two bridges in Avoyelles parish,
f over the construction of which there
has been some wranging between the
, parish seat removalists and the antis,
are to cost $27 300, to be paid in ten
annual installments, beginning Fe' III J
, 1890.
Teche Pilot: Work has begun this
week in the laying of cane juice pipes
9 to connect Mrs NJ. A. Patout's sugar
) kfpse<. IN A. l.. Monnot's (Vaufrey)
! ( Refinery, a distance of six miles. Four
: l'or five men, we learn, will be occupied
: nearly three weeks in completing the
5 job. =.
st. MafFinsviIe Weekly Messenger
Mr.. c. l.. Lacaze's Moss factory is now
3 in operation and large quantities of
moss is brought to the factory from the
: country almost every day. This gives
$ a chance to the planter and Iaborer to
make little money when there is no
!, work in the field.
. Donaldsonville Chief: Stephen B
Packard, 'LouisiaDa's own" turned
: up in Washington several weeks age
as an applicant for his former fat billet
the United States consulslnp at Liver.
pool, but the prize has gone to Thos
w. Sherman. private secretary to Mr.
b. Blaine. Mr.. Packard has gone back
- into Iowa and oblivion dis consul ate
r If not a wiser man.
Colonel A. j. Lafarguc, the talented
: editor Of the Marksyilie Bulletin, ha;
< lately been admitted to The bar and ha!
n. become associated with Judge Irion il
H. the practice of law at Marksville. Colo
nj mel Lafargue has had several years o
nj practical legal experience as clerk o
the District Court, and is a hard stu
! dent and an eloquent speaker. He vii
i. doubtless soon acquire a high reputa
IL ton at the bar, ashe has in journalism
which, we are. pleased to learn, he doe
not intend to abandon altogether. Th
best wishes of the Review and the fra
-, Il
te his new field of endeavor. r.-Louisian
le Review
A. CoIfax Chronicle: The great dailie
j. of New Orleans are getting to be i'm
proper papers to be introduced int
s. private families Itis (perhaps) legi
I'd mate to mention as matter of new
ID the commission of beastly crimes, bu
to 90 into all the details of brntalit
til and beastiality of revolving happening
is pandering TO the vicious element i
society 1t is indecent, and no paren
n who has the purity and sanctity of h
g household at heart should permit sue
r. accounts to come within the home Gil
a Gle. Come gentlemen, give us a res
ph from the sickening details of outrage
re Gus crimes, such as have disgrace
ty your columns of lace.
he ST. Martinsville Weekly Messenger
J" Saturday last at about o'clock in Il
IS evening the Oil Mill whistle gave lon
on blow which conveyed to the employees
~ the news that the machinery of Il
works would be stopped. This mi
M after working 9 months, day and nigh
closed down for about months to el
,ta large the buildings and add machner
,s- The products of this mill in the nil
~ an months it has run are 1000 barrels O
A. 300 tons cotton seed meal, $40 bal
M lint and 100 bales of cotton, which
& about half the capacity of the mill.
;sh This industry has been of incalcul
Nc BILE benefit to this town, and its closiI
If up will throw about 25 persons out
,ao employment for at least three months
at, The Bayou Sara Industrial News h
i the following to say with regard
Lincoln's and Grants plan of disposi
wo of the negroes:
at Lincoln's idea was not bad Oh
md and had he lived it might have be
nee carried out by the aid of his great
sh- fiuence, though it would have ma
be him many bitter enemies. 1t was
len set aside sufficiently large territo
,ti- somewhere on the frontier, move |
in negroes there in body, as was do
with many of the Indian tribes, g
them .shome rule and exercise a p
tectorate over them till they col