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

EfeHah s OF Interest.

VIM. E. Chandler has been elected United
States Senator user New Hampshire after all
1bervillc parish is ID have IL poor farm to be
leased out, where paupers eau do light work
and be cared for.
The health of Kossuth, the hungarian pa
triot has so greatly improved that he may
now. it is thought live several years
Lawrence IL. Pugl,, Esq, editor of the Ma
poleonvillo Ponneer. is en- route for Paris,
where he will take III the great exposition.
Hermitage Council Al, A. l.. of H., will
give grand ball at Thompson's Hall, Cooks
Landing, Pointe Coupee parish, on Thursday,
July 4.
The graves of $500 Confederate veterans
were decorated at Winchester, Va. on June
G. General Jubal A Early was the orator of
the day.
The remains of Gen. SEWER, the first COVER,
nor of Tennessee which have lain for seventy
eight years in Alabama, were reinterred in
Knoxville on the 10Th.
Birmingham Age Herald: Alliance after
Alliance has declared in favor of cotton bag
ging. That's right Let's build factories and
assert our independence.
Monroe Telegraph: The judiciary system
of Louisiana is as to the salaries of circuit
Judges just that too much expensive. In ad-
dition to this there are several district judges
The Connecticut Legislature has passed a
bill to prohibit the selling, giving or deliver
ing tobacco in aDy form to persons under six
teen years of age. and also prohibits said mi
nor from the use of tobacco in cigarettes, or
j in any form.
An exchange gives the following advice,
which, if followed, would tend to lessen the
coroner's business When a person points
a gun al you knock him down. Don't stop to
/ 10 ioaH Hal mt
and don't be particular what you do it with.
If there is to be a coroner's inquest, let it be
over the other fellow-he won't be missed.
WB R. Sugar Planter: On last Tuesday
Register of the Land Office Lanier sold 10, l0l
acres of land in the parish of Caldwell to
James Ellis, an English capitalist, who was
represented by Prof. s. A. Knapp Price paid,
1856 ALI the timbered lands of this State
are rapidly being taken up, and at this rate,
it will be only short while ere the las acre
has passed into the hands of foreigners,
The person who will give us remedy for
ground moes that we may publish it pro bono
pnblic0 will place very large portion OF this
community under lasting obligations to him.
Gu some places in this community these vii
lanous little l,>5ts have become an intoier-
able nuisance -Ruston Caligraph.
Take spade, dig hole that the mole
road will cross and "a few inches below it put
in some dry straw or rubbish, ,and put i'll a half
OF. of sulphur or a little birthstone, set it on
fire and cover the top of the spade hole uD
with board so the smoke and gas cannot es-
cape. 1t will follow the mole road for rods
and kill the moes. One man can kill all the
moles Oh a hundred acres of land in a day
with ii pound of snlphur.-Editor Murray
County tMinn.) Pioneer
Come down to Baton Rouge, brother Pearce
and we will show yon forty seven as pre- tty
cottages as you ever saw, all built through
the medium of the Baton Ronge Building and
Loan Association during the past four years
by poor men who have heretofore been pay
ing rent to capitalists. Last Thursday eve
ming the stock in Series A of this Association
was liquidated, and at an early date each o.
these poor men will be given the deeds tt
their comfortable little homes Two more Sc
ries, B and C, have been opened and arr
work ug satisfactorily, A man cannot take
morachan $4,000 stocK-in any series, payable
ii, 4 I rate of one dollar per share OF Slo'
,'ronthly, thus preventing capitalists or spec
ulatnrs from controlling the association. At
ter four years trial, it is the unanimous yer
dict Of all that the Baton Rouge Building an'
Loan Assoeiatioa has done more towards in
rrovi. the cityQhan any enterprise ever es
tablislrd here. And the good work still goe
blavely on. You have got il good thing, bro
ther, deserving of every encouragement, TO
it will provide homes for your poor men
Baton Rouge Truth.