The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-08
General Notes.

The Police Jury meets next Monday.
Judge Gervais Baillio, a highly es-
teemcd citizen of Alexandria, died q
few days ago.
1t is asserted that Lincoln parish will
save this year over ten thousand dol
lars by raising her own mules.
Biloxi, Miss, lost $75, 900 by fire last
Tuesday night. Twenty five buildings
were burned i'll the heart of the city.
After lingering illness, Hon Edward
j. Gay, M. C. from the 3delistrct, died
at his home near Plaquemine on Thurs
day, the Both ult.
Ex-Secretary of State Bayard will be
married to Miss Clymer of Washing
ton, d. c., on June IL. Mr. Bayard is
over sixty years of age, while his fanc6e
is only thirty nine.
Postage on letters that pass between
Canada and the United States has been
reduced. II used to be three cents per
half ounce; now it is three cents per
oune or fraction thereof.
Nearly $9,000,0OO has been appropri
ated from time to time by the French
Legislature for the Paris Exposition,
and the buildings and parks occupy a
space of neerly two hundred acres.
Judge Hicks, of Caddo parish recently
fined a negro $50 for using profane Ian
gnage near a private residence. The
same prescription, judiciously applied,
wonld have a wholesome effect in other
parishes. Baton Rouge Truth.
St Martin Reveille: A petition is
now being circulated among the tax
payers of St. Martinsyille, to get the
town council to submit an ordinance to
the votes of the property holders to
levy ii special tax to make the ban
quettes or side walks, and to raise ne
cessary means to put the fire companies
on an efficient footing.
A squad of New Orleans policemen
last Tuesday raided the house at 292
Roman street and arrested crowd of
Voadou worshipers who were dancing
and indnlging in the diaholical practices
of voudouism generally, The crowd
was composed ofnegro men and women
and ten white women who, it is alleged,
aI>nponinently respectable, but who are,
nevertheless, believers in voudouism.
New Iberia Enterprise: Sunday, the
9th of June, is the time fixed for the
grand excursion from New Orleans to
this place, under auspices of the Home
Hook & Ladder Fire Co of that city.
The fire companies of this place will
turn ont to meet their brethren and
several Of the met important races
ever witnessed in TITS section have been
gotten up for the ooeason to come off
at the Iberia Park.
The treasury surplus, uotwlthstand-
ing the heavy bond purchases during
part of April, is 81 500, 900 larger than
it was a month ago. In any other
country this would be q cause for re-
joicing, but in ours at the present time
it is viewed in the opposite light. How
ever, there may be some consolation in
knowing that it Is much smaller than it
was year ago. On May 1, 1888, the
surplus was little over $1lO,O0O,OO
while it was about S55, 100000 on
May /, 1989.-Globe Democrat.
Mr.. Bradish johnson last week sold
the growing crop on his orange farm in
Plaquemine parish for $4,000. This
is the second year that the crop on that
place was sold in the bloom for that
sum, and in 1887 it sold for SIS, 900, the
year after the freeze of January, 1886.
Last year the purchasers who took the
chances lost many oranges by the Sc
we're windstorm of August 10, but still
it is believed they made money as it
was The orange farm, now partly in
blooms and partly well formed Young
fruit promises as we'll as last year.re
Sugar Bowl.
Ouachita Telegraph: The Monroe
Compress is one of the industries that
we are pleased to know is in flourish
ing cogditioD At a meeting of the
stockholders of this concern held last
Monday dividend of 5 per cent was
declared, payable on and after June lst
prox., making in all dividend of Is
per cent paid this year, the first divi.
dend of 10 per cent having been paid
January lst That it has been of in
calculable advantage to Monroe cannot
be denied, since it was the means of
placing it among the foremost cotton
markets, and it is a fact that better
prices were paid here for round lots of
cotton the past season than could have
been obtained elsewhere. Such things
should put our monied men to thinking
and ought to be great stimulus to-
wards tho successful inauguration Of
the cotton factory scheme.