The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-15
General Notes s.

nave Il new count hOuSeyto cost $-4 ,VUV.
We have spent $Sl 10000 for pen
sions already this year, and six weeks
OF the fiscal year are get to come.
Morgan City Review Messrs. Shat
tuck &, Hoffman. this parish, will put
in diffusion, and pay 81 Il ton for cane
at the mill.
Morgan City Review: ~ shipmeL of
about one hundred small live aligators
was made this week nom here to Mag
ara Falls
Morgan City Review: Mr.. St. Clair
fed his chickens the eggs from gar
fish, and next morning found six dead
Cochin pullets These eggs are said to
be certain death to fowls.
Seattle, the principal city i'll Washing
ton Territory. was almost destroyed hy
fire on Friday, the 9TH inst. The loss
of property is estimated at from five t"
Fifteen millions of dollars.
The Cronin murder in Chicago is still
attracting widespread attention, and
the police and detectives claim that
they have the assassin and his accesso
ries safely lodged behind the prison
bars.
Louisiana Review: The Louisiana
Democrat says that the Rapides bank
opened in Alexandria last September
is doing good business, and has
proven a valuable acquisition to the
town.
Morgan City Review franklin is
talking up steam laundry, and we be,
lieve every town on the Teche will soon
have one The servants are fast he
coming utterly worthless, and they
want the earth for wages.
1t is stated that the smallest steam
engine ever made was recently com
pleted, after two years of labor, for the
Paris exhibition. 1t is composed OF $50
pieces of metal, is a shade under three
tifths of an inch in height, and weighs
less than one, ninth of an ounce. A
matchmaker made it.
st. Martin Messenger The citizens of
Jeannerette, New Iberia and Lafayette
eoEe holding mass meetings to secute AN
extension or the building of branch
road from one Of these towns to Abbe-
Vile. The citizens of Ahbeville have
also held mass meetings and will favor
the town offering the greatest advant-
age.
Lafayette Advertiser: The canning
company has received a fine lot of can
making machilhry, and a large ship
ment of tin, sofaer, etc The mnchin-
cry is in daily ,eration, turning ont II
superior quality of cans. The Com
pany has also received large shipment
of Lumber for manufacturing its pack
ing boxes.
Welsh Crescent If the local press
becomes thoroughly aroused to the alb,
solute necessity of u better school sys-
TEN, better road laws, and better local
laws, and begin hammering away at
their readers to create the proper sen
timent, improvement is bound to fol
low. Public sentiment is an invaluable
assistant to the accomplishment of any
purpose.
N. O. Times Democrat The Rich
land Beacon cannot see why Louisiana
with 200, 900 less people than MississIp-
pi, should pay four times as much fol
it's judiciary, or 1921 900 year, while
| our neighbor gets along with $4,000
Louisiana pays more per capita for jus
+ tice than any State in the South, and
each voter is taxed from five to tel,
times IA much for justice as citizei
of Mississippi Or Texas.
Georgia is thoroughly aroused on tht
road question, and is determined te
have better ones. The moyemeno1 1ha:
taken shape, and congress convenes
ut Atlanta "Wednesday to devise ways
and means to bring about the mucl
needed reform in the public highway
of that Stage. Georgia is not the onl,
State whose highways need improving
and the success OF the movement ther'
might serve as an incentive to better
ments in other directions. Baltimor
Sun.
N. o. Times Democrat: People nov
living in the South who were born ol
the 9th day of March, 1885, will be IN
terested in the fact that an eccentrt
old gentleman who recently died il
Tyler. Tex, and who was born on th
day given, has left large fortune t
those whose birth was concident witt
lns own. p. P. Atkins, of Tyler, Tex
is engaged in collecting the names o
all interested parties, which must h
sent in withi7 sixty days from June
1889.
Lake Charles Commercial: Las
Thursday night, at West Lake, diff
Guilty occurred between GpS Black an
Reese Perkins, son of our esteeme
fellow citizen A j. Perkins, durin
which the latter was shot by Black, til
ball passing directly through the bowe
Of the unfortunate young man, infiic'
, ing wound from which he died at
O'Clock yesterday (Frlday) morning
Black left shortly after the difficult,
but Sheriff Reed is in pursuit and vi
f undoubtedly capture him ere--long. .
, St Martih Messenger: The petitio
, we mentioned in our last issue signe
f by the tax payers of this town, WI
) presented to the board of trustees ;
J their meeting Monday. 1t was accep
, ed by that body and resolution adop
| ed requesting the Mayor to issue h
E proclamation for q special election
: Idht bilt SeiiSS oI tiib ttA pay 10
!, petition demands a tax of mills on Il
Q dollar for term of years, to eqn
! and maintain the fire engines and
repair aud build sidewalks and culverl
il The New Orleans Cotton Exchan!
q has passed resolutions promising to !.
+ sist the cotton planters in their fig
against the iute baggiDg trust T.
directors of the exchange recommel
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