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The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22

LIE Review, Morgan City, paroisse
Ste. Marie, do 8 JUN:
Abbeville vent avoir IN chemin de
fer, ct Lafayette, ainsi que la Nouvelle
Ib6rie, luttent pour obtenir Get en-
branchement.
La r6colte de riz de Lafonrche a
etc abandonn6e par I'm grand nombre
de fermiers, a cause de la secheresse.
Franklin, dams notre paroisse, ira,
yaille d Gablio une buanderie d la va
peur. Nous esp6Bons que pressure tou'
tes les localities du T6che en- auront
bient5t autant. LIE service domesti'
que devient, de plus en- plus, difficlle
Les blanchisseuses demandent, main
tenant, des cages ruineux.
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Cow Peas at % Bargain. Below mar
ket value at G. Dietlein's.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22

A watch for only two dollars and fifty
cents, warranted to keep good time, al
R. Mornhinveg's jewelry store,
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R6veil de st. Martin : Samedi der
nier. rusine a huile de NJ. 8. Rousseau
a clos SEES portes pour les rohyrir fin
d'aoat, les travaux de la saison etant
termines. Cette aimee l'nsine a ira
vaill6 9 mois ct a envoye sur le march6
1900 barils d'huile, $500 tonnes de
cotton seed meal, LOO bales dc co.
ton, 800 bales p~rovenant du nettoyage
des CRANES. L'asine pent faire plus
d'huile, mails pendroit on Pom emma
gasine la graine ne pouvait en- contents
da vantage cette aimee faute d'espace
M. Rousseau va le faire agrandir pour
la saison prochaine. Nous fslicitonf
M. Rousseau de ce r6sultat.
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8 .l34 Prizes amounting o----Sl,054,80O

8 .l34 Prizes amounting to----$l,054,80 300
AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE,
a-FoR CLUB RATES OF any further iator
nation desired, write legibly to the under.
SIGNED, clearly stating your residence. with
state. county, street and number More rapid
return mail delivery will be assured by your
enclosing an envelope bearing your full address
IMPORTANT.
All ordinary letters containing Postal Notes
Money Orders issued by all Express COmpa
MES or New York Exchange, addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La.
Address registered letters containing currency
New Orleans National Bank,
New Orleans, La
Remember that the only genuine Louisiana
State, Lottery Tickets issued under the State
Charter. are recognized by the highest courts,
are invariably signed by M. A. Danphin, pres.
ident. Endorsed by Generals BeauregaFd and
Early. Supervisors of the Drawings, and qua.
ranteed by National Banks OF New Orleans
as To the payment Of its PriSes. NONE OH
FRS R GENUINE.
All so.called supplements, f"0figinal Iittls
Louisiana" or other limitations with unlawful
| use of the Louisiana State Lottery Compaayss
| name. by persons unknown, under assumed
or fictitious names, are attempts TO deceive
the public by false rretenses, offering no qua
rantee whatsoever.
Remember that One Dollar
| is he Price Of lie smallest part OF fraction q
a ticket issued IN any drdTing. 4nyihiag n
our name altered al a less price, IS fiiaf q
counterfeit or slCindle.
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GRAND MONTHLY DEBATING

GRIND NONI7Ll DRAWING
- WILL FAKE PLACE
At the Academy of Music, New Orleans
TUESDAY,, JULY 16, 1889,
CAPITAL PRIZE, $500. OOO
1000 600 Tickets at Twenty Nol.
lars each. Halves $40: Quar-.
terS S.: T'eMths So: TWenfi
etRaS So.
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En- police correctionnelle

III PuTIOO
-Pr6venu, dit le president. yons
avez frapp6 10 t6moin avec y bon
teille pleine, yous ponviez lie blesser.
L'accus6, dune yoix avin6e
Pas de danger, c'6tait du margaux
1870. lie bon bordeaux fait iamaia de
smal!
The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-22


La catastrophe de la Pennsylvania a
inspire des GRANTEES dams les Localities
Oh des reservoirs sont situ6s ; par ex-
emple, a 7s2 pieds au-dessus d'Olean,
N. Y, sc trouve le plus grand corps
dean artificial DIES Etats- Unis ct pon
dit qu'il est sujet acreyer dun moment
4 I'autre. Aussi les habitants de Ia
val6e de Gennesee quill menace pro.
te~stent-ils energiquement contre son
maintien.
On Went d'apprendre qu'un vieux
garcon, ruin6, va Sc marier p%rochaine-
ment.
-Naturellement, Ia personne doit
atre richie, fait un ami, mails quel age
doit.elle avoir?
oh! mon Diem r6pond son interlo'
~cuteur, c'est une femme qui q n6ces-
sairement IN certain Age; pent.6tFe
meme un peu plus!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24
THE GROWING NATION

There is retributive justice in the present
political attitude Of the new States. The
Oldest and most populous, Dakota, was fairly
entitled to admission more than eight years
ago, and has been shut out all this time by the
democrats because small plurality of it's in
habItants inclined against that party. Grad
uaily the other Territories have come to SYM
pathize strongly with Dakota Prior to the
last election Montana and Washington had for
four years been represented by Democratic
Delegates in Congress, but in November last
the Republican majority in Dakota was about
$4,000, in Washington about 7 900, and in
Montana about 8, 900. So great change gives
emphasis to the declaration that every year Of
injustice has cost the party perpetrating that
injustice more than it can hope soon to recover.
West OF the Mississippi there are now tbir-
teen and will soon be seventeen States. In
number already just equal TO those which orig
lnally formed the Republic, the Trans Mssis
sippi States have many times the population
ana Wealth-producing power Of the little Re
PUBIC which Washington helped to establish.
But when the census is taken next year il will
probably appear that at least IL 900 600 in
haoltants are embraced in the seventeen States
and the Territories beyond the great river
And yet so rapid is the growth in population
that this number, though about five times the
population of the original colonies when thew
achieved their independence, will be but little
more than the increase of the Nation within
single decade. The six New England States
New York and Pennsylvania will probably
have only about the population Of the region
west OF the Mississippi which became part of
the Union by MIR. Jefferson's purchase from
Bonaparte
The centre Of political power, as of popula-
tion, moves steadily westward and is now TO
be found in the State of the, President-elect.
In 1880 the centre Of population was I'm Ohio.
and President from Ohio was In that year
elected. Since that time the balance of power
has been held by New ork but probably for
the last time in the election which has placed
General Harrison in the chair at Washington.
Even if the next Congressional election should
be held on the present apportionment il will
probably show that there are Republican States
enough to elect President without the aid Of
New-York. General Harrison would have
lacked votes without this State, but the new
States will add thirteen. On the old appor-
tSonment with these added there would be Ala
electoral votes, Of which 208 would be re-
quired to elect, and the States which voted for
Harrison, without New York but with the new
States, would cast 2iO electoral votes In the
next apportionment, which ouaAt 10 be made
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24
SOME pRETry CoLD WEATHER.

The cold reported yesterday from the Northwest
was seyerer, by from to 10 degrees, than any
hitherto felt up there this winter and, at some
points, it was even more intense than during the
worst of last years memorable billiards In Da-
kota ST. Vincent, in northern Minnesota, regis
tered only 38 degrees below zero in January,
1888; but yesterday the thermometer dipped 10
A. This is within six degrees Of the lowest tem-
perature ever reported there by the Signal Service
which was in December, l 8s4. But at Minnedosa,
which is only short distance further north, in
British America, the spirit went SO degrees below
zero yesterday. II made the same record IN con-
nection with one of the most famous cold waves
in years, that of January o, 1856
One who has lived always in New-York City,
where the mercury dips to zero only once in three
or four years, and rarely goes below, can hardly
imagine the cold represented by these ngures,
which, by the way, are official There are good
many unofficial reports of worse weather, but only
costly instruments are capable OF" accurately reg
istering such temperatures; and these are rarely
employed by any but scientific observers. The
lowest tcorrected) temperature noted by General
Greedy in the Arctic regions was 63 below Zero
which is only IL degrees colder than that ported
yesterday from point more than thirty degrees
If latitude further south His Arctic weather at
Fort Conger in fact was exactly matched January
1, 1885, at Poplar River, Montana, which partially
illustrates the wellrecognized fact that the great
est cold of hemisphere is not to be found at the
north pole. but near the respective centres Of the
great American and Asiatic continents, where the
extreme dryness of the air facilitates radiation OF
heat from the earth into space, 1t is tolerably
safe surmise, therefore, that nowhere in America,
in any latitude, for many years, has the temper
allure been moro than about dozen degrees lower
than it was yesterday in Manitoba, Dakota and
Minnesota
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acteristics appeals to any considerable portion
of the public.
Sensationalism does so appeal, If it is well
employed, and the more monotonous and Ia
tiguing the general readers own occupation
the more he tends to take delight in bold imag-
inings. Nor does the general reader reject
sensationalisn on the ground that it is unreal
on the contrary, he knows-for he reads the
newspapers-that everything happens, and not
least often the most surprising and unexpected
things. The world is really as full of romance
as ever, and all that the reader OF fiction asks
is that this romance shall be adapted to pleas
ant endings, and that the hero and the heroine
shall come out all right in the last chapter.
The authors who can and do meet the popular
taste have their reward, and why should they
not After all literature is market TO which
every writer brings his wares. II he has made
them with single eye to pleasing himself he
has no right to complain because the public, to
whom they are offered, will have none of them.
The test Of the property value Of book is
finally identical with the test of all other
values. Those who write for posterity or for
the few of course do not expect present ap-
probation. Those who write for living are
commercial adventures in the last analysis,
and they must stand or fall by the manner in
which they have catered to the taste of the
majority. This is not hardship, it is not in
justice, it is the simple operation of natural
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24
Personal.

Mayor Hart of Boston, works hard and keeps Ioss
Office hours.
What to do with the Shah when ne comes h
England this year is the question. The ouecn
win not have him lodged In buckingham Palace again
The Hon. j. d. Cox, Ex-Governor Of Ohio, h,s
been invited TO make tho address at the dedication
Of the GARFIELD monument at Cleveland i has bcss
decided to establish a permanent admission fee Of
ten CENTS charged TO all visitors
Calvin's old church at Geneva, ST. Peters, Is "a
be repaired and partly rebuilt at cost of slooooo
Tho German Emperor row has his Berlin palace
lighted with electricity.
The Rev. DR.. G. T. Bowling, who withdrew nom
the Baptist church at Cleveland last year. win
enter upon his duties pastor of the Madison Avenus
Reformed Church at Albany IN June he b
now living at Oberiin, Ohio
Sir Julian Pauncefote, who Will probably Be msds
British Minister at Washington after March 4, Is
eyed, heavy-browed and baldheaded. He has 4
charming wife and daughter.
Mr. A. d. sarles, Vermont school teacher Oh.
tanned his first certificate from John @. saxs IN
1871. He is still In active service.
Mr. Thaddeus, the portrait painter, says Mr. Glad
stone was the most charming sitter he ever had az.
ccpting the ladies'
The Rev. Dr. Justin d. Fulton is going to the South
for long campaign among the negroes.
A writer in The Los Angeles Tribune gives srpos
positive authority" this account of Mr. Henry W. Stan
ley's Omaha love-affair 1t was when he was news
paper correspondent at that place. He was young,
handsome, and fond of adventure. He fell IN love
with ali actress who then on the boards q
the old Academy Of Music-a vaudeville actress
She was coquette and firted with young bloods
of the city who had more money than Stanley
When Stanley got perfectly crazy in his affection for
her. she arranged a meeting with him after As
performance, and, posting her friends, among whom
was an omaha Hersld' reporter, had them sta
Stanley, honest in his infatuaon, knelt before The
woman and protested desperately. She amused her
In her concealed friends, much to her lovers sur
prise and disgust. The reporter, fearing the con-
own paper, went over TO Council Bluffs and IN.
serted highly colored account I'm newspapers
there. Mr. Stanley met him soon after Il appcaiI
and gave him a sound thrashiDg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24
THE Richards or AUTHORSHIP.

An anonymous writer in "The Fornighty
Review discusses the Trade Of Author with
a special view to the question OF its pecuniary
rewards. He reaches two conclusions first
that authorship is handicapped above all pro-
fessions by the competition of the dead; sec
ond, that the only way by which something
more substantial than fame can be won in
literature is by consulting and appealing TO the
taste OF the public. There is truth in both
theSa positions, but perhaps too much weight
is allowed to the former Of them. The com
petition of the dead, being that OF the best
writers, since none other survive is no doubt
formidable, so far as IL goes but it does not
go so far as this writer seems to think IL does
not appreciably affect that largest class Of
readers which demands present amusement
based on observation Of the word as IL Is TO-
day. As TO the second proposition. that the
public taste must be followed, abundant evil
dence Of its truth might be brought forward,
and this evidence would tend to show that after
all the public taste is really seldom formed by
writer's who assume the function of educators,
but that it follows certain lines related closely
TO prevailing tendencies in life and thought
occasionally some author produces n hook
which hits the general sense immediatelS and
he reaps the reward. The authors who write
solely for thinkers must always be content with
an audience " fit but few" II is for amuse-
ment that the toiling, scambling, suffering
world clamors, and for this it always has Maid
and always will pay most literally. AS the
general competition grows feroer from year 10
year, moreover, the demand for iQhtness.
gayety glitter and sensation naturally in
creases. Thus IL is that the stage and the
novel both reflect what at first sight appears
to be strange access Of popular friyoIity. THE
recent reaction in favor Of sensationalism in
fiction has been solemnly bewaiIed by MANY
writers who have seen in it nothing but a hack
ward movement in the public taste. But the
truth is that the sharper the struggle for ex-
istence becomes the more people not merely
seek but require light and stimulating rocrea-
TONS Realism has been tried and found want
ing. Either it is dull 10 somnoience or e is
nasty to nausea. and neither Of these char
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY "a, 1889.
EIGHTEEN PAGES.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreign.-The declaration of the new French
Ministry was read in the Chamber and the Sen.
ate, and was greeted with applause; it announced
q firm policy. - Chill has prohibited Chinese
immigration. - Another Emin relief expe-
dition is being fitted out in Germany. - Prince
Bismarck at dinner in Berlin, deplored the
meddlesomeneSs Of certain German consuls, in So
called German colonies; he was understood tc
refer 20 Samoa. - Herr Won Bulow viii sail
for the United States in March.
Congress.-Both branches in session. - SEN
ate: The Chandler resolutions relative to cleo
lions in the South were taken up, and Senators
Daniel and Hoar spoke. 80 House: The De-
fciency bill was discussed; eulogies were delivered
on the late Congressman Burnes, of Missouri
Domestic.-Intense cold prevails from Montana
to the Atlantic the mercury registering as low as
So degrees In the Northwest =- The bark Josie
Troop was wrecked on the North Carolina coast
and the captain and ten of the crew were lost
E. The Commissioner of Patents gave q desision
sustaining the Bell Telephone Company in the
suits Of Gray and McDonough against it, 49,
Damaging testimony was brought out upon the
production of books Of Contractor Snaith be-
fore the Assembly Committee investigating the
ceiling scandal - Russell Harrison. in an in
terview. said that his fathers Cabinet had been
decided upon.
City and Suburban.-Tbe Downtown Club of
the Business Mems Republican Association for
mally opened its new house at No 81 Newest.
speeches were made by Chsuncey NJ Depew, A. r.
Whitney, Ehhu Root G. p Vedder. John F.
Plun,mer and Others. - The wife of wealthy
Brooklyn manufacturer killed herself after
quarrel with her husband. - third Juror
was secured in the Kerr trial; Judge Daniels
called for an investigation of statements made by
talesmen that they had been improperly approached
by detectives. - The New-York Alumni of the
University of Pennsylvania ate their annual dinner
- The Southern Boulevard Railroad Company
was enjoined from constructing its proposed road.
80 Bench warrants were procured for Ives
and Stayner on the indictments recently found
against them. - Stocks little irregular at
generally higher figures, closing strong
The Observation-Disclosures Clear and colder.
Temperature yesterday Highest 35 degrees;
lowest, g.; average, 20 Ia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24
go THE LITTLE ADVERTISEMENTS OF THE


Heavier than ever are the drafts made upon our
space to-day by those short. direct paragraphs,
which, with especial fitness have been termed the
little advertisements Of the people, IL is their
remarkable uni yersality which tustihes the use
Of this phrase. They come 20 us from all parts
Of the land-city and country, North, South East
and West They relate to everything under the
sun. with just enough exceptions to emphasize
their all-various nature. just Mt this time, the
renting season having now opened, there is, of
course, great food of advertisements dealing
with the question Of where the restless public may
find an abiding place, and many of these are in the
shape Of tempting real estate offers, but the bulk
Of these little notices is personal in character and
concerns the interests and affairs of individuals
They are truly, therefore. the little advertise
ments OF the people"
This is the reason we have chosen TO make them
conspicuous, TO invite them into our columns
and TO draw attention to them, for we are bound
that no effort Of ours shall be wanting to make
them serve their purpose efficiently. This talk
is the moro agreeable since they form, collected
together in continuous columns, an exceedingly
interesting feature Of the paper. They are news,
and important news Their perusal is calculated
10 be more beneficial in personal sense to the
vast majority of our readers than would be the
safe TO assert that the securing Of a competent
cook OF Of a satisfactory dressmaker who makes
Empire and Directoire a speciality would win for
us q larger measure Of communication from most
Of the ladies Of these United States than If we
were 10 make known 10 them the personnel OF
General Harrison's Cabinet Cabinets are things
they can wait for, but without cooks and dress
makers they would regard thu Republic as a
failure and self-government would receive a
deadly blow
Some Of these advertisements are notable for
adroitness OF expr ssion and vigor Of style. Il
will give 81 900 TO any person who has better
pstent for sale than have,' says a self-conhdent
inventor. An artist alleges that he is the
cheapest man in the world' A retail warehouse
offers $50 week for nrst-class salesady."
porter says he weighs 200 pounds, all bone and
sincw" coachman says am stylish boy
says he Is turned eighteen and good for any
thing People with everything to sell from I'D
dies TO farms with everything to buy, from mar
uiacories 10 autograph collections are heard from
In these pages. As reflections OF human interests
they are true and hll-pervading
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24

hammered crowd of unsportSmaDlil1e persons who
had never followed the hounds in their lives.
The only lady who started did not return. showing
how little the sex appreciates true sport The
great Chicago fox hunt was d thing OF the past.
The prospect for sport IN America was never
brighter. Rabbits are released from box on
Long Island and sportsmen watch long-legged
dogs catch them and shake them to death. Foxes
are killed in barn in Chicago and dragged through
the woods by string and sportsmen ride furiously
along neighboring street True sport is enno-
bling; it broadens the mind. quiclSens the sensi-
bilties and sharpens the instincts of those who
take part in it.
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ley T. johnson, and many Others Do thsy 4.
prove the blackguardism of this swsslbucstlerf

Mr. Cleveland has now formally announo,x
through several newspapers that he thinks Il h..
been remarkably fine Administration. vsross
members of the Cabinet have also announced 1,
the same manner that they, too. think it has been
q remarkably. fine Administration. One thins
may be- set down as absolutely certain about TIL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS it has no sense Of hunor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24

before another Presidential election, New York
NAV not lose in representation, but the great
Renubliean States Of the Northwest will prob
ably gain so that the party which can carry
Indiana and the rest of the Harrison States
viii not have occasion to fear defeat, even if
New-Hampshire could be led astray with this
state New-Jersey and Connecticut. So true
is II that the West has become the ruling power
in the Republic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-24

Those Democratic newspapers which are point
ing to the alleged selection of Mr.. Window as
q proof that this is to be Blaine Cabinet must
be afflicted Just now with shorter memories than
usual. Most Of us, whose recollection goes as far
back as 1880, have not forgotten that Mr.. Win
dom prevented the nomination OF Mr.. Blaine in
the Convention of that year by holding tie vote
Of Minnesota firmly for himself, and so defeating
that concentration upon Blaine which could
have been made then with that help, and was
made with IL upon Garfield later. Wherever
Mr.. Window may be credited, he certainly cannot
be counted as Blaine man. At the same time
there is no reason to suppose that this incident
ever caused any friction ill-feelng between the
two men. A great many Of the moves made in
politics 10 be classed under the general head
of tactics, and not all Of them, thank goodness,
are directed by personal anmosities.