The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1889-08-17
General Notes.

- oAtSa ol bayou DhuE, also on
Bayou Rapides. Some poisoning was
done on the latter bayou this week.
huston Caligraph: Louisiana is be-
hind every other State in the South in
educational enterprise. Is it not about
time that we were beginning to see our
selves as others sec us?
Lafayette Advertiser: At an election
held iu St. Martinville, on July Both, a
tive mill Pax, to make wells and cisterns
in the town and thoroughly equip their
tire companies, was carried by a vote of
"a to >. This is commendable progress.
A sufficient number of Indians have
signed the treaty to accomplish the
ceding to the United States of portion
OF the Sioux Reservation, containing IL,
600, 600 acres, situated in Dakota Ter
rltory. This is splendid land for grow
ing grain and in Il short time will be
open for white settlements.
Acadia Sentinel: We are informed
that big scheme is on foot headed by
Chicago capitalists, to buy up or'other-
wise control all the rice lands in this
section of country, for the purpose of
eultivating rice on a large scale. Freez-
ing out the small planters will dorpt-
less follow in due time.
Ruston Caligraph: Every week
brings news of contemplated new rail
road schemes to be put in operation in
North Louisiana. 1t does not require
a very vivid imagination to foTesee, in
the near future, North Louisiana grid
ironed with railroads from the Missis-
sippi river to the Texas State line
Mrs Maybrick, an American woman,
born in Mobile, has been convicted in
Liverpool of poisoning her husband and
sentenced to be hanged on the Nith
inst. The evidence was circumstan-
tial, aud strong efforts are being made
both in England and America to secuIe
areprieve or commutation ofsentence.
The following from the Ruston Cali
graph, sounds pretty rough, but Bro.
Pearce generally knows what he is talk
ing about: There is man in Ruston
who is engaged in a business which is
designed to enable people to lie easily
and healthiiy, 1t is hardly probable
that any Of our lawyers will patronize
him as they already have the subject of
lying, in all of lis nAssz'57ss reduced TO a
science,
RnstoS SCaligraph: The press is well
represented on the programme of the
educational. .convent9n now in session
in Ruston CThe PISS has grown to be
one Of the most potent factors of the
age in tile great cause of the education
of the masses, and the intelligent por-
ton of the world have not been slow in
finding it out. II differs from all other
systems in that its work is perpetual.
Day and night it goes on, from hour to
hour. day TO day, year in and year out.
Bunkie Blade: Gov. Warmoth has
just had two hundred acres of his land
tile drained, making three hundred in
all that he has drained 10y this system.
Other planters in Southern Louisiana
are following his example, Tile drain
age has accomplished wonders for the
farm lands at the north and there is but
little doubt that it will be of immense
benefit in Central and Southern L0uisi-
ana. We think it would not be too
much to say thai many of our Ian DIS
would double their yield iftile drained
Lake Charles Commercial Work has
begun on the Methodist church edltice,
and the congregation may soon be con-
graduated on having more roomy and
elegant place for worship than hereto
fore. The artesian well continues to be
an object of great interest, and its con
slant and free flow of pure water is
reliable source of supply to the neigh
borhood, and is regarded as public
henefaction.
Alexandria Town Talk: The Demo
cratic Review, the DeSoto Democrat
and many other newspapers in Louisi
| ana, favor an educational qualification
20 the right of suffrage. The Towf
| Talk has favored an educational quail
fication for long time, and is confiden
/ that il is the only method that will in
| snre an election that will be exactly
like those held in Louisiana in ante
l,ellum days free and fair and may thu
hest man win. This will no doubt b.
one of the most important questions
/ before the next Legislature. Ii tha
bodv does not do g>mething in the mat
tasr they will neglect one OF the mos
Vital questions that is before the people
| of THIS State.
A large number of the most inhuentIa
newspapers throughout thesState ar
practically unanimous in their dennncia
tions of our present Judicial system gen
erally. and the appellate cdArts in par
ticnlar. The Indications are that tn
next Legislature will see to it that on
Judiciary is revised, and that the court
of anneai are abolished. Commentin!
nnon the latter, the st. Mary Banne
savs. . First in the order of reform
comes the Circuit Court. It it is alb
normal court, a paradoxicai coart.
has appellate jurisdiction over the DIS DIS
t,ict Caurt in all sums less than $4,000
and more than 5000, and yet the Dis
trict Court can entertain jurisdictio
e., millions. Its costly and expensive
The State is defaulter annually, b.
ahout the amount that it takes to rat
! the Circuit Court"
correspo ondent of the Lafayette 40
vertiser, writing from Carencro, says:
We don't think that there is anythin
that would pay our farmers better tina
tn nlant cane to be sold at $5 per tor
nor - do We think there is any better il
yestment than to bnild sugar hous
and buy cane at that price. One advar
tare for the buyer over the old proce'
i fhat by the use of the improved b
o. gasse burner sixty per cent. in fuel
saved. At S5 per ton 900 arpents
. cane would give our little communal
!. S5O. 600 clear profit, because any OF to
, land we'll worked viii yield 20 tons
. the arpent, and $50 clear to the arpent
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