The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-23
EteHNs Of Interest.

East Felcana Fair amounted to $I450.
The town of Plaquemine is soon to have II
bank. Very nearly all the stock has bccu
taken.
The Baton Rouge Trnlh favors the settle
nitnt OF tho old parish Judgments at forty
cents on the dollar.
The new window glass pool, formed i'll Pitts,
burgh is expected to put mp the price Of good
American product Is to 20 per cent.
G. w. Martin, aged 50, hanged himself on
the bridge at New Iberia on the I7tl,, because
lie WAS despondent and crippled
Acadia comes forward with m assessment
Of $2,34i,J3l, an increase over last year OF
$l62, 600 or IA per cent advance.
As you like it. Gray and faded whiskerS
may be changed to their natural and even
color-brOwn or blaek-by using Bucking
hams Dye. Try it.
ST. Martin Messenger: Nearly every paper
III the State now tenOunces in outspoken terms
the regulators who have committed so much
iawlessness in Onr section and sullied the fair
name of the State. The regulators must go
The Town Council of Alexandria is consid
ering the question of contracting for system
of wuterworks. DonaltlsOnviile has already
acted in the matter Of both electric lights and
waterw0rks.
Many old soldiers, who contracted chronic
diarrhoea while in the service, have since
been permanently cured of it by Chamber
lain's collie, cholera and diarrhoea remedy For
sale by j. Lassale and all merchants.
The Caucasian says that the present popu-
iation of Shreveport IS $4,000, that the value
of all property in the city limits is $40, 800,
900, that the municipal debt is $4,000, and
that the yalne of last yearsS trade was $50,
900, 900.
An English syndicate is about to buy up all
the New Orleans breweries at the following
prices: Crescent City, 100000; Southern,
100000; Louisiana, $85O,00O Lafayette,
$425, 900; Weckerlng, S400, 900; Pelican, $3.50,
900
Scrofula is one of the most fatal among the
scourges which aifiict mankind. Chronic sores,
cancerous humors, emaeiatiOn, and consnmp-
tion, are the result of scrofula Ayers sarsa
parlia eradicates this poison, and restores to
the blood, the elements of life aud health.
St Martin Messenger: Some of our citizens
who at first approved the regulator move
ment are now loud and nnreseTved in their de-
good for nothing and too much of thing that
never was good, is simply intolerabe
George Hornsby, noted criminal and ihe
terror Of the Grand Lake swamp, was shot
and killed on Little Bayou Pigeon on Nov II
by posse deputel by the sheriff of Iberia
parish, holding reqnisition from the Gov
ernor OF Texas for crimes committed i'll that
State.
For lame back there is nothing better than
to satnrate flannel cloth with Chamberlain s
pain balm and bind it ON the affected parts.
Try it and you will be surprised at the prompt
relief it affords. The same treatment will
enre rheumatism. For sale by j. Lassalle
and all merchants.
The man who went out to milk and sat
down on boulder i'm the middle of the past
ure and waited for the COW to come and back
up to him, was the eldest brother OF the mau
who kept store and did not advertise, because
he reasoned that the purchasing public would
back up to his place when it wanted some
thng.-Ex.
REDwINE, Jackson parish, La, I
December l. 1886. {
C. NJ Sherrouse, Agt.-I can say for DIR.
Tichenors Antiseptic that it is a sure cure for
fistuIo on horses and mules. | have tested it
OH q bad case, and effected cure in Il re
lnarkably short time.
Resp'y, o. Ii. SPENCER.
A bloolless revolution i'll Brazil has result
ed in the deposition of Emperor Dom Pedro
III and the establishment of republic under
the title of the Omitted States Of Brazil
Dom Pedro was put on board q Man-ofwar
which sailed for Portugal and was allowed to
carry away with him very handsome fortune.
Gen Da FonZeca is now President.
FARMERyILLE, La, May, 1887.
Having a severe attack of Flux some two
years ago, applied to DIR. Ticlenor, of Baton
Rouge, for treatment. He gave me his cele-
brated Antiseptic, and i'll a few days was re-
lieyed and cured, JAMES RABUN.
~ O. Times Democrat: New Orleans is to
have the Gulf navy yard after all. Tho conl-
mission appointed TO select suitable site on
the Gulf coast declares it is by long odds the
best locations and that the old government
reservation in Algiers selected many years
ago for this very purpose, is hest suited for it
in every way.
N o. City Item: Negro colonization in Mex
leo has begun in practical form. The gov
ernulent has granted considerable land con-
cesaion to the agents of the scheme In the
meantime, TO provide against n possible hegi-
ra, Louisiana should he moving to induce the
splendid but disheartened farming element oi
the blizzard suffering West to come hither.
st. Martin Messenger: The party of gentle
men from this place who spent ten days mt
Cote Blanche, on the gulf returned Monday
highly pleased of the huge aud glorious time
they had They did not have very great
success ia hunting, but fish were plenty, and
fishing was the most agreeable and pleasant
sport they enjoyed.
Pointe Coupee Banner Archbishops bisiI-
Gpe priests, dignltaFies and prominent mem
hers of the Catholic faith from all over the
Union, assembled in Baltimore on the 10th
for the triple purpose of celebrating the 100ti,
anniversary of the appointment of the first
Catholic bishop in the U. s., the inauguration
of the first congress of Catholic laymen and
the dedication Of the new university for cath
olics at Washington City
For over fifty years DIR. Davis Compound
Syrup of Wild Cherry and Tar has cured
coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, throat aud
of a hysician of extensive practice, who, after
prescribing it for twenty years, was induced
/ hy the gratifying results TO make it propri
| etary medicine. Davis Wild Cherry aud Tel
| soon became known as the best remedy for all
throat and lung troubles. Why Because il
/ has merit and will enre. A. c. Haffleinger
Philadelphia, says: !" know q man suffering
j with his lungs who was in the hospital year
I without benefit. | induced him to take Da
] yis Wild Cherry and Tar, and to-day he is
we'll. know it saved his life.n Try it. 3
The Baton Rouge Advocate gives an inter
5 esting interview with DR.. L. K. Perkins, su
] perintendent of the State Insane Asylum
/ There are on an average 500 patients i'll tht
/ institution, nearly equally divided between
i the two sexes, with the whites preponder
I airing Only two or three inmates are con
/ sidered dangerous. One of these, Emanue
Bates Of st. Landry, is powerful negro. wht
/ is kept constantly chained to a chair. Whei
1 once liberated, it is believed that he woule
| grab any one in reach and squeeze the life ou
of him. Al short time ago another very dan
gerons inmate died. He was Wilson Lucas
/ the leader in the Conshatta riot some year
ago, who subsequently committed murder a
/ the result Of insanity. The health of the in
! mates is good, new sewerage system havin:
i been introduced.
DIED-At the family residence in Opelou
sas, on Saturday, Nov Is, 1889, MARY ALICE
daughter OF Anthony Dietlein and Moih
Stokes, aged year and % days.