The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1889-05-04
General Notes.

Secretary Blaine i" ~ y aor health.
Baton Rouge and Monroe are now
lighted by electricity.
] Chairman BaTnnm, of the Democratic
/ National Committee, died last Monday.
! Six thousand girls are ready to enter
t G Normal College in New York City
/ Only 800 can be admitted.
! Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, will
confer the pallium on Archbishop JAMS
sens at New Orleans next Wednesday.
| Owing to the continued low water IN
the Mississippi river 10000 acres of
land in three parishes, that have been
heretofore devoted to rice culture, were
abandoned.
| The Police Jury of Assumption re-
solved, at late meeting, to do the
handsome thing by rendering an excur-
sion to Napoleonville to the Press Asso-
citation during its next meeting at Thi-
bodaux.
Ouachita Telegraph (Monroe): A le-
cent Washington telegram is to the eff
feet that it will be a long time before
the drawings for our public building
w III DC AChuJ tLC Va tllG
vising architect of the treasury.
Ouachita Telegraph The Electric
Light Company have now finally got
the l.iachinery in good working order
and the "Queen City of the Ouachita
| Valley" is now illuminated with that
kind of light.
New York Tribune: In the town of
Tob
Richardson employs 5000 people in the
manufacture of Irish linen, no hqnor
has been sold for forty years and as a
| result there is neither policeman, pris
| on, pawnshop nor pauper in town
Baton Ronge Advocate: We feel
that our efforts to give the public good
| newspaper, and facilities for their job
work, are poorly appreciated when we
find the mark Of New Orleans house
on bill that is presented for payment,
or if other papers are patronized TO the
exclusion of our own.
n. o. Times Democrat The hon
| ors paid to the dead soldiers in the
| memorial day services of the Southern
States on Friday hetoken the fact that,
as time goes by. the valor and devotion
of the men who wore the gray are re-
| membered with loftier sentiment of
pride by the people of the South.
Onachita Telegraph: A successful
test of the electric light machine was
made Thursday night, 81 lights having
| been turned ON and run without any
hitch during the entire night. The
| lamps were put up iii the various stores
and places subscribing for them yester-
day and the city was illuminated last
night
The Bessemer of Bessemer, Ala,
says: SIT is learned that Major E. A
Burke has completed the sale of a con-
cession IF fifteen square miles of placer
territory on the Guape river in Hon
duras, to London syndicate for $780,
900, and that he is now organizing u
company to develop some placer
grounds on the Guyape and Jalan riv
ers for distance of eighty miles up
and down each river, for which he has
a, concession from the republic of Hon
: uuras.''
Ouachita Telegraph: A patty Of
Eastern and Western capitalists passed
through Monroe Wednesday going east
who are said to have represented $500,
00O,0 900. They rode in yestibule train
which was chartered for two weeks for
| $I5, GO and it was manned by sixteen
trainmen. The party invested about
| 81 ,00O, 900 at Dennison, Texas, and it
is Sid they will probably invest simi;
| lar amount at Fort Payne, Ala.