The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29
General Notes.


Shreveport has collected more than
$1,000 from her dog tax.
Louisiana gets FIVE thousand dollars
from Congress for its Experiment Sta
ton at kenner.
Cataloula parish has an area of 100
square miles, and the Herald wants it
divided into two parishes.
There are 475 pupils in private col
ored schools in the city of Baton Rouge.
One dollar per month is the rate of tut
ton charged.
The Louisiana State Fair and Shrcye-
port Exposition, 9th annual fair) will,
be held Oct. 8th to I4th, incIusivel
1859. S30.OOO in premiums and purses.
The Eiffel tower, at the Paris Expo
sltlon, is nearly 1000 feet high, and the
great French journal, Figaro, prints n
daily edition in the thirty-sixth story
Of the tower.
The Rayne rice mill was bid in by
Meyer WE'LL, of New Orleans, for ST.
800, and afterward sold to NJ. Arenas,
of Rayne. The property originally cost
between $4,000 and $40, 900.
There are hundreds of qrtesian wells
in Covington, and more being bored
every day. Good clear water is r4Nnd
at a depth of from 20 to 100 feet. They
are much better and cheaper than wood
en- cisterns.
Mr.. Harrington of Mansfield gathered
last week 81 pounds of Irish potatoes
from three potatoes, weighing one
pound, planted in the spring. He was
contesting for a 800 prize, offered by
a Philadelphia seed house.
Col. Geo. w. Garter, at one time a
prominent figure in Louisiana politics,
has gone back into the church, from
which he was a backslider, and is now
a lay preacher of the NJ. E. Church
South in Virginia.
The two bridges in Avoyelles parish,
owe the construction Of which there
has been some wrangling between the
parish seat ~removalists and the ants,
are to cost $27, 300, to be paid i'm. in
annual installments, beginning Feb. l,
1890.
Teche Pilot: Work has begun this
week in the laying of cane juice pipes
to COW hi Mrs. NJ. A. Patout's sugar
house with A. l., Monnot's Waufrey)
J Refinery, a distance of six miles. Four
or five men, we learn, will be occupied
nearly thE u weeks in completing the
Jos.
st. MartinsvilIe Weekly Messenger ::
Mr.. C. l.. Lacaze's Moss factory is now
in operation and large quantities of
moss is brought to the factory from the
country almost every day. This gives
a chance to the planter and laborer to
make q little money when there is no
work in the field.
Donaldsonville Chief: Stephen b.
Packard, "Louisiana's own" turned
up in Washington several weeks ago
as an applicant for his former fat billet,
the United States consulsinp at Liver
pool, bnt the prize has gone to Thos.
W. Sherman, private secretary to Mr..
Blaine. Mr.. Packard has gone back
into Iowa and oblivion Il dis-cOnsul-a ate
If not a wiser man.
Colonel A. j. LafArgue, the talented
editor ofthe Marksville Bulletin, has
lately been admitted to the bar and has
become associated with Judge Irion in
the practice of law at Marksville. Colo
mel Lafargue has had several years of
'practical legal experience as clerk of
the District Court, and is IL hard stu
dent and IN eloquent speaker. He will
doubtless soon acquire a high reputa-
ton at the bar, a. she has in journalism,
which, we are pleased to learn, he does
not intend to abandon altogether. The
best wishes of the Review and the fra
t~ernity in general will follow him in
his new field Of endeavor.-Louisiana
Review.
Colfax Chronicle: The great dailies
of New Orleans are getting to be i'm.
proper papers to be introduced into
private families. 1t is (perhaps) legi-
mate to mention as a matter of news
the commission of beastly crimes, but
to 60 into all the details of brutality
and beastiality of revolving happenings
is pandering to the vicious element in
society. 1t is indecent, and no parent
who has,th purity aud sanctity of his
household at heart should permit such
accounts to come within the home cir
Gle. Come gentlemen, give US a resl
from the slckening details of outrage
ous crimes, such, as have disgracet
your columns of late.
ST. Martinsviile Weekly Messenger
Saturday last at. about 4 o'clock in thu
evening the Oil Mill whistle gave a lon,
blow which conveyed to the employee
the news that the machinery of tn
works would be stopped. This mil
after working 9 months, day and night
closed down for about 3 months to en-
/, large the buildings and add machinery
The products of this mill in the min
!, months it has run are 1000 barrels Oil
1900 tons cotton seed meal, $40 bale
/ lint aud LOO bales of cotton, which i
about half the capacity of the null.
+, This industry has been of incalcula
bile benefit to this town, and its cl0sin,
f up will throw about 25 persons out G
i employment for at least three months.
The Bayou Sara Industrial News ha
the following to say with regard t
Lincoln's and Grants plan of disposin
o of the negroes:
: Lincoln's idea was not a bad ons
4 and had he lived it might have bee
carried out by the aid of his great il
: fuence, though it would have mad
him many bitter enemies. 1t was
b set aside a sufficiently large territor,
I somewhere on the frontier, move I'll
b negroes there in a body, as was dor
with many of the Indian tribes, giy
them sshome rule,,, and exercise a pr,
tectorate over them till they coul
ckar5 an fhair own feet Many G7l