The Opelousas courier., 1889-04-13
General Notes.

Michel Eugene CheVTeui, lhe thuiouS
French chemist, died on the 9th, aged
l03 years.
The firemen of Alexandria will eele-
bratc their anniversary with picnic
and ball about May lat
Alexandria Democrat The Police
Jury have concluded to purchase twj
more Lamhorn road machines. whic'
will cost @34275
1t is stated that "Catharine Cole, OF
the New Orleans Picayune, will chape-
rome party of ladies who are to make
a tour of Europe this simmer.
Isaac Williams, convicted in St. Ian
dry on the charge of murder in 1876,
and sentenced to the penitentIaly for
life, has been pardoned.
Alexandria Democrat: At their ses-
sion last week the Police Jury appTo-
priated $3.50 for the Soldiers Home in
New Orleans as contribution from
Rapidts. :.
Farmergille Gazette The present
State administration has pardoned six
ty-one convicts, so says the Times
Democrat. A pretty good pardonlne
record during less than twelve months
SERVICE sure.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction has issued call for a conyen-
ton of Parish Superintendent and all
friends and promoters of public educa-
lion, to be held in Tulane Hail, New
Orleans, on the 18th of May next.
John Bright, one oahe most promi-
nent statesmen of England, and the
leading opponent of Gladstone on tbe
anestion of home rule for Ireland, died
In London on the morning of the 9th
ult., aged II years.
1t is said that Postmaster General
Wanamaker carries life insurance to
the amount of $l,75O,00O, the largest
amount placed by any single individ,
ual in the United States. The annual
premiums aggregate 100000.
The decision of the Administration
not to interrupt the terms of Presiden-
tial postmasters, npless good, solid rea-
sons exist for the displacement of pres
ent incumbents, is in accord with true
Riyil service reform, Journal,
Rep.
ST, Martin Reveille Mr. F. Rous-
seau, the owner of the oil mill and gin
nery established in this town, has gin
ned and shipped during this season up
to date 1857 bales of cotton and has
manufactured and shipped 2740 barrels
of cotton seed i9il.
Shreveport lines The plan of hold
ing road con ention in New Orleans
bv delegates frtim the various parishes
is rapidly gaining favor throughout the
State. 1t is an excellent move. Bad
roads are a curse to the State. We are
a thousand years behind ancient Rome
in this regard.
Houma Courier: Crowley the parish
seat of Acadia is on another boom, and
last week, n public sale of lots was
made by the land company and many
we're sold at fair prices. Crowley owes
almost its entire success to the news
papers and we may now say its future
is assured. The moral is help the news
paper man it you want to be helped.
Monroe Bulletin The vacant stores
and residences in Monroe are being "a
pidly taken and tenanted. 1t will be
remembered that the papers of Monroe
predicted this as the result of the build
| ing of a North and South railroad when
| they were so persistently appealing to
the people in behalf of q new railroad.
The press of Monroe shonld now re-
ceive its due credit.
| Thibodaux Sentinel Tbibodanx is to-
day the most compact city in Louisiana
No town has SD many inhabitaass on
an equal area of land. But few empty
lots remain, ,dand they Ail ere long be
occupied. Al era of prosperity is upor
rs, and although we do not claim one
of those .1odern inventions called q
st Rom," vet the evidences are al
around and about US that our march j.
steadily and practically Onward.
| Ex-Governor McEuery, of Louisiana
is showing his good citizenship BY tax
ing a prominent part in the effort IL
induce immigration to that State. 4
letter which he sent recently to an i'm
migration convention contained the in
teresting statement that nine times a
many people attain the age of 100 il
Louisiana as in New York, and ifteel
times as many as in Maine. The South
no doubt, is remarkably healthy, an
immigrants may come to any Souther
State aud retain, if not improve thei
health Savannah News.
IN. Quad" writing to the Detroi
Free Press from the south, says
tsWhen we of the north refer to th
south, the negro always comes into th
! question. His status and his futur
are regarded by Us as great problem
We are much worried over it at time
It ia matter which should be and ca
: be left with the south to take cal
, of The southern negro is a theor
, with Us. He is a solid substance to tt
southerner. He knows more abol
him in day than we do in q year: +
! has got more excuses for lis faihsl
: than any northern man dare urge. I
treats him more kindly than We do Il
same race at the nortb.'
d The following dispatch to the Time
!. Democrat from Baldwin, La, of Il
lt 9th ult., is indicative of the gener
9 progress of our State:
g Great improvements are in eonter
Q plation in this section. This year tv
u refineries will go up in Cypremort. t
e owners of the Des Lignes plantati
IL have contracted for the erection of
complete diffusion apparatus, and tn
have issued notification that they W
;. pay an increased price for cane-S4 |
= ton, which has elated all the little Gro
"A pers to that extent that they are p'
= ting every stalk of cane in the grou