The Opelousas courier., 1889-06-29

Items OF Interest.

Wm. E. Chahiser has been elected United
States Senator fromdIew Hampshire after all.
Ibervillc parish is to have Il poor farm to be
leased out, where paupers can do light work
and be cared for.
The health of kosautli, the Hungarian pa,
triot. has so greatly improved that he may
now, it is thought, live several years.
Lawrence II. Pugh, Esq, editor OF the Ma
l'oleonville Pioneer. is EN- route for Paris,
where he will take in the great exposition.
Hermitage Council al, A. l.. of H., will
give a grand ball at Thompson's Hall, Cooks
Landing, Pointe Coupee parish, on Thursday,
July 1.
The graves Of $500 Confederate veterans
were decorated at Winchester, Va. on June
6. General Jubal A. Early was the orator OF
tue day.
The remains of Gen. Sewer, the first COVER
nor of Tennessee, which have lain for seventy
eight years in Alabama. were reinforced in
Knoxville on the 10Th.
Birmingham Age-Herald: Alliance after
Alliance has declared in favor of cotton bag.
ging. That's right. Let's build factories and
assert our independence.
Monroe Telegraph; The judiciary system
of Louisiana is as to the salaries of circuit
Judges just that too much expensive. In ad-
ditiOn to this there are several district Judges
and district attorneys too many.
The Connecticut Legislature has passed a
bill to prohibit the selling, giving or deliver.
ing tobacco in any form to persons under six
teen years of age. and also prohibits said mi
nor from the use of tobacco in cigarettes, or
in any form.
An exchange gives the following advice,
which, if followed, would tend to lessen the
coroner's business when q person points
IA gun al you, knock him down. Don't stop to
ask him if it is loaded, but knock him down
and dent be particular what you do it with
If there is to be a coroner's inquest, let it be
over tue other fellow-he won't be missed.
w. B. R. Sugar Planter: On last Tuesday
Register of the Land Office Lanier sold 10, l0l
acres of land in the parish of Caldwell to
James Ellis, an English capitalist, who was
represented by Prof. S. A. Knapp. Price paid,
1886. All the timbered lands of this State
are rapidly being taken up, and at this rate,
it will be only a short while ere the Ii st acre
has passed into the hands of foreigners.
The person who will give us a remedy for
ground moles that we may publish it pro bono
pablic0 will place a very large portion of this
community under lasting obligations to him.
On some places i'll this community these vii
famous little pests have become an intOler-
able nuisance.-Ruston Caligraph.
Take a spade, dig a hole that the MOLE
road will cross, and a few inches below it put
in some dry straw or rubbish, and put in a half
OF. OF sulphur or a little birthstone, set it on
fire and cover the top of the spade hole ny
with & board SO the smoke and gas cannot es-
cape. 1t will follow the mole road for rods
and kill the moles. One man can kill all the
moies on a hundred acres of laud in a day
with Il pound of sulphur.-Editor Murray
County tMinn. Pioneer
Come down to Baton Rouge, brother Pearce,
and we will show you forty-seyen as pretty
cottages as you ever saw, all built through
the medium of the Baton Rouge Building and
Loan Association during the past four years,
by poor men who have heretofore been pay
lug rent to capitalists. Last Thursday eve
ming the stock 10 Series A of this Association
was linuidated, and at an early date each of
these poor men will be given the deeds to
their comfortable little homes. Two more Sc
ries, b and Z, nave been opened and are
wor' Jng satisfactorily. A man cannot take
rao, i than $4,000 stock in any series, payable
4 the rate of one dollar per share OF $tWi
monthly, thus preventing capitalists or spec
~uIatnrs from controlling the association. AT
ter four years trial, it is the unanimous yer
dict of all that HE Baton Rouge Building and
Loan Association has done more towards in
proving the city than any enterprise ever es,
tablishtd here. Aud the good work still goes
bravely on. You have got "a good thing, bro
Their. deserving of every encouragement, for
it will provide homes for your poor men
Baton Rouge Truth.