The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1889-03-23
Ktezla o Of Interest.

You may hive the stars in nail keg, hang
the ocean on q rail fence to dry, put the sky
to soak in goufd aud unbuckle the belly
band of eternity aud let the sun and moon
out, but don't think you can escape the place
that lies on the other side Of purgatory if yol
don't pay for your paper. Georgia Enterprise
Welch Crescent: The fact that an Atlanta
paper has exposed rotten banking house re
minds US that it requires brave and fearless
newspaper to fulfill the provinces of public
journal. There is growing disposition to d.
this thing, and the public likes it, likes to set
fraud exposed and crime uncovered, and it il
really the proper thing for a newspaper to do
Farmerville Gazette We areIinformed that
Mr.. j. T. Wade paid recently the sum o.
81 ,525 cash for a tract of land containing
about 300 acres, situated in the western por.
tion of our parish. This shows that Uuior
parish lands are no longer q drug upon the
market, but on the other hand, good prices
can be obtained for them. This change is
one of the good results of the Immigration
movement.
The signing of the territory bill has made ii
necessary for the government to replace al
its 5000 national flags with new ones, having
additional stars, and the United States Bun
ting Company, of which Ben Butler is the
of its manufacture in this country, and tina,
stroke of President Cleveland's pen means
half million dollars worth of business to the
iyoneern,
Lake Charles Ameriean The legislature Of
Nebraska has passed a resolution submitting
to the people an alternative proposition tC
amend the constitution so as to have high Ii
eense Or prohibition, as ths people shall dc.
eide at the next general election. This State
was one Of the first to introduce high Ii
cense system, which has been quite successful
in reducing the number of saloons and enrich
ing the chief cities and towns by the revenues
While courts, lawyers and especially juries
are mainly responsible for failure of rigid
of the laws, it seems clear to the
non;judicial mind that the laws themselves
are also greatly at fault. By skillful manipu
lation, the worst possible case may, under the
forms of law, be beaten about from pillar to
post on one technieality after another until,
at last, it makes a hole in the judicial waters
and disappears from the view of the public
whose Indignation thersat soon passes into
the limbo of forgotten things.-Shreveport
Times.
Bienvilie New Era: AS an evidence that
advertising pays, We are assured by Mr.. Pratt
that his business is improving continually,
while those who do not advertise report the
reverse. Mr.. Pratt adyertises constantly in
the New Era, and it is a pleasure to us to
know that he is doing so well. Another ad.
yertiser, ID. B. Laugford, reports his business
too. The people know who to pa
troDize know that the man who advertises is
a liberal man, that means business and keeps
OIL hand what they want. When you want Co
buy look in the paper for the name of the man
you want to patronage.
New England has a white population of
8, ,909 1888 colored 50 ,925; abaut 100 white per-
sous to | negro.
New Hampshire, Senator Chandlers State,
has population of whites 346, ,229; eolored
6S5 about 500 whites to negro.
Louisiana has population of whites 454,
954; eolored 4S3 ,655 total 938 ,609.
The white taxpayers of Louisiana pay for
the educating of more negro children than all
of the lrthern states gaY-they pay for edu'
land states, and 500 times more than the state
of New Hampshire.
The southern white taxpayers pay for the
education of fifteen times as many negro chill
dren as the white taxpayers of the north pay
for.
pay more than s. 1905, 600 yearly for educating
negro ehildren.-D. bennett, in N. o. Plea
yune.
W. B. r. Sugar Planter: The Marksy lille
Review of the ID inst, contains an able edito-
State. That journal In very properly opposeA
to the Court of Appeals system, and clearly
the fact that it 10 cumbersome,
costly and useless, while it fails to meet the
of a perfect judicial condition.
The Review suggests as q substitute for the
Circuit Court portion of our Judiciary, a re-
s'Fn to the old parish Judge system, with
modifcacions We heartily concur with our
esteemed confrere in its opinion-having urg.
ed the same views on previous occasions-eDd
sincerely trust that the press Of the State will
continue to expose the absurdities and Wucon-
sistencies Of our judicial system-particularly
the Court of Appeals portion thereof-until
such public sentiment can be aroused as will
result in constitutional amendment design
ed to bring about cheaper, better and more
perfect Judiciary.
The Times-Deinocrat, in timely article
upon "Assessnsnts,p concludes:
The following facts seem to be accepted by
tue entire state press:
That Louisiana is ussdsr-Gssessed from 50 tc
rs per cent.
That the present assessment is unequal, urs
Just and opprtssire, particularly to the small
property holders, and is based on no system
Of uniformity whatever
That the under-assessment Injuries Louisi
ana by giving false idea abroad Of its poy
erty, and engendering the belief that the ratG
of taxation, tbased on d false assessment), il
excessively high, and frightening capital and
immigration away from the State
That it benefits those who make dishonest
returns and encourages and rewards those
who are guilty of falsely representing tht
value of their property There being no doub
and Of the injury and injustice it causes, We
will have poor idea of Louisiana If it eanno
correct it. There can be no greater coward
ice, no worse proposition advanced than that
an assessor should not perform his duty anG
assess property at its true yaiae, through fea
that some other assessor might do the same
Let the officer who fails Of his duty be point
cuss for others to make untrue returns ant
under-assessments.
. Perambulator, correspondent of tht
Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer,
published at New Orleans, writes TO that pc
per Napjemoy plantation. the old DIR. j. A
iTaylor's estate, on bayou Waxia, st. Landr
parish, comprises total acreage OF 1000 acre
of land-arable and swamp. There are 20
acres in the field. Messrs. Raymond Brother
and Bailey are the owners-bought 1t IN 1883
and made a crop of sugar, IA hogshesds 9
opf~l kettle sugar from 100 acres OF can
grosiad; ginned 81 bales of cotton from %
acres of cotton planted; harvested l45 loads 9
corn, 80 barrels of shuckeorn to the load
1889 ppsns with many auspices for this aGr
cultural firm t1fr. y. w. Bailey is the res
dent manager he managed for many year
on Mr. d. Kenner's Pt. Houmas plantation
Ascension parishI. There win be somewha
over 900 acres in cotton, I25 acres of plant an
65 acres of stubble. In corn there will be u
acres Labor at present is ample, but th
: large place is situated in the midst Of sma
planters and s.share system so that laher
often scarce in late spring. Mr.. Bailey II
ferns your correspondent that no gres
change will be instituted in sRgarhouse, lss
Sugar machinery il acquiring such advane
ment and perfection that this firm will wait Il
further developments in that direction, al
. pick up with the race nearer the hon
stretek."
The Texas Farm and Ranch, splend
agricultural semi.monthly paper, pubiishs
Al Dallas nj I'll ner annuIn. clnbbed with 81