The Opelousas courier., 1889-09-28

General Notes.

Welsh Crescent: Welsh's exhibit to
the Sioux City Corn Palace need not
take back seat with any from south
west Louisiana. 1t was much larger
and better than we expected.
A law has been passed by the Geor-
gia Legislature making it a misdemea-
nor for any person to sell, furnish, give
or provide any minor with cigarettes,
tobacco, cigarette paper or any substi
tute therefor.
Some men try advertising rs the In
| dian tried feathers. He took one fea
ther, laid it on the board and slept on
it all night ln the morning lie remark
ed: "White man say feathers heap soft;
white man - fool. ."-Ex.
Bienvile New Era: Warmoth has
received the much coveted appointment
to the collectorship of the port of New
Orleans, and will now WELD the politi-
cal whip of the Republican party in
Louisiana. God save the State from
his clutches, and avert spoliation, ruin
and bloodshed.
Ruston Caligraph Race troubles
have been reported from some portions
of nearly every Southern State during
the past few months. The race prob
lem becomes more vexatious every day,
and evidently climax will be reached
ere many years more.
Bienville New Era 1t is a mean, dis
honest trick to take paper and read it
tor two or three or more years, and then
have the postmaster notify the publisher
that it is refused, without first paying
for it. 1t would be so much more gen.
tlemanly to pay up and tell the pub
Usher that you donot want it any longer.
Natchitoches Review: The indigna-
tion expressed by the entire city press
over the killing of Rosemond Cormier
and his Is year old daughter, Rosalie,
by the Lafayette mob of Regulators,
cannot but be gratifying to all lovers
of law and order. Yet the Press of
that city as whole, as we'll as part of
the country journals, is as much res
ponsible, morally, as the Lafayette cut
tbrOats, for the condition of affairs
winch has existed in that section for
monShs past.
There is now running at the Paris
exposition hydraulic train that con-
sists of four carriages and has room for
about 100 passengers. The train runs
as smoothly as boat on the water.
There are no wheels, no steam, no
electricity, apparently nothing to make
it go. Yet it will go at the rate of 125
| miles an hour, while as far as motion
may be felt there is none. The pas
seuger can not tell by any vibration of
the car that he is moving at all.
There are nearly 5000 names on
the pension rolls. The amount paid
for all purposes last year by the bu-
reau was Ss2, ,000,0 900 in round numbers.
The total expenditures of the govern
RsGs gent for the same time were 1867 .00O,-
900. That Is, ttiheamonns spent on
pensions was over 80 per tent OF the
entire outlay of the government Mt
Washington. And last years figures
won't be in sight when Corporal Tan
Iper makes returns this year. Whither
Pare we drifting ?-Buffalo Express.
| 1t needs no prophet to foretell that
| the effort President Harrison is making
to "break the solid South" must inglo-
riously fail. Republicans may say
| what they please of Rutherford B, Hayes,
but his policy did more in that direc-
ton than any other Republican Presi
dent has accomplished. 1t postponed
for four years longer the election of n
Democratic President. If he had
sought to irritate the Southern people
as President Harrison is doing, Gen.
Hancock would have gainedJyotes in
bdth sections in 1880 perhaps enough
to have made his election sure. jack
sonville Times Union.
Crowley Signal: One of the most
prominent indications of the rapid de-
velopment of country is the amount OF
| improved machinery that is annually
sold in it. 1t affords us pleasure there
fore TO note the large increase in the
sales of the different kinds of agricnl-
tural and other improved machinery
that have been made here in Crowley
this season. About sixty harvesters
and binders, goodly number of NOW
ers and hay rakes, several portable en-
gines and threshers, besides a consider
able amount of smaller machinery has
been disposed of in the past few months
! and wetare satisfied that other points
in the parish have disposed of proper
tlonate amo9ats.
Il Tiis!s-zsi szif4 rs no record of the cotton crop
Il during the war and the first year OF
which there is record is 1866, when the
crop aggregated 2,154 ,476 bales, and
the price was an unnatural one. The
most valuable crop was that of 1873
when it aggregated $3l2, ,4sO, 1000 fol
$50 sos bales, or about l2 cents pei
pound. The largest crop was that Of
1857, when it aggregated 7,RO,2Os
bales, which was valued at $29l ,045,
$50, or about 81 cents per pound. Tht
crop Of 1867 was the smallest, being
, | ,96l ,998 bales; its value was $3.50,
, OOO, 900, or nearly % CENTS per pound
This crop was valued at almost a.
, much as that of 1887, which aggregated
/ almost four times as many bales. Ma
, tionai Economist.
To see local paper trying to put
and boom town with its columns bar
rem Of local advertisements, is about q
thin as trying to convince a sensIbI