The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-01
Htenas of Interest.

The Acadia public schools open on No
yember3.
Louisiana oranges are now worth $40 per
barrel.
Shreveport has organized stock company
for q hat manufactory.
Natchitoches has a brick factory turning
out 25,0O0 bricks a day.
An ice company has been organized in Nat
chitoches with capital stock of $4,000.
A pillow factory with a capacity of twenty
plows day has been opened in Shreveport.
Count that day lost, whose low descending
sun views from thy hand no advertising done.
The Advertiser says that the Southern Pa
ciic railroad has six large new locomotives on
the line between Lafayette and Houston.
TnIBoDAux, La, December 22d, 1889.
cannot but cheerfully recommend the use
of Gouaux's Asthmatic Remedies, having had
many opportunities of witnessing their salu-
tary effects. III. DANsEREAU, NJ. ..
The Bayou Nermilion steamboatmen talk of
constructing locks between Lafayette and Alb
beyille to insure navigation the year around.
The census gives Louisiana a population of
l;116, ,32s, an increase since 1880 of 1T 1882, or
1882 per cent.
The population of jackson, Miss. is placed
at 6,04l; Greenville 6,665; Meridian l0,S89 !;
Vicksburg 1928.
The Secretary of the Interior has declined
to order a recount Of the population of New
York City.
Houma Courier The separate car bill went
into effect yesterday. Drawing curtain in
the middle of coach is not fulfilling the re-
auirenent of the law, and the sooner the
railroad authorities como to this conclusion,
the better it will be for the management of
the road.
A snit has been brought at DonaldsonyIlle
against the board of leyee commissioners of
the AtchafaIaya Basin levee district, epioin-
ling the board from issuing bonds and prohib-
iting tho sheriffs of Ascension and Iberville
from collecting the produce and two and a
half cents per acre tax from the planters.
ARNAUDvTLLE, La, june 18Th 1890.
Mr.. T. Gouaux, Honma La,
Dear Sir: For many years my wife is suffer.
ing from that dreadful disease, Asthma, and
although have called on many doctors none
and the first dose she took she rested all
night She could not live without this pre-
eious powder and mixture. This is the best
certificate that you can wish
Yours truly, J b. RERGERoN.
Washington, Oct 29.-The accounts of the
following enumerators in the Fifth Louisiana
District have been held mp, owing to some ir
Irregularities in their agricultural statistics: c.
E. Porche, P. Gosserand, J. NJ. Rodney. F. j..
ID. Avy, X G.. Sittig, b. A. Guidry, j. S. B.
Laban, E. l.. Cannon, w. d. Lyons, Hy. L..
Erlich, Fenelon f. GheVis, r. e. Boudreaux,
Frank ID. Winchester. The accounts of the
other enumerators of this district are being
rapidly paid,
Baton Rouge Advocate: The New York
Herald publishes an elaborate compilation of
all the congressional contests. candidates and
issues in November election, and figures out
that the Democrats will have at least Is ma
.iority in the Fifty Second Congress. This es-
innate rates all alliance men and independ-
ents according to their previous party affiIia-
tions. The alleged democratic gains are, of
course only problematieal, but glance at
the Herala's table gives very good hope, ss
Democratic success ~