The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-22
Congressman Robertson.

A special to the Times -Democra
from Washington dated March II says
Mr.. Robertson succeeded to-day il
securing the passage through the hous'
of his bill appropriating $l3, 500 for 1
national cemetery road at Port Hudson
La. This was committee suspension
day in the House, and after a good
deal of diplomacy and hard work Mr.
Robertson succeeded in obtaining from
the committee permission to bring hiE
bill forward when the committee or
military affairs was called.
/ Although so early in the session this
is the second bill of interest to his dis.
trict that Mr.. Robinson has succeeded
in passing through the House, his bill
for public building at Baton Rouge
having already gone over to the SEN
ate.
Mr.. Robertson called to-day on the
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
in regard to the delay 10 the construc-
ton of the public building at Opelou-
sas, and was informed by Mr.. Windrim
that he was waiting for the postmaster
at Opelousas to send on Topographic
cal sketch of the site, when the plans
would at once be commenced.
The masquerade ball given by the
Opelousas Philharmonic, Literary and
Dramatic Association at their Hall over
Bailey's drugstore last Wednesday
night was largely attended, the small
hall being overcrowded, and, aside
from this fact, was one of the most en-
joyable events of the season. Besides
large number of ladies and gentlemen
who were present but not disguised,
the following, so "a little bird" informs
as, were among the maskers: Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Bercier, Mrs. Mollie Haw-
kins, Mrs. II. Crawford, Mrs. G. L. Du-
pre-, Mrs. C. Bailey, Misses Leila Hud-
speth, Regina Debaillon, Nina Delarue,
Ada Sandoz, Julie Bloch, Rose Perro-
din, Gabrielle Hebrard, Pussie Pitot,
Blanche Richard, Doucie Andrus, An
ME Andrus, Messrs. j. J. Thompson,
Chas. Qairk, Man. Carriere, T. A.
Cooke, John J. Healey, F. Voorhies,
Jos. Cain, N. Roos, Jos. Firnberg, B.
Chacher6, S. L. Hebrard, Jos. A. Gil,
John Jacobs, L. Lacombe, L. Salmon
son, I. Silverberg.
There were several elegant costumes,
but the great majority of maskers wore
plain "dominoes," sacrificing elegance
to the more important consideration of
a perfect disguise. But the music-oh
it was delightful. This was the first
public performance of the recently Or
ganized Orchestra of the o. P. L. & d.
A, and it's dulcet symphonies, though
marred in some degree by the discor
dant sounds of suhfaing feet, took the
entire audience by storm-electrifying
them, as it were, by the enhancing
sweetness of its harmonious numbers.
And sweet and clear, above the sounds of
revelry, the din of the ballroom, the
melody of the piano, the blare of the brass
instruments and the roll of the drum,
scared the mellifluous strains of that
divinely melodious instrument, the vio-
lin, in the hands of Prof. Mayer; its
smooth and yelvety notes softening,
mellowing and welding into one har-
monious whole this Concord of sweet
sounds" The Orchestra consists of
Prof R. Mayer, under whose masterful
leadership it has SO soon acquired such
wonderful proficiency, lst violin Miss
A. Latour, lst violin (absent) Mr.. o.
Bodemuller, I'd violin; Misses O. Laas
.sn a III. Mayer, piano; Jack Perrodin,
I9rnet; A. Morgan, alto; Fl. Worrell,
Trombone; L. Fontenot, snare drum
aud triangle.