The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-06-27
General Notes.

its cause by putting muzzle on some
of its speakers.
Rudyard Kipling, the brilliant young
novelist, is reported to be dying in Italy
from consumption.
Senator Gibson is out, previous to
sailing for Europe, in his usual an
aouncement for the senatorship.
Trinity Hearld Why don't the Anti
LOtteryites fire into the Prince OF
Wales for running gambling concern 2
A beautiful monument was dedicated
to the memory of the "Heroes of the
Lost Cause" at Pensacola, Florida, on
the 18th inst.
At the Republican State convention
held at Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th
inst, Hon. VIM. Mckinley was nomina-
ted for Governor.
The Behring fisheries have been
closed, the United States, however,
being allowed $500 seals as food for
the natives. This is better and cheaper
than war.
Baton Rouge will be entitled to mail
delivery by carriers after the lst OF
July, the population of the city being
over 10000 souls and the revenues of
the postofice exceeding $4,000 a year.
The Governor has signed the death
warrant of William Dial and Charles
Large of the parish of Cacasieu, con
rcted of the crime Of murder, fixing
sFriday, July 10. as the day OF the
execution.
4 At Florence, Ala, on the 22d May,
@@fary Wilson, colored, gave birth to
shree we'll formed children, who are
tloing finely They are all girls and
are as large as newborn babies gen
orally. .=.
Telegraph Bulletin: OMalley and
his jury bribeEs are being knocked
about in a way by the courts that is
very uncomfortable to them and it is
safe to say that as a result justice will
resume her sway in the Crescent City.
May the lesson not soon be forgotten.
/ The war department has issued an
order that the field, or union, of the
national flag in use in the army will,
on and after July 4, 1891, consist of A
stars in six rows; the upper and lower
rows to have eight stars, second, third,
| fourth and fifth rows seven stars each
in blue field.
Mrs T. G.. Richardson, wife of the
eminent New Orleans physician of that
name. has donated 100000 to the med
ical department of Tulane University
to be applied to the erection of a new
college building on the site recently
purchased by the Tulane Educational
Board.
Alexandria Times: A case of general
interest to planters and all others en-
ploying labor has been decided in the
district court of East Baton Rouge. A
colored laborer had entered into a con.
tract with j. P. Muse and obtained 81
worth of supplies. At the end of a few
weeks he quit work and left the place
Muse had him arrested under Aci
No, 1873 of 1890. He was tried by {
Jury, found guilty and sentenced to pay
fine of $50 or ten days in Jail.
Alexandria Times: The New Delta
and its satellites have had much to say
: upon what they charge as crime
against the lottery papers "a failure t.
print arguments against themselves
So. Now the Southron of Sabine, ;
pronounced anti, is calling the pure ant
immaculate leader of the hosts of Israe
Ito task for its remarkable mutenes
! touching the crookedness of two 0
Gov. Nichols appointees on the boar'
of health.
| Baton Rouge Advocate: An anti-lot
: tery meeting in Claiborne parish, a
{ which the adjutant general of the Stat
made speech, passed resolution
! declaring a boycott in business agains
j all pro-lottery merchants and protes
sonal men This is the spirit tina
3 burned heretics at the stake in the dar
ages, or at a later day consigned ther
], to dungeons for opinions sake. Sue
/. a boycott does not amount TO row
b pins in this enlightened age, but
t shows the folly and fanatieism b
+ which some people expect to BULLDOG
their fellow citizens into silence
inaction. Such intolerance Is out {
place in free country.
Crowley Signal A Picayune specis
# from Rio Grande City, Texas, date
:, Nav 24th, says: Com is now sellin
d here at $1,000 per bushel. That Is
! the rate of Sl.00 per gallon. In oth'
-t words good, large loaf of corn brea
Q would cost $100 We quote this
. show to what criminal scarcity breat
stuffs may arrive at. because farme
!, will persist in planting too much of OF
q thing to the detriment of another
! might not have been the reason at r
q Grande City, but great many OF o.
IS planters in the South neglect the
provision crop for larger acreage
cotton. This explains the high pri
N of corn now ia our midst. What W
=, be the price of corn another year
m this drouth continues a few wee
longer? We learn that many farme
i'd have not finished planting corn yet.
=. Baton Rouge Advocate: The Ale
= andria Town Talk clinches an argume
- - with the question: If law maki
= it crime to sell lottery tickets witho
license can not be enforced, WI
should the law against retailing llqu
70 without license be enforced2D
~ Town Talk will go into Texas and 6
~ ~ lottery tickets displayed in the vi
= = dows for sale as they are in Louislar
- it will have practical reply to
question. If Town Talk viii come
- Baton Rouge under the shadow OF t
10 CAPITOL and see the Sunday law oper
- - disregarded on every hand, it will ha
=. = another practical illustration that i
= which is not supported by public st
tiuanf il very 0ftan a dead letter.