The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-31
Items of
Oil cloth and rubber coats of ever
kind at Clements 81 Wilson.

xOH cIOLl anu fuDD6r coats Oh every
kind at Clements g. Wilson.
Galveston has organized a ramie culture
company which expects to &c into the bust
ness on a large scale. The estimated profit is
$3.50 per acre.
Rubber Stamps, Stencils, Seals, Mon
ograms, Badges, &C., furnished on short
notice. Apply to Fred L. Sandoz.
The testimony brought out in the suit by
| John A. Morris against the Secretary of State,
shows the records have been doetored. This
is not the first instance in which records,
have been tempered with in this ~State.-Lake
| Charles American.
THIBoDAux, LA, December 2ad, 1889,
| cannot but cheertully recommend the use
of Gouaux's Asthmatic Remedies, having had
many opportunities of witnessing their salu-
tary effects. III. DAEsEREAu, nj. ID.
Would Ii not have been but fair to add that
this 'deetegingS was done by an anttlottery-
lite, and consisted merely of making the record
in exact accord with the faots9 Surely it
would not be American to let q mere clerk
oserturn the deliberate action of two-thirds
of the General Assembly IN. o. City Item.
Col. Dan Lamont is now the picture of
rugged good health, though when he left
the White House, two years ago, he was
worn to a shadow. At that time he had just
finished a four years term of hard work
which had sometimes amounted to sixteen
hours a day and had given him but few
opportunities for rest.
Capt. Schley, commanding the cruiser
Baltimore, the vessel that bore Ericsson's
remains to S~weden-says the fine ship made
foreign navy officers open their eyes. The
enthusiastic captain, who came home to at
| tend his daughters wedding, says he could
catch any ship of the French, German, or
English ~navies, without e~xertiDg the Baiti-
more at all.
The New York Herald says: People tell
us that the Republican party has done moth
ing. This is a serious mistake. 1t has done
three things-It has eRised the price of every
necessary of life; it jas lowered the wages
of the working classss; it has gagged the
minority in the House, and is ready at any
moment to perform the same service for the
minority of the Senate. We think the Re-
publican party has done altogether too
much"
A~RNAUDvILLE, La, June 18th, 1890.
Mr.. f. Gouaux, Houma, La.
Dear Sir: For many years my wife is suffer
ing from that dreadful disease, Asthma, and
although / have called on many doctors none
proved to relieve her. | tried your remedy.
aud the first dose she took she rested all
night. She could not live without this pre-
cious powder and mixture. This is the best
certificate that you can wish.
Yours truly, j. b. RERGERoN.
And now the force Dill threatens TO extend
its malign influence to the Worlds Fair,
Southern States refusing to attempt to ex-
hibit it they are to be crippled by the pro-
posed Federal control sof the ballot. The
more vitality this malignant political enter
prise gets the more its scope of baleful
power extends. The one redeeming feature
of it is the 1ope 5 gives that its influence
may some day be brought to bear upon the
politicians who nurtured it.-Chicago News.
What are ''egal holidaysa The first day of
January, the twenty-seeond day of February,
the fourth day of July, the twenty-ffth day
of December, of each year, and ali days APP
pointed by the President of the United States
thanksgiving, and every day on which an
election is held throughout the State, are
declared holidays, on which all the public
offices may be closed. The statute does not
require the public offices of the State to be
closed on legal holidays, nor prohibit the
courts from transaeting business.
"Why is it, people are asking every day,
it been boarded ~ Not at all. There is just
as much in circulation, probably more than
ever. But the trouble is just here. In ordi-
nary times financial transactions are based
much more on confidence than on cash, say
rs per cent confidence, and 25 per cent cash.
just now the supply of confidence is low and
the proportion is reversed. And SO, although
there is as much cash as ever and although it
is doing far more service than in ordinary
times, it fails to go round. It is not more
cash that is wanted, but more confidence.
That is the situation in a nutshell.-Beston
Post.
If We are to have a force bill let it be
Quay's, not Hoar's. Practically they are
identical, but the brutal frankness of Quay's
is much preferable to the studied hypocrisy
of Hoar's. Quay's bill presents the raw, cold
truth. Hears clouds It's real purpose with
a multiplicity of words. Quay's bill author
ICES the President in terms to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus, the privilege of which
it is provided in the National Constitution
shall not be suspended unless when in cases
of rebellion or invasion the public safety NAV
it. Quay's bill also authorizes the
President to order out troops to any poll he
may wish guarded. Quay doesn't expect his
bill to be passed, but he doesn't want Hoar's
bill to succeed under false pretenses. Let ii
sail under its true colors. Quay's bill des-
cribes them accurately. But HOar, who is
not frank or honest. prefers imposition. Hoar
hides the truth. Quay talks right out in
meeting. His reputation is not as good as
Hoars. His character is better.-Chicago
Times, Dem.
The Acadia Sentinel discusses sthe merits
of the ISSUE presented ia the proposed
revenue amendment to the Constitution, and
touching on the subjectApr and con,
in different lights, it sums up as follows and
1t IN a nutshell: IL The lottery is so
demoraiizing that its evils outweigh or even
approximately counterbalance the benefits to |
be derived, the renewal of it's charter ought
to be denied. Let us see what we are doing
in other directions. We license gambling
houses in Louisiana for an insignificant
revenue, and yet the money lost in them
brings more poverty into humble households
and wrecks more fortunes ten times over than
is caused by buying lottery tickets. We
license concert and dance saloons for an in
significant revenue, and, though they are few
in number in the State, they drag down more
of young people to hell in a year than
the lottery in a double-chartered lifetime.
We license the liquor traffic for an inslgnif-
can't revenue, for the money derived from it
does not pay the expense of crime caused by
it's v~otaries, and yet the misery and degrade
ton, the woe and anguish, the heartbreak-
the blood, the despair, the death,-th
Of one year of whisky drinking in
the State of Louisiana far outweights all the
wretchedness caused throughout the entire
country in a century by the lottery drawings.
The Lottery, too, sometimes brings blessings
n its train-not often, but sometimes. Here
md there it lifts a man out of his poverty it
some struggling soul a hold on pros
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