The Opelousas courier., 1891-02-28
General N otes.

! The Hennessy murder case is now
oD trial in New Orleans.
+ A satisfactory trial of the Alexandria
street car line was made on the 18th.
The Lafayette Council has passed an
ordinance prohibiting gambling on the
streets.
The fifth brick factory has just been
established at New Iberia, and all of
them are doing well.
One of the largest sawmills at Lake
Charles runs at night, and is brilliantly
lighted by electricity.
Suspicion is very often an index of
character What man suspects in
others he would very probably do him
self ri.
One police court in New York in
three hours disposed of 100 cases-an.
average of minute and half to each
case.
The Rapides Bridge Company and
Watkins Railroad have combined to
build bridge across Red river at
Alexandria,
A conductor on the Vieksburg, Shreve-
port and Pacific Railroad was fined by
a Caddo court last week for violation
of the separate car law.
The effect of the anti-lottery law on
the postoffice at New Orleans, to date,
has been loss of business amounting
to $4,000.
Under the new apportionment bill
the electoral college of 1892 will con-
sist of 444 members, 223 being necessa-
ry TO the cboice of President of these
United States.
N. 0. City Item: The three alliance
reformers in the Illinois Legislature,
who will not help the Democrats to
elect Palmer, and cannot elect one Of
their own kind, are costing the State
of Illinois $4,000 per day.
At Bruly Landing, in West Baton
Rouge parish, Mr.. Odillon Foret com
mitted suicide by blowing out his
brains with shotgun. His father and
older brother had previously killed
themselves with the same weapon.
The police jury of st. Mary parish
: has employed road overseer, at $75
per month, to keep the highways in
order. He will be furnished with
mules, plows, scrapers, etc, at public
expense.
Houma Courier: What is the differ
ence between a Reformer and an Anti ?
The former is in office, and the latter
expects to continue in Office four years
longer. And that is the long and short
of the anti-lottery movement.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The south
ern wing of the Alliance claims great
credit for having retired Mr.. ingalls,
from national politics. But how about
Wade Hampton, the peerless, soldier
and gentleman
: According to the last census there
, are 1872 indians living in Louisiana Il
males and Sc females. Georgia has
two-one male and one female and iu
Illinois, of all the hosts of red men who
thronged her soil, only one buck was
, found
Mr. Geo. w. Dupre, one of the
: editors of the N 0. Daily States, has
. decided to test the legality of the anti
lottery postal law and has mailed let
ters with lottery tickets therein ant
, also copies of the States containing
lottery advertisements. He was arrest
ed. taken before United States Com
missioner and held under $3.50 appear
ance bond.
The strongest argument yet advanced
trade or a vocation in which he cal
5 earn living is that out OF every Slt
/ paid to the man who commands higl
4 wages 81 is for the work he does ant
50 for what he knows. 1t is KNOWN.
how that costs and is therefore valuable
o The number of hours man works
4 of minor Importance where salaries 6
: into the five figures. Learn a trade
-Ex.
Lake Charles Echo: Some northern
= editors who ought to know better, AM
do know better, are repeating an
. pretending to believe that colossal Ii
about negro slavery in Sabine parish
How can the southern people eve
respect and love countrymen OF th
,, north who are so blinded by hate an
prejudice as to believe such things
Thank God, they are the exception
= and while many northern Republican
'e from sectional policy, will fail to dc
nounce them, they will nearly all, i
their hearts despise these fire. brands.
at The West Baton Rouge Sugar Plantt
thinks that Senator Leland Stanfor
will hardly be the Alliance candida
ID for President, although he has bid fl
i'd the nomination by proposing to "coI
vert the government into a gigant
pawn shop" The reason for the Sug'
I'd Planters opinion, is that the Californ
e Senator is millionaire, and the farm
ers say they are tout cunning for the
feIlers." The Sugar Planter rather il
clines to the opinion that PETER is d
coming man Of the Alliance as pre-
Dental preference, though of course
at knows that the intricate ways of p oliti
ps. are past finding out for a year and
half ahead, even with the gift of et
torial prophecy.