The Opelousas courier., 1891-02-21
General M otes.

Col. James Oscar Nixon, prominent
citizen of New Orleans, died last Satur
day morning.
The citizens of Alexandria have Or
ganized fair association and raised a
fund of 1920 at their first meeting.
The Louisiana Chautauqua Associa-
tion will hold meeting on Feb. 90 at
Ruston.
The temperature marked go at
Shreveport on Mardi Gras, the coldest
of the season. There was plenty of
frost and ice.
The labor bureau of the government
is about to make thorough investiga-
tion into the workings of the homestead
associations.
Work on the Watkins railroad will
begin soon from the Alexandria end.
Only twenty -four miles remain to con-
meet with Lake Charles.
A youth named Leon Nash, aged
seventeen years, ran away from his
fathers home, near Lamourie, and his
parents are anxious to hear from him.
The Central Sugar Factory move
ment is taking good shape in Terre-
bonne, and a company with capital
stock of $500,00 will soon be organized.
The artesian well at Monroe has a
depth of only $50 feet, but throws a
stream of clear water thirty five feet
above the surface and discharges 3d.
600 gallons day,
The commerce committee of the Fed
eral Congress has reported favorably
on Congressman Coleman's bill looking
to the establishment of fish hatchery
in Louisiana.
A new church in Donaldsonville will
soon be built. Archbishop Janssens
has ordered it erected being the out
come of the recent trouble there among
the Catholics.
The citizens in the vicinity Of Amite
City assembled in mass meeting, on the
Both of January, and adopted strong
resolutions condemnatory of lawless-
ness.
A sad accident happened to a party
of hunters in Prairie Hayes, Mr. Ray
mond Comeaux being killed by the
accidental discharge of gun in the
hands of Paul Moneau
Abbeville Meridional: Last week the
New Iberia, Vermilion and Western
Railroad Co, surrendered their charter,
aud dissolved. 1t is to be hoped how
ever that this is not the end of the RAIL
road to this place.
The movement to establish central
al Fo oafn rf is cti
crossing and promises success. Fifty
acres of land have been offered as
site by Mr.. Camille Beyard, near the
town.
All hostile war whoopers have sur
rendered. Tough chunk full of gall, in
the person of Senator Hoar, has thrown
up his hands and admitted that it is
useless to attempt to take the sealps of
the pale faces of the South. 1t may be
safely said that the war is over.-States.
The Ruston Caligraph says it is funny
to see a pious anti-lottery paper run
ming a gift enterprise scheme to increase
its subscription, and it thinks such
editors belong to the class who are $50
insanely holy as to vote carload of
GOAL to keep hell hot--for somebody
else"
AcadiaeSentinei The assistant edi-
tor of the New Delta died some time
since but we failed to notice that the
revenue press followed his remains to
the grave with such sentences as have
lately escaped from the other side,
when the last of all that was mortal of
Rev. N. w. Warren, was lowered into
the grave.
Assumption Pioneer 1t must GER
tainly be a mystery to our Northern
brethren why we should in the same
breath condemn the force bill and at
the same time invoke the assistance
of Congress in passing bill to prevent
a State from having lottery. "Con
sistency. thou art jewell which no
Anti possesses
The secret service officials have ad
vices that gang of Polish Jews in New
York have been largely in the business
of decreasing the weight of gold coins
by means of an acid bath, which leaves
the coins treated as good as new in
It is believed a large
amount, from which about 5 per cent
of weight has been taken, has been
sent south and west.
Lake Charles Eclfo We are reliably
informed that work at the Sulphur
Mine is being rapidly pushed forward
The cleaning out of the old shaft has
reached to considerable depth and the
machinery for the foundry is now on
the ground. and preparation for casting
being made, which will soon commence,
and the we'll sunk to the sulphur bed,
where it is known to exist in large.
quantities.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The failure
of Banker Kean, of Chicago, discloses
the singular fact that Bishop Taylor
had deposited in his bank the sum of
$50, 900, to be used in buying African
children and bringing them to this
country to be educated and evangelical.
This sum was sufficient to buy 1000
black babies, at $50 each, which is said
to be the ruling price for pickaninnies
over there, as the market has not yet
been cornered. IF the bishop gets his
we adviBe him to como south
and make his purchases. There are
plenty of black babies and white ones
too, for that matter-Who need educa
tion and eyangelization, and they are
right here among us. No doubt he can
find thousands in Chicago also who
need not only spelling books and the
gospel, but food and raiDaent also, and