The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-04-18
General Notes.


The sale of pews in the Rayne Catho-
lie Church brought $500.
The Natehitoches ice factory is at
work, and turns out three tons of ice
per day.
The Webster police jury has levied
an additional tax of 2a mills for the
public schools
The administrator of finance at Baton
Rouge has sold $50 dog tags, and still
the CANNES howl for protection.
The ladies of Ruston will give a
complimentary concert to the visiting
editors during the coming press CON
veution.
A camp of ex-confederate veterans
has been organized at Baton Rouge,
and Capt. John McGrath was elected
commander
/ Al movements afoot in New Orleans
to erect monument to the memory Of
the late d. G. Hennessy.
The total sales of the State Land
Office for the first quarter of 1891
reached 25,333.80 acres, and the fees
amounted to S12, ,352 O8.
The old ST. Francis Church in Pointe
Goupee parish is now in three feet of
water, and will probably cave into the
river before the water recedes.
Hon. John Marsh Avery, who repre-
sented the 18th Senatorial District in
the State Senate during the past four
years, died III New Orleans last Thurs
day after long painful illness. He
was AZ years old and unmarried.
A ten-eent lodging house has been
opened in Chicago. The building is
seven stories high, heated by steam and
lighted By electricity, has elevators
and hot and cold water. Between the
free lunch counters in Chicago and the
ten cent lodging house, person can
estake i'm the Worlds Fair at less ex-
pense than 1e can remain at home
Fafmerville Gazette.
I The MadtSon Journal says the long
line Of levees III that parish is still
intact, but the tension is great and the
country is 'sbetWeen hades and the deep
blue sea If some of the moralists,
says the journal, could walk up the
levees of thar parish and above, they
would see proof everywhere that it is
not a question Of morality bur If money,
and they would be less active iii talk
and more 4nergetic IN work TO protect
/ the Mississippi valley. The Aftakapas
indicator styles these levee builders
the Louisiana Bureau of Angels
The Memphis Leader very correctly
says A great many unkind and incon
siderate filings have been made at the
Italians during the resent war scare.
/ It is the more to be deprecated when
/ it .is remembered that they make
| almost the best, the most progressive
land patriotic citizens that any foreign
nation sends to our shores. They are
thrifty to a marked degree, singnIarly
laval akalng, and an office seeker is
] rarely found among them The sins
of the Mafiaites are not to be visite d
.on them. nor should they be made
objects of insult nor ridicule because
Italy chooses TO inquire concerning a
seeming outrage upon her citiz9ns.
Apropos Of the jury system, which
the Alexandria Times thinks ought to
be radically changed, that paper says :
when it was established by Magma
Charter the lower classes had no rights
the higher classes felt bound to respect,
juries then answered an excellent pura
pose. Nova however. the better class
have no rigats the rufian feels bound
to respect. The system is worse Phan
a farce it is crime against morals
land good government. 1t may well be
doubted ifanything short of total ex.
tinction will prove of much avail. But
while all will eoncede that the ends Of
4 justice would be better subserved il
criminals were tried By bench Of
judge ii is not at all probable that
the country will be willing to give up
/ this relic of the past, if not, indeed. Of
semi barbarism.