The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-13
General Notes.

A panther u feet long was killed on
the Tensas river recently.
A State convention of the Farmers
Alliance will be held in Lafayette in
August.
A movement is on foot to establish a
sash, door, blind and wood working
factory ut Alexandria
Hydrophobia is prevalent in the
ninth ward of Iberville parish among
cattle, horses and dogs.
The last grand jury of Ouaehita par
ish returned one hundred and ten true
bills. A large part of them were for
violations of the Sunday law.
A wolf that has been depredating ex
tensively in the vicinity of Covington,
was shot recently. The animal was jet
black and weighed IS pounds.
An election for special railroad tax
of five mills for ten years, was held at
New Iberia recently. resulting in favor
Of the tax. There were 2l4 votes cast
for it and only five against.
Baton Rouge Advocate The two
anti-lottery members of the Board of
Health who lately got in the soup had
no moral scruples against trying to
strike the capital prize in the distribu
ton of new slaughterhouse stock This
kind of morality thanks God that it is
not like that of other men-and 1t isn't.
Alexandria Times II the people of
the North honor Grant aud other Of
their generals with monuments how
much higher monuments should those
of tie South raise to their distinguished
dead. With 100000 men they for four
wears defended the South against the
Infinitely better fed and better equipped
armies of the North that numbered
2,859, 900 men-against odds of nearly
FIVE to one. And, but for some fatal
mistakes, we would have whipped
the fight.
A lady lecturer of the w. G. t. U.
in Brooklya says that poverty and
vice will be wiped out when the saloon
goes This sister ought to come down
into Louisiana and learn new re-
ligion, which teaches that the mil
lennium will dawn whenever the lot
terry is suppressed, and that there is at
present no other sin in the calendar
worthy of special condemnation. The
'roll Of honor in our last legislature
bears the names of those who voted
golidiy to ''reeharter' the liquor saloous
aud the dancing dives.
Biloxi Herald Since the Louisiana
State Lottery was excluded from using
the mails from receiving letters aud
sending out circulars and tickets that
company has been using the express
companies to distribute their CORES
pondence and receive monies, and now
the news comes from Washington that
the government proposes TO make an
attempt to stop the lottery company
from using the express.
This attempt we presume rests upon
the theory that the company is an im-
moral institution, and the duty of the
government is, to regulate the morals
of the people. Next it will be in order
to compel every man to take bis family
to some orthodox church on Sunday,
and then declare what church is ortho-
dox, and then-and then the devil
knows what.
Alexandria Times Have our farmer
friends forgotten the damning indict-
ment framed and submitted to the Ocala
convention against the sub treasury
scheme By Mr. u. S. Mall, president OF
the Missouri Farmers Alliance2 Here
it is: 81 am uncompromisiDgly opposed
to this scheme for the following
reasons: First, it is in violation of the
constitution of the United States; sec.
ondly, it is snbyersive of, and directly
opposed to the constitution, principles
and demands of our own order thirdly
it is unjust and inequitable fourthly
it is very extraVagant ; filthy, it woule
bring financial ruin to the farmers o
our country and to all other classes o
business; sixthly, it will have, aud il
now having, the effect of drawing th1
minds of farmers and other laborers 0
our country from the greatest curse .
the age, class legislation, and, if adopt
ed. will commit US to that principl
which will fasten these curses upon U
for all time.'