The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-05-09

General III ote S.

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a capital stock of $1,000.
. The Texas and Pacific was fined
$500 fol failure to comply with the
law in putting up bulletins at regular
stations.
A new industry just started i'll Shreye-
port is steam candy factory, employ
ing ten hands, and with a capacity of
5000 pounds per day.
Homestead societies create spirit Of
saving in individuals, make families
happy by providing them with their
oaUn homes and are public advantage
by swelling the tax list.
| A bald eagle attacked MIR. Nett
Carpenters little child while playing
IN the yard of its fathers residence at
quantity Of the little ones hair flew
away.
Those of OUT people who need note
heads, bill heads, envelopes or any
other kind of printing will do we'll to
send their orders to this Office, we will
! duplicate any job made in New Orleans,
in workmanship and in price
/ N. O. City Item The "mora' cranks
Of Philadelphia are waging hot war
| fare against the running there of street
cars on Sunday. But, like our own
vociferous "Antis' who buy lottery
tickets on the sly, the protesters ride
home from church in these cars most
comfortably.
Master Walter Lafargue, aged l2
/ years, is now the business manager and
/ Master Edwin Lafargue, aged 10 years,
publisher of the Bulletin. This week
they did all the type setting and distri
buting They began to learn the ''art
preservative of all arts' last week
Marksville Bulletin.
Thespanthers' are reported as being
very plentiful on bayou Pigeon. This
will prove really bad news for the can.
didates for Office in the parish, for very
often that sletion is relied upon for
furnishing tEA majority, aud now the
/ iiustlers will obe afraid to canvass the
voters on the bayou -Meridional.
n O. City Item: After doing all! in
/ their power to prevent the people from
having a voice in the great issue of the
! Lottery revenue amendment, the Ants
now frantically cry aloud to the people
/ TO rally" to their side. The uphoders
OF the measure have asked for nothing
else than to give til" people chance to
vote on it, so at last pros aud antis are
in accord in this respect.
A mean blow at woman's suffrage is
dealt by Kansas correspondent, who
says that in the recent municipal cleo
ton at Wichita the eutite machine of
one Of the polling places was brought
to standstill by woman who had
prepared her ballot and then put it in
her pocket After an exciting search,
which lasted five minutes, she succeed
ed in finding and handling in to the
inspectors paper which proved to be
a receipt for making pickles.
4 1t is less surprising than gratifying
that the opponents If the revenue
amendment, which is designed to stop
the increase of taxatioa, had a MINOR
ity Of the Senate, minority in the
House, minority ii the Sppreme
Court, in all Of which they started out
with boasts that they cefld control
enough votes TO carry their end. The
, people from whom they strenuously
and bitterly strove tt, keep the decision
,Af the question will also leave 8this
ambitious faction 10 the minority, and
the most decisive one of all.
4 "The deci,5ion Of the Supreme Court
! on the revenue amendment" says the
a Shreveport Times. SIS sound one,
7 both in law and equity, and will be
> generally approved of by the majority
of the citizens of the State. by whom
she right of the people to vote upon all
questions affecting their interests is
held paramount to the dictum of few
! who would pose as tho sole arbiters oi
the welfare of the State and as custod-
ians Of the conscience Of its individual
citizens. Let the people decide, and
the will of The majority be cheerfully
acquiesced In by the minority"
H NO. Times Democrat The Farmers
Union, of Ouaehita, at their last meet.
{, ing declared their determination not tc
\ support any candidate for any Office
who is not nominated by majority
vote of the legal VIII o voters at a pri
mary election called for that purpose
and that if no candidate receive ma.
iority Of all the votes cast that q second
primary election of the legal white
voters shall be Immediately held be-
i tween the two lending candidates
They further recommended that al
appointments by the Governor or other
wise be made on the recommendation
of legal white primaries.
i The Vernon Patriot gives tue follow.
ing advice to farmers in order to obtain
true happiness in this world: Z Plan
less cotton, raise more corn, diversity
crops generally, and you will reap 6
more satisfactory harvest. Raise chick
ems, eggs, turkeys, and all kinds Q
fowls; have you u garden. Make i
rich and plant everything ID it.; raise
pigs, see after the stock look after tht
small things generally on the farm
waste nothing, live economically ant
work more, and be a better man, an6
probably you'll b. rich some day if yor
will go and pay the editor that little
bill you owe him.
The st. Mary Banner, one of the
fabid anti-lotfery organs, makes {
frantic appeal to Israel to 60 not only
TO their tents, but to get their swords
and to huckie on their arnnor. It also
asks who will be the Moses TO lead tlle
anti lotfaIyites out of bondage-inte
office. What's tha matter with FraBci
Tilion Nieholls9 Tsit possible that tht
antis have lost confidence ii him az ;
ASasns aud want another soadelf