The Opelousas courier., 1891-02-14
General Notes.

The Augusta Chronicle says: "Vance,
! Voorhees,, Vest and Vilas-this is a
straight flush of VS. and is hard to han
/ de
Senator Hoar is on record as saying
that the defeat of the force bill would
mean the death of the Republican party,
and we should all hope and pray that
/ he has made no mistake.-States.
! Hon. Chas. Gayarr6, Louisiana's
venerable historian, has just entered
/ his 87th year. He was born in New
Orleans in 1904. He is said to be as
robust and hearty as man of fifty.
/: A riot occurred in Birmingham, Ala,
OH the 1st, in which it is said six white
and ten colored men were killed. The
trouble was the result of the negroes
taking the white miners places during
the great strike several weeks ago.
Mrs. P. A. Gray has the agency for
an improved roaster and baker which
is boon to housekeepers and costs but
little more than the ordinary stove pan;
also, for Lambertson's safety lamp bur-
ner which possesses many points of su
periority over the ordinary burner and
is warranted to last ten years. Exam
inc these articles and you will be sure
to get them.
Under the new constitution of the
State of Mississippi, citizen who does
not pay his taxes at q specified time
becomes disfranchised. The Clarion
Ledger states that in jackson there are
Sc white and 200 colored voters who
cannot vote this year. The chances
are that the number will go on increas-
ing every year.
The Force bill will no longer be an
obstacle to the Southern States in their
commanding duty of making complete
and characteristic exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. Every material resource should
be made conspicuous there that invest
ors, agricnlturists and skilled workmen
in the mechanic arts may see the sup
erior opportunities which this section
offers to their enterprise. Louisiana
ought to make the greatest effort in her
history to demonstrate how attractive,
varied and easily secured are her wealth
producers.
Crowley Signal Mr.. "Coco" Richard
died, at his residence in Coulee Croche,
Oh the 26th ult., after many days of
excruciating suffering. A few days
before his death, while in the enjoy
ment of excellent health, he was cover
ing IL house, and, in some way lost his
footing and in falling stuck nail in his
eye Violent Inflammation supervened
in the destroyed member and nothing
but death relieved the terrible agony
of the unfortunate man. Mr.. Richard
was one of the most prosperous farmers
of Coulea Croche and leaves widow
and child to mourn his untimely loss.
Baton Rouge Sugar Planter: The
fact that several members of the last
Legislature who supported the Morris
Revenue Amendment have died recent
" is made the occasion of what might
be termed rejoicing among certain
class of fanatics who are opposed to the
Louisiana Lottery Company. Referring
to the death of Rev. N. w. Warren,
late Representative of Bienville parish,
a southwestern Louisiana sheet observes
that "the Lord is gathering them
home,n while a north Louisiana hyena,
speaking of the death last July of Sena-
tof j. Fisher Smith, with a diabolical
fiendishness that would shock the moral
sense Of savage, brutally remarks that
the Almighty "tookn him at the proper
time. From the earliest dawDing of
civilization up to date, in all climes,
and among all sects and creeds-many
of the so-called barbarous races OBJ
serving the rule-it has been custom
ary for the living to refrain from
speaking i'll of the dead but it remains
for Louisiana and the Nineteenth Gem
tury to produce inhuman hyenas who,
lost alike to all sense of decency, and
the ordinary promptings of charity,
without rhyme or reason, bitterly assail
the living because of simple difference
of opinion on public question, and
then follow the dead to their last
resting place where, with ghoulish glee,
they continue their gibbering TRADE Of
abuse and atrocious villification.. And
that, too, in the name of morality and
Christianity! Ye gods! What spec
tacle!