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

Secretary of War Proctor was in
New Orleans last week.
The constitutionality of the anti.
lottery postal law will be tried April
Goth.
st. Paul Protestant Episcopal church,
of New Orleans, was destroyed by ire
on the 23rd Loss estimated at $4,000.
The Ames creyasse, opposite Carroll
ton, is now over 620 feet wide, and all
hope of closing it is at an end.
A Farmers Union cooperative store
has been chartered at Lake Charles
with capital Of $50, 900.
The yiolators of the Sunday law in
Napoleonville pay $100 for the first
offense and $40 for the second.
The new Morganza leyee is said to
be an excellent piece of earth work.
Some parts of it are thirty one feet
high with 2i0 feet base.
New York capitalists have purchased
the Fuseliers plantation on the bayou
Teche and will erect an extensive
sugar refinery on it.
For centuries the Malta has waged
war upon society. The time has now
come when society should wage war
of determination upon the Malta.
i Alexandria Democrat: In "a few days
an Investment Company, with cap-
i ital of 100000, will be organized in
Alexandria for the purpose of erecting
buildings and manufactures.
The Alexandria Times suggests that
the King of Italy might inquire what
!. extraordinary steps We're taken by the
Italian government to crush the Sicl-
4 Iian bands of assassins, and reflect
whether the same vigorous methods
I. may not be necessary il other countries,
1 when dealing with the same element.
I Baton Rouge Sugar Planter On the
/ 2lst inst, the Concord levee, in Eas.
Carroll, gave way. and the richest por-
tion of that parish is now under water
Tensas, Madison and Concordia are also
I affected by the water from the break,
which is now about 600 feet wide and
20 feet deep.
Ruston Caligraph Warmoth, who il
at present in Washington, is said to bt
advising Blaine and the President IN
regards to the late uprising in New
Orleans. His paper, the N. @. Repnb'
lican, is very bitter against the action
Of the citizens, and it's safe TO think
Warmoth's advice is adverse to tht
city
Baton Rouge Advocate The IfisE
political campaign has degenerated into
lisgraeeful rows, where kicks and cuff
are substituted for reason and argu
|. ment. The struggle for home rule j
now hardly more dignifed than th'
traditional scenes at Donnybrook fair
: where the gentleman with the shlllalah
who is spelling for a fight, asks: "Wil
somebody be SO kind as to tread on tn'
tail of me coat ~
The article in the railroad column
! Of the Times Democrat some time ag'
In regard to the projected railway be
tween the Jackson Railroad and La
! tfayette, via Baton Rouge, sustalns th
conviction of the people all along th
Z line that some movement of the kin
/ would soon occur. The building of
steel transfer boat at Dubuque. IoNi
Isl to play between this city and POI
Allen, apposite here, the rapid entr
Hof all the State lands along the PR
I ieeted route, the purchase of lare
4 bodies Of lands from private parti'
4 along tile same line, confirms the Gag
a expectation of tue people that this mo
important railway connection, which
of the greatest interest TO the people
u Central Louisiana, will be completed
Il an early day Baton Rouge Truth,
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