The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
General Notes.

Charbon prevails on Bayou Boeuf
Mr.. Lew Darrell, of st. Mary parish,
having lost seven mules by the disease
Twenty one nations have thus far
decided to be at the Chicago's Worlds
Fair.
Breaux Bridge, wants to be tue par
ish seat of st. Martin, and hard light
is to be made with that end in view.
Morgan City Review: Capt. E. T.
King of New Iberia is gathering statis-
\ ties to be used at next session of Con-
gress in securing an appropriation for
opening Bayou Plaquemine.
! The State Convention of the Farmers
/ Alliance is to meet in Lafayette on the
4th of August next. There will be from
/ four hundred to five hundred delegates
present.
Houma Courier. From the subdued
| tone of some of the anti-lottery papers
in this State, it is natural to presume
that the reserve fund of the Mexican
Lottery is getting very low.
Lake Arthur Herald The Calcasieu
parish farmers union met at Barnes
creek, July l-3, with 26 of the 30 al
/ liances represented. 1t was settled
that the union will enter the fall cam
paign with full parish ticket.
Morgan City Review: The gulf
water is gradually making its appear
ance in the river, and soon the fisher
man with his little hooks will pull in
the white and speckled trout in great
numbers.
4 Major E. A. Burke, defanlting treas
urer of Louisiana, is reported as work
4 ing hard to have Honduras annexed to
the United States and then have him
self elected governor. He is said to
have made money in his mining enter
prise and reported being worth four
million dollars.
i N. O. City Item: The worst case OF
Fourth of July drunken rows occurred
in a Kansas prohibition town. The
greatest number of lottery tickets are
sold in cities where the repressiye laws
are strictest. In the one case the stuff
drank is the most poisonous; in the
i other the schemes are the most fraudu-
lent.
There is no demand for cotton IN the
, markets of the world to-day because
the last years crop gave surplus o.
nearly two million bales more than the
estimate. 1t goes without saying that i
the present crop turns out what it now
promises prices will remain down for al
: indefinite time.
s Alexandria Democrat: The effor
: made to organize an anti-lottery league
!, last Friday night at Lecomte proved
+ d failure. Out of crowd of fifty pres
j ent only FIVE signed the rolls. Thi
looks little encouraging to the lotter.
people, to say the least, and proves il
r a way that some of our people are stlI
s inclined to be independent, and VII
vote as they please on this all import
Q ant matter.
The contractors on the Kansas City
Watkins and Gulf Railroad are makinI
! rapid progress. Grading to Red rive
Q will be completed by Aug. IS. a
? the material necessary to complete tn
road to Alexandria is lying ready TO
q the construction train, which is no'
busily engaged laying rails. The loca
ton of the line to Marble City, in Win
/, parish, will be completed within tw
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I proceed.
. ,1oana Courier: One of the chic
arguments used by the Ants againi
= i the Lottery is that the Company wi
use money for political purposes. Th
= appears to us to be rather a silly esi
OF an argument, and one the Ant
y ought not to bring forth. So far as v
have any authentic information, Il
Lottery never used any money to al
an election, save the $lO,0OO given
y the Nichols campaign fund and
g Gov. Nichols has declared war to tt
h knife against the Lottery, this appea'
v (from Lottery stand point to
J. about the worst use that the Lottel
rs ever made of their money. What asst
C. rance have the Ants the Lottery VI
l. have any better luck in the future thu
n, in the past.
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