The Opelousas courier., 1891-02-07
General Notes.

An aTtesiau we'll at Monroe, on the
Houston, Central Arkansas and North
ern Railroad property, is $50 feet deep
and flows 6740 gallons of water day.
Col. VIM. Pr ton johnson, of New
Orleans, has been appointed, by the
is. House of Representatives,, as re-
g of the Smithsonian Institute.
Old Uncle Coco, the venerable darkey
who lately died at Lafayette, aged lis
years, claimed to have been attached
to Gen. Jackson's army, and that he
witnessed the battle of Chalmette.
Crowley Signal: w. w. Duson &
Bro, received account sales Thursday
from Messrs. Kahn & Levy, of New
Orleans, for 10000 worth of rice.
The police. jury of Avoyelles parish
appropriated $4,000 from the license
revenues to the public schools. Thus
the evils of the whisky traffic are made
to contribute to worthy object for the
right of existence.
f. l.. Bradeu, of Shreveport, con
Quoted some sort of scheme by which
watches were distributed to lucky
fellows. He was prosecuted for carry
ing on lottery, convicted and fined
S25. The white winged Caucasian
squea.s.-Monroe Telegraph Bulletin
Farmerville is making efforts to
secure an ice factory. Thirty-two
shares of the capital stock, at $50 pc,
share, have been taken and plant
costing $1,000, with capacity of three
tons per day, will be bought.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The Farm
ers' Alliance of Louisiana will he
strictly aligned with the anti-lottery
side in the next campaign. Thus an
organization, which declares it is non
partisan absolutely and political only
in a limited sense, will assume an atti-
tude iu a merely factional fight where
Democrats refuse to draw the line.
N. O. City Item: The National Legis-
lature has wasted two months out of
three months session in an insane at
tempt to force a distasteful measure
upon the country, and will in conse-
quence spend the short balance of their
time in passing uDdigested aud lily
constructed laws. Here is an example
fer the Fifty-seeond Congress not 10
follow.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Speaker Reed
called upon the rgeant-at-arms to
help him yesterday. Ia the New
Legislature the republican
4-sanagefs called 10 tie police. In Neb-
raska they had the militia. In Colo
rado aud Wisconsin they tried reyol-
vers In Montana they used fists. In
Connecticut they are still threatening
tie nse of Gatling guns. Let us have
a force bill for the North.
Baton Rouge Advocate The Kansas
Alliance defeated ingalls,, but elected
an ex-lawyer and editor to succeed him
It is some qualification TO know that
Senator Pfeffer has been a straight
out Republican in politics. That is
perhaps bad enough, but vastly better
than If The honor Lad been conferred
on an ex-Greenbacker, one of the old
speWed-out politicians that have rushed
in to take possession of the Alliance
The Lake Charles American makes
q some what ridiculous boast that ''the
insane asylum of this State has never
been kept up by lottery money. More's
the pity, for if it had a larger revenue
it could take better care of the unfor-
tunates and fewer of them would be
left TO languish in parish jails. The
Charity Hos .,ital has had lottery money
for over twenty years, and it has been
a great blessing and relief to sick aud
humanity.
A man named Dick Bassett lives on
an island in Lake Michigan, and practi-
cally owns it. He tried to purchase the
brit was informed by the gov
that as it was not on any map
il could not be sold to him Bassett
has lived on the island twelve years
He has no taxes to pay, and his vote
has been refused at the nearest polling
place He is not recognized as a citi
zen, and his island is wholly Ignored.
He is subject to no authority, citizen
of no country, and is in fact, if not in
Jaw, the monarch of all he surveys.
MARRIED--At Rosa, La. January 31st, 1891,
FgEapf.E w AyNPTGET of Nashville Tam fot]