The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-04-11
General Notes.

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Houma is now one of the best lighted
towns in the State.
The Cooperative Union Store at
Lecompte has gone out of business.
The White Cloud Steam Laundry is
now in operation at Alexandria.
Morgan City is said to be the largest
shipping point for oysters in the South.
A reunion of the Confederate
veterans will be held in Homer in July
next.
The new hall of the w. G. T. T., at
Morgan City, was dedicated last week.
It's the gift of Capt. Pharr.
The Alexandria public schools have
received $3.50 from the Peabody fund,
through Hon. w. III. Jack.
A choice site for the proposed new
high school in Lafayette has been do
mated by DR.. T. B. Hopkins.
A large barrel factory, with capital
of $4,000, will be established at
Franklin, to supply the local demand.
A strange worm, supposed to be the
product of crevasse water, is damaging
the rice fields of st. James parish.
1t is said that the Farmers Union,
of Jackson parish, propose to nominate
q candidate for district judge in next
years election.
The people of Monroe are making an
effort to have the Sunday law enforced
in that city. Heretofore the law has
been openly violated.
A negro cabin near st. Joseph burn
ed last week, and three negro children,
who had been locked in it by their
parents, perished in the flames.
The Farmers around Simmsport
want paper to represent their inter
ests, and have put up the money to
start Uae.
Alexandria Democrat Mayor Nc
Ginnis has ordered fifty street lamps
from the Dietz Manufacturing Co.
They will shortly arrive and be placed
in position.
About 1900 citizens of Mississippi
have lost their right to vote by failure
to pay taxes, as required by the new
Constitution Of this number SO are
white and 1850 are black.
The public schools of Avoyelles par
ish have opened. The Bunkie Blade
says tue funds for educational puipo-
ses is lamentably small. This condi-
tion of affairs exist III nearly every
parish ii the State.
The twenty two glandefed mules and
horses, which were shot on the Carruth
plantation, near Alexandria, to prevent
the spread OF the disease, were all
buried in a trench and covered with
three feet of earth.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The fund
of $3.50 900, which has been allotted to
Louisiana out of the Federal appropria.
tion, is to be used for leYees only Sc
far as the commission may think they
tend to improve navigation.
| Crowley Signal: W. w. Duson g.
Bro, have received celebrated Ameri.
can Champion Road grader the first
one ever brought to this section, and
is calculated to make and grade one
mile of road day. The machine will
be tested the first of next week al
Canan's lane.
! Baton Rouge Advocate: Admins,
traitor of Finance Chambers has ex,
hausted his supply of dog tags. II,
has sold $2l9 worth of tags within thu
last three days. More tags will pro
badly be received to-day, and all whit
are in favor of live dogs will be sup
piled.
4 Fa ao% Ia fzs.
says the st. Louis Globe -Democra
i (Rep.) "that the Farmers Alliance
with all of its power in the Western
Legislatures, has not yet secured tb,
passage of a single law to correct any o
the evils against which it claims to b,
operating
East Carroll parish presents one o
the largest lists of delinquent taxpayer
in the State. The infamous produc,
and acreage taxes will cause man,
poor people to surrender their lands t,
the government through inability tt
pay the terrible exactions demande,
of people for the privilege of beini
unfortunate.
Under recent ruling Of the interna
revenue department. all internal reve
nue. special taxes will fall due on Jul,
LIST of each year, instead of May ist a
| heretofore. Persons liable who hav
paid special tax until April 30, 1891
can have their stamps extended 70
May and June by paying one-sixtl Q
the yearly rate.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The Webs
i ter Signal says that Senator White la,
rather see his plantation devastated b.
4 the ereyasse which is now pourin
Il through it, than to have the State 3
4 Louisiana .disgracedn by acceptin
money from the lottery to build levees
The Senator would also probably pre-
fer to be defeated for Office rather tina
soil bis immaculate purity with th
same sort of contaminated cash.
The Carroll Democrat clips the boast
4 ful wings of certain anti-lottery news
papers which now contend, IN view c
recent international complications, tina
aLouisiana is a sovereign State, an
not d province Of the government 3
, Washington, by reminding them tia
very lately, in fact at the present tim,
they invoked Congress to trouble th
II States sovereignty by the enactmer
Of an odious law and prohibitin
constitutional amendment. The poir
Els well taken.
The City Item very correctly say
that s.the best way to stop crevasl
Lis to prevent it, There are almo
enough theorists on the subject to q
a good sized break in the leyee, thone
tha number has hean snnavrh,