The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-03-28
General Notes.


The ice factory at Franklin, La, will
begin operations next month.
The Baton Rouge bulldozers go to
the penitentiary for 20 years.
Houma Courier: Houma is still sup
piled with the finest oysters in the
country. They retail at so cents per
hundred.
Alexandria Democrat: Alexandria
now boasts of more private boarding
houses than any place In the State ex-
cept New Orleans.
Senator PETER has eight children.
Five of the boys and one girl have
learned the printing trade and can earn
their living at the case.
20. City Item: 1t is understood
that the I'D. will shortly employ the
type-settipg machines which have
proved SO economical in some of the
large newspaper offices at the North.
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, cousin
to the late Emperor Napoleon III, the
second son of Jerome Bonaparte by
his second marriage with Princess
Fredericka of Wurtenburg, died at
Rome, Italy, on the afternoon of the
18th inst, in his Goth year.
A dispatch from Gibraltar states that
the steamship "Utopia," from Trieste
for New York, having on board 700
Italian emigrants, coIlided with the
British war ship Rodney. during a gale,
and 576 or more of the emigrants were
drowned,
The steamship Utopia, one of the
largest and finest passenger steamers
plying the Atlantic, ran into the
English man. war Anson ON tile 18th,
near Gibraltar, and was so badly
damaged that she sank before one half
the passengers could be saved, and 462
out of $50 on board lost their lives.
Thibodaux Sentinel: The Italians in
Chicago and elsewhere are making a
load noise because some of their peo-
pie who were midnight assassins have
met their just fate, and are trying to
make a race question of it.
They had best not do anything of
that kind 1t will be worse expe
dent than the assassination of Hen
Messy.
Two years ago. says the Globe Demo
crat, am American citizen and corpora
ton official was killed al WiIkesbarre,
Pa, by unnaturalized Italians, who
He'd TO their own country, aud the
government thereof refused to surren-
der them for trial This is worth recall
ing just now when Italy is talking
about the duty of the Uuited States in
fk,n - us
The year 1891 is less than three
months old yet, bat on its death-roll
are the we'll known names of. Bancroft
and Kinglake, the historians; Baron
Hansman, the reconstruetor e;f Paris ia
the reign of Napoleoa LII Messouien,
the great French artist BraGlaugh, the
British Radical leader; King Kalakaua,
Emma Abbott, William WiuSom, Gen.
Sherman, Admiral Porter, Ptfnce "Plon
Plon'' and General Joseph p. Johnston.
Buffalo Bill has at last succeeded in
getting permission from the govern
ment TO hire 100 Sioux for his show.
Several months ago the government
declared that it would under no Cir
cumstance permit any more wild In
dians to go with cireuses because they
demoralized the red man. Since the
late troubles in the northwest the gov
ernment seems to be willing to risk the
decentralization of the red men and are
willing to hire out the whole tribe of.
Sioux if they can get anybody to
assume charge of them.
Governor Francis T. Nichols pardon
ed thirteen prisoners out of the peni-
tentiary one day last week. What is
the use in trying to enforce the law
When twelve good men find a man
guilty Of a crime and sends him to
prison to rid the country of such out
laws, our Governor will pardon them
and turn them loose in the neighbor-
hood again. Probably this accounts
for the numerous robberies and burg
laries being perpetrated in the State
at present. All right, Governor, turn
them all loose, maybe they will vote
FOR you next election. Robeline News.
Catahoula Times AS the autocrat
who lords 1t over the little satrapy of
Louisiana, does not appear to appre-#
,iate tho advice of his friends, we shall
refrain from offering him any gra
,nit0us suggestions but will kindly
advise his subjects in ward one, that il
hey desire representation In the par
ochial legislature, it will be necessary,
sither to ascertain the will of the ruler
ind change their convictions on all
public questions SO as to conform to
hose formulated by the most high and
mighty Nichols the Ist, or import an
ldventurer who can fill the bill.
The Pointe Conpee Banner does not
Yant the levees built with money that
! sWet with the tears of the poor.vl
The Banner, however, seems to be
willing to accept revenue
rom traffic that carries the curse of
nen and heaven, and yields coin that
$ stamped with the agony of human !.
voc in all ages. The Banner also, and |
Is friends In high places, if NE may
ndge of tho silence of the one and the /
lcts Of the other, were not averse to |
living license, at a paltry price to the
tate, for a more damnable traffic in
be lives and innocence of youth, the !,
ecent exposure of which has shocked
be country Baton Rouge Advocate.
Several county Alliances ID Georgia
ave passed resolutions recommending
hat farmers plant one third less cotton
his year. These resolutions are clothed
Fith much wisdom, and would, il car
led ont By ali The farmers of the south,
FsstlTk IN larpp gains The entfoy ssray,