The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-03-14
General Notes.

scrl0ea SoUu Tor an arbeSlan we'll.
The angipahoa strawberry growers
have begun shipments of fruit to
market.
The buffalo gnats have appeared in
Richland and other northern parishes.
They are great pest.
Congress has passed law increasing
by nine, the judicial United States cir
cult courts.
The Baton Rouge Hook and Ladder
Company has received a new truck,
which cost $4,000.
The Alexandria Fair Association
proposes to give its first exhibition next
October, with liberal list of premiums.
A flowing we'll, from which strong
current of cold air constantly gushes, is
the latest curiosity near Greenburg.
Congress has appropriated one mil
lion dollars, for the protection of the
Mississippi river, to be available ut
once.
A young man named Broussard was
crushed to death by the collapse of an
upper floor at the Rose Hill sugar re-
finery in Iberia parish
IbeI1ille South The we'll sunk by
Mr. Richard Ware for the Ice Factory
is a grand success. Its capacity was
tested last Monday and showed 499, 200
gallons of pure water in "a hours.
The contract called for $50, 900 gallons.
The well is l60 feet deep.
Baton Rouge Advocate The Gov
ernor seems to have been knocked out
on the last round in the Fifth District
Levee Board cases by the non naaiting
of his appointees in their effor get
legal possession of the offices nich
they were assigned by his excel lency.
The courts of the State still protect the
people from the arbitrary action of per-
sonal partisanship.
Abbeville Meridional The snakes
are beginning to come ont in good
style. Last Monday while riding along
the road near town we counted no less
than dead ones, from the deadly con-
ger eel andAmoccasin to the harmless
king aud gaster snakes. For fear that
seme facetiGus confrere may endeavor
to make merry at our expense we will
add that these snakes were real ones
and that they were not in our boots,
New iberia Enterprise: Mr.. r. F.
Hogsett informs us that he expects to
have his telephone and telegraph line
to Breaux Bridge in operation by next
Tuesday, when he will invite The peo-
pie of New Iberia, Abbeville, S.. Mar
tinsViile and Breaux Bridge to call at
the offices in the respective towns and
exchange greetings over the happy
event placing the four towns in rapid
communication with each other.
The Iberia Central Sugar Factory
Association is organized on the CO.
operative or installment plan, and does
not expect to raise the necessary funds
before 1892. The shares are S25 each,
to be paid in monthly installments.
The authorized capital is $500, 900, and
steps have been taken for an active
canvass of the parish to solicit sub
scriptions. The projectors of the en-
terprise are in earnest, and hopeful
of success.
Thibodaux Sentinel: The negro has
been made the dupe of his so-called
white friends, up North.
This time it was not the mule, but a
piece of land and government rations
in Oklahoma. The poor dupe has
listened to the siren song and gone to
that promised land only to find that it
is all sham.
Now he is there without work with
out friends, and starvation staring him
in the face. When will the colored
man learn who are his true friends?
] Baton Rouge Advocate: The ex-
stremists of the Farmers Alliance in
Mississippi propose TO make war op
Senators George and Walthall because
of their opposition to the sub-treasury
scheme, which both of these gentlemen
denounce in very decided terms as un-
constitutional and impracticable, 1t
is very doubtful whether the Alliance
can defeat them. The sober second
thought of the people is returning,
and many of them are very "tired.''
This is especially true of the Mississip-
pi farmers, who do not seem to take
kindly to vagaries, but prefer solid
democratic doctrine.
Baton Rouge Advocate The appro-
priation of 81 900, 900 by Congress is to
be applied TO- levee work and repair
from Cairo to the Passes. This is a
long reach of river, and the fund,
though very acceptable, will only be
sufficient to offer safety at some of the
weaker points, even If it can be made
available during the present high
water. There is no reason why Louisi-
ana should relax its efforts or plans foI
revenue to perfect its .leyee system.
We shall need every dollar thzt can be
had, from every source, for the aaagni-
tude of the work which must be done
will tax all our resources, State and
national, to the utmost.
The great want of the age-the long.
felt want, the broad, deep and unsatis.
fed wants honesty, wholesale ane
retail, in politics, in business, IN socla
and religious life-sixteen ounces to tllt
pound. thirty-six inches to the yard
one hundred cents to the dollar, per
formance to every promise, and trntl
in every utterance. That's what's th'
matter.
We will receive subscriptions to th,
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COURIER and the New 0rleala Dali.
Picaynne at the same rate; for the CoU
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