The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Personal.


been here several days this week.
Mr.. Oscar Dardeau of Vile Plate was
here on business this week.
Mr.. Leon Godehaux of Big Cane was
attending to business here Thursday.
Mrs. L. A. Black of our town, is crit
ieally i'll at the residence of her son Mr..
A. A. Morgan of Lafayette.
Mr.. J. T. Skipper, cashier Of our
bank, was in New Orleans on business
Tuesday.
Mr.. j. Leguenec of Abbeville gave
our Office brief visit Wednesday,
Judge NJ Robert, of Old Grand Prai-
RE, paid our town a short visit Tues
day.
w. S. burke, the wide awake drug
gist of Washington, La, paid our town
a brief visit last Tuesday.
We had an appreciated visit from
Mr.. j. B Bergeron, one of Arnaudville's
prominent citizens, last Monday,
Senator G. G. Duson returned home
last Sunday after short business trip
to Crowley and New Orleans.
S. L. Saul, representing Kings Royal
Germateur, gave our Office brief call
Monday
Our former townsman, Mr.. Dave
Smith, now of Thibodaux, La, has
been here on short visit this week.
Prud'homme City was represented
here by our old friend Martin Carron,
this week, whose shadow does not grow
less.
Messrs Chas. Antonio and Leon
Wolff of Washington, were here We'd
nesday.
w. w. Duson, Esq, editor Of the
Signal, and one Of Crowley's most en-
ergetic and progressive citizens was in
town this week.
Paeide Robin, Esq, of Port Barre
was enjoying himself in eongenial COM
pany here Wednesday, and paid our
Office an appreciated visit.
Philip KnigIt, Esq, superintendent
of the cotton factory being erected in
Washington, La. was in Opelousas,
Tuesday.
The gentlemanly rept esentative of
the Mercantile Agency of r. G.. Dun
81 Co, Mr.. Edwin F. Trotman, gave
our office pleasant call this week.
II. H. Deshotels, Esq. the popular
merchant and progressive planter of
Old Grand Prairie was attending to
business here Wednesday.
C.. D. Stewart arrived here Wednes-
day and returned to Abbeville Thurs
day, to wind up his business with the
new Courthouse just completed there.
The Alexandria Times peitinently
wants to know, you know if the
State has not been ''rnined'' and rem
dered immoral by accepting, for the
Louisiana Lottery privilege, the in
significant amount of $4,000 every
year for the past two decades, how it
comes tEsaP2 such disasters will follow
from the acceptance of a million and a
quarter per annum, that vast sum being
foreordained to serve highly useful
purposes, which urgently need such
help2 That the pictured evils are
imaginary, it shrewdly intimatesin the
following paragraph:
That the voters of Louisiana should
be divided in opinion on the lottery
question lis the most natural thing in
the world There are large number
who oppose a recharter of that institu-
tion on moral grounds, and these are
unquestionably the most sincere of its
opponents. 1illefe is yet another class
who oppose it on political grounds.
This latter may be divided, really, into
two classes lone who are honest in
their appreheDsions that the company
will, in the accomplishment Of their
ends, prove ii cnise to the state by an
upiustifable interference with its af-
fairs; and much larger number who
are utilizing this question merely to
bolster up, OF rather to bring to life the
Nichols wing of the party, who were
dead as Hector until this issue pre-
sented itself ia the guise of the pro-
verbal straw to which the drowning
man clings in bis despair There is
little OF no sincerity il this latter class.
They are simply shrewd politicians
who play upon the prejudices of the
people that success may follow schem-
ing. And in this cop.ection, it may be
we'll to invite attentiM to the fact that
in the ranks Of the opposition are many
OF the old politicianssWho have in years
past found profit in caressing '.the
dear people. " d
The following singular document was
picked up in the Clerks Office this
week as we don't know what it means
we reproduce it here, hoping some one
initiated will be able to throw some
light on the subject:
AN OPINION OF JUICE NJ. r., Of Old
Grand Prairie
What Judge A. 2. Of Opeloasas thinks
the coming man apiH drt'sk:: He says
so far as he is able to judge, his
opinion is that the coming man will
drink milk d few moments as he did,
when he arrived in 0pelousas, but in
tile majority of cases they will gradu-
ally drift ID the use of beer and Whis
key as they grow older, just as he is
doing and like the man who is here
now and those who have come and
gone.
Filed this 26th day of February, A..
d.. 1890, Clerks Office, 0pelousas,
BY
GRAND PRAIRIE PsoHIBITIoNIsT.