The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-01-17

Capt. L. S. Havard of Big Cane was
attending to business here this week.
! G. w. Havard, Esq, of Rosa, was
among the visitors to Opelousas this
week.
Mr.. John P. LeBesque, representing
that lively Journal, the Attakapas Vim
dicator, of Lafayette, paid onr Office a
brief visit last Monday.
Our old friend Marsden Campbell, a
native of Opelousas, but for many years
absent from his native heath, dropped
in on us last Monday, looking as natu-
raj as life.
The genial phiz Of our iovial ex-
fellow townsman, Claude Mayo, was
seen around his old haunts this week
making things lively in his usual
manner
Contractor Van Horn has returned
from his holiday vacation, spent at
home in Washington, D. c., and work
on our U. S. public building viii now
be proceeded with without further de-
lay.
Mr. Henry E. Worrel, who left here
for residence in Texas last summer.
has returned, and resumed his old po-
sition, where he will be found ready to
cater to the wants of his patrons as
usual.
Philip Thompson, Esq, of New Or
leans, native of 0pelousas, and old
schoolmate of ours, paid our Office a
brief visit last Thursday evening Our
friend appears to be meeting the ups
and downs of life with commendable
equanimity
Messrs. F. G.. Gibbons and Clay
Prentiss have been here severalSdays
collecting the final data for the History
of South Western Louisiana which is
soon to be published by the Gulf Pub
fishing Co. o
Prof. 2. H. Moroney was here this
week and informed us that he has clos
ed his school inEMorroW, and expects to
take situationSahat has been offered
him in another parish. We would re.
gret to lose the genial Prof. as citizen
of st. Landry.
His many friends here, particularly
old students OF the Grand Coteau Col
lege, will be interested to know that
their old teacher Rev. Father Beande-
quin, S. j., has been appointed to re-
place Rev John Downey, s. j., as
pastor of St. Joseph Church, Mobile
Abbeville Meridional.
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The January number of the New
England Magazine is its Christmas
number. Most of the Christmas num-
beTs Of the magazines come to rs so
long before Christmas that by the time
Christmas itself really comes we have
almost forgotten them. Il is pleasant
oopen this numberof the New England
Magazine in the Christmas days and
hear the bells ringing through IFS pages.
For5it may well be called a special Bell
number. rubbsas first article is on Bells,
and in it Mr.. E. III. Goss tells in most
interesting manner of the great part
bells have played in the social, reli-
gions, and sentimental life of peoples,
the wide world over, the article being
illustrated by q score of pictures of fa-
nous bells, curious bells and big bells.
Longfellow's beautiful Christmas
Bells is printed, following this article,
ac-simile Of the first page Of the
manuscript of the poem being given.
And besides this is beautiful illumin-
ated reproduction of Poe's famous poem,
aThe Bells,' occupying four pages of
the magazine9 Other illustrated poems
are one on Trinity Church, Boston,
with a full page view of the noble tow
er Of Trinity, and one by Hamlin Gar
land, Emusic Land, = accompanied By a
fine copy of Crawford's statue of Bee
thoven in Music Hall. The stories of
the number are excellent and unusually
numerous But probably nothing IN
this number Of the New England will
arouse so much discussion as the SYM
postum on the future of the New En-
gland country, to which Ex-Governor
Long, Dr. George B. Loring, Rev. s.
w. Dixie, and Rev. George A. jackson
contribute. Mr.. jackson is the preach
err of return to county life, whose
article on Moses in Massachusetts" in
recent number Of the New England
attracted SO much attention. The
words of all these ,WriteTs are full of
interest and of sus sestion None of
them, it is to be noted, takes the dreary
view Of the future of the New England
Country towns which has been common
of late III some quarters, but all look
forward to a filttire brighter even than
the past.
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The National Democrat which was
established ID Washington one year
ago by Edmund Hudson. With the
Endorsement Of many of tile great
leaders Of the party, las entered upon
its second year with a circulation of
10000 copies each week. This is per-
haps the largest circulation ever
attained By weekly newspaper dur
ing the first year of its existence. The
National Democrat occupies a field of
its own, and one that too long remained
untitled. II giyesaa complete record of
political information, including the