The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1891-03-07
General Notes.

s0nVllle VIII probably be completed III
time for Easter services.
Ex-Governor Foster of Ohio has
succeeded the late Mr.. Window as
secretary Of the Treasury
The DeSoto police jury has author
lied the sheriff to hire out on public
works the prisoners who are serving
sentences in Jail.
The Atchafalaya continues to cave
in front of Simmsport, and near Judge
MerTick's place it is within twenty feet
of the levee.
The Chautauqua tabernacle at Rus
ton will be 100 feet square and have a
seating capacity of 1000. The contract
has been made.
The Central Sugar Refinery project
at New Iberia received no encourage
ment from outside capital, and local
enterprise will now push it to compile
tion.
An excursion is announced to take
place over the Watkins road from
Alexandria to Lake Charles ON July 4,
by which time it is expected the line
will be completed.
The election in the Colfax precinct of
Grant parish resulted in a victory for
prohibition by twentysix majority.
The colored brethren voted strong
against whisky.
A citizen of Bunkie, Mr.. C. S. Nc
Cormick, has lately recovered fortune
of 1000, awarded to him by the
Supreme Court of New Jersey for pro-
perty at Ocean Springs.
Rev. Father Louis Cook, a Re-
demptorist Priest, died in Detroit,
Mich, on Monday last. He was one
of the finest orators in America, and
had made National reputation as a
missionary.
The blue ribbon farmer of Claiborne
parish Is Mr.. NJ NJ. Gaines, who last
year, with the help of fourteen-year-
old boy, raised Is bales of cotton, $50
bushels of corn, $50 gallons of ribbon
cane syrup, IS bushels of potatoes, be-
sides peas, vegetables, etc.
The Hammond Leader has soured on
its ready-print factory, and has trans
ferred its order to publishing house
that will hereafter see to it that "the
principles on the outside are not in
compatible with those on the inside" of
the paper.
Attakapas Vindicator The town
council has passed an ordinance pro-
hibiting any kind of gambling on the
streets of this town, and otherwise en-
bodied in their ordinance that if any
license had been granted it should be
returned by the marshal. That's pro-
per.
Lake Charles Echo: VIM. Lightley,
formerly of Opelousas, for the last five
years an employe of the New Orleans
mint, has arrived in Lake Charles. Mr..
Lightley is an excellent timer and will
take charge of the timing and stove
erecting department attached to the
hardware store of Messrs. Murray &
Brooks.
IbbervilIe South Mr.. Richard Ware,
who is sinking the we'll for our ice
factory, is progressing nicely with his
work. He bored through cypress
tree at 80 feet and through another at
80 feet, and the work still went on
without intermission. On Friday
morning the we'll was over 145 feet
deep and the prospects for its early
completion was very encouraging.
The Negro agitators in this State who
!, have been for several months endeayor-
Fling to raise a fund to test the constitu-
tionality of the law requiring railway
companies to provide separate coaches
for white and colored passengers, have
only succeeded in raising little over
800. Promoters promoters of the
scheme virtually admit its failure, and
this may be accepted as proof of the ev
ident fact that the mass of the colored
people have no objection to the law
The Trinity Herald has discovered a
perplexing problem that will puzzle the
State administration, where vacancy
in the police jury of that parish has
occurred by death. Every citizen Of
that ward is pro-lottery, openly and
actively arranged on that side of this
great public issue The question is,
aWhat will he do with it?'' The
Herald thinks the administration "will
let Ward ] go to--and look out for
! ITSELF
| The Sabine Banner retains Mr.. Howe
as it's publisher, in spite of the damag-
/ ing disclosure that he tried to sell him.
self and the paper to the lottery inter.
est, which declined to buy. We have
not seen the Banners comments closing
the controversy in which its reputation
was incidentally so seriously damaged
But we note that an anti-lottery meet
ing held in the parish endorsed the
Banner, and also the police jury which
had "subsidized" it with the parish
printing. Altogether, the Sabine clay.
outn seems to be a happy family, {
mutual admiration coterie, in which
each gives the other certificate o
character, and all join in singing
sThere amt no saints but us,-Bator
Rouge Advocate.
Tie Monroe Times locates the towl
of Franklinton in st. Mary parish. Th,
nomenclature of Louisiana locaiitie
puzzles the Oldest residents. Frank
linton is in Washington parish, ami
Washington is in st. Landry parish
Franklin is in st. Mary parish; Winns
boro is in Franklin parish, and not il
i Winn parish; Jackson is in East Felici
ana parish Vernon is in Jackson par
/ ish, and not in Vernon parish; Plaque
mine town is in Iberyille parish, an
Plaquemines parish is a hundred mile
farther south We have Acadia an,
Arcadia, Leesville and Leesburg
Winnsboro and Winfield, Homer an
Houma, and other geographical mis-