The Opelousas courier., 1892-09-03
General Notes.

The Republicans will hold thei
Congressional Nominating Convention
at Morgan City on Septs mber 9th.
The Enterprise says the telephone re.
Gently put up bet New Iberia and
Jeanerette works splendidly.
The police jury of Lafourche parish
have just levied tax of two and a
quarter mills for school purposes and
an additional tax of one half mill as q
school house fund.
| The police jury of Morehouse parish
sitting as board of reviewers TO revise
the assessment roll of that parish, cut
down the valuation of property $780,
600, to relieve taxpays who suffered
from the recent disasterous overflow
About five thousand persons attend
ed the Confe derate Veterans re- union
at Monroe last Wednesday. The city
was beautifully decorated for the oc-
casion, the business men closed their
houses and a regular gala day was
spent.--Gazette.
On last Tuesday night Mr.. Simeon
Johnson killed large bear near his
home on New iberia street. This ia
something almost wonderful, bear
being killed right in the corporate
limits of our town ana large one at
that. St Mary Banner
The Sabine Banner, forgetting ap-
parently that honored Democratic
speakers were driven from the parish
with shotguns, and printing Office
wrecked because the paper dared to
support regular Democratic candidates
for State Offices, calls npon the white
people to unity on Congressman.
Well we cincerely hope they can do SO.
Even the Democrats who insist on
the white Democratic vote basis for she
congressional convention are drawing
the lines on the third partyites of The
alliance. The alliance won't be in it
al all unless they do as was done in
the Fourth district-quit masquera-
ding as Democrats and put up a man
oil the 0caia platfnrka and run him to
defeat. By that course they might Mt
least have little fun.-Telegraph
Bulletin.
There ia a movement afoot in the
Third Congressional District of this
State tn form mon PARTISAN ~ Or
organization Ia be known ms The Sugar
aud Ricr Planters Protective Associ.
alton nt Southwestern Louisiana. It
is hardly necessary to state that the
pui pose of this organization is to work
for, and il possible. secure the electiun
of Republican Cungte essman from the
Third District. Amoug the alleged
promoters of this gauzy and nervy
scheme we notice the name of Hon. S.
P. Henry, exSpenker of the House nf
representatives and at present
Democratic Senator from the Tenth
Senatorial District. Ii the use of Mr..
Hrnry's name in this connection be
not unauthorized, he is certainly in very
strange eompany.-Sugar Planter.
Postmaster Eaton has received or
defs from headquarters to reduce the
salaries of all the clerks in the money
order department, save two. The sal
aries of the clerks are derived from an
allowance based on the commissions re-
ceived from money orders and amount
to $1,000 per annum. Since the Lot.
terry law went into effect the receipts
have fallen off to the amount of seve
raj hundred thnusand dollars, hence
the reduction IN the pay of employees.
The exclusion of lottery matter from
the U. s. mails has causea decrease
of 100000 a gear of the post Office
receipts in tins city. The business has
decreased fully one third which ne
cessitated the discharge of 80 clerks
while those remaining will have to
submit to reduction of salaries. -
Louisiana Review.
Adyices from Washington are to the
effect that the National Republican
campaign committee are collecting
Doodle and are sending and preparing
to further distribute it 10 South Caro-
lima. Alabama, Tennessee and Texas,
in the hope of breaking the solid South
mot by the natural Republican vote,
but through the ramentality of the
greatest political fraud of the age, the
Peoples Party This hybrid organi-
cation is composed chiefly of cranks,
knaves, disappointed Office seekers
and malcontents, and with few ex-
ceptions, is led and controlled by lot
Of afrant demagogues, many of whom
are merely stool pigeons for the Re-
publican party. 1t is true that some
very good people in the South have
been seduced into the Third Party
movement, but we believe that when
they realize the fact that their only
hope for a redress of alleged griey
ances lies in. the Democratic party,
they will at once return to the fold OF
the true Democracy and abandon, once
for all, an organization that is nothing
if not an ally of the Republican party -
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.
FoR SALE CHEAP CHEAP !-One
fbons,nd Cords of wood at seven miles