The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-03-26
General Notes.

for the erection of a system of water
works.
A congressional committee will come
to Louisiana in April to investigate
the charges against Judge Boarman.
Gov. C. Fl. Mouton, announces his
candidacy for Judge Of the 10Th Judi
cial District composed of Iberia and st.
Martin.
Bayou PlaQuemine is to be opened
at last. This will increase the com
merce of the Attakapas fully a million
dollars year.
Capt. j. G. Wise was nominated sa
candidate for the State Senate to rep
resent the district composed of the par
ishes of Rapides and Vernon.
Forgeries to the amount of about
$4,000 have been discovered against
Prof. A. S. Leche, who recently left the
city "under O cloud.n The name OF
Major J. D. Houston was forged to
several of the notes.
The monument that will be erected
in this city to chief Hennessey is being
made by the Hallowell (Me,) Granite
company. Seven of the workmen en-
gagged in it's construction are Italian,
says the Boston Transcript.
The editors of the Weekly Bunkie
Blade have been arrested for alleged
criminal libel on charges preferred by
Hon. Jas. X. Bond, the Democratic
candidate for Senator in the Ihir-
teenth Senatorial District, composed OF
the parishes of Avoyelles and Pointe
Coupee.
Work on the Alexandria waterworks
will begin in earnest on the 18th. Over
300 men will be employed laying pipes,
/ ETC., and it is expected the works will
be completed and in operation within
sixty days. Water is to be brought
from Bayou Clear, distance of eight
miles.
Of the 28,731 ,O90 acres comprising
the State Of Louisiana there are yet
1000, 100 acres unsurveyed. More
than this, there are still ,243, ll8 acres
of vacant public lands, of which ] ,14l ,
729 are surveyed and 101 ,389 acres un.
surveyed. The number of acres of va
cant public land in st. Landry is &c..
800.
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, the wealthy
Standard Oil man, has offered to the
Baptists of this State several thousand
dollars for the purpose of establishing
a Baptist university in Louisiana.
The citizens of Alexandria are already
taking steps to have the university 10
Gated there, and no doubt. land will be
denoted as site for the buildings.
The Lake Arthur Herald furnishe
readers of the COURIER
Of course we miss some items of 10
cal news every week unless our friend
! report what they know. A local rus
tier may have ears as big as that ami
NAL, and propensity to IS know every
thing going" like Mrs. Grundy as
sociation, but he can't be everywhere
and the f1eeting item is liable to mis-
! his pencil unless friends give him poin
!. ters now and then.
Our level headed confrere of the Al
takapas Vindicator says:
Every line in newspaper cost
J money, and if it should be used for th
benefit of an individual, it should b
J paid for. Space is the editors stoc
lin trade, just the same as the mel
chants goods. To ask for free advel
tising by one who is thoroughly abl
!. TO pay for it, is just the same as askin
grocer to donate to rich man
r large supply of provisions free of cos
or the landlord to furnish tenai
house rent, free of cost.
There had been brought into sigl
m to the close of last week about 8
100000 bales of the current crop
cotton, an increase of half millie
bales over the receipts of last year U
Q to the same date. A bombshell WI
9 fred into the Liverpool market, in Il
2 shane of an authentic estimate of .
! $50, 200 bales for 1912, an excess
at least 100000 over previous est
mates, and prices sharply declined
7 consequence. Low middling cotton
! now quoted at 5 "a cents, the lowe
point yet touched, with still dow
J, ward tendency
8 The Bunkie Blade follows in Il
g wake Of the New Delta with 81
9 too echo, and says: There a
G thousands of good democrats IN Il
It State who would never vote for M
Ii Emery even though he were endors
by forty democratic conventions
The agreement lately entered into
ii submission of the two tickets to viii
y q primaries stipulates that "the perso
\ thereon receiving the highest numt
j Of votes for the respective offices sn
be the nominees of the democra
party Of Louisiana, and shGJ receive
+ united Uote. Consequently those "go
+. democrats who would never vote
h McEnery even though he we're endol
j. ed by forty democratic convention
,e had better abstain from voting IN
s, primaries. Otherwise, they may 4
+ their tender consciences bound to
d what they have pledged their hor
i not to do, even if required by
b. forty horse power OF democra
d duty.-B. r. Advocate.
) While Mr.. Murphy j. Foster had
e Quiet little interview with john ~
II patrick at No. 10 Dauphine street, 9
y offered to give the State patronage
a the CITY to the ward leaders In rett
u u for their support of tile ticket which
headed, lie was asked to reduce
s. terms Of the bribe to writing he
= clined. however. on the ground that
- = never put such things in writing, Wh
!. ooes 10 show that he has been in
habit of making dfckers and offer
bribes. Tn the campaign of 1884
S instance, McEnery was the Democrs
e s. nominee for governor, and Stephen