The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-12-10


have killed ten bears during the presen
| season.
/ 100000 souvenir coins for the
| Worlds Fair are being coined at Tho
Philadelphia mint.
| The members of the French Cabinet
have resigned. france has had twenty
seyen ministries in twenty-five years.
The Natchez, Alexan dria and Texas
railroad has been surveyed aud the line
located as far as the Sabine river, says
the Louisiana Democrat.
The Iberia and FermilDn railroad
has been completed and is an impor-
tant factor to the commerce and pio-
gress of AbbeViIle and New Iberia.
The New Iberia Enterprise is author
ity for the statement that president
elect Cleveland will visit Joe jefferson
at his island home in January next.
The noted New York millionaire,
Jay Gould, died on the Cd inst. at his
residence in New York City. Con-
sumption was the ailment that caused
his death.
The ladies Fire Brigade, of Morgan
City, has raised over $500 since its Or
ganization, thus rendering valuable as
sistance to the fire department of the
town
The Advocate, recently started at
Jeannerette. has, like it's predecessors,
died for want of support. In the last
issue of the paper Mr.. Mayo announces
that he will re- establish the Advocate
at Morgan City.
IBaton Rouge has organized an In
migration Association and is making
a heavy bid for desirable class of
Western people to develop the indus
trial resources of that section of the
State This is highly laudable en-
terprise.
The citizens of Alexandria have pre-
sented Mr.. F. NJ. Welsh with purse of
500 for his successful labors in behalf
of the recent Fair Mr.. Welsh is now
negotiating with Eastern capitalists for
the establishment of q cotton factory
in Alexandria.
The oneanization of the board of trade
was an important STEP. Monroe's next
great enterprise should be the building
of rail road to Ouchita city, and
thence to the Arkansas line to connect
with the Camden and Eldorado road.
Will the board of trade take hold of it 7
Telegraph Bulletin.
It has been definitely settled that
the next House will consist of 2l8 Dem
ocrats, ll8 Republicans and8 Populists.
This gives a Democratic majority over
all of 80. There will be but three Re-
publicans from the South All the dele :
gates from the Territories are Demo-
Gratis, with the exception of one from
Oklahoma.
Mr.. George Van Horn, New Orleans
builder, has instituted damage suit
for $4,000 against Mr.. Ferdinand
Reuch, Jr.. president of the Builders
Association, for interfering with his bus
mess and practically established boy
cott against him The trouble results
from the fact that Mr.. Van Horn is not
a member of the Builders Association
La. Review.
The 81 free state of Livingston, if re-
ports are true, is on the war path of re-
form. The grand jury at the late term
of the district court not only indicted
all the members of the police jury for
meeting and voting themselves salaries
before they received their commissions,
but found true bills against four grand
jurors (of their own body for selling
liquor without license.-B. r. Gazette.
It is related, as evidence of how eff
forts are being made by those in au
thority to harmonic past differences in
the democratic party, that the appoint
ment of the present members of the
Fifth Levee District Board was made
after an understanding was arrived at
that Mr.. j. B. Snyder should not be Sc
,lected by the board as their Secretary.
Sand the sugar, water the whisky aud
come up to prayers, boys.--B. R. Capt.
tai Item.
Mer Rouge Vidette: 1t may not be
generally known that the sale of toy
pistols for cartridges or caps is prohib-
tied. Section 1857, new code, provides
that eff any person shall sell, or ex-
pose for sale, any toy pistol, or cartrid-
ges or caps of and contriyances by
which such pistols are fired or made to
cause an explosion, he shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
shall be punished by fine of not less
than $5, nor more than $25, or i'm
prisonment in the parish Jail not less
than three nor more than thirty days,
or both.o
The attention of Dur readers il called