The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-10-22

n ItoHibitIotf otfeOHFenGtOn Is calf6u 10
meet at Jennings on Oct % for the
purpose Of naming presidential cleo
tors.
Mr. E. Sturlese. of Grand Cheniere,
Cameron parish, expects to gather L.
900, 600 oranges from his orchard this
year.
Miss Maud Stone, of Cincinnati. is to
be married next month. This is the
Young lady after whom Maud S. was
named.
The best antidote for the bite of the
mosquito undoubtedly is ammonia,
weakened with little water, or salt and
water.
Cleyeland's letter is the enunciati0n
of principles of craftsmanship by q
statesman. Harrison's letter is a plea
of defense by lawyer Louisville
Courier Journal.
A young child of Edgar PRare, re-
siding near Cade station, in ST. Martin
parish, some time ago was bitten by
mad dog. Last week the child was at
tackled with hydrophobia, and died 10
great agony.
Meyer, Davey, Price, Blanchard,
Boatner and Robertson, if elected, will
cast six votes against the force bill. IF
theFaa are defeated through Democratic
apathy armed troops may be at the
polls in 1894 Times Democrat
With the Mckinley tariff as crush
ing incubus and the force bill as
looming spectre, the Southern white
man may we'll be interested in this
campaign and feel that he has every
thing at stake and that his own and
his sections salvation depends upon
the success of the Democratic party
and the election of Grover Cleveland =
Wilmington Star, Dem.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
built during the fiscal year just closed
eighty sleeping and dining cars, costing
81 ,332, $50, or an average of $I6,66i
per car. Work is now progressing
rapidly on 4I5 additional sleeping din
ing and parIor cars. These are esti
mated TO cost abont $5, 500, 900. The
number of cars owned and controlled
is 2239, of which 1885 are standard and
254 tourist Or second class cars. The
number ut passengers carried in the
year was 5, ,2S9 ,020, and the number of
miles run was I91, ,255 $50. Last year
the number of passengers carried was
5,310,Sl3, and the number of miles run
was I86, ,829, ,s36
A copy of the Rayne Ranger before
as contains the announcement that Mr..
w. G.. Chevis, our esteemed young
friend who is at present editing the
Baton Rouge Advocate, is the Assessor
for Acadia parish and is now actually
making an entire new registration of
the voters of that parish for the coming
November election. Now, what we
cannot understand is, how our esteem
ed young friend manages to be in the
sanetum of the daily official journal of
the State conducting its editorial col
umns, and at the same time be in Aca
dia parish performing official duties
which an order of Governor Nichols,
by whom he was appointed, directed
should be doue only by the assessor in
person. B. r. Capital Item
The Farmers Alliance is doomed be-
yond doubt. The spread Oft Gideon's
Band, secret, oathbound CLIQUE with
yin the order, whose object is to gain
control and to secure flee for them
selves, renders its early disruption GER
tain. Instituted for excellent purposes
the spread Of useful knowledge con-
cerning their material affairs and how
to improve their great industry-the
Alliance might have been made bless
ing to the farmers; but permitted to
drift into politics and the control of
demagogues, whose ignorance in many
cases, was only surpassed by their uu-
scrupulousness, its fate was quickly
sealed For the great mass of the far
mers are honest and patriotic of pur-
pose, and will energetically revolt at
triekery and treachery City Item.
Calcasieu has been backward in the
matter of improving her public roads.
but we may look for good highways
within year, as the police jury will
let by contract on Oct. S the work of
grading and bridging all the public
roads of the parish. In this line tits of
interest to note what st Mary is doing.
Theroads ofSt. Mary Except in corpor
ate tOwns) are let out on contract for
three years. For this term the con-
tractor is paid $13, 900 to keep 10 order
2I0 miles of road. And this means
thoroughly graded He also must
build all bridges, the parish furnishing
the material, without any other com
pensation than the above He is paid
in installments every three months.
His plan is to FIRST plow the road well !,
then use the road maker. then roll with
heavy rollers. The result is some as
good roads as could be asked Very
soon the road nuisance in that parish
will be thing of the past. Lake Ar
tur Herald.
A number of Republican papers now
realize that the putting Of che Force
plaak in the Minneapolis platform was
a great blunder, and they are trying
to make light of the matter by saying
that no one believes Congress- will ever
pass Force bill This kind of talk
will not fool the voters. however, be-
cause they are well aware that the Re-
publican party will stoop to any form
Of tyranny in order to control the gov
ernmentof this country in the interest
OF the pIutocrats IF the Republicans
did not seriously intend to pass q
Fereet bill at the first opportunity they
would not have made it one Of the
pfanks sf their platform. Dir. Harri-
s,...s il plssle.s.l 10 lie Federal control
III s!s,s.ft.ans. ..sssi II i.A is elected and has