The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-05-14
General TT otes.

Inc sale OF peWs at the AOoeVlne
Catholic church amounted to $2l6O.
The Grand Lodge, Knights of Py-
thias will meet at Alexandria, on the
10th instant. -
The Fire companies, of Alexandria
will celebrate the 4th of July with a
grand excursion.
Joe Jambon, while SEEMING for fish
in "Sugar House Bend" Grand TerreA \
recently took 430 terrapin as the result
of the days work, capturing 132 in one
haul.
Large quantities of spring bullfrogs
are being shipped from Crowley and
Rayne. The traffic in that line of bus
iness is growing very large in that sec
tion of the State e-Attakapas Vindica,
tor
The Farmers Alliance, third party
and McEnery men, who have been so
completely ''sold out,' will now go to
work and try to make up for lost time
by raising set cotton.-Attakapas Vim
dicator.
This kind of weather causes the boys
to talk about going to the seashore,
and we hear that two or three parties
will start the latter part of the month.
Last Island is lovely place for the
surf bath and fine fishing.-Morgan
City Review.
Will the partner dance with the bear
again when the Legislature meets and
goes into the election of a United
States senator7 That is the question.
If so, the McEnery mon will be there
to see that nobody shoots the fiddler
SO that the dance may go on to fin
ish.-B. R. Advocate.
Mr.. A. Marburg, special agent of the
ters at Atlanta Ga, has been hare for
the purpose of getting the local insur
ance agents to raise the fire insurance
rates all along the line. It is to
be hoped that the coming legislature
will pass some law to protect the peo-
pie from this giant trust.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has
refused hearing to the editors and
publishers of the New Orleans Mascot
newspaper who were lately convicted
of libel, and they will 60 to Jail for six
months as the penalty for their infrac-
tion of the law. The Advocate knows
nothing of the merits of the special of
fense for which they are to suffer pun
ishment, but we do know that the
Mascot is a publication which neither
law nor society can protect, for it ls
outside the Lale of legitimate journal
ism.-B. R. Advocate.
The defeated Foster candidate for
the State Senate id the eleventh DIS
trict, Mr.. Jean Domee, has given no.
tice that he will contest the seat of
Gen. Dudley Avery, who was duly
elected to that honor. The election
was held exclusively by Foster Com
missioners, as elsewhere generally
throughout the State, but the dis
coyery has been made of some irregu.
larities on their part at some of the
polls whereby they claim that the re-
suit was iuvaIidated. If the Foster
politicians see anything else lying
around loose which they failed to take
and still want, we hope their modesty
will not stand in the way of their ap-
petite.-B. R. Advocate.
Says the Baltimore Sun of Thursday
MRS. Bette Taylor cambridge, OF
Winchester, Va, is now in the city
paying a visit to her relative, Mrs
Brent, the wife of Gen. j. L. Brent
Mrs. Dandridge is the daughter o.
Presidedt Zachary Taylor, and after
his inauguration presided over the
Presidents household and was the
lady of the White House. She was
then the wife of Col. Bliss, of the Uni
ted States army. After his death she
married Mr.. Philip cambridge, of Va.
whom she survives. Mrs cambridge
and Mrs. Harriet Lane johnson, widow
of Henry johnson, of Baltimore, ara
the only survivors of the line of distin.
guished ladies who presided at the
White House previous to Gen. Graut'l
term.'
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