The Opelousas courier., 1892-02-27
General Notes.

A bear hunt at Robeline and at
Natchitoches a fox hunt with
forty-four hounds in the chase are the
kinds Of sport our ~up-eountry friends
are enjoying.
Contrast McEnery's manly and
straightforward offer with Fosters ~
don't know what TO do" attitude, and
see how Insignificant the boilers candi
date appears.-N. O. Herald.
The new government building in Mon
roe was completed at a cost of 1888
SO, just $1,46l.4l less than the appro,
priation for the same. The edlhce
will be occupied about March list.
The Supreme Court of this State has
decided that the Act passed at the last
session of the Legislature creating the
parish Of Troy, is unconstitutional and
the great old parish OF Catalonia re-
mains intact.
The Sabine Banner says Murphy j.
Foster represents death to white snpre-
macy ia Louisiana. We fully agree
with tile Banner on this point, as do
thousands Of other democrats through
out the State.
The withdrawal by Morris of his re
venue proposition is the hardest blow
that could have befallen the Fosterltes
What will the Fanatics, cranks ana
Office seeks have TO harp on now9-
Ruston Caligraph.
IF Murphy J. Foster is preferred by
the Democracy over Samuel D. Nc.
Every, then shall the Democracy have
set a premium upon the commission o
the political crime OF bolting for all ia
ture disgruntled minorities IN. Q
States.
For the first time in the history o
Louisiana it's people will have the op
p~ortunity of voting at a primary I'll
rectly for the candidates The vote o
every Democrat, without reference t
parochial lines, will have a bearing OF
the result.-Alexandria. Times.
Speaking of the approaching prima
ries on the 22d of Mnrch, the N. q
Times-D Democrat truly says:
The struggle of the Fosterites for tht
Offices will be a desperate one, ant
there must be no faltering in the ranks
Of the regulars. The aim Of every true
Democrat should be not only to defeaI
the boilers but to defeat them so over.
whelmingly as to set the seal of con
demnation on them forever.
The New Delta says there are thon.
sans of "pure Democrats in the State
who would not vote for Samuel ID. Nc.
Emery if he were the nominee of twenty
Democratic conventions. There is ne
sort of doubt but there aye many such
"green goods Democrats in the State
as the editors OF the Delta who would
refuse to do so, but the assertion thai
the s'pure Democrats would be guilty
of such a piece of meanness is IN keep,
ing with most of the assertions Of tina
veracious sheet.
With the lottery issue dead as tht
hopes of many of the anti-lotteFy poll,
ticians who were using it as q hobby
horse to ride into offices for which they
have long been pining, the Foster fac.
ton, the disgruntled minority, will bt
compelled to 60 before the white Dem.
ocratic voters of the State and be held
responsible for their bolt and the des-
perate attempt they made to divide the
Democracy of Louisiana. They have
at last been compelled by the force o.
Democratic principles to test then
strength by fair election, and the
people will say which ticket represents
the Democratic party, aud when they
speak it will be for Samuel Douglas
McEnery.-N. @. States.
It is more than one cal expect fol
the Fostefites to conduct this briei
campaign 10 a fair and legitimate man
ner. Although the lottery is an abso-
lutely dead issue in the State, and al.
though no intelligent and we'll inform
ed man doubts but Gov. McEnery was
opposed to the amendment, as a mat.
ter Of course. that reckless and IN
scrupulous journal tic New Delta.
whose existence rests upon turmoil ana
strife, and whose editor is trembling
In his boots in view Of the loss OF thai
$4,000 salary, will stoutly maintain
that the lottery is not dead, that Nc.
Emery was its friend, aud also as 3
matter of course, all the little dogs O
the pack throughout the State viii
~ -. al,o,r p,rf filn n1nSens Eaa II n N.
be deceived by this balderdash. They
will reflect that Mr.. Morris could no
possibly gain anything by withdraw
ing his proposition unless it were dont
in good faith. To argue otherwise
would be to put Mr.. Morris and his as
sociates in the category of fools'-Alex
andria Times.
Reports that c%annibalism existed il
Hayti have been confirmed By person.
recently arrived from the Black Repub
lie. II appears that the French consu
at San Domingo, stopped at u small
restaurant only d mile from Port al
Prince and ordered soup, when it wa
served he found In the bottom of th'
plate the hand of q negro child. It j
unnecessary TO say that soup,
a~fricaine was not Il the taste of th'
Frenchman, and he lastened into towr
and informed the authorities, md
search of the restaurant 1T which til,
negroes hold a vendoo dance ever
Sunday, resulted in the discovery ii
the cooking pot of the entire body o
the child. Another case of eannibal
lam occurred neal Port Austria which
was witnessed by two white men. 4
child was killed while asleep and th,