The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-28
General Notes.

the other day, where Mr. Wood es.
pausrd n Miss Pyle, of Brooklyn. The
advertisement read: "Wood-Pne."
Next in order will be a i" few chips Of
| the old block"
An old restaurant bill printed in
Richmond, in JauuaIy, 1864, gives the
following war time prices in eonfeder'
ate money: Soup, $3.50; chicken,
$3.50; roast beef, 90; raw oysters, 90 /;
coffee, s2 bread and butter, 81, so
a bottle of champaign, $50; a drink of
rye whisky, $2: a bottle of ale Gle
and a cigar SO.
A terrible railroad wreck occurred 10
Cloves, Ohio, last week, which resulted
in the killing of nearly fifty soals.
There was IL terrific storm raging at
the time. which was supposed to have
bewildered the engineer on the freight
train, who failed TO comply with the
new schedule, which had changed only
the day before.
Ii the rice planters from tue La.
f~uurct.e to the Sabine would form an
association aud eject one or two rice
mills. the trust would he swept from
the face of the earth. The crop is
large and the acreage enormous, and
tue erection of these mills would be an
Unreasonable benefit to the whole in-
terest of tIce NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Vindicator.
The conference of Northern Metho
| dist Bishops, now In session at Omaha
adopted q resolution denouncing the
treatment of negroes in the South, and
yet when the proposition to elect a
colored preacher to a b%ishopric was
made, the conference sat down upon it
with a suddenness and a unanimity
that was really astonishing.-N. O.
States.
The movement In favor of making
Columbus Day an anniversary to be
celebrated in every school house In the
nation is becoming general. 1t de-
serves to succeed. Il will convert
every schoolhouse into an educational
centre on that day. It will serve to
emphasise In a unique way the benefits
of the American free school system. -
N. O. Times Democrat.
A favorite remedy for a cough is o
syrup made by alternating slices of
raw onion, horizontally, In thin slices,
put one in a dish sprinkle sugar over
it, then add another slice Of onion,
build it up thus by layers until all are
used. Cover the dish. About once in
three hours a teaspoonful of syrup will
have Turned. which should be taken
at intervals of about this length
throughout the day.-Good House
keeping
Tbs Baton Rouge Capital Item says ::
"Ttere appears to be a vigorous fight
going on in this parish between mem-
bets of the Alliance aud the politicians
who we,e on the winning side for con
troll of patronage IN the gift of the new
Governor. In this parish, as in many
others, the Alliance furnished the bone
aud sinew in the late contest, and JUS
tice demands that they should be lib
orally ed when the chicken
| pie is handed around. A white pri-
mary would settle the matter iu favor
Of the claims of the Alliance to the po-
sitious IN dispute in this parish"
The attempt of a little clique of
Fosteiitts in the Legislature, yesteg-
day, to rule Hon. B. F. Jonas and his
supporters for the Senatorship out of
the Democratic party, wac an attempt
at MS high hauded an outrage as that
perpetrated by the Young Returning
Board. Mr. Jonas is a better Demo
GRAFT than any man in the little clique
and he has done more services to the
Democratic party aud the State of Lou
isia ma, ten times over, than all of them
put together evertdid, or ever will be
able to do The Legislature by a
large majority should rebuke this at.
tempt % disrupt the Democratic party
IN. @. States.
The Alliance i'll North Carolina de-
clded not to make aay demands or the
Democratic party, possibly because
they we're we'll aware Of the fact tina
their demands would not be granted
so the conference announced the inteD,
ton to nominate a Third party tickr
and to support 1t at the coming STATE
elertion. The Alliance endeavored Il
defeat Senator Vance for reelection to
tue United States Senate but failed
4 aud it will also get the worst of 1t II
til. fight with the Democratic party
There is onIy one State In the Soutl
which the Alliance as an organization
is able to control, and that Is Soutl
Caroliua. Even there, however, tht
Alliance men are opposed to a Thirt
party movement and declare that they
are Democrats and will send O dslega
tion to the Chicago con vsution IN. Q
States.
N O. Times Democrat, May %
TIE actinD OF tue House yesterday II
adopting o resolution expressed syn
paihy With the striking car drivers il
New Orleans is wholly ineyplicable
aud The only excuse that can be givei
for the extraordinary Conduct IL that j
was completely jgnorant of the situa
ton aud acted without Informing it
self thereon. Il was most unwise mt
nasty on its part to do this, for w
have the Legislature apparently iu
dorsiug violence and sympathizin
uifh men who have broken both Stat,
aud city laws, many OF whom hav'
been @ iied for dung so, while other
have been bound over to the courts fo
trial. We do not believe that th
Legislature meant to approve assanl
aud battery, to indorse the attack Of
the police or to sympatllize with tn,
men who not only will not work them
selves but insist that no else shal
work in their places. And the onl.
conclusion lie that the members of th
Hnnse voted for the resolution withnn