The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-05-07
General Notes.

! The mysterious disappearance o.
Judge r.. I'll Mar is yet unsolved.
He who wonld gather plums must
shake the tree Don't stand around
with your heads in your pockets.
/ Waiting for trade is slow process
of doing business. Reach out the
strong advertising arm and pluck it
/ Alexandria Times.
Water is rising so fast that those' of
our farmers who raise hogs in the
swamp, are now bnsiIy engaged in
driving them out on the dry land. -
Marksville Review.
They do things better in Australia
than in Louisiana. Deeming, the CON
yicted murderer, will doubtless be
hanged before Deschamps pays the
penalty prescribed for his atrocious
crime
The Russian famine has not abated,
but is worse than ever, notwithstand-
ing the relief from Russian sources and
contributions from other countries.
Out of population of 100000 in one
district alone, 100000 are fed by char
ity.
McEnery's friends have the proud
satisfaction of knowing that, left to the
white Democratic vote, he would have
to be counted as the Governor elect.
He yet remains, therefore, the embod-
iment of the white supremacy idea
N. o. City Item.
The tenth annual convention of the
womans christian temperance union
of Louisiana assembled at Monroe on
| Thursday of last week and remained in
session three days. A large number of
delegates were in attendance and the
exercises were highly interesting.
The people of Paris are much excited
over the attempts Of the Anarchists. to
blow up the city with dynamite. A
great number of arrests have been
made but this does not seem to inter
fere with their operations. Many for
eign residents have left the city.
The Fosterites it appears are making
preparations to crown the fraud com
mltted by the Young Returning Board,
and the ballot box suffers at the
recent election, by grand jubilee on
the occasion of the Inauguration of
Murphy Foster at Baton Ronge.-N. 0.
| States.
| The great bridge across the Missls-
sippi river at Memphis will be opened
TO the public May the 18th. 1t is three
miles from the approaches on the Ar
kansas side to the opposite landing,
built on the cantilever principle and
cost $3,0O0,000,
The river continues to rise slowly
and the general impression is that it
will reach the food mark of 1890, but
at the present time no serious crevas-
ses are apprehended although past ex-
perience has demonstrated the fact,
in periods of high water, that it is I'M
possible to tell what day may bring
forth.--N O. States.
The Fosterites now tell very funny
story to the effect that the negroes in
the parishes voted for Foster in large
numbers. This is very clever way
to explain the enormous majority OBJ
tanned by their candidates, but the
truth is the negroes voted for Leonard
and Breaux ard their votes were
counted for Foster. The negroes all
over the State were permitted to vote
/ freely, bnt the Fosterites, who had all
the election machinery in their hands,
attended to the counting, and the re-
suit was Murphy j. Foster won by a
majority so tremendous as to be abso-
luteiy laugha ble.-N 0. States.
The organ of the Fosterites wants a
law passed to regulate primary cleo
tions in the same manner as State cleo
tions. This would increase the power
that the Governor already possesses,
and would enable him by refusing, as
was done in the recent State election,
to give his opponent any representa-
tion at the polls, to place the State EN-.
tirely in the control of his faction and
to elect whomsoever he pleased as his
successor For instance, at the expi.
ration of his term His Fraudulency
Murphy j Foster could. if he did not
desire to re-eleet himself, turn the
State over to his friend Don Caffery OIL
some other person who stood high in
his favor. The voice of the people
would not amount to anything, for the
reason that the ballot boxes would be
stuffed just as they Were on Tuesday
last.--N. O. States.