The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1893-11-04
General Notes.

A Board of Trade has been organ
ganized in Donaldsonville.
A woman has been permitted to
practice law IN the courts of Nevada.
The Lake Charles Press says wild
ducks are seelliDg on the streets of that
town at two for 25 cents.
In 1870 the public debt of tho State
of Louisiana amounted to SAC, O,OOO, 900 :;
to-day it amounts to $ll 100000.
The gates of the Worlds Fair will be
kept open through November and pos
sibly longer if the attendance should
warrant it.
The machinery has all been installed
in the National Rice Mill elevator and
it will probably be put in operation
-day.-Crowley Signal, Oct. %.
1t appears from Treasury state
ment that there are 36,76O ten -thous,
and dollar bills, 4,8O5 FIVE thousand
dellar bills and Al, 1854 thousanddollar
bills in circulation in this country.
10 Germany, when the vote of the
jury stands six against six tho prisoner
is acquitted. A vote of seven against
five leaves the decis ion to the court,
and in a vote Of eight against four the
prisoner is convicted.
A violation of agreement between
the ticket scalpers of this city has re-
suited in a bitter feeling towards the
one who started the ball a-rolling.
so much SO, indeed, that when Franks
agency discovered what had been done,
that agency Immediately showed out
big sign SIS to Chicago, the same to
Cincinnati, the same to Louisville and
St. Louis. This is no bluff but is dead
earnest.-City Item.
Judge Vogle of Indianapolis, has
sentenced the cowardly Salem white
caps who whipped helpless woman,
to the penitentiary for terms varying
from two to five years. A beautiful
feature of the courts decision is that
the men who merely witnessed the
outrage, and did not interfere were
adjudged equally guilty with the actual
perpetrators, and received equally
heavy sentences. A few more such
examples will put a stop to the infamous
Hoosier sport"
A new constitutional convention is
needed very badly. There are too
many loop holes in our criminal laws
Technicalities are all the go in criminal
cases. This should not be. IF piece
of humanity in the shape of II "man"
robs his employer lie should be con
victed and put behind the peuitentiary
bars if a beast in the shape of hu-
man being takes mans life, he should
pay the penalty Oh the gallows! On a
slight technicalty robbers and muir
derers are acquitted every day.-N. o.
City Item.
If all be true that tho Times Demo-
crat has to say about the authorities in
Jefferson parish, the whole parochiaI
affairs are in the hands of ring of
corruptionists that would disgrace the
palmiest days of Republicanism. The
facts seem to be that the parish
treasurer has defaulted to the extent of
several thousand dollars, and the Police
Jury of that parish has clapped the
climax by making up the deficit to
shield the culprit and by concealing
the real facts from the people. 1t
seems also that the district attorney
has either been in league with the ring
or is totally incompetent for the
position.-Montgomery Mail.
Mayor Carter Harrison was murder
ed by crank, who is said to be crazy
Well, let that be rs it may, but it
would be- a just aud proper thing to
enact law that will reach crazy
man when he commits murder !! He
should hang! If IA couple of these
cowardly blood thirsty demons were
hung, the plea of insanity would not
be brought forward SO often. Why, if
this thing is tolerated in order to put
a certain undesIred person out of the
way, all one has to do is to get one
of these low, contemplate wretches to
commit the deed, telling him to play
"crazy," and be will not be hung.
These crank murderers should be
hung in every instance, and the law
should be SO changed to hang a MUIR
derer every time IN. O. City Item.