The Opelousas courier., 1893-04-29

for business.
Applications are still going into
Washington and st. Mary is we'll re-
presented there. The average home
statesman does not stand back when
there is something soft in sight AT.
takapas Vindicator.
Let local immigration societies he or
ganlzed and land companies formed
setting forth what We have and the
price for which it can be purchased. II
these suit the citizens of other places
they will come.
A company has been formed by New
Orleans capitalists to operate a mill
for the manufacture of paper stock
from the cotton seed hulls. The cap
ital stock is placed at $25O,OOO, and
the business will be started as soon
as 100000 is subscribed
The finance committee of the Police
Jury of Avoyelles parish reported seme
iron clad resolutions looking to the dis
placement of Sheriff Cannon for failing
TO promptly settle collections of licen-
ses aud taxes made by him, aud the re-.
solutious were adopted by the jury
B. R. Capital Item.
The South needs immigration, and
the Worlds Fair this year gives US an
excellent opportunity to bid for them.
Tons of printed matter should be, and
doubtless will be distributed at Chica-
go, setting forth the resources aud ad.
vantages of the various sections of the
different states of the South.
Signal
Mrs. Cleveland, the other day, sent a
draft for $50 to fond mother in Iudi-
ana who had named her baby girl after
little Ruth. Mrs. Cleveland would do
we'll to abandon this practice at once,
because, if she doeszpot, the financial
recognition of the little Ruth Cleve-
lands will cause her bank account to
grow as thin as a church fair sand
wich N. o. Daily States.
The Baptist Chronicle, the official or
gan of the. Baptist church in Louisiana,
published at Ruston, had its Office and
entire plant destroyed by FIRE last Sun
day night. There seems to be no doubt
that the fire was the work of an incen =
diary. Pending new arrangements for
the publication of the paper it is being
issued from the press of The Telegraph
Bulletin Telegraph Bulletin.
The early planted rice looks fine,
and as rule excellent stands have been
obtained. 1t is growing rapidly, and
some. few of our planters have
already closed, their levees and are re-
tanning the water upon their fields.
There is general belief that the rain
fall this summer will not be anything
like what it was last season, and many
are acting on this supposition by saw
ing all the water they can from the
early rains.-Crowley Signal
During the blow last Friday the L
addition to the Wall House being built
by Robinson and Petty was lifted from
the foundation and blown to the
ground. The smash mp was SO COM
plete that the carpenters were COM
PEELED to take the building to pieces.
This was done in a short space of time
and to-day it is ready for another blow;
being on a less lofty foundation, the
chances are it will stand the squalls
better than before.-AbbevilIe Merid-
isnal.
Immigrants will not leave their
homes to enter this State to build up
and make the old look like new upon
the invitation of conventions or upon
the adoption of resolutions looking to
their welcome when they arrive. The
fact must be set forth that they can
purchase cheap homes and that the law
is executed, that a wholesome public
sentiment prevails, that a good public
school system is extant and that trans.
portation facilities for shipping their
produce to market after it Is made, has
been elevated to a degree approaching
perfection.
The conviction Of twelve or fifteen
whitecappers in Georgia and Mississip-
pi during the past week, shows that
the Southern people are determined to
stamp out these gangs of desperadoes,
who do great injury to the good name
of the states in which they commit
their outrages. These tuughs should
be hunted down in every instance by
the officers Of the law, and prompt Y
incarcerated in the penitentiary, and
in very short time they will learn
that they cannot whip and shoot inof
fensive whites and blacks with the
same impunity as their brethren iu In
diana and Iowa.-N. O. Daily States.
Ambassador Eustis sailed from New
York to France last Saturday on the
steamship Champagne His fellow citi-
zeDs here in Louisiana wish the dis
tinguished gentlemen a safe and pleas.
ant voyage across the Atlantic. It ID
seldom, indeed, that the appointment
. of man to foreign mission meets
with the approval of the entire country
as did that of Mr.. Eustis, when it was
announced that President Cleveland
had selected him to fill the French mis-.
sien. His predecessor, Whitelaw Reid
took occasion to say that the President
could not have appointed a better
fitted man for the place had he search.
ed the Democratic party through,
which, to say the least. was very
graceful compliment to the ex-senator
from Louisiana.-N. O. Daily States.
Last Saturday night, April 22d, al
Crowley, La, the mercantile establish
inent Of Lawson s. Mcdonald, wat
entered by burglars and their safe
p T., al x-j