The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-16

The Illinois Central Railroad took ID !
2, 344, 76l during the Worlds faT' +
paving a profit of $1,571,78l. S
Another vacancy was created in the {
state Senate by the death of senator
PERKINS. of the ninth Senatorial DIS
riot, from Lafourche.
Every dollar invested in Southwest
Louisiana soil at the present. prices OF
cal estate may be doubled in value ID
/ short time.
Keen yonr eve on the advertising
,nInmhs Of the COURIER. Our readers
will oblige US by dealing with those
whose name and business are tound IN
this paper.
It is a blind policy for our citizens
whom we patronize to send off for JOB
that they could just as we'll
oct from us aud just as cheap. You
will hardly handle the money you sehd
AWAY the second time, whereas II you
keep it at home you will get 1t back
Westlake News.
The first woman in the world to re-
ceiye the degree of electrical engineer
il Miss Bertha Lamme, OF Spllngheia'
Ohio. She is a graduate OF h ONO
State University, where she LED heI
class throughout the entire course, and
she now holds a position in the west
inehouse Electric Company at Pitts
burg. q
The decision of the Supreme Court
in the contempt case against the Times
Democrat. virtually and in effect con
s~titutes the Judge of every Court 10
the State of Louisiana, a petty despot
to imprison any newspaper proprietor
for contempt, who shall dare to VENT
late the proceedings of his little BALL
wick.-Alexandria Democrat.
The HlinSis Central has again inau-
ourated q series of half-rate excursions
from all points on it's lines in the north
and west. These tickets are sold to
anv point in Tennessee, Mississippi
and Louisiana. The first of the series,
! of which there are six, started South
on last Monday, and the next Will
leave on the 18th of DETERMINATIONS
ley Signal.
The man who paints his yard fence,
cleans up his premises, white washes
his barn and keeps the weeds iron
growing on the sidewalk in front of h1s
cate. says the Tulare Times, is {
greater benefactor to a town, than tht
man who spends his time on the stree
corners pratiDg about a silurian city
and the dead condition of his adopted
home.
Miss Ray Frank, a young Californian
.Tewess. ia about to be ordained as a rab
bi or preacher to a synagogue. ohe i
a graduate of the State University O.
California, and since completed he
studjes at the Hebrew Union College
at Cincinnati. Miss Frank has attained
a distinction beyond that of any HebreV
woman since the days of Deborah, th'
prophetess.-Morgan City Review.
Good farm lands in this parish ca
be bought at prices ranging any Wher
betWeep one and ten dollars per acre
This land will yield b~ounteously
the hand of toll, and the industrlou
/ toiIer need entertain no fears regard
ing deaths, or plaques or total failur
of the crops, as such things never hap
! men here. This is the country i
which to easily acquire a home an
surround ones self with peace an
plenty. This is the country for tn
rich and the poor.
A. s. Hadden and Rev. P. A. Drow
loaded a car of cane Wednesday an
have Il more to load 1t is shlppe
to the Ferris factory near OpelousaI
where they are paid $4.75 a ton. Th
d freight is only 60 cents a ton from Jen
nings to the refinery, SO that it is evl
dent that a good profit IS netted tn
grower. Mr.. MADDEN tells that his 81
acres of a yields 20 tons per acre
that 1t is by far the most profitable Gro
grown here; that one man can gro
= 10 acres alone, except for help in cut
= ting and shipping, and that he wi
most assuredly continue to grow cam
When they are through we will CIV
e the figures of cost and result.-Jer
nings Times.
This year has proven that planter
cannot attach too much Importance
securing good clean rice Tor see
Poor seed planted gives a produ.
worth from $1.00 to $l.5O, though Il
ground may be perfectly clean, viii
the best seed planted on clean groun
I Yields a r worth from $500 to 3d.
g Der sack. Though the difference b
tween the price of poor and good SCI
NAV be $500 per sack it will make
diffe rence of only about twenty cen
: per sack In the cost of the crop harves
L ed, and gives a quality Of rice th
commands the top of the marke
n There is no money to the farmer RAJ
% ing poor rice and the sooner he reallz
e that fact the better off will he be.
Crowley Signal.
lr IF this thing of taking every nj
" into the Confederate Camps who clair
"a to have been a soldier is not short
stopped we will be in the same cat
CORY with the Federal pensioners, th
SIS Is, there will be a greater number
soldiers living thirty years after th'
there were during the war. There a
nearly as many members enrolled nc
:. in the camps than the several COME
crate armies had on their rolls, inclu
ing those in hospital and in prison
the time of the surrender, and the que
ton is being asked why we surrende
j ed while we had SO many fighting me