The Opelousas courier., 1893-01-21
General Notes.

Mayor of Alexandria last week with
out opposition.
Rutherford B. Hayes, ex President
of the United States, died at his home
at Fremont, Ohio, last Monday night.
A packing company has been organ
lied in Morgan City, with cash capt
tai of ten thousand dollars, for the pur
pose of packing fresh and steamed oys
ters and fish.
The Louisiana Fire Insurance Com
pany, Of Baton Rouge, which began
business Jan ;, 1891, will declare ii
dividend on its paid up stock of25 per
cent on the business Of tile past year.
Geo. Could, at %, now commands
estates which give employment to l00,-
900 men. A general of the T. S. army
is small man compared with Gould
when it comes to commanding large
numbers of men.
New Orleans, with her accustomed
"git- mp and git" doesn't know wheth-
er she wants bridge across the Mis-
sissippi river or not. Any other city
would jump at such a benefit.-Mor-
gan City Review.
There are in prohibition Maine 805
liquor dealers paying the special Uni
ted States tax of $25 as retailers, or
one" to every $50 inhabitants This
does0 not include city and agencies.
Bangor wholesalers, or the illicit deal
ers, whose name is legion.
Several newspaper men are curious
TO find out whether the Missouri farm
er who turned loose s., 900 on gold
brick scheme was numbered among
those who considered themselves too
poor to subscribe to their county paper,
B. r. Capital Item.
It may be tempest in teapot. but
it is just possible that the recent cpl
demie among the Arkansas convicts is
genuine Asiatic cholera. If this is
shown to be the case, the worst of
curses has befallen the nation unless
the disease can be stamped out at once
and effectually.o 1t is wise to keep a
nervous eye directed towards Arkansas
for some days to come.-City Item.
A political special states that there
are at least half q dozen Republicans ia
Texas who receive pensions, draw sala-
ries as postmasters and get pay as
army officers These are just the fell
lows the re6ormers and retrenchers
are after. Regular suntfowers of Re-
publican pauperism, these.
Mr.. Louis G. Duchamp has brought
to our office this week cluster of
lemons grown on his plantation which
are remarkable for their size and
beauty They have been placed on ex-
hibltion in our Office, aad have attract
ed the attention of i'll of those who saw
the fine specimens grown in our
country st. Martlnville Messenger.
The Edna Rice Mill at Mermentau,
Acadia parish, was destroyed by fire
last Sunday morning at about 3 o'clock
supposed to have been caused from q
tramp's cigarette Loss, over $50, 900.
Insured for about $37 900. The pro
prietor. Mr.. Joseph Menge, and his
family had a narrow escape.
Red river has started off on another
rampage, and is inundating plantations
on the east side of the river to an
alarming extent. Every planter from
Shreveport to Coushatta is more or less
damaged, especially on the east side.
The overflow in the Red river district
is almost as bad as last years freshet
Fortunately, the river has begun to fall
slowly. and no further damage may
resnlt.-Sngar Planter.
On account of i'll health Mr. j. v
Richard closed his general merchandise
establishment IN this city last Saturday
night We learned that Mr.. Richard
will go into business in San Antonio
Texas. The Commercial regrets to
lose so valuable citizen and business
man, but extends to him its best wishes
in whatever he may undertake.-Lake
Charles Commercial.
IF the Secretary of the Atchafalaya
Basin Levee Board is correctly quoted
in a morning contemporary, he has
conception of the powers Of the board
which has no sanction in any law with
in the knowledge of the Item. Electing
an official journal in which to publish
proceedings is one thing, bnt giving the
| official Journal monopoly of purely
news matter is quite another. There
can be no exclusive privilege of access
to public documents, even though {
secretary says so.-City Item.
A few days ago, Mr.. Scott Hatch o.
lower Bayou Black, made an expert
ment that proved highly satisfactory
He had hogshead of sugar made from
open kettle molasses sent to the South
down Refinery and dried in the eentrif
ugals. The sugar came out looking al
white and with as good a grain as il
needed to bring the best market price
Mr. Hatch figures that this will enable
parties who make open kettle sugar t
get, not only a better price for thei
seconds, but also the two cent bounty
j-Houma Courier,
] Report of what has been accomplished TO