The Opelousas courier., 1893-02-25
General Notes.

- RAAIoA HAS III pDl4fAa
School teachers, and 26 white.
ioeryllle parish has put the carr. -
us into the hands of a contr,e.,,
q Chicago Tribune makes tl,a n,a
aiction that the ~janitor Of Congress- viii
pe using the anti option bin ia pnl;sL
windows with ere the robins nest 80"
The military force of the United
plates, according to the late rptnrns j.
ii2.496 Every State and Terriln,y
WIN the exception Of Utah has an
organized militia force.
A new compress is to be erected in
Monroe, which, it is expected, will be
Ia running order by Sept.1. Arrange
ments are being made to purchase a
9o-inch Morse compress of latest de-
sign.
III the dusky Lily ofHawaii had been
content to wag her tongue only in a
hgure-head. as Victoria is glad to do in
consideration of her regular wages. she
would not now be ont of "A situation
Courier-Journal.
lhat Is IA pretty scheme of the Chi
cago lawyers to unload Mr.. Harrison on
the supreme court of the United States
Perhaps they have received a tin from
the politicians of Louisiana where the
tnlng mas grown common.-TeltgrapL-
Bulletin.
individual cases of being feeced By
gamblers is noted at length by the New
Delta, but not a line in condemnation
OF the tieeeing of the farmers by the
future gamblers is seer in that great
and only anti-lottery-anti gambling
Journal.-B. R. Capital Item.
There is a boom in property situated
on the new railroad from AbbevilIe to
New Iberia. Land which a year ago
could have been purched at from $40 to
30 an acre is o held at from $25 to
$50 an acre 1t promises to be n fine
sugar region and refineries will soon be
required in that locality.
a. Z. Livaudais, of New Orleans.
was killed recently at a hunting camp,
near the Rigolets, by a tree falling on
him. Near the camp stood a dead tree,
against which was a ladder. Mr..
Lavaudais moved the ladder and the
dead tree trunk fell upon him killing
him instantly,
An " International Navigation Com
pany :" has been chartered in Canada.
having for its object TO connect Lake
Ere, Montreal and New York by a %
foot canal with locks of % feet draught.
so feet wide and $50 feet long The
time from Lake Erie to Montreal will
be % hours: from Lake Erie to New
York 80 hours.
Colored families in great Number are
leaving and have left Avoyelles parish
to go to Rapides and other parishes, on
account of the doiDgs of the AvoyeIles
White Caps. A great many of the
Ayoyelies colorea people have also
gone to Oklahoma. Rapides parish
will welcome them all, and they will
find perfect security in Rapides, and
plenty of good lands to cultivate.-Ex.
Complaints are made of the high
rates owe the branch road to Able
vile, charged for lumber brought over
from this point, $40 being charged on a
carload of LUMBER, which the railroad
company neither has to load or unload.
This seems exerbitaDt, and we simply
give publicity to it in the hope that the
matter will be willingly and promptly
adjusted by the railroad authorities
Iberia Enterprise.
Ex- Congressman Batter worth thinks
that consideration for the great wage
earning classes is sufficient for the Sun
day opening of the fair If class con
.siderations are 10 rule, certainly the
wage earners should be entitled to the
highest consideration. But the highest
ground for Sunday opening is that it is
right, aud that resistance to it can find
no consti tutional ground ii rest upon.
Philadelphia Record.
Not long agnille Chicago hotel men
were making a persistent effort to in
duce the railway managers TO an
nounce an important reduction in
prices of travel to the worlds fair.
Since the Railway Age suggested that
the managers of the railways meet and
discuss the reduction of hotel rates
during the fair the hotel people have
apparently lost all interest in the mat
ter of lower railroad fares.
immigration has already proven one
of the greatest t,fnefsctors Louisiana
has ever kus5sn. A yety few years
ago, before the tide was turned III this
direction. there were millions nf acres
of a~noccupied and uncullivate.i lands
in Southwestern L~oaisiana, unwanted
and without a commercial value.
Within FIVE years the same lands have
risen to a value Of from IS 90 to $25 90
per acre, and are eagerly sought after
at these figures. Crowley Signal.
Austria announces an electric loco
motive which is t travel 1875 miles an
hour. The Independence Beige fol
lows with the statement that the North
Belgian Company and the North France
Company are constructing a line for
locomotives, operated by electricity, on
which the journey rim Brussels to
Paris, abont 1872 miles, will be accom-
plished in eighty minutes, a speed of
nearly $50 miles an boar. 1t il further
stated that the trains will be running
in about two months.
What the South needs to make the
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