The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1893-08-19
ST. LANDRY, La, AUGUST 10, 1898.
General Notes.

$4,000 per day is the sum necessary
to run the Worlds Fair.
Two fatal cases of yellow fever have
occurred at Pensacola, Fla, on the
9th inst
The plantations inundated by the
water of the Rescue crevasse produced
last year Il, 100000 pounds of sugar.
The loss of property and live stock has
been something appalling.
Several of our State exchanges are
howling themselves hoarse for fear that
Gladstone's Irish Home Rule measure
will he defeated in Parliment What's
the matter with home rule for poor old
Lonisiana?-Sngar Planter.
With it's usual enterprise and liber-
ality the Watkins Route will soon
run an excursion from Alexandria to
Lake Charles and return for $l.5O
We understand this is the first of series
of low rate excursiOns.-Lale Charles
American.
The Felicianian published at Jackson
La, is "getting up and rolling around"
on Gov Fosters political carcass. If
the signs of the times go for anything,
Don and Murphy won't be known in
the senatorial race next spring
gressive Age, Ruston.
With financial panic, cholera and
yellow fever panics, and labor troubles
of all sorts on our hands it must be
acknowledged that the atmosphere is
growing rather sultry at present. Well,
there is nothing like keeping IA stiff
upper Iip.-City Item.
If the constitutional commission does
not submit an amendment restoring
the right to the people to elect their
police jurors, school boards and as
SCISSORS, it's organization will have been
in vain. The people and the press of
the State are almost unit in favor of
this reform m,-Telegraph- Bulletin.
The Board of Lady Managers of the
Worlds Fair has adjourned sine die,
and as a matter of course the Fair is
deprived of ono of its most amusing
features. The sessions of this board
owing to the livliness of the proceed
ings attracted almost as large IL crowd
as the Midwa5 Plaisance. IN. O. States.
One of the curiosities of the political
checkerboard is the stand taken on the
silver question by Louisiana's repre-
sentatives in Congress. Senators
White and Caffery, Representatives
Meyer, Davey and Price are for the re-
peal of the Sherman law, and Messrs.
Boatner, Blanchard and Robertson are
Just rs emphatic on the other side =
City Item.
Police Jurors Williams, Kemper and
Bosworth, all sugar planters, have re-
signed, and Gov. Foster removed the
President, Mr.. Burguieres, by tele-
gram. This is the outcome of the
Board of Reviewers on assessments,
where these gentlemen, without quo
rum, proceeded to revise the list. This
is the starter for a lively anti-Foster
party in St. Mary, as the planter is the
individual that furnishes the campaign
fund, and he is a power when he wants
to be.-Morgan City Review.
The Governor of Mississippi lent the
weight of his personal and official pres
eDce in behalf of law and order by a
visit and speech at Purvis, where
whitecapism was bidding defiance to
the authorities, and the result was that
crime was rebuked by the courts in a
verdict that will send the guilty to the
gallows. The only way to suppress
mob violence Is for all good citizens
and especially those in authority to
stand together for law and order, and
Gov, Stone has set good example,
B. r. Truth.
The Amick consumption cure is now
on trial in New Orleans by DIR. Hol
combe, who says he has found marked
results in all the twenty two cases un
der his care. The doctor believes that
the remedy may prove to be very val
uable, and that it is certainly worthy
of cOncienti0us and careful experiment
tation by the medical fraternity. AS
this disease is admitted to be beyond
reach of present medical science, the
profession ought not TO reject any
means of cure which offers reasonable
hope of success.
The Lake Charles Echo makes the
following suggestion:
The committee on revision of the
CONSTITUTION has a dnty to perform, and
it is in order for every one interested
in the States welfare to offer sugges-
tions, and ours is, to allow the taxpay-
ers of the several wards or school dis
tlicts throughout the parishes to vote
upon themselves school tax ln pro,
portion to their needs, the money to be
expended in the wards where it is rails
ed. This is fair, and works no hard
ship on any one. If ward cares moth
ing for the education of its children, it
refuses the tax and ward 2, more alive
to the duties imposed upon it, can
have the privilege of exercising it's
right to assist the meagre sum wrung
from the State treasury by another con-
tribution from it's own pockets. Linn
it this right to vote on the question to
the property holders of the ward as
the man who owns nothing should not
have the right to levy upon his neigh
bors' means. This, or some similar
plan, should be promulgated, that our
public school system may attain some
thing of tangibility and be no longer a
farce.
SToP OVERS ON WORLDS FAIR Tick
ETs.-All persons buying tickets to the
" Worlds Columbian Exposition " via
the popular Queen g. Crescent route