The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1893-11-11
General Notes.

htSa Ilpu5tS were ubSllpNtu.
Mrs Annie E. Brown of Quincy, Ill.
recently left the Louisiana Society foi
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
the magnificent legacy of $4,000.
About $4,000 gold coin recently
turned out by tho New Orleans mint
was discovered to be defective and had
to be re, coined, before being pat in
circulation.
Yellow fever is still raging at Bruins
/ wick, Ga. There have been over ZOO
deaths up to date. The death rate
among the negroes is almost double
that of the whites.
Louisiana is badly in need of legis-
latlve action against extortion in fire
/ insurance rates. The next session of
the Legislature should adopt stringent
laws regulating all companies doing
business in the State. CROWLEY Signal.
San Francisco is diligently pushing
the preparations for its mid winter fair,
in spite of the fact that New York is
preparing a rival exhibition. The sub
scriptions for the fair have now reached
1854 900, and the San Franciscoans are
confident of grand success.
Three million FIVE hundred thousand
dollars worth of cotton was received in
one day this week-Tuesday-at the
principal shipping ports. This is the
greatest ever known in one day. Two
thirds of it all was in our own city of
Nh, lrIc n I
and Real Estate Index.
Call out the "Mllisl. Now is the
time for the "Savior of Louisiana" to
put his foot down on lawlessness, call
out his Louisiana State National Guard
to preserve the imperled rights of in
timidated citizens and protect them,
not only in the right to gin cotton at
will, but to stay at home, if they pre-
fer to do so, rather than to emigrate -
Louisiana Democrat.
The total number of admissions to
the Chicago Exposition from first to
last was q, ,494,998. This number is
three times as great as the attendance
at the Centennial. and only about
,000,0 900 behind that Of the Paris Ex-
position The Exposition Company
paid ont $50, ,558, $40 OIL, or three times
the amount the managers expected to
spend when they began. The stock |
holders will receive 81 for every five
paid in.
The stockholders of the Worlds
Fair will not mind the loss of tire |
money they subscribed to beat creation,
and they will have their reward in
creation having been beaten. The !
huge advertisement will pay in the
long run in the increased self-conf-
dence of the nation and the admiration
of foreigners. Let us in all humility
own creations defeat, and congratulate
our cousins in all sincerity on this
great work greatly done London
(Englaud) News.
Buffalo Bill. it is said, has made a
cool million dollars ont of his Wild
West show, which was pitched near by
the gates of the Worlds Fair. When
5he Duke de Veragua hears of Bills
good fortune he will probably ask him
or donation of a hundred thousand
'r more, and make the request on the
ground that if it had not been for
Christopher Columbus there would
nave been no Worlds Fair at Chicago,
md if there had been no Fair Bill
would not have pocketed a million by
making his COW boys whoop and his
Indians dance.-N. o. States.
That the condition of affairs in the
4 rich nF Totfnrcnn orifioo1
inancial standpoint, is evident. A
aw passed at the last session of the
Legislature empowers the Governor to
appoint an expert, whose duty is to
examine all public accounts, State ,
)arochial or municipal, whenever
lirected to do so by his Excelency. {
$ Gov. Foster aware of the condition
# affairs in the adjoining parish If !
20, why does he not require the duly ,
.ppointed official to make the neces- s
ary investigation and settle the ques-.
ion at once? 1t is his duty, and we
xpect to see the law enforced. N. O.
'ity Item.
Senator Caffery admits that his |
curse in the Senate, up to date, has ,,
g
he people of Louisiana. He admits /
his, yet we notice that a number of I
ewspapers, published 10 Mississippi
iver parishes, although disagreeing
With his position, admire and praise his
andor. This is wrong and danger .
us position. The people elect Sena- c
ors to carry out certain policies of
and when these repre- !!
entatives, of a majority of the people, y
all to act as promised in party plat =
orms, they are not to be trusted, and a
; is the duty of the press to show s
lem up as they deserve e.-Alexandria t
own Talk.
The Shreveport Times publishes the y
blowing excellent article: t
There is a marked change of late
ears in journalism, and that change is b
! the direction of elevated thought c
nd progressive civilization. Educav "
on demands deeper draughts of :,
and learning, This calls a
n more active brainwork, more versa,
lity and profundity of thought Soon :,
le journalist will become the Atlas .
caring the world of thought on his
loulders, even as to-day his medium,
le newspaper, is the worlds educator
nd is illumining the nations with 4
telligence. 1t is satisfying
fought to the conscientious and pro. :
undly thinking journalist, that he is
ping good in the world by counseling =
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