The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1893-01-07
General Notes.

property of M Hugh Watson, has
been destroyed by fire.
Young CASTOR France accidently
shot himself in the hand with shot
gun In-t week in Lafayette and pain
fnIl> wounded himself
G+o,go Essweln, u citizen of Lafa-
yette, shot and killed himself last week
1t is supposed financial embarrassment
caused him to commit suicide.
Az 18 year old negro boy shot and
killed l6 year old negro girl on the
Robson plantation in Caddo parish last
week while playing with pistol
The School Board of West Felicana
parish has resolved to increase the
school fund by enforcing the assess
ment of one dollar from each family
sending children to the public schools
On the evening of Dec. 90 at Marks
vile, La, C. o. Lafargue, son of Hon.
A. D. Lafargue, shot and killed col
ored man. He made no attempt to es-
cape and is in the hands of the sheriff,
who is his brother
The pauper's list of this parish had
reached snch proportions and formed
snch drain upon the treasury that
the Police Jury have deemed proper
to stop the appropriations altogether
Alexandria Town Talk.
Mr.. Fl. L. Monnier, who had the
good fortune to receive in change An
old Scent piece some time since, as
mentioned In the Advertiser, is again
In luck. Last week he received a 25-
cent piece Of 1853, which is valued at
$50 Truly it is better to be born
lucky than rich.-Lafayette Advertiser.
The Point Coupee Democrat is
responsible for the following fish story:
Somewhere in this parish, and at
store on,rrr9e Mississippi river whisky
barrel had ice on the whisky. An at
tempt was made to draw whisky, but
none would run out. The fosset was
drawn fesm the barrel and it was stop
rsd up 6y cryfish.
Mrs. Lee C. Hardy, a journalist and
novelist well known in the South and
in New YORK, contributes a bright,
gossipy article called 'In the Old
South State to the January New Eng
land Magazine. 1t deals with the in
teresting old town of Georgetown, S.
c., and its social and historical tradi-
tions. 1t is finely illustrated by 10. Fl.
Hatfield and Fl. Martin Beal.
Throughout the entire State the APP
pontm+nt of Hon. Don Caffery to the
senatorsliip has given widespread salts
fa iinn. Even in the sections from
which the other candidates had warm
and admiring friends, there are only
plaudits for the statesman of St. Mary.
FacHonal lines have all disappeared,
aud Mr. Cahery goes to Washington
with the cordial good wishes of thor
oucI,l, united cOnstituency.-City
Item.
Letters dropped in the Paris postof-
fee are delivered in Berlin, $50 miles
distant. in an hour and half by means
of pneumatic tubes. A beginning is
proposed here, between New York and
Bronklyn, which certainly deserves sue
cess. IF it proves practical the govern
ment should take up the matter and ex-
tend to all parts of the United States
pneumatic tube system, to be the prop
ert, of the postofice and to be operated
exclusively by the department.-New
York Herald.
Mr.. VIM. Meyer informed us last
week that he (Meyer), NJ. J. Rostreet,
j. w, Rostreet and D. NJ. Foster had
pn, chased il tract of land in Sabine
parish containing six hundred acres
g.. IL, n NE
tract If land has IL vein of hard coal
our-4narttr OF IL mile in width and be-
tn,.n ~iA aud seven feet thick and
running through their tract. Sampl' $
of hrs coal can be seeh at Mr, Meye, s
drug stnrc The Commercial hopes
that there will be millions in it" inr
these gentlemen. Lake Charles Com
mrtcfaI
In connection with yesterdays ex
pose in The Item, of the Chinese Malta
discovered here, Col. Wicker, tile
United States Special Inspector ON
duty at this port, also makes some in
tef-stiug disclosures concerning the
Italian Malta He states that members
of that deletabie society are tatteoed or
braud, Il behind the ear with a special
mark, the nature OF which he does not
think proper to disclose. He says he
has found this slgu on a number of
Italian immigrants, who acknowledged
their former affiIation with the society,
when questioned. City Item.
Several ugly tragedies ushered 10 the
New Year. l. P. Oeken, a resident
of AununciatioD, committed suicide by
i hanging himself, Robert B. Bacat ia
tally stabbed Dennis Moore, in a
drunken quarrel at the latter's board
ing house Oh Calliope street, and Jo-
seph Funk, white boy was shot and
killed by d toy pistol in the hands of
Amos Eaton, Il negro. On New Years
eve, officers Terrebonne and Rousseau
were assaulted by "a party of hoodlums
and ii negro boy was killed by three
men who fired upon him without prov
ocation, aud escaped. The beginning
OF 1893 was bad and bloody in New
Orleans La. Review.
The old Union soldiers are sntpris-
ing The Republican leaders by the
, earnest manner in which they are de
manding that the pension lists be re-
+, vised and the names of unworthy per-
sons stricken from the rolls. They
have had their eyes opened to the fact
that the Republican party has used the
i Pension Bureau as vote factory, to
keep itself in power, and they were as
tonished when the Congressional com
. mittee now investigating the matter
made public figures showing that from
June until Noyember of the past year