The Opelousas courier., 1893-10-07

as the Louisiana commissioner at til,
| Worlds Fal and the governor has ap
/ pointed in his place Mr. T. J. Butler.
The Attorney General is preparing
! to sue the bnudsmen of Manuel Roye!
| for the amount of the shortage of hi'
clerk. A. P. Williams. said 10 he Sc,
O2O.95.
| The assessment of St. Landry parish
for this year exceeds that of 1892 by
ZOO, 900. This is wonderful growtI
in wealth for one year.-FarmerviIle
| Gazette.
The call for sherfftfs' convention, to
be held in Lafayette on Oct. IA, meets
with popular favor. The purpose is to
organize an association similar to that
existing in Texas.
The Mer Rouge Vidette has suspend
ed publication, owing, it says, to the
prevailing momentary troubles, short
crops aud low prices of farm products.
The date of resumption is not annonn-
ced
The Confederate soldiers of Ar
kansas were paid 100000 this year
out of the pension fund of the State.
This fund is obtained by quarter
mill tax assessed against tue property
owners Of the State.
A cattlemaD named Alexander is
buying cattle that he intends to fatten
this winter at the Monroe oil mills.
He expects to fatten for the market
1000 bead of beef cattle, on the hulIs
of the cotton seed.
At their last meeting the police jury
of Rapides appropriated 500 in aid of
the Alexandria fair and also agreed to
waive the parish taxes assessed for a
period of ten years to any company
putting in operation fl manufacturing
plaut in the next two years.
The executive board of the Worlds
Fair have definitely decided to close
the Fair on the 3lst of this month 1t
was contemplated for while to keep
the big show open until the first of
January, but it will close soon, not.
withstaDdng the fact that Chicago will
be loser to the tune of 5l0,000,000.
The Louisiana State Fair Mt Alex.
andria promises to be the completest
that has ever been held and the enter
prising citizens of Alexandria are pre-
pairing for large influx of visitors.
The Fair will be held on the lth, 18th,
18th and 14th of October, and special
rates will be given on all railroads
leading to Alexandria.
The government has issued notices
to the effect that proposals will be re-
ceiVed up to December |, for carrying
the mail upon the Star and steamboat
routes Of Louisiana and other states for
the coming four years, dating from the
first of next July. This contract will
include all the country routes in this
section of the State Crowley Signal.
The bakers of this city are ndulglng
in cut rate war, and in consequence,
bread is selling for the time being at 80
ounces for ten cents. One of the bak-
ers told The Gazette that there was
largely increasing demand for bread,
Judging By the number of loa7es he
bakes. At the rate bread is selling few
families care to go to the trouble Of
cooking rice, potatoes or grits .-Lafa
yette Gazette.
This is the way our friend Alpha of
the Attakapas Vindicator pnts it, and he
is quite correct:
Printers cannot live on wind any
more than any one else Neither can
they, like Mark Twaiu's goat, subsist
Oh old jokes. Those who have receiv-
ed the benefit of our labor for several
years past, should relieve their con
,iences of the pressure of keeping our
money and walk around and hand it
put.
The old Democratic Courier of Opel |
ousas has entered its forty first vol
lme. In the dark days that tried
mems souls, the Courier was true to its
people, and no pluuderings of the peo
1le's substance by radical lonters ever
'oiled its palms. 1t always made a
gallant stand for true democracy when
he life of that grand old party was
threatened and deserves we'll of a peo.
Die it has so long and faithfully served.
B. R. Capital Item.
The Worlds Fair at Home" is the
way the managers of the Louisiana
State Fair, at Shreveport, advertise
heir eighth annual exhibition, to be /
leld from October Both to November
Etb, inclusive, and they announce grand |
attractions and many conveniences for
Ill who attend. Competitive military
lrills by Arkansas, Texas and Louisi-
ma crack companies, races, numerous
'arades, fine music and other pleasures
rave been provided in addition to the
'arious exhibits. Also reduced rates
10 all railroads and steamboats,.
The country having grown tired
Waiting for the Senate to restore con-
idence by repeating the Sherman sill I
Ier law, Is itself restoring it by resum-
ng business in very lively fashion.
That money is easier and the situation
8 mnch improved is demonstrated by
he fact that banks which suspended
re again opening their doors factories
q all parts of the country have com
nenced work, and in this city and
cities in the South the
'anks have abolished the $50 limit on
hecks, and are now paying depositors
he money needed. This shows that
onfidence is all right so far as New
orleans is concerned. IN. o. States.
We believe, says the Shreveport
Times. there is State officer known as
commissioner of immigration. His la
'ors, as far as the general public is
ware, seemed 60 be confined to the ar
Iueus task of drawing his salary. If