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The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-02


LIE Louisiana Review, fond6e il y a
cling ans a la Nouvelle- Orleans par lie
general Leon Jastremski, Went de pas
ser sous 10 direction de Nine Lee Gar
rett Brown, qui annonce que lie journal
continuera d d6fendre les principles de
la democratic ct a encourager les in
dustries ct les institutions de la Louis
lane.
Nous a~ttirons %l'attention de nos lee
tours sur la ~nouvelle carte du DR.. Tt
chenor qui sc trouve dams nos COLONIES.
L'antiseptic prepare par &c docteur
a'est fait d reputation dams tous les
endroits on il a etc employee ct les GER
tificats ~prouvant son efficacite som 81
gn6s par des personnes que nous IN
naissons bien. Chaque famille devrait
8tre Ell possession dune bouteille de &c
m6dicament.
Cling juifs s'6taient 6tablis a Frank
lin, paroisse Ste. Marie, ct y avaient,
tout naturellement, ouvert DIES maya
sins Embellishments confectionnes /; il
NY aurait Gu rien de NAL s'ils n'avaient
vendu d 81 bon march6 que les autres
juifs de fendroit, ne pouvant %soutenir
leur concurrence, s'etaient mis- a pous-
ser des cris dole qu'on eplume. Les
autres marchands Sc sont emus de ces
Girls, nm meeting d'indignation a Gu lieu
ct ordre u etc dome aux cling juifs de
jours, ce qu'ils Sc prepayment a faire,
malgr6 les de protection que
leur font les Authorities.
La lou supreme, par l'organe du
juge-pr6sident Nichols, q rendu lundi
une Tongue decision sur les droits de la
press, laquelle decision tend considera-
Element a limiter ces droits. LIE pro-
ces await commence a la suite de re-
marques faites par lie Times Democrat
sur une affaire qui etait en- jugement
devant une cour de justice, ct la cour
supreme maintient qu'une semblable
publication, pouvant 6tre lue par les
lures, est dune nature d nuire a Pad
ministration de la justice. Ne serait-il
pas plus reasonable one la cour de-
fende aux jur6s de lire les journaux
que d'interpr6ter aussi atrocement une
constitution qui garantit la complete
libert6 de la presse 3-Meschac6b&.
r
La SoletG accumal6e airport avec ellie
Ia maladie-chaque fois. Les eaux sta
gnantes, les 6gonts OF les immondices
accumul6s s0nt GRANTEES par toute per-
sonne saline de corps, ct dependant
beauc0up de nous permettent a leur
sang de Sc METRE en contact ave DIES
d6tritns plus de mile fois plus empois-
onneurs que ceux que nous 6yitons 81
prudemment.
I'm sang pur ct IN circulation vigou-
reuse sont une s~auvegarde contre pres
que tontes les maladies. IL v o un re-
made qui a merveilleusement prouv6
son efet en- 6liminant du sang les i'm
puret6s ct en- lui PENDANT sa vigueur ct
"a sant6. C'est le Novoro du DR.. Pierre
-qui d plus de cent ann6es d'existence.
v CO nest pas n drogue de pharma-
cie-rappelez-vous en-. IL nest vendu
que par les agents locaux. Ecrivez au
DR.. Peter Fahrney, Chicago, I'll.
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PATENTS.
NOTICE TO

There was never q time in tho history OF
our country when the demand for inventions
and improvements in ting arts and sciences
generally was so great AZ now. The conVen-
fences Of mankind in ting factory and work
shop, the household, on the farm, and III
official life, require continual accessl0ns 10 inc
appurtenances and implements OF each III
order to save labor, time and expense line
political change in the administration OF gov
eminent does not affect the progress OF the
American inventor, who being on the alert,
and ready to perceive the existing deilcleh-
cies, does not permit the AFFAIRS OF govern
ment to deter him from quickly concelVlng
| the remedy to overcome existing discrcpan-
cies. Too great care cannot be exercised III
choosing o competent and skllltul attorney 10
prepare and prosecute an application LOT
| patent. Valuable interests have Decn lost
and destroyed in innumerable instances by
the employment of incompetent counsel, ana
| especially is this advice applicable to those
| who adopt the "No patent, no pay" system.
Inventors who intrust their business to TINS
class of attorneys do so at an imminent risk,
as the breadth and strength OF the patent IS
never considered in view OF a quick endeaVOr
to get an allowance and obtain the ice then
due. The Press Claims Company, John Wed
| derburn, General Manager, 6lS + street, N.
W., Washington, d. G., representing a large
! number of important daily and weekly papers,
| as we'll as general periodicals OF the country
! was instituted to protect It's patrons from the
unsafe methods heretofore employed in this
line of business. The said Company, is PIE
pared to take charge of all patent business
entrusted to it for reasonable fees, and pre-
pares and prosecutes applications generally
| including mechanical Inventions, design. pat
| ents, trademarks, labels, copyrights, inter,
f%erences, infringements, validity reports, and
gives especial attention to rejected cases. 1t
IS also prepared to enter into competition
with any firm in securing foreign patents,
Write for Instructions and advice.
John Wedderburn, 6IS F street, Washing
ton, d. C. ?. o. Box 1856.
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Good Service. Prompt Returns.
Columbia Rice Mill,
NEW YORK.
Prompt Returns.

We beg to call attention
to the fact that we have
commenced milling for the
new season. Planters who
propose shipping rough
to be miIled on toll-will do
we'll to write us as to the
amount they are likely to
ship and the probable date
of shipment. This will en-
able us to place same on
our mill roster and by the
turn being thus engaged,
immediate attention secured
as soon as the rough is re-
ceived.
Holders of old crop wiU do ueU to
send 1t right along before neU crop makes
1T tt0ke q back scat"
Do not mir the old and neW together
as they mill differently and both suffer:
Care should be taken 10 pack IN good
strong bags, also to mark plainly that
lots may not get mired auth others COM
ing to as By each incoming steamer.
NAM CONC
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Laissez-moi savoir par retour du
COURIER ce que vous 6tes intentionne
de faire afn que nous puisslons nous
pr6parer. Nous n'avons pas pratlque
depuis que nous avons joue ayec vous'
Mons ne joucns point pour de 1argent,
mails 81 vouele d6sirez, je puts taclle-
ment ramasSer une poule de $50 GU
de 800. Votre devoue,
J. T. SKIPPER.
LIE capitaine assistant eraser du b.
B. G.. de Lafayette nous a prize de
r6pondre au membres du B. B. c.
DIES Opelousas en- ces termes:
Quill est impossible pour plusieurs des
membres du club de Lafayette de Sc
rendre aux O~pelousas parce que parml
eux sen trouvent qni ont leur occupa-
ton a Ia ligne du chermin de fer ct
qu'iIs ne peugent gutter leur poste
pour lie temps que prendraient la par
tic ct lie retour 4 Lafayette qui est i'm
possible de Sc faire durant la meme
iourn6e. 81 lie club des Opelousas
vent venir Il Lafayette la partie sera
iou6e sans aucun doute ct aucune
crainte.-Advertiser, Lafayette.
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Inserrez vos annonc6 dams les colon
mes du Courier 81 Gus voulez aug
menter vos affaires.
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FOR SALE.

One Of the Oldest and best known business
stands, on Main street. Will be sold cheap
for cash, or on time to suit purchasers. APP
ply at this Office or TO
JULIEN CLAUDE,
Feb. A. Washington.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-02

For a sore throat there is nothing better
than a flannel bandage dampened with Cham
berlain's Pain Balm. 1t will nearly always
effect a cure in one nights time. This remedy
is also a ~favorite for rheumatism and has cur
ed many very severe cases. so cent bottles
for sale by j. Lassalle and Shute s. Duson,
druggists.
The Lord wasted mud when he made a man
80 mean as to tell the postmaster to return
his paper marked "refused" when he owes
two or three years subscription.-Bob Bur-
dette.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-02

Les ]personnes en- retard pour lie pay
ment de leurs subscriptions au Cour-
rier, sont instrument prices de regIer
l'rir6ar6..
II faut que tout lie moWle vive.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-02
ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. K.
REDUCED RATES
WORLDS FAIR

Reduced rates to Chicago
and return from stations on
the line of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad during the
Worlds Fair season; tickets
good to return until Nov. Is,
1898. Remember that the
Central Route is the
Only Railroad from the South
whose trains enter Chicago
without transfer or detour
IN FULL VIEW OF THE
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-02

Il submit the within described invention
in competition for the Twenty-Five hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims
Company.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-02

Would you like to make twenty-five nun n
dollars? If you would, read carefully Wha'
follows and you may see Il way to 40 IT,
The Press Claims Company devotes much
attention to patents. 1t has handled tlons-
ands Of applications for inventions, bmt it
would like to handle thousands more. There
is nlenty of inventive talent at large in tins
country, needing nothing but Encouragement
to produce practical results. That encourage
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ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

SARAroeAs new convention hall viii seat
from 5000 to 600 people. 1t cost $4,000.
A COLLECTION OF the privately printed
booklets OF the newly risen writer cf verse,
Norman Gale, Is already held at the amazing
price of $3.50.
Tue highest honor for oratory OF the com
mencement OF Trinity college, North Carolina
was carried off by fnll-blooded Choctaw In
dian by the name OF Joseph Maytubby.
W. Il. HENLEY, the poet, Is one OF the Eng
lish admirers OF Walt Whitman, and is mans
Testing his admiration ty arranging and
editing an English edition OF his IDOLS works.
He will bring out this edition in the autumn.
"CousIS BEN Folsom, who has bsen hold
ing things down rs consul at Sheffield, Eng,
under two administrations, but is now cpnl-
ing home, says he has saved enough 10 buy
q little newspaper. cousin Ben's' situation
was worth about $1,000 year.
REV. On. Frederick II. GRAvEs, who was
consecrated Protestant Episcopal bishop OF
China, is the fifh American bishop TO be
sent 10 that country. He has been stationed
there since 1891. AT the same time was cop-
secrated bishop TO japan, Row DR.. John
NcKim. He was graduated at Nashotah. He
is the second bishop to Japan.
THE Krag-Jorgensen rife, which Uncle Sam
lsto keep the peace with, weighs eight pounds,
can be dismountcd without tools, hls magn-
zine for five cartridges, can shoot twenty.
eight times o minute, can cover a man at Il,
800 yards, and can send bullet through
tweniy-nine one-inch planks nj $50 yards.
The Springfield arsenal vii begin work on
the gun July /.
Ex-MISIsTER WILLIAM Wa TER PHELPS,
back from Germany, says he does not fhiuk
"A sentiment for disarmament exists In that
nation. The German people have been so
thoroughly drilled for CO turtles into having
the frontiers defended that they would never
favor doing away with armies Tho Prussian
element in Germany especially, would not
favor such a tn nQ
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01
WORK AND WORKERS.

AT the Enterprise Colliery, Shamokin, Pa,
500 men struck for May wages.
TERRIFYING firemen and helpers emplo yed
at the Brooklyn Sugar Refinery Joined the
striking flremen of the Havemeyer Refinery.
0wING to the falling off in iron ore ship
ments from Michigan, 1t is announced, the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway has laid
off several hundred employees, and more will
be dispensed with.
A. 7. HAvEMEYER, in New York, refused to
arbitrate tie disagreement between the sugar
refinery flremen and the company, saying
that the men struck on an hour notice, and
that it was now too late.
THE iron manufacturers of the Mahoning
valley. despatch from Youngstown, Ohio,
says, have determined not to sign the wage
scale until July, and tnat all the mills will
close down on the Both instant.
IT is reported from Crystal Falls. Michi-
gan, that all the mines there except two have
stopped work, and one Of the two Will close
In few days. Both banks in the town have
suspended, ''and there is simply no money
whatever in circulation"
For ten hours the street railway systems
OF st. Paul and Minneapolis, Mimi, were
tied up, in consequence OF an order by the
company requiring the 900 employees to sign
contract or stop work. Mayor Eustis, of
Minneapolis, induced the company to with
draw the order and the men resumed work.
AT Cramps ship yards, Philadelphia, thir-
teen vessels are under construction, seven OF
which are for the United States Navy, five
are ocean racers for the American Line, and
the other is the yacht Columbia, for J. II.
Laden, of New York. At the ship yards
!, 800 men are employed, and their number is
to be increased to 5000.
ToNAwASDA, n. Y, WAS placed under mar
Ntnll a.x- lx. TO-.
dent George w. Stanley. The lumbermen
Id secret meeting and resolved to con-
tinue the strike. Agents OF the Lumbermen' S
Exchange have been sent TO New York Phila-
delphia, Boston and Pittsburg to secure men
to take the strikers places.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01
Entering Russia.

From with Tolstoy in the Russian
Famine" by Jonas Stadling, in the
Century, we quote this passage:
left Stockholm on February "a
In Berlin | was informed that the
Slavophil press in Russia had expressed
its disapproval of assistance from Ger
many, and my friends doubted if |
would be permitted to visit the famine
stricken villages. Thus with rather
gloomy prospects left Berlin on the
night train for Warsaw At the Dor
der station of Alexandrovo, next
morning, Russian officials searched our
luggage. [ travelled second class. On
boarding the Russian train [ observed
that the passports were returned to my
llow-passengcrs but not to me, which
caused me some anxiety. Finally gen
darme came in and handed me my pass
port. After few minutes the same gen
darme came again, accompanied by the
conductor, and said to me in COM
handing tone, ''Vash passport !"
(''Iour passport!'N I answered as po-
litely as possible that nay passport had
already been examined and stamped
and asked why he wanted it second
time. Stepping Up to me, the gen
darme roared out as if he were drilling
a fresh recruit from the village: '.Eto
nashe dielo. Wash passport !" (''That's
our business Your passport ~ pro
duced it without further remark. Ny
fellow-passengers looked at me, as it
seemed, with suspicion, and my own
feelings reminded me of the words of
a Russian nobleman to me on former
visit, Russia is gigantic prison,
where honest men must submit to be
treated as criminals Two years pre-
viously i had written book on the re-
ligious movement in Russia, which had
been forbidden by the Russian Censor,
but / did not think my name could be
on the list of suspicious or dangerous
foreigners. After about an hour the
conductor handed me my passport
On examining it could not discover
that anything had been done to it be-
yond writing my name iii Russian on
it. An old German gentleman, who
had observed my anxiety, said to me
in low and paternal tone, ''In Russis
you must never ask questions nor
make objections, nor worry yourself,
but quietly submit, and leave every
thing to God. "
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01
BATTLE WITH INCONSISTENCIES
0le Revenue Officer and 01e Distiller
Killed in Tennessee.

There was a pitched battis 10 Harden
county. Tenn, on The Tennessee River. be-
tween r. venue officers and moozshiners, In
which Deputy Marshal Gardner was killed
and Capt. j. W. Brown, marshal OF the west
ern dis ret OF Tennessee, was shot ard badly
wounded One OF ihe mOonsbiners was
killed by Deputy Marsh Il Tanning. several
Others surrendered and seven in all w4rs
captured.
Marshal Brown and his aids let Memphis
Ia the morning. and near corinth Mss. the
posse was increased to invent y-five Enen. A
moonshinsr house was approached at day.
light One saw g riner IN the leal and fred
the eenfsnts OF one barrel OF shotgun loaded
with huckshof into his breast killing hin in
siantiy. He then turned The other barrel o !
Marshal Brown ant fret One bullet passed
through his chin iGio his meek. another
pierced the right arm, another the right
hand. and another cut through the fingers
OF h.s lefr hsnd. Brown fell 10 the earth, and
will die.
Aneth n noonshlner jumped from behind
tree and Ieveled his gun At this party,
when Deputy Marshal Tanning shot him
through the breast The firing then became
general and the moonshiners drew on The
party had captured two men prisoners In adj
d ton to Eve already captured. The party
placed Marshal Brown and Gardner. the dead
deputy. in wagon and took them TO the
railroad.
The district where the fight occurred has
been iafested by moonshiners for years. and
i Agarded a. a stronghold OF desperate
characters Gus and Bob Long, two OF me
most notorious aespsradoes in the State, are
among those captured
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01
They Don't Like Foreigners.

The Moors of Fee have no use for
foreigners, and despite all that Eng
land and France have been able to do,
that country is not healthy winter
resort for Europeans, in spite of its
charming climate. Only few weeks
ago party of Englishmen had very
warm time there, though they were
armed with letters from the English
and Moorish authorities to the basha,
requesting him to look out for their
safety and comfort They had sent
their letters ON in advance, and on their
arrival they were assured by Sid Char
met that large garden house had been
allotted to them Their baggage and
mules were sent to the place in the
afternoon, escorted by a detachment
of the basha's soldiers and by the ser
wants. When the travellers arrived in
the evening they found that the guard
had deserted and that part OF the bag
gage was missing. They endesyored
to enter the garden, but were threat
ened by the natives, who fred at them.
They were compelled to abandon their
property and make the Government re-
sponsible for its safety. Finally, after
being exposed to the rain and to Ill
treatment by the natives for several
hours, they found refuge in the house
of the British Fiee-Consul. New Gr-
leans Picayune
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01
LIGHTNING AT A G RCUS.
It Struck the Center Pola aud Killed
Seven Peo2le.

During a storm at River Falls, Wis, light
nng struck the center pole Of the circus tent
of Ringing Br theirs. Seven people were
killed instantly, and quite number in ured,
none OF the latter IA ally.
The killed are E. A: Dean, Eugene Rey-
nolis, A. Carpenter a l4-year-old son OF o.
T. Virgins, a 12-year-old son Of Cortfs Aid
rich, J. A. Giendenning, tow Jerk of Oak
Grove, and an unknown boy
The greatest CONSERVATION followed. This
bodies OF the dead we're seated through be-
fore they could beremoved. As soon as posi-
BILE the Ringing Brothers aud their en-
ployees did everything in Their power to al
leyiaie the condition Of the wound d. he
dead bodies were taken down town and laid
out on the 40 r of the engine house. where
they where with the exception Of the I'm
known boy. identified.
The scene was dist reSsing One elderly
gentleman, the father Of Young Dean. tainted,
and was carried out OF tbs engine hous /.
The clothing on some Of the dead was torn
in shreds. While others presented no exter-
nal evidence of the fatality except the awful
scars and fixed rigid features. The number
of wounded il estimated all the way from ten
to thirty Most OF them were taken home
as soon as possible and are low doing we'll
The presence of mind oftae Riaglings and
their employees prevented a stampede, which
undoubtedly would have cen attended with
still greater fatalities. The crowd was he'd
In check and the dead and wounded removed
as soon as possible
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01
LAUNCH OF THE MAINE.
Another 0le of q lcls Sans Big CTuis-
ers Ahoat.

The big armored cruiser Maine, which has
Brooklyn Navy-yard, slid quietly and slowly
from the dry dock there Thursday at $3.50
z. ~
Early in the afternoon force OF workmen
artiTed on the scene and began knocking the
stays from under the heavy vessel few
were left to keep her in position. Then the
work Of filling the dock with water was be-
gun. The caisson was slowly taken from its
placed at the mouth of the dock and pulled
around to one side. The water rushed in
an the hugh marine monster was in her
element
The big navy-yard tug Narkeeta then
came putting up. Lines were thrown out,
caught and made fast. and at a signal from
Captain Theodore +. Kane. who was IN
charge, the tug gave an answering whistle
and began to move slowly ahead. The four
inch bawser which connected the two boats
became taut, and the big cruiser began 10
move slowly. but steadily forward. In a
minute she was clear of the dock. in which
she had restel for nearly year. The tug
then pulled her down to the wharf at the
foot OF Main street
The ships engines, from the Quintard Iron
Works, were completed some time ago. but
delays in furnishing the vessels armOr will
prevent her from having Il sea trial for some
me yet, That experiments with the en-
6 laes might be had 80 that the builders
might get theis par Secretary herbert or
dered the Maine to be taken out OF the dock
and steam trial made. Il is expected to
develop a speed Of II knots
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-01
CABLE SPARKS.

MucH suffering has been caused in Prussia
by drought
II is feared the scarcity OF fodder will be-
come national calamity in Germany
DR.. MIGUEL. Prussian minister of finance,
IS sanguine of the u innate adoption of the
German army bill
DURING panic in church in Russia,
caused by thieves, 126 women and 10 men
were trampled to death.
THos. T. BAYARp, American ambassador
to Great Britain, has presented his creien-
tials TO Queen Victoria.
By the explosion OF quantity OF benzlne
in the Brodzki Chemical Works. at Odessa,
Russia, sixteen men were burned to death.
Hon. L. ]. PHELPS, of counsel for the
United states, addressed the Be ing Sea tri-
bunal in behalf OF the claims OF the United
States.
ANARCHISTS and their friends created a
riot in Breslau, Prussia, and were attacked
by the police and soldiers, WHO wounded
! many OF them.
A SERIOUS epidemic OF syphus fever exists
among the soldiers Of the garrison of Munich,
owing, 1t is supposed to the bad quality Of
the food supplied.
socialists who live in and about Andri-
chow, in Australian Galicia, took possess
sion of the town and despoiied the proprie-
tors of shops of their goods and money
NJ. MILLEvoYE started TO read a do ument
in the French Chamber of Deputies, alleged
to have been stolen from the British emba sy
in Paris, in which NJ. Clemenceau WINS ac-
cused of betraying State secrets to Great
Britain, when motion was adopted con .
DENIM 6 the documt MS as spurious
BARON DE CoURcEL. president of Boring
sea tribunal OF arbi ration. in sharp tone,
informed Sir Richard Webster. of counsel for
Great Britain, that the tribunal knew its
duties and powers and could not allow him
make statements in his speech leading to the
inference that Great Britain would perhaps
not abide by the decision of the tribunal.
DYNAMITE bomb exploded, it is supposed
by anarchists, a few feet from the house, in
Madrid, OF Canovas Del Castil o, ex-premier
Of Spain, resulting in the death of a man
who, 1t is believed carried the bomb. and
the fatal injury of two others, sons of mob e.
men, who were trampled upon in circus
during rush for the exits
The secretary of the British embassy at
Constantinople has presented TO the Sultan
OF Turkey formal request for a detailed re-
port of the proceedings and the evidence
given at the trial at Angoria of Armenians
charged with seditious rioting which resulted
in the sentencing to death Of seventeen oil
the accused persons.