The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1893-08-05
General Notes.

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in operation about August 10th. We
understand that the product will be
sold to the large consumers at $3.50
per ton and to the local trade at SO
cents per hundred pound.-Louisiana
Prohibitionist.
Something must be done in this State
about equalizing assessments. Our
law makers should examine into the
methods employed in other States, and
probably they could find something
that would fill the bill in Louisiana
Alexandria Town Talk.
The Latin Union, comprising France,
Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, formed
in 1865 for fixing steady ratio of
coinage between gold and silver, is
about to collapse. This fact adds to
the delicacy of the situation in dealing
with the silver crisis.
A meteoric stone the size of hogs
head recently fell to the earth in
Simpson county, Miss. 1t will be put
on exhibition at Jackson, Miss, by Mr.
Mattox. on whose promises it alighted,
and who expects to realize a snug sr2m
for it as curiosity.
The Confederate veterans of
Franklin met Saturday for the purpose
of organizing camp under the general
organization of the ex-Confederate
Veterans. Capt. w. r. Collins of
Dreux's Battalion was elected COM
mander and T, S. Shaffer was made
adjutant.
The Chicago Inter Ocea has been
compelled to admit that lynching is
not pastime peculiar to the South,
but that it has suddenly become very
popular amusement in the West. 1t is
now deyoting a great deal of its time
to denouncing recent lynchings in Hi
nois and Colotado.-N. 0. States.
Frank Walker has been in town a
couple of days the past week prepar-
ing to put 10 the grain conveyors aud
elevator machinery in the new ware
house of the National Rice Milling Co.,
at this point. We are informed that
! he also has the contract for placing the
machinery in the warehouses at Opel
ousas and Sunset. Signal
The moguls of the two great political
parties are drifting into Washington
with palmetto fans and light clothing,
but the majority of them appear to
realize that there is warm time ahead
of them as soon as Congress meets, and
that there will be great overflow of
talk and perspiration when The silver
question is tackled.-N. o. States.
The marvel is, is when one's
thoughts recur to the period of rebel
lion, that the Confederacy, hemmed in
as it we're, shorn of resource, great
slave population in the midst of it,
cut off from communication with the
old world save through the occasional
blockade runner, lasted as long as it
did. One reason was the capacity of
group of Generals, Lee at their head,
and Beauregard not the least of them
Chicago Times.
The weekly papers of every town in
the State are expected by business
mon and citizens generally to whoop up
every enterprise imaginable for the
good of the town, aud week otter week
they publish to the world many advan
tages in the way of public schools,
| churches, fertile soils, cheap goods, etc.,
each town has, gratuitously. In fact
the weekly press done more for the up
holding of towns than all other enter
prises combined, yet there are some
merchants who never spend dollar
for advertising and kick because they
are called upon to pay yearly sub
scription to the aper.-Ex.
The 10000 sturdy tolers of Colora-
do, will be compelled to leave that
| State to secure employment, should
come South and go to work 10 our cane
and cotton fields, coal and iren mines,
or better still, rent land and commence
! farming on their own account. Hun
dreds, yes thousands of men from the
North and West, who today own rich
farms in the South, began as renters
and gradually accumulated sufficient
money to buy their own homesteads
and Iraise profitable crops. Farm life
in the South is far preferable to spend
ing ones days in water soaked mines
of Colorado. where the winters, are
so severe that to be out of doors is to
freeze.-N. O. States.
The temper of the Denver silver
convention was lurid, and one of the
speakers threatened that the mining
States would have free silver coinage
if "blood had to flow up to the horsea'
bride bits F." to secure it, and the con
vention appealed to the South to help
them in the fight, because the silver
States helped ns in the struggle against
the force bill. We are very grateful
| for past favors, but the South has gone
entirely out of the war business. We
are cultivating the arts of peace at
present, and hope to continue in that
employment indefinitely unless for
eign foe needs the discipline of ''rebel
yell' to keep it in check, IN which
event Uncle Sam can call on the boys
who faced his army thirty years ago
for loyal service in his own ranks
B. R. Truth
The New Iberia Enterprise says:
Supt. w. F. Owens, of the Southern
Pacific, under the date of July 28th,
concludes a letter, to member of the
Board of Trade, on bit of railroad
deal, with the announcement that "the
st. Martinsville branch train will run
| to New Iberia on and after August 1st."
This change has come earlier than was
expected. We make it the OCCASION of
sending greeting to our neighbors Of
Breaux Bridge, Arnaudville and the
entire section above st. Martinsville to
Port Barre, .and announce to them that
this means the establishment of the
first link that is to connect them with
the great trunk line of the Southern