The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1893-12-23
General Notes.

: recently voted to send Jonn Hickma,
a oisab bled ex Confederate, to the So
@ diers' Home and pay the bill of &,
penses.
The sickness at St Stanislaus Co
lege, Bay st Louis, which caused til
9 school to close some weeks ago. Ina
oeen ascertained to have been the griE
Inc college will open again on Janu
, AIRY ?.
A French syndicate has purchase
/ SlOO,OOO worth of lands in Ouachit
parish, along the line of the V. S., an,
+. railroad, not far from Monroe. Th
syndicate is said to ha Ie some big plan
on foot by which they will invest
considerable amount in Louisiana,
Louisiana must have a change in hel
election laws or it is only a question o
time when anarchy will prevail. All
men see this who ever stop to think OF
the future. Let the legislature begin
next year by adopting the Australian
laW.-Alexandria Town Talk.
The defeat of Gen Fitzhugl Lee, of
Virginia, for the United States Senate
oy Mr.. L. S. Martin, an unknown man.
is ut companion piece for the retire
ment to private life of Gen. Wade
hampton by the Populist demagogue.
=; L. M. lrby, who now sits in Gen.
Hampton's chair in the United States
Senate,-Sugar Planter.
lhe Police Jury of Pointe Coupee
parish, ID compliance with a petition of
u GitiZens, mas consented to grant to the
IoWn Council of New Roads "the fn-
tare parish licenses collected within
the corporate limits of the town tha
same 10 oe used on the streets in re-
pairs and for lighting the town" The
"e''"n meets with general satisfaction.
You will always find bargains at the
stores OF merchant who keep stand.
ing advertisement in the newspaper
lhey BUY goods to sell, and by keen
ing the hrm's name constantly before
the public their place of business Ie1
comes byword while the merchant
that does not advertise is lost to the
public.
The man who paints his ward fence.
cieans up his premises, white washes
his barn and keeps the weeds from
growing on the sidewalk in front of his
gate, says the Tulare Times. is q |
greater benefactor TO town, than the
nan who spends bis time on the street
corners pratlng about siIurian CITY
ma the dead condition of his adopted
l0me.
The Shreveport Electric Light and
1as Company claims exemption from
axatlon on about three fourths of its
property in suit now pending in the
district Court at Shreveport. The
round is that gas is a chemical and
nder the provision of "a constitutional
mendment of 1888 all machinery, ETC.,
hgaged 10 the manufacture of chemi-
ais Is exempt from taxation The case
J an important one.
An exchange tells US that President
'ieveland has turned the patronage
Republican states over to the Sena-
'rs and Congressmen in those who
elped him defeat the silver men. And
n the other hand, those Senators and
representatives who supported silver !
re cut Off from executive favors. !
ossl0Iy that is one reason our friend :
am Robertson, failed to get in the t
ostmaster for Opelousas that he rec t
nmended.-B. r. Item. t
Speaking of the frequent miscarria- 6
9s of justice in the Criminal District Fl
ourt OF New Orleans, the St. Mary u
amer, published at the home of the il
overnor, says: C
such miscarriage of Justice as ia Il
acticed in New Orleans calls loudIv tt
Constitutional Conv.rtion. Our p
Ws are rotten disgrace not only to e
Q State, but the entire South. We
ok for an earthquake to shake the a.
ate House building when the legisla- G
re meets again." Il
Take good advice.-Here is what ~ =,
ter Cooper, who died worth millions, -
I'd of a newspaper: "In all the NJ NJ
"ns where newspaper is published ~. ~,
cry man should advertise in it if -
timing more-than a card stating his ~ ~
me and business he is engaged in. th n
does not only pay the advertiser, II Fl
let's people at distance know that - -
town in which you reside is pros ~, ~
'ous community of business men. IN IN
the seed is sown so the seed recon- -
lses. Never pull down your sign ~ ~
lie you expect to do business A.; A.
The injunction sued out by the IL, ~
lool Board against the Police Jury " ~
dining the appropriation made by ": oe
t body to defray the expenses of elo
enteen beneficiary cadets to the Co 60
ergreen College, has been, we are ins
ably informed, compromised, upon It's It's
promise by the Police Jury to res
ke reasonable appropriation for Ine I
benefit of the public schools of the tel
ish. In the compromise it was an
eed by both parties that the IL Ca Wh
J were to remain at the Evergreen III
lege until the end of the session, at Is Is,
ch time the appropriation for the W.
eft of the public schools will be an'
le.-Marksville Review. del ds9
he attention of Justices of the .,n, hn,
ce and Notaries is called to the G;i
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