The Opelousas courier., 1893-09-16
General N otes.

Pat Duffy, noted and popular
sporting man of New Orleans, died in
New York Tuesday.
The trotting tecord has been lowered
to 2:O64 by Nancy Hanks, who beat her
own previous record by three seconds
in trial of speed last week.
Cameron parish is not only out of
debt, hnt has surplus of $l1O0 on
hand. She has sufficient money to
keep her schools open for six months.
Miss Ada Vinson of Shreveport has
been appointed to represent Louisiana
in the confederate congress of beauty
to be held at Birmingham next month.
Miss Annie Howard of New Orleans
who is soon to be welded to Carter
Harrison, Mayor of Chicago has a
fortune of $3,OOO,00O. It is said that
Miss Howard is % years old and Mr.
Harrison SO.
Look at it as you may, the situation in
Europe is decidedly unsettled. France
is still very much involved with Siam
and Italy and England seem to be
awaiting chance to assist in further
ing the muddle.
The latest advices relative to the
death of Emin nasha, are to the effect
that he was killed in battle on the
Goth of February, and while resting
and as a result of betrayal. His body,
among others, was roasted and de-
voured by the savages near Luliabar
river on the road to Stanley Falls.
The fight between Arcadia and Bien-
will for the parish seat of the parish of
Bienville, though decided in the favor
of Arcadia, is not yet ended, Bienville
giving notice that it will take a devol-
utive and suspensive appeal to the Su-
preme court at Shreveport, which will
hold session there in October.
The honesty of the Manhattan Two
Per Cent. Loan Company has BEEN
questioned 1t is charged that the
company exacts fee on a pretense of
investigating stiles, never investigates
and simply pockets the fee, which is
$17. The company has transacted
considerable "business in the South.
City Item.
We want to say to Senator Caffery,
that single gold standard for the
United States, and further contrac-
ton of the volume of money, will cause
more distress to the people of his State,
and of the United States in five years
time, than the Louisiana Lottery, run
ming full blast, would cause in a thou
sand years. Alexandria Town Talk.
We hold it from good source that
the Morgan railroad Co, has decided
to build the branch road from New
Iberia to Arnaudville. For the town
of Breaux Bridge the Lafayette con-
nection might have been better but
this one is more conducive to the
general good of the parish at large.
Provided we get an outlet we are
satisfed.-Valley of the Teche.
Mr.. F. NJ. Welcll left this week to
again visit Chicago. He has got Chi
cago capitalists somewhat interested in
central sugar factories, and is trying
his very best to get them to build two
large central mills in Rapides parish.
We hope he will succeed in bis efforts.
There is big money in it for capitalists
as well as Rapides farmers.-Alex-
andria Town Talk.
The Lafayette Gazette says that in a
conversation with Mr. j. Ell. Humble
some days since, it was learned that if
the people of Lafayette will give
suitable site and right of way for
switch, and guarantee to the mill the
yield of 1000 acres of cane, and agree
to sell same, the first year, at the same
price paid by other refneries, less
freight, the Ferris Manufacturing Com
pany would put up refinery plant.
Here is food for thought.
'aTis an evil wind that brows nobody
good" has been very forcibly illustra-
ted of late by the history of the mar
ket price of rice. The recent great
wind storm made it certain that the
rice crop this year would fall far short
of last year; consequently all available
rice at once jumped from ST to So to
SO. so and So so per barrel. 1t will
reach $4 before the bulls get through
with the higher grades.-City Item.
During the storm, ON the 9TH a
cyclone struck the village of Lockport,
on bayou Lafourche, destroying every
thing in it's path, including several
residences, stores and the Convent of
the Immaculate Conception. In the
latter building five persons were
Pulcharie and Lucie,
Miss Mabel Gauthreaux, Olivier Rivet
and a servant twelve others were
more or less injured.
The New Orleans papers quote cot
ton seed at $l2 per ton. This should
make them bring $40 per ton on the
river bank. We would advise the
planters, however, not 10 be in too great
haste to sell their seed, for we feel con-
vinced that as soon as it becomes gen
orally known how really short the pres
ent cotton crop is, seed will be quoted
in the City at not less than SIC per ton,
which would be $l4 on the river bank.
Conpee Messenger.
The Times Democrat prints statistics
showing that there have been only
seven deaths from yellow fever in New
Orleans during the past ten years. all
of which were imported, and only one
death from small pox for the past eight
years in that city. The average annual
mortality from each of these diseases
had been several hundred during the
preceding ten years. The result is
due to the progress of medical science
in sanitation. and there is good reason