The Opelousas courier., 1893-10-21
General Notes.

crop of this year will fall shout tnliy
one million bales.
The State University opened Its
doors lost week With ahont l35 sta
deuts ir attendance.
Ilicr men at Vintop say that not
over 5000 sacks of Iice vii! b" ship
ped from that station this yeat as
against 40,000Ba cks last season.-Jen-
nings Times,
The widow of the late Senator Stan
ford complained to the court that her
allowance of $4,000 per month was
insufficient for her support ana II was
increased to $4,000.
The Lake Charles Patriot, with com
mendable enterprise, has begun the
publication of a daily issue OF that
! journal, the initial number making its
appearance on the 6th inst.
Brunswick, Ga, reported 36 new
cases of yellow fever on Oct. T.
Since the beginning of the scourge, there
have occurred ZIG cases OF the fever;
l6 deaths and So recoveries, The dis
ease is of a very mild type.
The Secretary of the treasury es-
Inmates that it will cost the govern
ment between six and ten million dol
lars to send the Chinese nov in the
United States back 10 their homes OF
rice and rat. and among their kit and
kin.
The longest swim ever made in the
rough sea was by Samuel Brock. a Ynr-
mouth fisherman, on October IA. 1889
The vessel in which he sailed was
wrecked, and he SWAN seventeen miles
in seven and one half hours through a
rough gale.
The Congo is the most wonderful wa
terway In the world. II is 20 miles
across in parts, so that vessels may pass
each other and yet be out of sight. 1t
has twice the extent of the navaigahle
waters of the Mississippi and its trlb-
utaries and three times the population.
Mrs. Cornelia Livingston Fulton
Crary, daughter of the world famous
inventor of The steamboat, Robert Full
ton. died in New York City Friday, IN
her eighty y-second year. She was the
widow of Edward c. Ctary, aud was
:, the last of her generation.
A company, with large financial
: backing, has been formed in Chicago
, TO nurchase the Worlds Fair buildings
Much of this iron can be used in bridge
building, and that is what the company
prouoses TO do with it. The Morris &
Cummings Bridging Company, of New
r York, is interested in the deal
The vacaucies in the faculty of thu
, State University has recently been fill
ed by the Board Of Trustees of th'
: schoo! The expenses of attendance
at the institution should be cheapene'
and those Of moderate means who bay
educable boys might swell the attend
ance of students the coming year
Farmerville Gazette.
Texas is great State and will b
the empire State of the Union at no dis
tant day. Itis larger than New York an
New England put together, has cap
It tol that cost three millions, and
school fund 10 lands and securities {
over one hundred and twenty-five mi
llOUe Oh
, The pension commissioners repo
, shows over eight hundred thousan
men on the list and over seven hundre
thousand applicants. Over mli'lo
Ie and a half of the Federal army stl
y show up, rot counting a few hundre
thousand who have not put in claim
Including the dead of the past thir'
wears, what vast army it took to p'
nt down the Confederacy y.-Daily Item.
That the honest and unpreJudIct
manner in which Commissioner Loc
:. rem is now revising the pension lis
70 70 will result in the saving t" the COVER
'' ment of many millions OF dollars
shown by the following excerpt TAX
from the Boston Herald:
- AS IA result of the overhanilng OF {
%, pepsion list by Commissioner Lochre
IS, it is calculated that there will be
ng saving to the government OF Sl2o.0 .0O'
ur 600 in round figures About Is r
cent of the 3OO,O 900 names that we
added to the roll under the act OF le
1st are likely to be permanently dropp'
rd, and about IS per cent more Will
given lower rating. The average
this reduction is estimated at 700
anpum, which for rs 600 would amor
to So. 100000. Iu the eleven years th
pensious are estimated to run, the I
~ nenditure would be S29, 100000, VIII
10 added to the saving upon r+Jec
ou cases. makes a total of $l25, 1000
of and not one penny of this vast sum
lls withheld from Il veteran EMIT
IL to it according to the most liberal
depreciation of the law.
!. IF the South weathers the fnan
storm to it's end as we'll as she ha;
MIR. far, we predict an era of immigrat
ce- to, and money investments in
Is Southern States within the next
ash wears to an extent that will surprise
Ice. most progressive citizen. The pres
ed nnprecedented aud inexpllcable CT
lies NAV, and we think it will, prove
best thing that ever happened to
South. 1t will prove to the world
10 a We have claimed. and more, as to
,rth recuperative abilities of our people,
ifty yastness and variety of our resonr
ion. and the advantages of our clin
gain which permits the production of 8
, to valuable crop for at least ten mo-
%, In the year-That the immense ft
contributed. to large extent,
g. condition that enabled the Snntl
pass successfully through fnar
crisis that is unprecedented 10 THU
92 auy other country, goes without