The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04
General Notes,

John Dobson's blanket mills, in Phila.
9elphla: resumed operation on Wednes.
day with 7s5 employees.
The proportion of the State tax de.
:oleu 70 school purposes has been
Increased one-eighth Of q mill.
oysters in July is a dish one seldom
gets to eat. but q few enioyed eatinp
them this week.-Abbeville Meridional
Prof. H. Z. Chambers, formerly Of Tu-
lane University, has accepted the posi-
School. "s
Four pottery companies 10 Wheeling.
day of last week. after a s~uspension Of
seven months. 6
Very little rice is phnted in St. Marv
this year. The planters Abandoned This
n~on-payinR Industry some years ago
Attakapas indicator.
Henry Simmons and John Jones. col
ored, have been held for trial. without
pgali, Tor assassinating ex-representatiye
recently.
Lake Charles Echo: The insurance
lobby at the capital during the session
or tue legislature was strong enough To-
aefeat all insurance legislation in the
interests of the people.
1t is asserted that the State printing
costs the State $S5, 900. The regular
contract does not cover the printing for
the agricultural bureau and for the pub
nc INSTITUTIONS which bring the amount
up to a considerable sum over that.
An act was passed by the last leeisla-
tQre authorizing colleges in this state
70 confer diplomas on women in the
practice of law, medicine and phar-
macy q they possess the same
QuaiincatiOns and requirements that
men do in said professions.
A. Sexton edits and "A. Coffin pub
lIshes a paper ia Arizona called the
Tom bstone Epitaph. Mark Deadman is
The foreman of the office. Miss Angel ia
q compositor and Paul Graves ia one
OF D oldest subscribers. This paper
don't pretend to deal with live issues.
In the fore part Of last week there
was q strike among the newsboys of
Massliion. D., for a larger commission
on tue papers they sold. and they
thrashed every nnn-nnion boy they
caught out of reach Of police protec-
tion. Four Of the r~ingleaders were
arrested.
The Louisiana Chautauqua at Ruston,
after q most successful and brilliant
season. closed on yesterday. We I'M
uerstand that h number of teachers and
families will remain at the hotel for
another month to enjoy the cool shades
and health-giving waters. = Monroe
Bulletin. July 90.
Monroe Bulletin Both Auditor Heard
and Treasurer Pickett recommended
that the ap~portlonment for public
schools be increased and MIR. Benait
offered a bill to apportion II mills to
school purposes. This was cut down by
the house to Ii mills on the ground that
the state could not afford more. Yet it
could atfnrd tn buy baby hundsi
The cholera epidemic IL rapidly
spreading, being aided by extremely
hot weather. The. disease has broken
q ia the military I'M at krasnoe-
SetO. eighteen miles south of ST. Peters
burg. Their. are 1000 patients, mostly
factory iiands and baatmen, in the hos
pitfalls ID this city. The new cases
average 900 daily aud the deaths 100.
The Lnnisiana Society for the Pre-
ventinn ut Cruelty to Children secured
the passage OF several laws which will
greatly enhance che importance of that
organization. One IN particular, turn
ing I'VE all fines collected in certain
pfsnses III that body will largely in
crease IFS revenues and enable il to
enlarge tlIr scope ut IFS usefulness aud
H,Hnruss.
a printing press is now building for
ii New 4alk paper which will print h
sheet ID black ink, as usual, upon one
side, while Dn the Other it prints four
caiofs, and will do this at tA.. rate Of
10000 fonr-pagt papers per hour. 1t not
only prints, but also inserts The pages
together properly, pastes them in place,
and counts the papers III bundles of any
desifea number.
The police jury OF Caddo parish, at
a. solicitation OF 4 committee OF the
development club, has appropriated
$3.50 TO assist in the fair next fail at
Shreveport, and voted / mill for bridges
and 1 mill additional for public sclia1is,
which will increase the III FOR
schools $1,000. The appropriation Tor
schools is fixed at 3 mills, which
will yield about $4,000 for the schools
for next sessions work. Bpssi-t parish
has Increased fiom / TO 2 mills tor the
public schools.
The trial 1T the Anarchist. Paul Lega,
for attempting ~ kill Premier CIispi nv
ht Was riding ii. a csrriage On lis way
TO the Chamber ut DeuntieS, on Juns
16, began July 10. The court r,,nfia WAS
crowded. The prisoner, upoit being
arranged. said that he Was animated in
his attemptnp SiRHar C.ispi's lifs.
much less BY hatred If Clisi.i per
thaIa he was by q desire to
at the chief of 4 preponderant
society. !. il I faiied ~ hill him. lie
said, wiflI.a hugh, !. it wBsp't MY fault"
The prisOuer made Il vigorous defence
Of Anarchy, and concluded his speech
BY saying nov await your verdict
IL you give b capital sentence, there IS
some nne ready III nven9 his
France or America LeRa
waa fonnd entity and sentenced TO
twenty years imprisonment and three
years. police supervision. When the
sentence war announced he shouted
" Hurrah for Anarchy
The Chicago Herald tells the follow
lng story:
have inst heard 4 story from the
White House. "A depatati0n from Col
orado called On the President and told
they had arranged for a bear hunt
their State FOR the President and his
Cabinet. The delegation was led BY
Secretary Morton. The speaker, IN An