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The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19

"a In Nile -Or1SanS

ue Ia Nile. Orleans.
IN salt quill y a une commission de
revision de la Constitution do PEtat de
la Louisiana qui a, paraIt-ll-et nous
sommes de Get ayis-besOin de repara-
tons. Nous n'entrerons pas pour lie mo-
ment dams lie detail des Ieformes PROBE
tees. II y en- a qui sont urgentes, ii y en-
a qui sont inntiles; il y en- a meme qul
peuvent 6tre plus nuisibles qualities.
II en- existe une, dependant, que nous
devons otter parce qu'ulle nous semble
dc la derniere Importance ct quelle est
appellee, 81 ellie est c0nvenablement APP
pliquee, d 6purer le vote electoral. Tout
L. monde salt que lie vote actuel est uDe
ties mauvaise %plaisanterie. En- realite,
sous la legislation actuelle, vote d peu
pres qni veut, sans savoir precisement
CO quill veut, ct sans meme etre respOn-
able dc ce quill fat.
II nest pas besoin de faire de grandes
phrases pour demontrer la necessite de
la reforme. II suffit de otter les amen
dement's que Pom projette pour com
| prendre Iabsurdite de la situation &C
~tuelie.
Voici sans commentaries celui que
Pom propose achievement all drolt cleo
%toral:
Tout citoyen male, citoyen DIES Etats-
Unis, par la Nuisance on par la natura-
lisation, qui est age de vingt-un ans on
advantage, aura lie droit de voter, pour
| WI quill satisfasse aux conditions sui
! vantes:
1. II dot avoir reside reellement,
| pendant un an dams lEtat; pendant SIX
| mois dams la paroisse OIL ii vote ct PEN
dant trente jours dams lie ward gu pre-
cinct oil il SO presente au poll, avant lie
jour de releetion.
2. II doit etre enregistre il doit ayoir
pave CO que Pom appelle lie "poll tax,
la take electorate, un an avant quill ex-
cree son droit d'electeur.
8. II doit savoir lire la constitution
| dc lEtat dams sa langue m%aternelle !; a
| default dc quot, il lui faudra etre propri-
etaire d'une valeur fonciere ct moblllere
dan moins 5000 compliant, d'apres les
assessments p~recedents.
VOLTA dui fait veritablement rever.
Este que, par hasard, il etait possible
de voter sans etre reellement citoyen
II semble que oui, puisque Pamende-
ment a la Constitution lie fait supposer,
LIE fait est qu'une simple declaration
d'intention suffisait.
Ii parait encore que Pom p~ouvait etre
| electeur sans SAVIOR lire la Constitution
des Etats-Un meme dams sa langne
mateInelle. A default de cette condition
remplie, celui qui Sc presentera au scrn'
tin devra prouver quill possede une pro.
priete fonciere on mobiliere d'au molnE
5000.
Que Pom Sc depeche d'adopter Gel
amendment, 81 reellement on vent avoil
un corps electoral veritablement digne
de ce nom. Finissons-en avec cette
m%auvaise plaisanterie DIES elections
telles qu'elles Sc pratiquaient jusquici.
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II,6U


DU DR.. PIERRE.
est un DIES meilleurs remedies de notre epo.
que. II nettoie lie sang, ~renouvelle la vita.
lite, enleve du corps tout germe de ma
ladie, ct met en- meme temps les organes
dams de BONES conditions de fon ctionne'
ment. La medicine Sc compose de plus
de trente sortes d'ingredients differents
tires principalement du regne vegetal; il
| est connu ct en- usage depuis plus de cent
ans. Son emploi a etc tres advantageous
dams la generaIite des maux qui de nos
| iours afectent Phumanite ct p%rincipale'
ment dams ces maladies qui proviennent
| du sang ct des describes de Pestomac
| telles Tue constipation, maux de tete, ma.
ladie des rognons, condition bilieuse,
iaunisse, rhumatismes, hydropisie, dys'
| pepsie, fievre intermittente, eresypeles,
| scrofule, plates p%urulentes, demangeai'
sons, vers, eruptions cutanees, maux et
plates, excroissances cancereuses, dou.
leurs dans lie systeV1e osseux, emaciation
maladies de femmes, faiblesse, maux de
reins, embellishments, etc.
LIE NovOrO nest pas une medicine bre'
vetee, ct il nest pas en- yente chez les
droguistes; mais, mus par, un sentiment
de gratitude enyers le docteur ct desireuz
de faire participer lie genre human auz
benefces qu'ils en- ont recus, les hommes
ct les femmes qui ont etc gueris par &C
remede en- sont devenus les agents ct IL
font ainsi parvenir aux malades les plus
eloignes.
II a une grande valeur CONNIE remede
de famille, particulierement pour les per
sonnes qui demeurent 4 une grande dis
lance des mgdecins ct des pharmaciens
+ remede ne peutpa al etre obtenu desdro
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LIE COURIER DEs oPELoUsAs.

Announcement sera de $500 par an pay
able d~'ayance, on $3.50 dams lie conrant de Pan
nee.
Les Avis sc paieront cinquante cents par
carre pour 10 premiere insertion ct vingt cinq
cents par Care pour chaque insertion snbse-
quente. Dix lignes on moins constitueront un
carrC.
Les avis qni seront envoyes pour etre publles
serOnt ins6res en- Francais ct en- Anglais "a
mOins quill men soft autrement ordonnel JUS
qua ce que Pediteur JUICE a propos de les dis
continuer. O
Les candidats aux faveurs publilues deVront
payer duinze piastres d'avance, sill yeulent Sc
faire annOncer.
Les n9cr0loges. les lettres de remerciment,
les reclames, les communications dun genre
personnel, etc., SO paieront au taux des avis.
Les articles dune nature personnelle (quand
~toutefOis ills seront admissibles) sc paleront
vingt cents la ligne ct d'avance.
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On motion of Mr.. Fontenot, the report of the
committee was received and the committee dis
charged.
MI. MCGEE in the chair.
On motion of Mr.. Dupre, the SUN of 500 was
appropriated out of internal Improvement
funds, 1st ward, for 1894, to repair Riders
bridge and Messrs. j. o. Chachere, J.J. Thomp-
sou and Theodore Richard was appointed a
committee to sell contract to do said work.
On motion of Mr.. Guidry, the resolution OF
Mr.. Dupre proposing to reduce the sheriff's
fees for feeding prisoners tabled at last meet
ing was taken up. Mr.. Dnpre moved the adop-
ton Of his resolution. Mr.. Lafeur called for
the yeas and nays. Messrs. Clopton, Butler,
FontenOt, Quebedeau, Evans and Lafeur voted
no. Messrs. Courtney, Dupre and Guldry vot-
ed yea. Mr.. Guidry voted eyes, because l do
not think it is just for the parish to pay the
sheriff about 1875 per cent when he gets paid
monthly" Mr.. Dupre's resolution was lost.
On motion of Mr.. Fontenot, Be 1T resolved,
that whereas, many of the poll books OF the
parish have been long since destroyed, and
whereas a perniciOus system has prevailed
throughout the entire parish OF voting on aft
lowing fraudulent ballots cast; therefore, the
| Police Jury assembled at Opelousas on the 18th
day of May, 1894, most earnestly petition the
| General Assembly of Louisiana at Its present
session to pass an act for an entire new regis
tration for the parish of st. Landry.
On motion of Mr.. Butler the Police Jury went
in session Of the whole for the purpose of set
Mr.. Dupre in the chair.
The committee OF the whole having risen
reported through their chairman, Mr.. Dupre,
| that they had examined and cancelled vouchers
| in the hands of the treasurer amounting to SIG,
613.82 and they now recommend that the treas
| urer be credited with the said amount.
On motion of Mr.. Guidry, the report of the
| committee was received and committee dis
charged.
Mr.. MCGEE in the chair.
The Parish Treasurer appeared before the
Police Jury and made the following report:
YEARLY REPORT
OF the Treasurer of the Parish of st. Landry
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19
OF the Treasurer of the Parish of ST. Landr
from April LIST, 1898, to March Sd, 1894.
s4ls11 GA

On motionof Mr.. Evans, the report of the COM
Of improving the DRAINAGE Of road be.w HoSs
Burkey's place and J.. NJ. Boagni's to its outlet
on Bayou Plaauemine was received and COM
mittee discharged. ;.
On motion OF Mr.. Evans, Resolved that the
Police Jury be and is hereby authorized to ad-
vertise for bids to open and enlarge the natural
drain from the bridge on public road between
the Burkey and j. NJ. Boagni places to its ont
let on Bayou P~laquemine; said work to be
done in accordance to the specifications given
in the report OF the committee appointed to
ject said bid to be handed to the clerk Of the
Police Jury within the delay to be fixed by the
President for the handing in Of such bid. The
Police Jury reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
On motion Of Mr.. Guidry, Be it resolved, that
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A lie has always a dagger in its hand, no mat
ter how well meaning it may look.

While Mr.. T, ]. Richey, of Altoona, Mo-. was
travelling in Kansas he was taken violently i'll
with cholera ,morbus. He called at a drug
store to get some medicine and the druggist
recommended Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy so highly he concluded
to try 1t. The result was immediate relief, and
a few doses cured him completely. 1t is made
for bowel complaint and nothing else. 1t never
fails. For saie by Shute & Duson, druggists,
and j. Lassalls.
The longest, river in the world is the Miss
issippi and Missouri considered as one, being
1900 miles.
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the first money available due the Cd ward of
internal Improvement funds of 1898, a warrant
be issued to'pay claim Of 1856 due D. Arseneau
approved Oct. 9, 1893.
On motion of MFR. Dupre, Alfred simien was
placed on the INDECENT list.
On motion of Mr.. Butler, Octave Manuel was
placed on the INDECENT list.
On motion of Mr.. Guidry tn minutes were
adopted as read.
Adjourned to I'd Monday III June.
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'rI y - 49, NJ tSa
ia: u sst 10. u ...sf;tit, Ind,
iii o. ~ : shulr prices will be lower
for t,1a than.evar. He wishes Us to ask
our leaders not to purchase anything in
the line OF carriages, wagons, bicycles or
catalogue. We advise the readers If this
paper to remember his suggestion.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19
1t May DO as Much For You.

Mr.. Fred Miller. of Irving, ILL.,, writes thaithe
had a severe Kidney trouble for many years,
with severe pains in his back and also that his
bladder was affected. He tried many so-called
Kidney cures but without any good result.
About a year ago he began use OF Electric
Bitters and found relief at once. Electric Bit
ters is especially adapted to cure of all Kidney
lief. One trial }Sgill prove our statement. Price
only soc. for large bottle. At F. E. Bailey's
drugstore. 6
Good will, like a good name, is got by many
actions, and lost by one,
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E. NORTH
AttOrMeY.af.La

viii practice in all the Courts, State and Fed
eraI, held in OpeIousas and Crowley. Also
Commissioner of u. s. Circuit Court, in and foI
the Western District OF Louisiana. As such
will attend to any business contemplated by
the Office.
Office Oh Landry street, between Messrs. Og
den and Lewis.
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Rucklen's Arnica Salve.

The Rest Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises,
Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, letter,
Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
raan;raa a. and : positively sl 1 cures 3 Piles aiss or n no pay
satisfaction or money refunded. Price rs cents
per box. For GALE by F. E. Bailey.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19

Si vous d6sirez vendre on achetel
Quelque chose o dams lie CoUR-
RIER.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19

Never wear a wooden gown in the kitchen. !
retains odors and smoke and soon becomes Of
fensiye as well as shabby.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19

Les personnes en- retard pour lie pale
nnent de leurs subscriptions au CoUR-
RIER, sont instrument prices de regler
i'arriere.
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Encore un Pierre Dupont.
Oh tn vas CONNIE ca, Matthew
Ne men parle pas, Nicholas! ma
femme est d la mort ct j'ai mes denx va
ches malades.
Pour lors9
Bin, pour Tors, j'vas chercher". lie
y6t6rinaire!
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Quurter Century Test.

For a quarter of a century Dr.. Kings New
Discovery has been tested, and the millions
who have received benefit from its use testify
to its wonderful curative powers in all diseases
of Throat, Chest and Lungs. A remedy that
has stood the test SO long and that has given
SO universal satisfaction is no experiment.
lief, or the money will be refunded. 1t is ad.
mitted to be the most reliable for Coughs and
Colds. Trial bottles free at F. E. Bailey's drug
store. Large size soc. and ST. 90. 6
You will soon become poor in earnest ii you
try to keep all you get.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19


EVERYBODY
Knows something Of Photography nowadays,
e. It has become indispensable In every branch
or INDUSTRY AND
Art.
WHY DON'T YOU BUY
AGamera, and learn to take Piotures2 Yon will
fnd it one Of the easiest Of arts to master and
We win take as much pleasure In teaching you
HOW TO USE
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1fyou cannot ct up . Dark Room Of your own
2 ERM DO your developing end printing %
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Photographers Supplies ofEYery
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Dicks Mulenol is made from the familiar
Mullen leaves 80 well known for their healing
properties. Mrlenol heals cuts, wounds, brui-
ses and sprains, cures aches and pains, cramp
collie, sick stomach, &c. Call for a free sample
bottle of this great remedy for pain. at F.. E.
Bailey's, OpelOilsas, and w. Evans, Plaisance.
He who lives. only to benefit himself confers
on the world a benefit when he dies.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19

ST vous voulez faire entrer une terie
adressez- vous a M. Ben Bloomfield
commissaire des Etais-Unis a Opelou-
sas.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19

I'm taillenr Sc pr6sente chez uD de ses
clients:
Monsieur lie baron, sill vous plaft.
Absent, cher monsieur! III est a
Biarritz!
-C'est que 10 venais pour ma petite
note.
oh ! 81 c'est pour votre petite note,
M. lie baron est encore plus l0in que Ga.
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La Revision de Ia Co. -
tat de -.Istitution de re-
IA Louisiana.
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Pour informations lisez lie COURIER
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Dernier conseil' dune belle-mere, le
s0ir de la noce.
All! j'oubliais. Quand vous en- Sc
rez arrives a vous jeter les lneubles a la
t6te-..-
-Pourquoi me dire celia mamanq
-Laisse, laisse, IN bon conseil nest
jamais de trop. Eth bien quand vous
serez arrives 8 ce moment, choisis tou-
iours de preference les meubles les plus
fragiles ct les moins cheers!
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19

IN I'm EfkhIENINEl
ssa-IIA South Hoyne Avenue, Chicago, ~
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INSURANCE AGENTS.

If you wish to buy, sell or mortgage lands.
if you want to insure our person against AZ
cident or Death, or your property against Firs,
call on or write to Thompson e. Mays, OpeIuu.
sas, st. Landry Parish, La.
March 10, 1894.
The Press., 1894-05-03

No two persons in the house are more intimate than ex-Speaker Reed and Con- gressman Hit of Illinois. Their families are also very intimate, and they spend much time together.
 The acquaintance was made in a rather unique manner. It occurred on a street car. Both gentlemen were on their way to the capitol. MT. Hit presented the car conductor with five dollar bill. The conductor could not make the change, and, as MT. Hit had nothing smaller, the conductor said he would have to leave the car. MT. Reed, who was sitting be- side MT. Hit, silently offered him car ticket. MT. Hit took it and thanked the big man by his side very profusely. MT. Reed seemed to be indifferent to the display of gratitude. After short silence MT. Reed bent over to MT. Hit and star tied him with this question: .N
 ''Do you intend to work this racket all winter" ?" ta MT. Hit turned red and white, and was inclined to regard the question as an in. suit. Finally the 'humor of the remark struck him, and after laughing over it he and the big man who had given him the ticket introduced themselves, one as Hit of Illinois, the other as Reed of Maine From that moment to this they have beer great friends.
The Press., 1894-05-03
"Do show us the manuscript of 'Pem


 Do show us the manuscript of 'Pem- broke!' Do let us see PembrOke!'"
 Two young ladies were being conducted through the rooms of the Harper estab- lishment in Franklin Square, and had reached the composing room, The fore man had called their attention to the desk at which George William Curtis used to sit, and was speaking about manuscripts of famous books thatihad been "copy" in the hands of the competitors In that room, But the tive visitors would hear only of the latest serfal, at that time ap- preaching completion in the Weekly and "Tell me, does Barney marry her ?" they were asking; and Do show us the manu- script of sPembrokeh"
 They were not to be comforted when they learned that the story was wholly type-written, and, while reverently hold ing some of the type-written sheets, de- clared 1t was as though they had hoped to take Miss Wilkins hand, but had only touched her glove.
The Press., 1894-05-03
AN orD TRICK SUCCESSFULLY
 WORKED.
Robbery of 8 Bank in Thompsonville.

Robbery of Bank in Thompsonville.
 Last Thursday morning three men suc- cessfully carried out scheme to rob the private banking institution of R. D. and R. B. Spencer, at Thompsonville.
 One of the three men had visited the bank and got $2O bill changed, thus getting the Clay of the land" Roswell D. Spencer was in the bank alone, which fact, also that much cash was in sight be- hind the grating, was of course noted. Next confederate, No. 3, drove up to the curbing in front of the window with a horse that seemed very nervous and to need much attention from the driver. In obedience to beckon the broker came out, taking care to shut the door. He found a very well appearing stranger, who inquired what interest he would allow on a special cash deposit of considerable amount, and would the cashier please tell him what the accumulation would be in a year at the rate offered. The cashier obligingly began to figure out. Mean while the horse, still nervous, kept step ping, his driver using all apparent effort to keep him still, apologizing for the dis quiet, but adroitly taking the banker further from the door. Two men up the street awaited the opportunity. A lady at the opposite window saw one give a signal and the other very quietly open the bank door and go inside. Thinking something was wrong, she called out to Mir. Spencer that there was man in the bank. The noise of a passing team drowned her voice, and by the time her warning reached the banker a minute or two had elapsed. MT. s. at once entered the bank. The intruder met him at the door. It was the same man who had be- fore got the $2O bill changed, and he now made request for another like favor. MT. $. grufdy refused to accommodate him, being vexed at his entrance to the bank at that time. The man in the buggy then drove of, and evidently later picked up his confederates. A nasty glance around the banking room showed no evidence that the stranger had been behind the grating, and MT. Spencer congratulated himself that an evident scheme at rob. ping had failed. Five minuter later he found that, though money ill sight had not been disturbed, the vault had beer robbed of nearly $500. The alarm was given, and word sent to Springfield, in the direction which city the thieves had driv en, but the robbers escaped.
 l Indications are that the three confed crates hired team at at Springfield stable to make the trip, as team let te parties answering the description was
The Press., 1894-05-03
Volume 37.

New Haven Register: Good for Joseph and the occasion was hot for some senator of the United States to rise in. his seat and administer spanking to the populist senator from Nebraska, MT. Allen. It is gratifying to our local Epride that the spanker was a Connecticut man, an ex- governor of this hardy commonwealth, a brave veteran of the war, who command ed Connecticut troops, and "a newspaper man of ability. The lesson of thesesva- rious experiences fitted him not only to deal vigorously with the irresponsible propositions previously made by the pop ulist spokesman himself who .loaned his services to such cause.
The Press., 1894-05-03
Springfield Un1on.) WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT ?

The depopulation of Holland, the small est town in Hampden county, has been referred to recently as an object lesson of the growth of the cities at the expense of the towns. In 1865 Holland had 36S in- habitants. Five years later the number had dropped to 344. In 1890 the popula- tion was 201, and to-day it is probably less than 200. "This appears more strik- ing," says the New England Farmer, land the growth of cities is more emphasized, when it is remembered that this number is less than the population in some of the large apartment hotels in the city, while ten times that number of people receive mail in some of the large business blocks" {"
 Holland is evidently reverting to will derness. It is off the route of travel, re- mote from markets and very lonesome place of residence for people who are &C., customed to the rush of city life. But, as Grover Cleveland once remarked to the farmers of New Yolk, -"the soil remains in it's place." It is probable that there are farms in Holland which would afford abundant support to people who were will. ing to live on and cultivate them. But Holland is ''falling market" It has lost the power, if it ever had it, to make itself attractive. In 1885 the number oi legal voters.was seventy-two. In 1893 ii was only forty-seven, and we cannot won. der if they are in despair.
 Now, what can be done about it? Here are thousands of men in the cities, large numbers of whom were brought up on the farms, who prefer to scrape along on the most meager pittanee of wages rather than return to the farms, where, by equal labor and industry, they could secure 6 fair living. What can the forty-sever legal voters of Holland do to attract these people? The Union doesn't profess tt know, but itis plainly problem in whicl the cities, crowded with the unemployed ought to take an interest. Perhaps thu new movement for good roads, built b. the state, may help Holland and towns o its class. If so, it will certainly help tn, cities. It would be vastly better fo Springfield and the large towns if the de populated towns were brought by goot roads within easy access to the markets and thousands of the unemployed, or par tially unemployed, could be persuaded tt locate on the farms. But how to bring about the change is @ matter for study What if some philanthropist should pur chase large tracts of farming land in Hol land and locate colony there, with { store, church, a school house, library and an amusement club, and allow tht settlers to purchase their homes by easy paymen4s? Would that work. We do no profess to know, but we think the prob lem is worth discussion, and if anybody has any light to shed on the problem w shall welcome it.
The Press., 1894-05-03
Number 5.

brought in later by some boys, who said that they were hired to return 1t by men who left it at the Springfield south end bridge, and then crossed the bridge. Later another two-seated team, let from the same stable, was brought back from Holyoke by,parties who were also hired o ret urn it. The correct theory is no doubt that the second team awaited the robbers at the west end of the bridge, and took them to Holyoke, from which place they escaped by train. Before all these facts were ascertained other supposed clews had kept the officers employed, and the thieves had had good opportunity to get away. -.-......-..