The Opelousas courier., 1894-09-22
General Notes.

Ciay's statue will not be moved, after
all, Good.
a student Of Bradstreet's who has
been investigating business failures
finds that about eighty per cent of the
those that do no. advertise.
1t is claimed hy ii New York divine
that the Bible teaches there will only
be men angels in heaven. Therell be
a terrible scramble for the other place
II he can persuade the public to the
same opininn.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg say
that persons coming from the Mini
1NoSgorod Fair report that cholera is
spreading rapidly in the towns and pro
vinces. In Russian Poland the weekly
average of fresh cases is 5000. The
mortality is about so per cent.
Eunice. The newest of the new, has
been visited by several of our citizens
this week. Eunice, like Crowley, will
stand as a living monument to the
enterprise of the Duson brothers. 1t
will show to old fogies the efficacy of
printers ink jndiciously used.-Lafay-
cite Gazette.
1t seems that Hon. rs. Fontenot and
some other leaders in st. Landry have
no heart to monkey with Il primary
election wherein the people will vote
direct for their choice for a democratic
candidate for congress and are trying
to get up a bolt from the party. That
wont do, gentlemen. Face the music.
Baton Rouge Capital Item.
The Southern Pacific began running
daily trains to Eunice last Sunday.
The train leaves Eunice at s a. M,
arriving at Crowley at 1O:40 a. m; re-
turning III the evening it leaves here at
5:25 and reaches Eunice at 1:15 o. m. 1t
will thus be observed that Crowley is
the southern terminal point of the
Eunire h,anch-Crowley Signal.
Although he was not present and took
~" part in the proceedings, yet the fine
Italian hand of Henry Clay Warmoth-
Who fi.ched from the people of Louisia-
Ma. The ill-gotten wealth which he now
poSsesses-ls plainly visible in the Sc
c%css!on OF the sugar planters from the
Observation-Disclosures Democracy.
The commissioners appointed by Mex
ic" and the United States to resuIvey
the 700 miles of boundaries between the
two nations has just completed its work.
They found many inaccuracies, some
of which were corrected while others
were by mutual consent left alone.
They rebuilt the old monuments aud
erected 200 new ones.
Baron Emile Erlauger, head Of tue
London and Paris banking house of
Erlanger & Co, is dead. On the Con-
tInent he ranked financially with Baron
R"thschild. He married a lady from
the Southern States, and loaned the
Confederate Government $15, 900, 900.
After The war he interested himself in
Southern railroads, and spent a good
deal OF his time in this country looking
after them.
1--WE !rain that all the opposing can
dllates held a meeting in the State
H"nse in Baton Rouge, last Wednesday,
ard withdrew from the race in favor OF
Col. John H. Stone."-St. Tammany
Farmer.
Our contemporary is in error.-Thlee
candidates withdrew dry SO, and no in
favor of anyone. Their friends are
under no obligations to support Col.
Stone.-Baton Rouge Capital Item.
Last week Clinton Thompson, a farm
Ell of Dykesville, La, poisoned some of
tile frnit in his melon patch in order to
catch thieves, and on Thursday morn
ing his son Felix, George Bridges, a
neighbor's son., and a man named Jacob
were all found dead in the melon field. |
When the elder Bridges learned the
cause of his sons death, he drew a re-
volyer and killed Thompson.
The New York World hits the nail a
square whack on the head when it
says:
"Five or six hundred Louisiana SUI
gar farmers have offered to turn that
State over to the Republicans if they
will restore the sugar bounty. And the
Republican newspapers shout: The
solid Sonti, is breaking up They are
mistaken. 1t is only a few men max
ing a break for the bounty money"
George From, a railroad employee of
New Orleans, is the father of a baby
that weighs only nine ounces, and is
but ten inches long, while its arms are
child is in perfect health. Mr.. From
weighs IT'S younds and Mrs. From 1876
pounds. They have had seventeen
children, two of whom, besides the
present baby, are dwarfs. One of them,
sixteen years old, weighs forty pounds
and the other, twelve years of age,
weighs but fifteen pounds.
Underline Mckinley bill the people
of Louisiana paid $6,0 900 in The
Federal treasury, besides the sum of
$17, 100000 to the manufacturers on the
enhanced prices for coal, iron, clothes,
leather and a thousand and one other
articles. This makes a total of $23, 600
900. The sugar men wantthe Mckinley
bill re-enacted in order to get about
AZ. 600 600 from the gOyerDment Their
modesty is certainly appalling.-Lafay-
cite Gazette.
Congressman S. NJ. Robertson was
in the city yesterday, having just com
pIeted a canvass of the majority of the
parishes in his congressional district.
The States was glad to hear from Col.
Robertson that very few, if any, of the
sugar planters in his district would join
in the bolt to the Republican party, and
that Il Democrat would, as usual, be
to Congress when the cleo
lions are held. Col. Robertson is a
candidate for denomination and is conf
dent that he will be the choice of a
majority of the Democrats of the Sixth
who appear to be we'll satisfied
with the services he has rendered them
il member of the House.-N. 0. States.
The reports being made by the as
SCISSORS throughout the State show a
decrease in the assessment
rolls of many parishes. That there is
any just reason for this does not APP
pear, as there has certainly been DO