The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-21
General Notes.

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to establish MMasonic order for women.
ASt. Louis contractor has purchased
all the big Worlds Fair buildings at
Chicago for $4,000
A postoffice has been established 10
st. Landry parish on the L. a. T.. Il. Il.
Name of office Richards; postmaster
Isaac GOetZ.
The Austrian wal estimates were H.
nally approved by the Deputies, April
5. They provide for an increased ex-
penditure of 4,000,0O tiorlns.
St. Martinvillc Messenger: The
Vigilant Hook and Ladder Co. contem-
plates giving an excursion from opel
ousas to Thibodaux in the middle OF
May.
The only paper bottle factory in the
United States is now located in Vine
land, N. j., where it will give employ
ment to a large number of female m
ployees.
Arectivel has been appointed at Law.
renee, Kan, for the }. b. Watkins Land
MORTGAGE Company. The liabilities are
said to be $4,555,O00 and the assets So
100000,
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that lager beer is not a spirltu-
Gus liquor within the meaning OF the
statute prohibiting the introduction of
"spirituous lipnork'r wine" into the In
dian Territory.
st. Ma,tinviilc Messengers: Mr.. i. L.
King, Of New Iberia, Is agltatlng the
question of establishing a new levee
district in he composed of the parishes
of ST. Mary, Iberia. 81. Martin and st.
Landry.
New York Weekly Witness: When
will the times get better? After the
people make an Improvement on the
matter of drinking. In 1893, @3,90O.OOo
barrels ni beer were consumed and 81
53e, 113 gallons Of Whiskey.
Judge Parlanse. in the United States
Circuit Court ut New Orleans, last week,
decided one of the " Italian suits in
favor of the city, holding that the city OF
New Orleans was not liable for damages
for the memorable killing OF the Italian
prisoners in the parish prison.
General McCook, OF the Ieguln, army.
says he looks upon the CoXey and Frye
movements as dangerous. So far, the
weather has been against the army, hnt
he believes that by May l there will he
an army Of ) 5000 hungry aud half clad
men clamnring around the National
Capital.
On Thursday the lower House of the
Massachusetts Legislature passed an
act appropriating $500. 600 for the relief
of the unemployed and authorized the
Boston Park Commissioners to con
strnct loads and houltvards.
The Church at Home ami Abroad est
mates thai between $40, 600, 900 and $780,
100000 are expended annually in this
country for church rditices, and that on
an average mote than twelve new
churches are completed and dedicated
every da} IL the year.
The Rev. c. w. Lewis, the colored
pension sWindler. was sentenced on Sat
urday, in the United States Circuit
Court at Chattanooga, Teen. totwenty-
eight years i'll prison. He was convict
ed in fourteen different cases and re-
ceived n two years sentence IN each
case.
Among the new industries which the
thriving city Of Monroe is soon to have
is a canning factory with ii capital stock
of $4,000 invested. Its capacity will
be from $4,000 to 10000 ans of vegeta-
bles per day. employing two hundred
ONE and children at good wages and
light work.
Mr.. Dunphy has introduced in the
House of Representatives a bill author
izing the President to appoint IA COM
mission of four p%e1snns. to examine into
and report upon the feasibility and de
STABILITY of constructing Il boulevard
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Mr.. Dunpby roughly estimates the cost
at 800, O00, 1000.
The advance guard of the" Industrial
Army, consisting of fo%rty-one men, at
rived in Washington on Saturday night,
in a freight car, from Teyarkana, Ark.
They were locked up tor vagrancy, but
were released by Judge Kimball, who
said they looked more like workingmen
than Migrants. He gave them one week
in which to. find employment or leave
the city.
At a meeting of the ParneIlite section
Of the Irish national party in Dublin,
April 3, Mr.. John Redmond made a
speech in which he declared that Home
Rule would be in NJ worse position
than it is now if the Tories were to
come into power tomorrow. A resolu-
ton was passed urging all members of
the Irish party to devote their energies
to. bringing about an eaiiy dissolution
of Parliament.
New Iberia Enterprise: Mrs. Nj. j..
Tucker came down from Crowley, last
Monday, for the purpose of engaging
the services of Miss Anna Grant, pro-
~fessionally, to sing at the sessions of
the Louisiana Press Convention at
Crowley, next month. Miss Grant sang
on several occasions before at Crowley
and this engagement is IA substantial
evidence of the high appreciation of her
talents by orr neighbors. Crowley is
preparing to give a royal welcome to the
press.
The new Silver Coinage bill was dis
cussed in the Reichstag, April 6. Count
Posadowsky, Secretary of the Imperial
Treasury, who has charge of the bill,
said that it would be impossible for
Germany alone to regulate the coinage
| of silver. That was not to be expected.
But as an international regulation was
still a distant possibility Germany must
act for the best under the circnm-
stances. The fears expressed by Herr
Won Kardoff that it was the intention of
Germany to adopt a pure gold stand
ard, he said, were absolutely unfonnd-
ed.