The Opelousas courier., 1894-09-29
General Notes.

~ III loAt lIChloStuto III Al
Maine Legislature.
The first SNOW OF the season fell al
Omaha on Friday last.
Ex-VIce President Morton has been
nominated for Governor of New York
by the Republicans.
The Clay statue in New Orleans will
have a portion of its base removed and
will tEen remain in statu quo.
Rev. Sam Jones will lecture at the
Opera House, in Alexandria,, at 1880 o.
m. on Monday, the Goth of October.
Congressman w. C. P. Breckenridge
was defeated for a denomination in his
district in Kentucky, in a Democratic
primary. by Colonel Owens.
Strange are the vicissitudes of poll
ties. The power which could nominate
two United States Senators could not
prevent the party from going to pieces.
Monroe Bulletin.
The Madison Car Works, at st. Louis,
Mo-, which have been idle since July,
1893, were put in operation again last
week, with 900 employees, and this force
will soon be increased to 1,000.
The American Sugar Refneries Com
pany has declared it's regular quarterly
dividends at the rate of seven and
twelve per cent. per annum on its pre-
ferred and common stock respectively.
Patrick O'Leary, who was the owner
of the celebrated cow whose world re-
nowned kick upset a lantern and start
ed a blaze that resulted in the great
Chicago fire of October. 1871, died last
week.
On Monday 500 Swiss embroiderers
struck in New York city and Newark,
n. j., for an increase in wages and be-
fore night thirteen employers had
agreed to the advance and 300 hands
returned to work.
On Tuesday of last week j. C. FELTON,
and Miss Nellie Mum, of Ohio, were
married. and on the following night
they were both killed by a train while
CHASING the Wabash railroad tracks in
a buggy at Eden. 0.
The Board of General Appraisers has
decided that schedule K. of the new
tariff does not go into effect until Jan.
l, 1895, and that all wooden and worsted
fabrics ale dutiable under the McKin-
ley bill until that time.
The cholera epidemic is steadily in.
cieasinR. Throughout Russia there
We're reported during the last week, g.
376 new cases of the malady, and 3,192
deaths. In Warsaw there we're 1,0O4
new cases and 500 deaths.
Govelno, Foster 10 bis Ruston speech
advised the farmers to stay at boue
n let somebody else run the goveiG-
ment. Suppose he offers the same ad-
wise t" his dear friends, the sugar
planters s-Monroe Bulletin.
After October the head tax on immi-
grants will be raised from so cents to
81 per head, and the money thus collect
ed will be covered into the United
States Treasury instead of being ex-
pended under the control Of the Bureau
of immigration.
Mary Hopkins, the daughter of a
prosperous farmer and formerly a belle
in Leavenworth, Kau., was arrested in
Oklahoma last week for horse stealing.
She WIS blessed in mems clothing and
for t@o years has been the leader of O
daring gang of horse thieves.
The War Department has decided to
dispense with the services of the 100
Indian scout in the service, as
they are only useful in case of an H.
dian war and such contingency is con
siderti very remote. The scouts cost
the Government $4,000 per annum
and the same number of men for the
regular serviced can be enlisted at half
that cost.
Col. Sam Robertson says be will be
re~nOminated for Congress from the
Sixth District on the 9th of October,
in spite OF the strong opposition which
some politicians have stirred up against
him Col. Sam is the son of his father
and we have very grave doubts
whether there is Il better man for Con-
grrss in the Baton Rouge District
Bastrop Appeal.
The Massey Manufacturing Company,
OF Toronto, Canada, employing 1900
men, has determined to remove to the
United States and is seeking a site zeal
Niagara Falls. Mr.. Massey says it is
the new tariff bill that has attracted
him to this country, as the policy of the
Canadian government in keeping a high
tariff on law goods prevents his com
pany from competing in the markets of
the world.
At last accounts both Coils. Stone aud
Robertson were out in the Florida par
ishes making a canvass Of their district.
AT Amlte City a joint discussion was
engaged in on Monday, but from the
meagre reports of the meeting but lit
tie information could be gained. The
New Orleans papers seem to devote a
great deal more attention at present to
Mississippi politics than to the same
subject in their own State.-B. R. Adj
vocatP.
On the 14th of September. 1894, the
Goth anniversary of the great battle for
freedom on Sept. ii. 1874, the people of
New Orleans filed impeachment pro-
ceedings against Fitzpatrick, the ring
politician. With Fitzpatrick impeach-
ed, the city council indicted. the sugar
planters boIted and a large number Of
economic Democrats driven into the
Peoples Party. it seems that the gov
ernor's mission as a harmonizer has
come to an end.-Monroe Bulletin.
A committee from st. Martinsville,
Arnaudville and Breaux Bridge met at
the latter place, last Tuesday. to con-
fer with Mr.. Gushing, the chief enRi-
neer Of the Southern Pacific Railroad,
who completed the survey of the pro-
posed branch from st. Martinsville to
Arnaudyille, and it is understood that
If these committees act fayorably oD
such survey that the company will COM
mence work Of the new road Norem-
Der Dext.-New Iberia Enterprise.
Some o vas telling US Of an ami
versary barRecue given in st. Landry
parish by n family on every 25th of
| August. the members Of which number
two thousand! This particular day, we
understand, is set apart as "Chacbere
| Day" when the fatted d, (nOt only one)