The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1894-02-24
General Notes.


out for the greatest good to the great
est number-onp - AbbevilIe Merid
ional.
The State University of Baton Rouge
has been closed, pending an investiga.
tion into the canse of several sudden
deaths among the cadets recently.
There will be no more federal inter
ference in congressional elections. The
federal election law has been repealed
The Democratic party is redeeming its
pledges.
Express charges are excessively high.
The transportation of a seventy cent
package of paper from the city to Sun
| Set station, costs one dollar and twenty
| five cents.-Acadia Advocate.
Clements Bros. have made arrange
ments to tear down their old ware
house, and will build new one in time
for this years crop. These gentlemen
are no doubt the largest rice buyers in
Southwest Louisiana.-Oberlin News.
Convict all the Anarchists where the
trial in Austria are no better than the
others and should meet the same fate.
Society canuot afford to play with
bomb throwers and conspirators gener-
ally.-City Item.
A constitutional convention is mat
ter of necessity. The amendment com
mission is only make shift . which
neither has the confidence of the peos
Pile, nor can it cure the notorious de-
fects of the existing organic instru-
ment.-Alexandria Democrat.
A bill abolishiDg the use of postal
notes, to take effect after July |, has
passed both houses of congress A
money order system has been created
by the bill by which orders can be Sc
cured at rates as low as those of ex-
press companies.
Politicians are all agog over the ap-
pointment of Senator White as JUS
tice of the United States Supreme
Court. 1t is not the honor conferred
upon the distinguished Louisianian that
has sent them agog, but the Senatorial
vacancy that his appointment creates.
My, bat there is world of log rolling
on.-City Item.
The last postal laws are such that
newspaper publishers can arrest any
one for fraud who takes a paper and
refuses to pay for it. Under this law
the man who allows his subscription to
run along for some time unpaid and
then orders it "refused'' and have
postal sent notifying the publisher,
leaves himself liable to arrest and fine
fha 90 ma for t1,oft
Now that the lottery has gone to
Honduras, it is to be hoped'tbat sensa-
tional journalist and Office seeking
demagogues will cease to make further
allusions to it. If a people were ever
tired of one subject those of Louisiana
are tired of the Lottery. The thing
has made some men wealthy, others
famous, now let its name and memory
be of the past.-Dem- Journal.
On aud after March Ist the Southern
Pacific Railroad will commence bring
ing mail matter into Alexandria, as
formerly done in years past For
year or more the Southern Pacific has
only been carrying mail to Cheneyville,
and for that reason it has taken two DAYS
to get IL letter below Cheneyville. Our
readers will be glad to learn that the
change is 10 be made e.-Alexandria
Town Talk.
A deal has been made in New York
by which line of Clyde steamships
are to run from that city to this port in
with the Texas and Pacific
and thus will compete with
fho kno cl,irc oe III,
Railrand for the trade in and out of
Texas and California. New Orleans
will welcome the new line of steam
ships, because the greater the amount
of shipping that comes to this port the
more rapid is the growth of our trade
and commerce 0. States.
While in St. Landry parish the early
part of this week, it was during the
drive) our misfortune to have occasion
to drive to Opelousas from the grand
and noble (?) old city of Washington.
And we feel perfectly safe in the as
sertion that we have never seen, in a
country, a public road, that
has every reason to be good, in such a
condition in all our days. 1t is almost
in places. and when we say
sin places" that should take in about
four miles of the six. The people of
Vermilion parish will not know how
to appreciate our good roads until after
they have that sad experience of pass
ing over such roads as are now in; st.
Why is this 2 Is it the road
laws, or is it the road officers ?-Ver-
million Star.