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The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-26

The Governor uses the following Ian-
guage in his message:
II cannot too strongly urge upon you
the adoption of Il law looking not only
to the free and untrammeied exercise of
the right Of suffrage, but a law securing
the declaration OF the will of the voter
by Il fair count. Any law which you
may enact by which, the popular will
can be freely expressed, faithfully re-
corded and the result correctly declared,
will receive my approval"
These words have the true ring AID il
the Governor will USE all his great in
fuencs 10 carry them out, lie will de-
serve the plandits OF The people. With
the Governor, the Legislature and the
people all enthusiastically IN favor ut
ballot reform, how can it fail9 Such a
thing is impossible. except through
damnable treacliery. Let everybody
watch and get their tablets ready to set
down the cause that defeats ballot re-
form, if it is defeated.-Monroe Bulle-
Tin.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-26
If you feel weak
and all worn out take
BROWNS IRON BITTERS
ST. LANDRY
HOMESTEAD & LOAN ASSOCIATION.

~Opeionsas, la.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-26
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
STATES GOVERNMENT

Germs expire March 4, 1879
pros;dent-G1over Cleveland, of New York.
xica President-Adlai e. Stevenson, of Illinois
sacretary of State-Walter @. Gresham.
Secretary of the T~reasury-JOhn g.. Carlisle.
Secretary Of War-Daniel s. Lamont. g
secretary Of the Navy-Hllary A. Herbert
Sscretary of the Interior-Hoke Smith.
Secretary of Agriculture-J. Sterling Morton.
1ftorney General-Richard Olney.
Postmaster General-WiisOn s. Bissell.
Senators for Louisiana.
\. G. Blanchard-Tern expires March 4, 1897.
nonelson Caffery " March 4, 1895.
roth were appointed by the Governor to fill
vacancies and their successors will be cho.
sen by the Legislature which meets in May.)
The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-26
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

Terms expire May, 1867
GOyernor-Murphy j. Foster, of st. Mary.
Lieutenant-G
Secretary Of State T. S. Adams, OF E. Feiiciana
Audit0r-W. W. Heard, of Union.
Treasurer-John Pickett, of BOsSier. r
ATTY. Gen.-M. j. Cunningham, of Natchitoches
Snperintendent of Public Education-A. d. La
fargue, of Avoyelles.
Commissioner Of ImmigratiOn-J G. awkes.
Commissioner of Agriculture-H. G. Newsom.
Register State Land Ofiice-John s.. Lanier.
Adiutant General-William G. Burt.
state Printer-John McGrath.
Representative to Congress from the Sixth Con
gressional District-Samuel M. Robertson,
OF East Baton Rouge.
Supreme Court.
+. II. Nichols, of Assumption, Chief-Justice.
H. c. Miller, of Orleans; L. B. Watkins, of Red
River; S. D. McEnery, Of ouachita; Jos.
A. Breaux, of Iberia, Observation-Disclosures.
B. F. Meginley, Clerk at Opelousas.
Circuit Court of AppeaIs-3d Circuit.
W. F. Blackman, of Rapides. and Robert s.
Perry, of Iberia, Judges.
IN, Thompson, ex-officiO Clerk lat Opelousas).
DISTRICT OFFICERS.
Twelfth Senatorial District st. Landry and
A~cadia-Terms expire May, 1896.
Senators, c. W. Ward, HI. Barousse.
nth Judicial District-St Landry and Acadia.
Terms expire May, 1867
District Judge, w. c. Perrault.
District Attorney. +. B. Dubuisson.
Terms of Court for st. Landry
Jury Terms. Monday, Feb.5, and Monday,
Sept. 8, 1894.
Civil fsrms.-Monday, April 16, and Monday,
Nov. 10, 1894.
For Acadia:
Jury Term-Monday, June 4, 1894.
Otvl Terms-Monday, March 10, and Monday,
Oct. Is, 1894.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20
Political CuriosIties.

A correspondent of the st. Johns
bury CALIFORNIAN sends that paper
the following
Carlos Stevens, a Democrat of
Democrats, was elected Town Repre-
sentative by a good majority, COM
posed largely OF Republican votes.
There were several ballots, a hot
contest and strong Republican OPP
ponent.
A second curiosity is more than
sixty years old. One of Mr.. Stevens
maternal relatives, also a Democrat,
was elected to the New Hampshire
legislature, at the age of Sc. Near
the close of the session he delivered
au address to his fellow members and
others, who filled Representatives,
hall to the doorsteps. His subject
was the war of the revolution, in
which he served under Washington
for six years.
A more recent curiosity: About
dozen years ago, grandson of the
New Hampshire patriot and politi-
clan, and cousin of Mr.. Stevens, At
wood Andrews, was chosen Town
Representative for Johnson. At the
next session his son, Sumner A., sue
ceeded him. At the following cleo
ton the son was elected side Judge
for LamOille county and the follow
ing year was appointed superintend-
ent of the Reform School at Yer
gennes. Governor Dillingham; at
once appointed his father to the va
cant Judgeship, which he held by
election four years more. 1t would
seem that revolutionary blood is not
only a subtle, but a successful fluid,
in minor politics at least. So we,
with a faint fear as to what may
happen to us Republicans, advise
our Democratic friends to vote for
Mr.. Stevens for Speaker of the next
House.
We would add that while the first
curiosity may be Democrat Of
Democrats" and the second have
been also "a Democrat" the parties
named in the "more recent curiosity !"
are Republicans of Republicans"
that they are held in high regard in
Lamoille county, and that the Re-
form School never had a more eff
Gent and more popular superintend-
ent than Mr.. Sumner A.. Andrews.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

GRAND ARMY STATISTICS. - This
session of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Pittsburg has disclosed
a heavy loss of membership in that
organization. 1t has fallen off in
numbers 67,S01, but has increased
also to the extent of 39,661, making
it's net loss %, 40, out of a total
membership of 397, 223 last year. 1t
would be mistake to assume that
the veterans are dying to this extent.
The deaths among them have been
less than two per cent. The balance
were men who were discharged for
delinGuencies, or made voluntary
withdrawal, Commenting upon these
statistics the commander-in-chie
said: "These figures show that the
Grand Army of the Republic has
reached the beginning of the end,
and each succeeding year will show
a gradual decrease in our member
ship. The long-continued depression
in business has caused many suspen-
sions, and these we hope to regain
when prosperity returns; but it will
be impossible for us to recruit our
ranks as fast as our members are
mustered out by death"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

IT Is THE DEMOCRATIC WAy.-It is
to be observed, too, that the expendi-
lures of the government have ex-
ceeded the income of the government
practically every hour since the ad-
vent of the present Democratic ad-
ministration. This has not occurred
before for 30 years, land never occurred
at all under a Republican admins
tration, except in the exigencies of
the great war. 1t is a Democratic
practice. 1t is history repeating it.
self. Insufficient revenues, increasing
expenditures, and increasing public
debt were the Inheritance left us by
the last Democratic administration
before the war, land the same distress
ing condition confronts us under the
first Democratic administration since
the war, with a Congress that is reli-
ably Democratic in both branches
From McKinley's Bangor, Me-,
Speech.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

For the Chaplaincy of the House
of Representatives. the name of Rev.
A. 0. Spoor, pastor of the M. E..
church at Winooski, is receiving con-
siderable attention. Mr.. Spoor has
a gallant soldiers record and is very
popular. We do not believe there
should be any scrambling for this po-
.sition, but that the best man should
be selected In Mr.. Spoor will be
found all the necessary qualifications
and no mistake will be made if he is
chosen. The Burlington Free Press
says of him
Mr.. Spoor has a long and honora-
BILE service in the State both as pastor
and citizen. A graduate of Middle
bury college he numbers among his
former classmates many men promi-
nent in the State. He has a gallant
war record of three years of active
service with the 18th Vermont regi-
ment, six months of which was spent
in Andersonville and other rebel
prisons, and the effects of his terrible
experiences there still remain. He is
q gentleman of high moral character
and well worthy of the office.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

Big FIGUREs.-Five trains of 30
cars each will be required to convey
the Ferris wheel from Chicago to
New York. 1t will take ten weeks to
take the wheel to pieces. The car
that was used for carrying the Krupp
gun will be used for the 70-ton axle.
There are 5000 tons of metal in the
wheel and 100000 feet of timber are
needed for the false work. The ex-
pense of taking down, removing and
rebuilding the wheel will be $50, 900.
In New York it will be placed at 37th
street and Broadway, Old Vienna
will be produced around it. In Chi
cago the wheel had 5000 electric
lights; in New York the number will
be doubled.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

If reports are true that a number
of Vermont maple sugar producers
intend to bring suit against the Unit
ed States government for payment
of bounties on the crop of 1894, the
administration will have it's hands
full. The Louisiana sugar makers
have already taken up the cudgel
and with the Green Mountain boys
along with them, they will make life
a burden to both Cleveland and Car
isle. In another column we publish
an article from the Boston journal
upon this subject, in which Senator
Edmunds advises bringing suit, stat
ing that the refusal of the Secretary
of the Treasury to pay the bounty
on the 1894 crop cannot be justified
in law or equity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

The fact that George NJ. Powers of
Morrisville has most acceptably filed
the position of Secretary of the State
leaves no room for doubt of his cleo
ton to this position again. He will
have no competitor and will be
unanimously reelected. This will be
a fit recognition of the younger ele-
ment of the Republican party and a
worthy complement to Lamoille
county.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

OUGHT TO BE BoUNCED.-F. W.
McGettrick of st. Adams is a federal
official by grace of the administra-
ton which has G. Cleveland at its
head, being superintendent of public
buildings at st. Adams. Under Mr.
Cleveland's first administration he
held a position in the custom service.
According to the Burlington Free
Press, Mr.. McGettrick is guilty not
only of carrying a concealed weapon
but Of threatening to use it. On
election day, while in the st. Adams
armory, McGettrick charged Capt. J.
Ii. Mimms with being the author of
an article which appeared in the
Richford Gazette. Capt. Mimms de-
MED the charge and called McGettrick
liar. The federal official then drew
a revolver and with an oath threat
ened to shoot Mimms, but spectators
separated the two men. The specta-
Gle of one of the governments Off
cials flourishing a revolver and
threat ening murder on an election
day, directly under a polling place,
is something nobody can counte-
nance. McGettrick ought to be
bOunced.-Ph9niX.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

Gov.-elect Woodbury. has selected
as his Secretary of Civil and Military
Affairs Max L. Powell of Burlington.
Mr.. Powell is a graduate of the I. V.
M. and a rising young lawyer. His
Legislative experience as assistant
clerk of the House, coupled with his
natural ability, eminently fits him
for this new position. Col. Woodbury.
makes a most excellent selection and
at the same time needs the loud call
to "give the young men a chance"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

THE New COMMANDERS Col. Thos.
G. Lawler of Rockford, H., the new
national commander of the Grand
Army, elected by the national en-
campment at Pittsburg last week,
bears considerable resemblance TO
John A. Logan, whose close friend he
was. He enlisted in April, 1861, at
II years of age, in the 10th Illinois
infantry'and served during the war.
He got his title of Colonel in National
Guard of Illinois. Col. Lawler is
now serving his Goth consecutive
year as commander of the post at
Rockford, and commander of the de-
partment OF his State in 1882. He
was for some years postmaster of his
city.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

The latest change in newspaper
management comes from West Ran
dolph. L. P. Thayer has disposed of
his Herald & News, with it's various
side editions, to L. B. Johnson, late
of the Clipper. Thayer is a hustler,
has given the people of his town an
excellent newspaper and at the same
time raked in the shekels. Under
Johnson's management the many
good features of the Herald & News
will undoubtedly be retained.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

ST.. j. 4 l.. C.-The annual meeting
of the st. JOhnsbury & Lake Cham
plain railroad company was held at
st. Johnsbury last week, when the
following officers We're elected :-Di-
rectors, c. S. Page of Hyde Park, S.
c. Shurtleff of Montpelier, Franklin
Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury, H. E.
Folsom of Lyndonville, Geo. W.
Hendee of Morrisville, Samuel c..
Lawrence of Medfeld, Mass, Henry
R. Reed and William T. Hart of Bos-
ton, c. E. A. Bartlett of Chelmsford,
Mass. The directors elected Mr..
Bartlett president, and Geo. W. Cree
of st. Johnsbury secretary and treas
urer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

1t is poor year when a new po-
litical movement is not originated in
Kansas. This year it is the national
independent league, which came into
Emporia last Saturday. Each mem
Der signs pledge tosupport no Leg
islative or Congressional candidate
who will not make written promise
to support a Gland currency BILL"
The plan is to have the government
currency based on land values alone,
doing away with coin and all other
present forms of currency. The aver
age Kansas resident is unhappy
when he is not chasing some new and
crazy political theory, and this lat
est one will serve his purpose as well
as any. Beyond that it's sphere of
usefulness will be limited.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

1t is certainly cause for rejoicing,
not only in Kentucky but through
out the whole country, that the de-
graded and besmirched Breckenridge
is defeated in his crazy effort to get a
denomination to Congress. People
may differ upon governmental and
economic questions, but members OF
all parties are in favor of morality
and decency, and both of these have
been outraged beyond measure by
Breckenridge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

st. Johnsbury had big fair last
week. The display of produce, cat
tie, horses, etc., was large, and the
usual immense crowd was in attend
ance. The balloon ascension by one
of it's own townsmen, Capt. E. F.
Griswold, surpassed anything of the
kind ever before attempted there.
Caledonia county, when it comes to
fairs, takes no back seat, in fact she
is always in the front row.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

The September Mcclure opens at
tractively with a portrait of Mrs.
Robert Louis Stevenson, and the
opening article is a relation by Mr..
Stevenson Of how, soon after mar
rage, he came to write Treasure
Island" Pictures of the houses and
scenes in which the Stevensons lived
at the time, and several portraits Of
Stevenson himself, accompany the
article. In an illustrated article by
Robert Barr an exposition is given
of the "savate, or kick, as employed
with great skill by the French box
ers. The eminent French chemist,
Prof Berthelot, sets forth the grounds
of his belief that a time is coming
when milk, potatoes, beef and all the
staples of human food will be sup
piled from the laboratory of the
chemist, instead of from the fields of
the farmer. There are also, in the
number, some good stories, one by
Gilbert Parker, and an interesting Sc
ries of portraits of Sardou and Mad
anne Janauschek.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

In the eternal fitness of things that
will be observed in the reelection of
Mr.. Stickney to the Speakership, the
reelection Of George M. Powers, Esq,
to the office of Secretary of the Sen
ate, and Honest John Merrifeld to
the Clerkship of the House, must be
included. Both have proved their
efficiency as scribes respectively of
the Senate and House. 1t is not in
the interest of good legislation to
make frequent change in the office of
the recorder of proceedings in either
branch of the General Assembly. We
hear of no rival candidate for either
of these offices and there is no room
for successful rivalry Montpelier
Waterman.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

Robert J" has again lowered his
time, bringing it down to 2:01S-the
fastest time thus far known in the
world. For a horse which sold n few
years ago at Philadelphia for S175,
we should remark that Robert j. is
doing tolerably well. But his owners
had better look out; there are other
horses close onto him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

How TO BE MIsERABLE.-If you
should wish to be miserable, you
should think about yourself-about
what you want, what you like, what
respect people ought to pay you, and
then to you nothing will be pure.
You will spoil everything you touch ;
you will make sin and misery for
yourself out of everything God
sends you; you will be as wretched
as you choose.--Kingsley.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

Y. p. S. C. E. COMMEMORATIVE
ninth annual convention Of the Yer
mont Christian Endeavor Union will
be held at Newport October 2nd and
3D.. Among the prominent speakers
already announced are Rev L. r.
Green of Somerville, Mass, Rev. Dr.
c. A. Dickinson, pastor of Berkeley
Temple, Boston, and ]. W. Baer,
Secretary of the United Society. Be-
tween three hundred and four hun
dred delegates are expected. The
convention will be one of intense in
terest and great profit to this entire
region.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20
A Good Suggestion.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y.-John Davies of
this city, took a severe cold and suf-
fered pain through the back and kid
neys. His physician pronounced his
case gravel, and failed to help him.
DR.. David Kennedy's Favorite Rem
edy was recommended, and after TAX
ing two bottles he considered himself
cured. 1t cures rheumatism and neu-
ralgia also.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

Here is what Tom Reed says of the
recent Maine election
"There is something greater than
any private qualification in this mat
ter. 1t is a thorough qualification
to see that the people of the United
States, even if they did make a ire
mendous mistake, can also make a
tremendous recovery, and the infu-
ence of the example of the State of
Maine will be widely felt. 1t is very
important decision for the people of
the country"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

The HECTIC FLUSH
When his thin cheek assumed deadly hue,
And all the rose to one small spot withdrew ;
They called it hectic twas fiery flush
More fixed and deeper than the maiden blush
That terrible sign of consumption comes
like warning signal. Let no one disregard
it. If they do, then day by day consump-
tion will gain frmer hold, until its victim
lies numbered with the dead. For all diseases
and weaknesses of the lungs, bronchitis,
asthma, coughs and kindred ailments, DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is SOW
ereign remedy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

The Boston Advertiser makes an
interesting calculation Of the cost of
the business depression which resulted
from the attempt of the Democratic
party to carry out its pledges, which
were made in the Chicago platform
two years ago.
The bank clearings for the Demo-
cratic year were about SIS, OOO, OOO,-
900, as compared with S62 900, O0O,-
900 for the preceding year of Repub-
lican rule. This loss of Sl4 600, 000,-
600 of business in the United States,
a loss of about 5000 for every man,
woman and child in this country, was
significant enough of the fruits of
tariff agitation, but the clearings
since then have been all below the
figures for 1892, and it is plain that
the loss is even greater this year than
last year by about $3,000,O00,000.
AS a natural result of the business
depression, failures grow more num-
erous. The increase in failures was
above 20 per cent. in a single year,
and the number of failures among
sound" business houses increased
more than three-fold, while the total
amount involved in failures increased
by about S200,000,000.
And the farmers also felt the stress
quite as keenly. In the past year the
value of horses has decreased $3.50
per head, or about copper cent: mules
$11, or nearly II per cent; while
other farm animals have shown such
decreases in value that the farmers
losses in that one branch of their
trade exceeded $300,000,000. The
losses in the sheep and wool industry
have been heavy, falling little below
$4,000, 900, or nearly $50 to every
sheep raiser. The low price of wheat
has injured farmers heavily, and has
reduced the price of labor in the west
so that in some sections men have
been working the past summer for 35
cents day. In manufacture also the
amount of losses in wages alone is
enormous, there being a decrease of
eight thousand in number of opera
tives in seventy-two Rhode Island
mills alone, to say nothing of the en-
tire mill industry of New England.
In the building trades of New York
the decrease in the amount of annual
wages is given as about 81 ,O00,0O0,-
900.
Altogether, taking into account
the tremendous loss in bank clear
ings, amounting to $40,000,O00 a
day in addition to the business trans
actions that were not conducted
through banking institutions, it is
plain that the loss has been enormous.
On the basis of the statistics that
have been collected by the federal
government, by the state bureaus OF
labor and by Bradstreets, the esti-
mate of the absolute loss to the
United States during the past eigh-
teen months of business depression is
fixed at 81 100000 a day. The Dem
ocratic party has forced the country
to submit to this gigantic loss for
the privilege of looking on while a
Democratic congress quarreled and
dickered and jobbed only to agree
upon a measure which the whole
country pronounces to be pitiable
surrender to the dictates of few al
lied trusts and a fiat reputation Of
the plain, explicit promises under
which the Democratic party gained
control of the federal government.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

The Green Mountain State and the
Pine Tree State stand shoulder to
shoulder in their overwhelming repu-
diation of the Cleveland administra-
ton and the Democratic party.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

Grover Cleveland declared in his
deadly blight" letter that he pro-
posed to take his place with the
rank and file of the Democratic par
ty, and both Vermont and Maine
have seconded his motion with vo-
ciferous enthusiasm. Mr.. Cleveland
may be surprised to discover that
there isn't the slightest opposition to
his laudable determination.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

Breathes there a man with soul SO
dead, who never to himself hath said,
"Ill pay before go to bed the debt
/ owe the printer" Yes, there are
some, we know full well, who never
such tale can tell; but they, we
fear, will go towel, the place where
there's no winter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20
The New

Horsford's Baking Powder
excels all others in healthful
quality and baking strength.
A wonderful invention.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-20

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria