The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-03
General Notes.

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Vice President Stevenson is tifty-nine
years OF age.J
This country spent $1o.o0o,ooo last
year in bicycles.
The Car of Russia died on Thursday
evening, Nov. LIST, at 3. p. m.
Bastrop Appeal: Mr.. Cleveland is
too good a Mugwump to vote for such a
Democrat as Dave Hill.
A Chicago woman has brought suit
for q divorce on the rather broad ground
that her husband is a fool.
Last week wheat soldein the produce
exchange, in New Y9fk, for fifty-five
cents, the lowest price on record in the
exchange.
James Anthony Froude, l.. L. d., the
celebrated writer and historian, died at
London Oct. 20, at $50 o'clock, aged
seventy-six years.
In the coming election in Chicago,
women will be allowed to vote for the
first time in that city. They are, how
ever, limited to voting for University
Trustees.
Charles B. Rouse, of New York, one
of the most liberal benefactors of the
South, proposes to build q national mu-
scum for the preservation of the me-
mentoes and memories of the SOutherna
Confederacy.
There has been a wal in progress for
some time between rival street car lines
of Savannah, Ca, and the fares have
been gradually reduced until y of the
lines announced last week that it would
give two rides for one cent.
In more than half a century's study
and observation of American public
so gallant. so able, SO resourceful a
fight as David Bennett Hill is now
making for the Democracy in his can
vass of the Empire State.-New York
Sun.
Under the bounty law. Henry Mccall
got from the United States Treasury
S151,116,.1 II, and sold his crop for
1854 ,453.0O made on his plantation
without saying that he is D Of the
boilers, who wants to get another swing
at the funds.
With the exception of Mr.. Davey who
declined a denomination, all the present
members of the House are candidates
for reelection, and the indications are
that all will be elected for another term.
In the fourth and sixth districts where
white primaries have been held they
have been most successful and place
dates beyond q doubt.-Lake Charles
Echo,
The Republican State Convention of
T~-0 e0n1nkIu Inr0n~nn1 thu V11r,1
ton to withhold from Union veterans
the pensions which the government
honestly owes them" AS the Fifty.
Third Congress, with a Democratic ma
jority in both Houses, appropriated
$151, 000,0 900 for pensions it is difficult to
see just where the propriety of the
Republicans kick comes in.
The police jury of N%atcbitoches par
ish have entered on a career of reform
in bridges that will prove economy in
the end. They will replace all wooden
bridges across streams with substan-
tial iron structures for free travel.
They have just contracted for an iron
bridge across Bayou Natchez. The DO
lice jury appropriated $1,47O toward it
and the balance of the cost, $4,000 has
been raised by private subscription
Shreveport Times.
The women are more deeply con.
cerned in the political campaign this
fall than ever before. Not only does
the fair sex expect to WELD a direct
influence, in Colorado, Wyoming and
other States where wonen have been
given the suffrage, but in an indirect
way the shopping woman everywhere is
interested in the maintenance of low
prices as the result of tariff reform.
Mckinley blamed the landslide of 1890
upon the women, and he may have a
chance to do the same thing in 1884,
Kansas City Times, Dem.
The Iberville South very properly
objects to the phrase, "the planters" as
applied to the bolt of a few %disgruntled
sugar planters in this State. The South
is eminently correct. A number of
prominent persons and papers speak of
the movement as though every planter
in the State had gone over to the
Republican party. These statements
are palpably false, as can easily be
demonstrated to those who wish to
know the truth of the matter; more
over, such assertions are a grave in
justice to those sugar planters who
have ever been, as they are now, the
bone and sinew of the Democratic
party.-W. Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.