The Opelousas courier., 1895-02-02
General Notes.

Mrs. Bloomer I%1ho invented the Skin
named after her is dead.
Shreveport has handled over 100000
bales of cotton the past season.
Prohibition went into effect in Homer
on Jan. 1st, and will remain in force, at
least, during the present year.
The Texas Legislature wants to pass
a law making two cents a mile as the
? maximum fare to be charged by rail-
roads in that State.
The prohibition fever has struck
against the sale of liquor is being
organized by the prohibitionists.
J Monroe Bulletin There are 1900 head
of cattle in the Planters Oil Mill pens
in Layton's addition. These cattle are
getting fat very fast and we trust this
enterprise will prove very profitable.
Rayne Tribune: A plan has been
discovered by which the sulphur mines
neal Lake Charles can be successfully
operated. Hot water is used to melt
the sulphur and it is pumped put in the
molten state.
The contract for the bnilding of the
new St. Charles Hotel. in New Orleans,
has been awarded to Nicholson g. Son,
formerly of Chicago. The building
will cost $277, 921, and is to be complet-
ed by Dee. LIST.
The South Carolina legislature has
made sweeping reductions in the
salaries of all State officials. The gov
errors salary has been cut from $500
to $4,000. and the salary of the chief
justice from $4,000 to $4,000 and the per
diem of members of the legislature from
S. to So and their mileage one-half.
10 Claiborne parish the work of road
victs 10 the parish Jail. The Alliance
Farmer says: "The system has been
in practice only a short while, but has
already proved a wonderful success.
In a few years Claiborne parish will
have splendid roads all over it if the
system is continued"
farmers in the South will accept the
suggestions of the jackson convention
on the acreage question they will soon
find themselves independent of banks
and money lenders, whether they cut
any big swell with a pocket full of
money or not. 1t is not a matter of
choice, but a question of necessity, that
warns farmers to plant less cotton and
more food iproducts.
have known a few men who would
swindle a negro and rob him of his
hard earned wages, hire him cheap and
Their swindle him tut of a large part of
even the small wages. 1t seems to me
l had rather be locked up in the con-
fines of despair for almost anything else
than swindle a negro. Heaven would
be a hell to me it | had to be placaIded
through all eternity as a man who de-
liberately swiudied an ignorant negro
and robbed him of bis wages.-Sam
Jones.
1t ia not for the sake OF agitation but
to prevent an impending revolution iD
this and other Southern States that the
true advocates of ballot reform and
| honest election methods toll. They see
that the people have had enough of
false counting and fraudulent titles /;
| that it is this and the examples of the
benefciaries of this modern style of po-
litical robbery that have led to general
corruption in official life. And why
should it not lead to it z Governorships
| and other offices can lie stolen as they
have been aud are still being stolen, and
il the wearers of these titles go free
Win Tue nOnOTS uaIly bestowed tHFOWu
in, why should lesser men,, weaker and
more imprudent men do wrong and do
ing wrong, be caught IN. 0. Tele-
gram.
Judge Taylor Beattie, who was a can
| didate for Congress on the Republican
| ticket in the Third District of this State
at the election held Nov. 6, 1894, has
served a notice of contest on his sue
cessful Democratic opponent, Hon. An
drew Price, alleging gross frauds, bri-
berry, corruption, intimidation, etc.
Judge Beattie's notice, which is some
what "salty," cuts "acomin' and
agwyne." He refers to the Governor as
one M. j. Foster, pretending to be
and acting as the Governor Of this
| State" says that the whole power of
a degraded administration was used to
perpetuate the ill-gained power of it.
self and friends" and finally adds :
"The whole election throughout the
Third District was a sham and a farce
10 many respects, and a depraved and
brutal tragedy in other respects."-Mon-
| roe Bulletin.
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