The Opelousas courier., 1895-03-23
General Notes.

Charles Frederick Worth. the Pari
milliner, is dead.
Ex-Congressman L. C. Sibley, of Col
oradO, is being put forward for th,
presidency by the new silver party.
Municipal elections we're held in
number of New York towns on Tuesda,
of last week and the Republicans wer'
nearly everywhere successful.
{ Influenza is raging in St. Petersburg
The hospitals are filled with sufferer
from the disease, and the physicians ar,
totally unable to cope with it.
There is now eighteen feet depth O.
water on the bar in Galveston harbor
Texas, and the purpose for which til.
jetties was built is accomplished.
The slight rise in the price of cottor
is a "delusion and q snare"-a SHARP
trick of the spectators to prevent
reduction of the acreage.-Concordia
Sentinel.
The increase of 1000 men in the en-
listed force of the navy, allowed by
Congress, will enable the department ia
put 10 commission five ships that are
now idle.
The House of Commons has voted to
expend f85,000 ($175, 000) for the relief
OF the distress in Ireland by the pur-
chase and distribution of seed pota-
toes, etc.
The police jury of Point Coupee par
ish at it's last meeting appropriated $500
to defray the expenses of the Peabody
Institute OR normal school to be held il
that parish during April or May next.
The Louisiana Press Association will
meet in Donaldsonville on April 80. If
d~ead-headism could be prevented on
such occasions the interests Of Journal
ism would be advanced. - Democrat
Journal.
Several years 2 a Frenchman set
tied in South Carolina and planted $50
acres in asparagus. At the end of six
years he sold his farm and returned to
Franco with a fortune of a quarter of a
million dollars.
The famous Nez Perces Indian reser-
walton, the garden spot of Idaho, will be
thrown OrarOfur settlement next month,
and already hundreds of bome-seekers
are camping on the edge of the reser-
walton.
1t is said that within the last six
weeks 500 Negroes have left Greene
County, Ala, for Mexico, and that many
more are waiting to 60. Others are
returning, not having been satisfied
with the look of things.
st. Martinvilie Evangeline: Employ
ees of the Railroad Company are sur
veyiDg the route from this point up the
bayou for the proposed construction of
the track which will connect Armand.
vile, Breaux Bridge, ETC., with st. Mar
tinviIle.
The Commissioner of Pensions says
the recent act of Congress providing
that the minimum pension shall be six
dollars a month will increase the expen-
ditures of the Government about ST.
100000 q year, and will affect about
10000 old soldiers.
In 1890 there were in Calcasieu parish
81 public schools with a parish appro
priation of $4,000 in 1894 the parish had
40 public schools with q parish appro-
priation of $4,000. The number Of pu-
pills enrolled increased from 1880 in
1890 to $3.50 in 1894.
Monroe News: Cotton is going up
just in time to encourage another large
crop, and after the crop is ready for the
market the price will drop again. We
hope the North Louisiana planters will
not be fooled by any promise of good
times next fall.
At a mass meeting of the citizens of
Tensas parish, held March 4, a resolu-
ton was adopted requesting the police
jury to reduce the valuation of property
on which the assessment of tho parish
was made last year 40 per cent and that
the salaries of the parish officers be re-
duced.
A big Republican daily is to be
started in New Orleans, $4,000 having
been subscribed to inaugurate and
maintain it. Mr.. Cbas. Med. Puckette
will be it's editor, and some of the
wealthiest men in the city will be
behind it.
There is a bill pending in the Texas
legislature providing that any county
in which a lynchiDg shall take place
shall be liable to the heirs Of the victim
10 a sum not less than $4,000, and that
the sheriff OF any county who permits a
prisoner to escape shall lose his Office.
In the House of Commons, last week,
MI. Edmund Robertson, Civil Lord of
the Admiralty, said, in response to
questions, that since the beginning of
1894 seven battle-ships had been COM
menced in England and one 10 France.
None had been begun in Russia.
1t is repeated that the Emperor of
Intends to go to Friedrich
sruhe on April l, accompanied by his
sons. the Imperial Ministers and the
members of TIE Bundesrath, to congra-
tulate Prince Bismarck upon tile occa-
siou Of his eiethtieth birthday, aud also
to make bis title Of prince hereditary.
Mr.. Alfred B. sheppersou states the
briefly and %pointedly, as follows :
now with a large shrink |
age in the value of cotton, coiucident |
with q great appreciation in the value
of corn, the situation seems to i'm
demand of the cotton grow
ers a reduction this spring Of the
acreage devoted to the cotton and an
increase in the acreage given to food
and forage crops"
Lafayette Gazette: Farmers 10 Mis-
have been shipping corn to
markets. This is q new de-
parture and should the farmers of tho
South give it a fair trial there is nc rea-
why it should not prove profitable.
Corn and hog raising are what this sec
ton needs. With these two absolute
the farmer will get along
we'll despite all the evils growing out OF
u%nfriendly legislation.
The deadly work Of the pistol goes on.
every homicide we read of is
the result Of the pernicious habit of car
rying concealed weapons. Public SEN
timent may be opposed to the habit,
but if it is it has a mighty poor way of
it's opposition. Public opinion