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THE CLARION: OPELOUSAS, LA., SEPT. 9, 1893. ABUSINIG TIIE P.?ESIDENiT. Several State papers are publishing editorials on the. President's doctrine of a gold standard. These editorials assault the President's political char acter, and one not knowing him would consider him a thief, a blackguard, a hypocrite, or any other specimen of the human family that is so degraded that he can not stand by his promises. While THE CLARION does not ap prove the President's stand on the great question that is now attracting universal attention, still it does not see any sense or policy in slandering the chief executive of the nation. lie is at the head of a Democratic adminis tration, and for erstwhile supporters of his to abuse him in such a manner is outrageous, and a disgrace to the people. Because two people do not think alike, and each considers his opinions correct, it is not fair for one to light into the other's personal or public character and denounce him as a mugwump, a fraud, etc. If the views of the President do not suit the voters let them keep quiet until 1896, and then vote for a man who does re present them. If a man is put in of fice, and his idea' are not in harmony with the voters, he is not to blame the entire blame rests on the shoulders of the ballot-casters. GLADSTONE'S VICTORY.: After several long months of hard work, Premier Gladstone scored the greatest political victory of his life in the British House of Commons last week. His pet measure, the Irish Home Rule Bill, was passed on that night by a good majority. After the House adjourned, and Mr. Gladstone walked out to take his car riage, he was cheered by the gathered crowd. The Grand Old Man's carriage was stopped several times by the en thusiastic assembly, and he only got rid of them when he arrived at his home. Though he gained a victory in the House of Commons. it must not be supposed that he will be as lucky in the House of Lords. It is conjectured that the bill will be rejected by that body by a vote of 400 to 40. Premier Gladstone is in his eighty third year, and he has stood the trials of the bitter fight as well, and even better, than the majority of the younger members of Parliament. Noth ing daunted him, and he was as eager for the fray as if he was a young man just starting out in public life with an enthusiasm for the work that he knew was sure to follow his advent in the political maelstrom. He has been ad mired by the world for his work, and it is well to say that the world will grieve when Father Time calls Glad stone to join the silent majority. ENCOURAGING AND DISCObR A GING. The recent cyclone which swept over the south-east Atlantic coast was a fearful war of the elements. The latest reports have it that fully 1500 people lost their lives by drowning, or in other ways due to the violence of the storm. Crops in Georgia and South Carolina were injured a great deal. The rice crop of the latter State has been cut off about 50 per cent. Of course this ruination to the South Caroliia rice crop affected prices for that ,ereal immediately-they took an upward jump. This is the encourag ing part of the storm's terrible havoc. Ou# farmers, who, a short time ago, were so gloomy over the prospects of making anything off of their rice, have now a reason to get cheerful once more. Changes occur always. When times are as they are now, the people may be sure that there will be a change for the better; and vice versa. The discouraging part of the storm is the fact that the farmers of South Carolina have little prospects of mak ing anything this year. Hard times will-be made still harder by the will of Divine Providence. Their crops are destroyed, and they have few re sources to fall back on. While TIHE CLARION regrets the de vastation caused in other States, and sympathizes deeply with the losers, it is bound to be jubilant over the gain that the Louisiana farmers are sure to make on the advance in prices of farm products. When the manufacturer, or wholesale dealer, has anything to sell, he is asked what he wants for it. Not so when the planter offers his cotton for sale. The lat ter is told that the price is so and so. He take the price, or take away his cotton. A lot of gamblers residing in cities, who per baps never saw a cotton field, except from a palace car, determine what shall be the price of cotton.-Lafayette Gazette. Well, the farmers have no one to blame but themselves; they are so situated that they can easily control tl e wprld. THE CLARION has remark e~--d before now that the farmers Sttrol everything; but they did ert their power. We feel sorry b iarers,. but if they are willing b , wesay let the music go at we have often said : ia pos'sileat home. Not ',' :ill rtresi ooe. Sale lanks ilerx `cab Oce. wt 9999r~~~~~99999~~~~~ 3ý Yý ý" .A- nor ý i _ . EVER Y TROUBLE HA S ITS BA LM. The following item, clipped from the New Orleans States, explains our caption : Oil stills the troubled waters, music s',othes the savage breast and whisky calms the roaring anarchist. A;Chicago de tective the other day interrupted an anar chist speech not with a club or a call forthe patrol wagon, but by inviting the orator to step down from the platform and take a drink. Whisky it seems is not as had as the temperance people would have the country believe. Science long ago demonstrated the fact that "oil stills the troubled waters," and ever since, though not to a great extent we believe, oil has been used by mariners to cast on the bounding waves. By some singular fact the mixing of the two liquors causes the heavier and more fluid to cease its heavings. But it takes immense quan tities to produce the desired effect, and it therefore costs a good deal. The savage breast, wherein surges mighty passion, finds relief in the notes of music simply through the wide difference of the two articles- passion and music. Extremes meet, it is said, and probably their meeting in the breast of the untutored child of barbarity causes the wild tinglings of passion to calm into a temporary lull. Whisky is the modern day remedy for all troubles of the person, though they be of the mind, the heart or the body. Its intoxicating qualities place the drinker into another land-a land where he or she is oblivious to all pain and trouble. The anarchist referred R in the foregoreing clipping, was telling others of his wrongs, and he felt pain in his heart, body and mind. He was aware, by former experience no doubt, that distilled corn juice alleviated pain,and when the detective stepped up and offered to treat he did not refuse. No, whisky is not bad; it is the people who use it to a great extent who make it bad. The liquor has no life; it could not pour itself into a tumbler and then raise itself to a man's lips. Thousands of people use whisky and never get drunk, because they are aware of its effects and know how to use it. Only the fool gets drunk, and the sooner it kills him the better the world will be. Some cranky scientist has been figuring it out, and he says that in the chemical composition of even the sweetest of girls there are only about three ounces of sugar. Well, then, his scales must be out of order, and that's all he knows about it. And nobody does care what he does say, any how. So there!-N. 0. Truth. The Truth is wrong, and the scien tist too, for that matter. There is sugar in every human body, and it may be that the girls have a greater amount than the boys, but they can't be any sweeter, except when they wish to show off to the best advantage. The fact is, the girls and boys only let their sugar get sweet when they get in each other's company; after that is over, a temporary metamorphism changes the sugar's taste to bitter or sour, just as the person's temper may be. Senator Don Caffery made his maid en speech in the United States Senate Thursday of last week. He said that he favored an unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. He remarked that he voted on that law not according to the wishes of his constituents; but he firmly believed that he was right, and that he could not vote against his own views, even though his election next spring by the Louisiana Legislature depended on how he voted on the Sherman act. Every 1st of September the New Or leans papers issue their trade editions. The editions this year surpassed all previous ones. The Times-Democrat's edition consisted of 32 pages, with a beautiful lithographed cover in six colors. Besides the regular news of the day and a review of the year's trade, the Times-Democrat contained articles on many Southern States, written by the governors of those states. All in all the T.-D.'s edition was the finest ever issued by a Southern paper. WIASHINGTON LETTER. From Our Regular Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28, 1893. The House today passed the Wilson bill for the unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman sil ver law, but this was merely a prelim inary skirmish to the great legislative battle that is to be fought in the Sen ate over silver. Some ugly talk is be ing indulged in by those who voted for repeal in the House, on the prom ise that further silver legislation should at once follow, because of the move ment now under way to prevent the House undertaking any other financial legislation at the extra session, and if the movement succeeds there will be more of the talk. An examination of the entire debate in the House will show that a large majority of those who voted for repeal announced them selves as bimetalists, and many of them stated in their speeches that they would vote for repeal because they ex pected silver legislation to follow. A bill for a single gold standard could not get forty votes in the House. Although there is doubt, notwith standing the positive prediction of such Senators as Gorman, Hill, Mor rill and Allison, as to the outcome of the silver battle in the Senate, there is little or none as to the fate of the Wilson bill, which has just passed the House. It will be pigeon-holed by the Finance committee, to which it will be referred as soon as it goes to the Senate. The fight in the Senate will be over the Vorhees bill, which after providing for the repeal of purchasing clause of the Sherman law declare . it to be the policy of this Government to maintain a bimetallic currency. The administration is making every effort to secure votes for the Vorhees bill from the Southern Senators who have been classed among those opposed to unconditional repeal, and this week President Cleveland is coming back to Washington to help. Numerous gains are claimed but the only names yet mentioned are those of Senators Call and Pesco, of Florida, who are said to have agreed to follow the example of Senators Vorhees and Hill in making free coinage speeches and .then voting for repeal. The work, however, is only half done when a majority of promised votes have been obtained for the Vor hees bill. The bill can. not be passed unless it be voted upon, and it can not be voted upon until the consent of practically all of the Senators has been obtained. Efforts are now being made to reach an agreement as to the length of time the bill shall be debated and to set a day for taking the vote, but some of the senators will have to un dergo a great change of mind before anything definite comes of them. The Senators from the silver States say it will be time enough to talk about set tling a time to vote after the subject has been debated a- reasonable time. It is understood that the administra tion Senators made an unsuccessful attempt to make a deal with the Re publican silver Senators to secure the setting of a date to vote on the Vorhees bill, in return for their promise to let the tariff alone during this session of Congress. The proposition for the repeal of the tax on State bank currency is practi cally dead for a while, as a majority of the House committee on Banking and Currency, to which the bill providing for the repeal was referred, is opposed to the bill. The same committee has also before it the bill providing for the exchange of U. S. bonds for currency whenever their owners were willing to give up the interest for the use of the currency, and so many objections have been raised against it that its favora ble report to the House is doubtful. C The new rules for the government of the House have been completed. While they are not so strict as those used by the last Republican Senate, they are much stricter than those used by the last House, and any extended filibustering will be very difficult, if not impossible. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill that would, if it were a law, accomplish more practical reform in the Civil Ser vice than all the laws now on the stat ute books have been able to do up to this time. It provides for tak ing the appointment of fourth-class postmasters entirely out of partisan politics, which would certainly be an improvement on the present method of appointing them. There is little probability, however, that the bill will ever become a law. It might get through the Senate, as the Senators have but little personal interest in the matter, but it would stand no show in the House, for the average Represen tative uses the fourth-class postmasters of his district to control the party machine, and to maintain his personal ascendancy. The last day of the silver debate in the House was, by long odds, the most interesting, nearly every speaker being a man of national reputation. Among them were ex-Speaker Reed, Bourke Cockran, Wilson of West Virginia, "Private" John Allen of Mississippi, and Bland of Missouri, the silver leader of the House. September 4, 1893. Uncle Sam is feeling the money squeeze, just like the rest of us. In stead of the prosperous business year he expected it is now certain, unless there is a radical improvement, or leg islation of some sort to add to his rev enues, that at the end of the present fiscal year--June 30th, 1894--his bal ance sheet will show a deficit of from $50,000,0L0 to $100,000,000. The ad ministration had hoped to keep this matter away from Congress until after the silver bill was disposed of by the Senate, because of a desire not to add any new complications to those already existing in the Senate, but the regular monthly Treasury statement contained enough to show those familiar with national finances just how things stood, and now the matter is talked of every where that Congressmen congregate. There is no probability of any increase in: the revenue from custom duties until after the new tariff is ready to go into effect, and if it shall seem prob able from the tariff bill which will be reported to the House that the cuts will be many and deep, there will be a further falling off, as importers will all wait for the new tariff. It is not probable that any action will be taken in Congress to help the Treasury, un til after the President shall have made known his wishes, either by a special message or through the leaders of his party, although several propositions have already been made in both House and Senate with that end in view. What will the House committee on coinage do with its newly-acquired right to report bills at any time? That question has been asked many times since the rules of the House were amended, giving it and the Banking and Currency committee that right, which has heretofore been vested in only two committees-Appropriations and Ways and Means-and your cor respondent asked it of a member of the committee. "We will use it," was his reply, "to report a free-silver bill, in order to give those members who talk ed so nice about what they would be willing to do for silver in the future, when declaring their intentions to vote for the Wilson repeal bill, a chance to vote as they talked; but we do not propose to add to existing financial un rest by reporting such a bill at this time, We will wait a while." As this committee is controlled by silver men it can, under its new authority, report a bill whenever so disposed. Everybody now seems to' be agreed that Congress will keep right along at work, with a possibility of a short re cess of a couple of weeks in October to give the members a chance to visit the World's Fair before its close, but some how the manner in which the commit tees on the Senate side are acting, or rather, not acting, indicates that the Senators have a doubt about it. At any rate the Senate committees are doing nothing. Those of the House with the exception of Ways and Means and Banking and Currency, have had .nothing to act upon yet, but they will be overrun with bills as soon as tjhe rules of the House are adopted and the regular introduction of bills begins. The Ways and Means committee is al ready heels over head in the prepara tion of the tariff bill. The silver situation in the Senate has materially changed in the last three or four days. For the first time there is a perceptible wavering in the here tofore solid line of the silver Senators, and several of them have practically admitted in their speeches that the repeal bill would be passed, even while declaring their purpose to fight it to the last ditch and die fighting against allowing a vote to be taken upon it. WE-ARE.SEYEN. The Links that Bind; the Key that Unlocks. If twelve men undertake to solve a problem and each one obtains a differ ent result, we can be sure that eleven of the results are incorrect, while the proof that each of eleven results are incorrect does not prove the remain ing one to be correct. If a thirteenth man undertakes the solution and his result differs from all the others, it will be entitled to no more respect than the others-if it can not be veri fied. If the result involved only a few dol lars all parties interested would insist upon a verifiable result and would be satisfied with no other. And still less are men satisfied if interests of incon ceivable magnitude and importance are at stake. If God revealed his will to men the key to its interpretation ought to be discoverable. THE CIAR ioN having sometime ago asserted that the conclusions of modern science dis prove the alleged truths of Christiani ty I submit an analysis going to show that science, meaning by the term, organized knowledge, does not disprove the truths of Christianity, if we mean by that term, the religion of Jesus Christ. The conclusions of modern science are, however, subject to revis ion and the interpretations of the Bi ble must fit all the facts. THE CROSS. The cross has been a universal sym bol in all ages. The cross in its sim plest form represented the four lower planes of consciousness. If we repres ent the cross by laying down three perfect squares in a horizontal line, and then by placing one square against the central one above and two others below, we have four squares in the per pendicular line and three in the hori zontal line, if the squares be counted separately. The addition of three nail marks gives the suggestion of the triangle, or the divine man crucified on the cross of matter. I obtain this from "Esoteric Basis of Christianity," Wm. Kingsland. I quote: "We shall thus see, in accordance with what has already been explained, that every in carnation of divine spirit, whether in dividually or collectively, constitutes of necessity a crucifixion. The incar nated Christ must needs be crucified. It is simply the summing up in one glyph, in one allegory, of the whole mystery, the consummation in one fig urative emblem of the whole drama of human existence. And as he must needs be crucified, must needs descend into matter, so he must needs resur rect, and reascend to claim his spirit ual birthright. If Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain." (1 Cor. 25-14.) There is another idea symbolized in the crucifixion, and that is that man -the carnal man-the sensual animal nature-must be crucified if spiritual progress is to be achieved. Every one knows that there is a principle in man which separates him from the animal creation. Every one knows that the intellectual man and a spiritual man are distinct entities; because there are many examples to be met with of higher intellectual development cou pled with a low moral nature; of high mental attainments coupled with al most total moral obscuration. It is also a fact that the moral sense is just as susceptible of cultivation and capa ble of growth as the intellect. THE UREAT PYRAMID. The interpretation I here give of the sybolisms of the Pyramid, I have reason to believe, has never before been given. I wrote to Mr. Winm. Q. Judge on the subject, and his reply was that he had studied many books on the subject and they all give sub stantially the same interpretation as that given by Mr. Ford. Mr. Judge agrees with me that Mr. Ford's inter pretation is not the true one, and adds : "If it is anything it is a universal sym bol." Mr. Judge is vice-president of the T. S., and general secretary of American Section. The society makes a specialty of Oriental literature, arch neology, paleantology, &c., and has among its members the ablest sankri tists and Orientalists in the world. I mention this merely personal matter by way of showing that a very ordin ary man may some times assist in throwing light on a very obscure sub ject. Undoubtedly a deep interest is, and always will be, felt in the origin and early history of the human race, And certainly these studies must great ly assist in giving a proper interpreta tion of the Bible, a book which is con fessedly esoteric or allegorical. So high an authority as Dr. Graves, of the Baptist church, says, in his seven dis penations (why seveh ?) it is incompre hensible to the mind of man. I now proceed to analyze The Great Pyramid. First, its base is a perfect square. The square, as we have al ready seen, symbolizes material per fection while the triangle symbolizes the upper triads-Spirit, Spiritual Soul and Mind. Here is the perfect man on theminaterial plane but soulless and senseless. The miricle to be wrought is to raise the animal man out of the dust to a union with the Divine Mana4--The ONE. This can not be done without giving him a soul. Hence the triads or trinity, if yo pre fer the term, incarnates in man. This fact is symbolized by the triangle which is formed upon each face of the Pyramid as it rises from the square which forms the base-the inclination is ten to nine. Meeting at the top the four triangles leave a cavity to be filled. This is done by fitting a stone wedge into the cavity. This wedge, be it observed, is,itself a pryamid, and thus is the edifice completed. The man has been spiritualized and become one with the Divine Manad. T)hs is the at-one-ment, usually spelt atonrie ment. The stone trejected by the builders is become` the corner siteno i)f the edifice. The pure in .heart-the highly developed men and women on the spiritual plane have ever been vil lified and persecuted. And now the spiritual man and the carnal having formed a harmonious union, the edifice having been com pleted, the wide universe thrills in ev ery part with joy at the accomplish ment of the miracle. The constella tion of Pleiades are at meridian and look calmly and benignantly down out of the midnight sky. "Who can resist the sweet influences of the Pleiades?" Alcyone, the central star ,in the con stellation, is, astronomers assert, the very centre of the material universe. According to C.K. Marshall it is the pivot upon which, as upon an adantine hinge, swing the ponderous retinue of universal nature. It does not fall within the scope of this article to follow Dr. Ford's very accurate description of the Pyramid. He asks : "Whence this wisdom? Did these primitive men grasp, at one bound this vast problem which the last three hundred years of patient re search by the greatest of minds with all modern aid, have only partially solved?" No, Dr., they did not grasp the problem at one bound. To the contrary this Wisdom was the result of ages of evolution. The masters of this wisdom still exist, and. have very lately given out blocks of this wisdom which would be a rebuke to nineteenth century self-sufficiency if its inflated vanity would permit it to consider any thing but its own inconclusive guesses. But it strikes me as somewhat incon sistent to scoff at those who choose to go to the masters of this wisdom which Dr. Ford so much lauds, for knowledge, which Dr. Ford and other DDs. confess they can not furnish. The long slant passage down which Alpa Draconis-the Dragon Star looked when the Pyramid was com pleted symbolizes the incarnation of the upper triads, the trinity. The position of Alpa Draconis, three de grees, forty-two minutes from the pole of the heavens, expresses the truth that the incarnating triads would be tormented by the carnal desires of the animal man,.and hence that a conflict would rage for ages; because the ten dency of the incarnating triads would be opposed to that of the lower nature. But the final triumph of the higher principles was assured from the begin ning of the struggle. The storm may rage, but after the storm-by reason of the storm-the rainbow will appear. The prysmatic shapings of drops of water-nature's tear drops-dissolve the seven princi ples in light and cause them to blend harmoniously. And it is only through anguish-through the shedding of tears-that the harmonious blending of seven principles in man can ever be brought about. All earthly longings being disappointment, but it is only through suffering we learn that fact. In the midst of suffering we inevita bly come to hate the thing that caused it and cast it from us. But it is only mangincarnations that we can exhaust the experiences incident to human ex istence. That heaven that can be even. without effort-without giving up our sensual pleasures-is not the kind of heaven which attracts those who live lives of self-sacrifice. The subject is too vast to be treated in one or two brief articles. I only hope to induce one here and there to investigate a question which has an overpowering attraction for me, I frankly confess I have only felt feint and shadowy adumbrations of a truth which is illimitable in its vastness fathomless in its infinite profundity. D. C. DAVID. Houma, La, THE GIANT EVIL OF THE AGE. Texas Farm and Ranch. The evil so well de icteg in the follow ing article from the Houston Post is undoubtedly the greatest danger that now confronts this nation. These turbulent hordes who have no feeling of patriotism, but are the born enem ies of good government, or any govern ment, as well as of law and order, are used by demagogues, who are no.less dangerous, to keep corrupt men ins office, and thus perpetuate this and every prominent evil that distinguishes this from any former period of our his tory. The outbreaks, which threaten order, are not the work of American laborers. They have long ago been practically driven out of every mining and manufacturing enterprise, by im portation of laborers and voters from Europe, thus greatly benefitting their native lands, while cursing this. The difficulty lies in the fact that dema gogues have a use for every purchasa ble voter, and the class herein consid ered furnished these goods at the low est prices. Those who have the tem erity to attack this great evil, may expect to fight the combined demagogy of the country, on the stump and the press. "The outcry against the Chinese has concentrated the pubiic attention to this one people, and other immigrants have swarmed through Castle Garden unchecked. The government objects to foreign paupers, it is true, but it receives with open arms all those who are able to work, so for years a flood of Dagoes, Poles, Hungarians, Bohemians and Russians have been pouring into our country with resistless tide. The inevitable end of this policy was to create a great surplus of labor; to pro vide the country with more workmen than it had work to do, to import fifty or a hundred laborers to every job. That end has already been reached and the pressure of hard times from. other causes has swelled the small army, of unemployed into a great army, need ing only the organization of an army to be very dangerous. And it must be added that these people come here and are still Hungarians, oo Poles or Rus sians. They are in "no sense of the word United States citizens, They bring here the_ same anarchistic ten dencies they entertained in: their for: mer homes. They are not able to die criminate between governments a-nd to them. all government is oppressive, and to be destroyed if possible. Read an account of a labor riot in. the mnitn ing or manufacturing regions of this country, with the list of those killed: or wounded-or arrested, and see :how Russia and Hungary, Italy and Iorand, are rioting in American sitie$ls.: "The danger to ther ontry is grave ones* is growing ire ni :n6t with every ship load- of lnm grants that. is permitted't land. It is clearly.the duty of the government to warn the people of other. natio~ s that the labor . market of the Unit. States is overcrowded, and that for more laborers to come is simply to in crease the difficulties of those already here." The most wonderful personage, and the one who is attracting most atten tion in Memphis to-day is a little stranger who made her appearance eleven days ago at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davis, who reside at the corner of Poplar and Front streets. She is a perfectly formed little girl with black eyes and a pretty face. Her head is about the size of a large orange, and her arms and hands are so small that it looks like they would break by their own weight. Both feet could stand on a silver dollar and then not cover it. Little Miss Davis only weighs one pound and a half now, but the physicians say that she is perfectly de veloped and will grow to a reasonable size.-Memphis Ledger. 3 Proceedings of the Boar'd of Police. Town or OFPELOUSAs, La., Sept. 4, '93. Present: Geo C Pulford, president, pre siding; FE Bailey, J T Stewart, E Latreyte, H Chachere and M Halphen. Minutes of f last meeting adopted- as read. Collector and treasurer make the following reports: 3 OPELOUSAS, July 3d, 1893. 3 To the President and Members of the Board of Police of the Town of Opelous as, La: Gentlemen.-I herewith submit to you my report for the quarter ending June 30th 1893, as follows: Licences for 1892............. $ 5 00 " " 1893 ............. 55500 Tax 1891..................... 1 60 " 1892..................... 208 46 Fines......... ............. 26 50 $ t796 56 School tax..................... $104 21 Market ................... $240 00 Total....... $1140 77 f Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR DEJEAN, Collector. OPELOUSAS, La., June 30, 1893. To the President and Members of the Board of Police, Town of Opelousas: Sirs.--I herewith tender you my report for the quarter ending June 30, 1893, as follows: To balance on hand last report.... $765 13 " licences 1893 ................... 555 00 1892 ................... 5 00 I " tax 1892........... ............. 20846 " " 1891 ......................... 1 60 Fines................. ..... ...... 2650 $1561 69 By warrants ..............$1472 52 S Balance on hand ......... $89 17 SCHOOL TAX. To balance on hand last report.... $673 88 " tax 1892... . ................... 104 21 $778 09 By dft, Latreyte town e.c.... 58 58 Balance on hand...:....... $718 51 MARKET. To balance on hand last report.... $418 40 To cash rec'd from Dejean......... $24000 Cash on hand .............. $658 40 Respectfully submit, F. E. BAILEY, Treasurer. On motion, duly seconde~l, the said re ports were accepted, and referred to Fi nance committee. On motion of F E Bailey, duly seconded, the town tax roll made by W R Cochran was accepted, and bill for same ordered approved. The following proposition from Mr T S Isacks was received and read: OPELOUSAs, LA., July 19, 1893. To the Hon. Mayor and Board of Police of the Town of Opelousas, Opelousas, La. Gentlemen.-Desirous of acquiring the franchise of lighting up the town of Ope lousas by "'Electricity," I attach herewith a map of the town showing the position that twenty-five are lights would occupy on the streets, marked thus * These posi tions can be changed, however, at your dis cretion. I also attach copy of contract made for the similar purpose between the town of Lake Charles and J A Landry & Co and would be willing to accept a con tract from you, under the same conditions, and for your information will state that $60 per annum is as little as any town in the United States pays for are lamps. As a general thing the prices range all the way from $60 to $90 per lamp. I also attach letter from the Sun Vapor Street Light Co, whose lamps you are now using, showing their willingness to sell out their unexpir ed term for%100, and in the event that I should get the contract from you I will set tle with them out of the money you give me. Very Respectfully Yours, T. S. ISACKS, per V. CANTON, Oixo, April 2i, 1893. T. S. Isacks, Opelousas, La. Dear Sir.-Yours of the 18th inst. in re gard to the purchase of our interests in the unexpired term of the lighting contract with your city is before us, and replying to same have to say, that we know full well that there is a provision in our contract with the city whereby they can terminate the contract at the expiration of three years, but so long as the city has given us no notice that they wish to terminate the contract at the end of that time, we still have a contract for 5 years just the saine. We, however, based our calculations on the supposition that the city would termi qate the contract at the end of three years, so that the price of $400 given you is the lowest amount that we can take to turn the unexpired term of the consract over to you. We have the original contract with the city in our possession and know exact ly how it reads and are well acquainted with all the provisions and requirements contained 'herein. I you pare to give us $400 and pay freight on the plant back to Canton, we will try and make matters all satisfactory with the City CounciL We are not at all anxious to sell this contract, as we wrote you before, but as we have odenty of others to look after and this beiing Oily a small one, we will, in order to accomo date you, terminate dhe contract at this time, provided, however, that the city is willing. Truly yours, S. C. IGOE, Secretary and Treasurer. And on motion of FE Bailey, duly sec onded, that a committee of thiree be ap pointed by the chair to correspond witho other parties, see if said proposition would be benefical, and to make a report as soon fas ossible. Chair appointed on said conm mitt-ee; FE Bailey, E Latreyt and TT Committees appointedirelative to open ing Market street north, report unfavora ble; and report favorably for southern portion of said street. On motion:comnmit tees were discharged. Committee on Vine street, eot fora bly, and on motion, duly seconded, the saif streetwe order.e opened. Caroed. Committee on Walnut ,treetask foi further time. Same was gated, ah oii mittee ~tioharged. On O r t eon d4l:e c onded, a new committee was tdered ap P~ointed. Chair :ppoints J 1,Stewrt and On . .otion, duly seconded, a c~ mittee; of one wasapoipnted to se the probable not jheirel·:. a-~treet running noirth and southii thieouh properties of C Brand, Beau. te hchere,~sMrs Brooks and othi era. Chair appoints H.Chaohere sand E Balie e auth d oti .e take. Palford resumes the chalr. e:-..fwint r.iprie a... .: f, . IA .. . I-. . ...: . ... .,.m* ... ( en:i tw i.-lhave made 'a survey of the as per youtr orde, and herewth had. you asnap of said survey. I have iade the survey 'from informm*#,: tion gathe~ed from all the oldmaps I could find of the different additions of the town found in the Recorder's office, and in the. hands of different individuals, together with the information gathered by the ac. tual survey, and alesofrom my knowledge of' the old surveys, and I believe it to be as good a survey as can be made of the town. The only changes I have made I will state below, and the reasons for making said changes, which the council can ap prove or not, as they think best. None of the changes made interfere with the-pri vate property owners, but consist only in the makingnarrower the following ,Fete: lst. I have cut off of Main street the West side 4 feet, making said street 56 feet wide instead of 60 feet. My reasons for doing this is that most all of the buildings and fences with but few exceptions are built on said street 4 feet. 2nd. I have cut off of Union street from the west side six feet, making it 54 feet in stead of 60 feet, for the same reason as above stated. 3rd. I have cut off of Union street from the north side 3 feet, making it 57 feet in stead of 60 feet, for same reasons as,,abover stated. 4th. In the Lastrdppes addition I have cut off of Liberty street 2 feet, making it 58 feet instead of 60 feet. 5th. Off of Railroad street 10 feet, mak ing it 50 feet instead of 60 feet. 6th. Off of Landry street, north side, 10 feet making it 60 feet instead of 60 feet. All this was done for reasons stated above. This makes 5 of the 60 feet streets that have been made smaller. I find the fences and buildings as a gen eral thing on or near the lines except on the 5 streets as stated above, and also on Main street on the east side most of the inhabitants have built inside of their lines some 3 or 4 feet. And Union street, from Mr J B Sandoz's house to the Roman Catholic Church, there is a curve in the street of about7 feet at the longest point of the curve. . In the Lastrappes Addition of the town, which is the part west of Bayou Tesson, original survey of said addition was made by Charles Garrigues, parish surveyor, in 1827, and a plat of said survey is now on file in the Recorder's Office, I have fol lowed that survey except making Liberty street, Railroad street and Landry street smaller as above stated, and in fol lowing said survey it cuts off of G - Elms and other inclosures on Grole et some 18 feet and off of C Hebert an oth ers on his north side some 7 feet. I could not make these streets narrower because they are only 40 feet streets. LENCE E. LITTELL, July 3, 1893. Parish Surveyor. The following protests from Geo O Elms were received and read: OPrsou.As, LA., June 24th, 189& i To the Honorable the Board of Police of the Town of Opelousas. Gentlemen.-On the 19th of Sept. last l had the honor to address you a protest against the survey of the town -then pro s posed to be made by you, for the following reasons, vi: 1st. Because you have no au thority to order any such a survey, etc., etc. 2d,.Because even if you had any such au thority the data for such survey is not to be had, etc., etc. 3d, Because of the expen se of such survey, which would be an abso lute waste of the public money devoted to it, etc, etc:, and, 4th, Because such a sur vey, being made without authority, would not have any binding force on any owner of land etc,, etc. Notwithstanding the pro test by me as aforesaid, you have caused the proposed survey to be made. I now respectfully protest against said survey be ing accepted by you in your official capaci tyand object to the money of the town being wasted to pay for the same because 1st, (It is not in any sense of the word a survey-no measurements having been made to determine the dimensions of the squares-what has been done was entirely without regard to the old maps of the town) as for instance Liberty street has a width, according to the old map of Las trape's addition, of sixty feet; your survey or has reduced it to fifty eight (58) feet (the square of ground on which I live has a length from north to south alike on the east side and on the west side; your sur veyor makes it 360 feet in length on Liber ty street and only 358feet on Chestupt~a. (called "Railroad Avenue"); and Chestnut street, which has a width of 60 feet accord ing to the map of the Lastrapes addition;' your surveyor has reduced to a width of 54 feet; North street, which has a width of 40 feet, he has made 40 feet at Chestnut and 45 feet at Liberty; one side of my square he has lengthened on the Liberty st. side about 4 feet, while he has cut off oft my land about 2 feet on the north-west corner. 2d, I protest against said survey going on record 'as the official survey of my proper ty, or affecting it in any way or man.ier, because tt is in all respects utterly na. and void, being made without any refer ence to the rights.of parties by 'the survey or employed, and without any authority by theBoard ordering the said esurvey, an it cannot result in anything but discord, confusion and, if any dependence is placed thereon, in endless fitigation. ours ver respectfully. GEORGE O. ELMS, A Citizen and Tazpayer (taxe paid). OPs'ovsAs, LA., July 20th, 1818 To the Bon. Board of Police of Opelonsas. Gentiemen..-l have heretofore protested against the pretended survey of the town;n I now respectfully and earnestly protest againstyear'having made or exhibiting as authentic a map of said pretended survey and I nownotifv you that when you shalL have mnade and exhibited as an authenic repriesentation of the town, its street, etc, a niai of said pretended survey, dasing the width of the strets, and decailui size of my nroperty without dueprocss . law from that .which I have for seventyF years been in actual posseageion of, po will have attaced my ttfle to a portion of my land, andI shahi instituteslitaagainst the town for damages, and I shal resit to the utnost extent any interference b you with my land. Yours very rectullv, Resident Voter and Taxpayer (taXe p ). And on motion, duly seoondedl the sen ordered to be spread upon the minutes.: On motion of E Latreyte, dult seeonded 5 that the report and map of LE Litted B be accepted. Carried. The following bills were read and ap i proved: I Dejean, com. on col. of taxes and. B licenses.. ........... . 2851 r Waters Pearce Ot Co, 1 bbl oil for. - rmarket (June) ............... . 5 Same Company for same (July).... 40 Jack }Melanion; dig ng grave.... . 2'00 J jaoobs,1 book fr tow x. x.. . ,;15 Aip- A se Reed, lamp for niarket... li '8 B FAnderson, 1lock and putting Sroon.coupil room............... 3 L Courier, 5 warrant books .......... 6 0 Sun-VaBpor S.reet Light Co., % end in f -ly 1st; 1893 .. .. .. 1.. 7 17500 Mt. as. Mille, lumber for town.. 0. 07 J.B Banudos & Bro., 1 keg nails ....: 2. 80 SW1 Cochran, making town tax roll R aoheii84 rovisious, eta, for paun Speýr Eaishammnondur'g fillness 4 70 Dr V. ·rion, for providin nurse and! cleaning and diainfecting " house for A Andrus ....... 000 P: Down 8 'th wages- s #sexton 90 00 LE Litt surve ing sfreet east ot Jole a nd Littel _ .. 10 00 L itell, sbrveying town as per contract... 110;00 L.B Sndoz, 1 box for pauper Alex Sandre ....... .......... .2 2 lr Leyttee, eails. mdse, et.... 6 attedingpanper........ 10:00 ` : eesa , meat for pauper 70 J.et umart,1nber for :town..... , Ir Halphen's resignation was received and reed as follows: toaz~osAs. Sept. 4th, 188. ,o the -resident and members of the_ bar f pollee# of the town of Opeloisas: entlemen.-.As I expectin the near fi t#re to pers*onently remove on my place outsde of the corporate limits, I hereby tndaer my resignation as a membe yor honorableo o Ml~ourneti subject to ealL f 0w 0c. I *thC,4to