Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-04-06

ashall not take my ease, in my inn.

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paper a wisk expressed by you, that
others would colne-to your aid in as
sisting you to fill out your paper, and
hoping that the wish may be stu 50
strong with you, tina you will not be
too fastidious, j venture to offer you
my contribution. I have been lcafng
about town here, Mr. Editor, for some
days, waiting like Macawber, for some
thing to turn up, though in some trepi,
dation that it may end in somebody
being turned out, and having become
somewhat domiciliated about the cen
tire of attraction in Alexandra, the
Exchange HoteL it occurred to me
that the house was in reality what /
think you yourself in one of your edi-
torials, once called it as much the cpl
tome of a thriving village, as the st.
Charles or st. Louis, of New Orleans,
was of a populous and great CONNER
cial city, and that might demonstrate
it to the satisfaction and amusement
of your readers, that a person might
live for sometime under its roof; and
without going from under it, have al
most every physical or social want
supplied, which would usually require
considerable lOcomotion personally or
by deputy to supply. First then as to
the strictly necessary animal ones OF
eating and sleeping; bountiful table
is spread three times day, at regular
hours, and at night clean comfortable
beds, invite the weary to repOse, and
if either Of these creatures c0nifortsare
needed in daylight, or irregular hours
it is only necessary to call on Alto or
Sally, the heads of their respective de-
partments, to have them promptly
furnished. If the traveller guest, or
even dropper in, should require any
information respecting the town or
adjacent country, the Captain proprie.
tor, or Captain clerk. will always be
found ready and able, to give every
information, and though the former is
somewhat hard to catch, owing to his
active habits and multifariOus duties,
the latter is always on hand, and
always urbane and intelligent.
There is only one thing that / have
found any ways deficient abont the
establishment, and l can only account
for the fact, by supposing it an article
entirely unused in the pure state by
the habitues of the lower regions OF
the Hotel, and that is water in sight
at least. No doubt there is plenty OF
it somewhere, water in front OF it,
water in the rear of it, and water al
each side of it, but to the unitedly ii
is still.
Water! Water! everywhere, but
not drop to drink" If however yor
want it mixed with almost any othe
liquid, you could name, you have only
to pass through, OF across passage
into handsome saloon, and accOstins
the accomplished attendant, name a
he would say, your favorite pisea.
A step or two the other way, take
YOU to the entrance of handsOmel,
arranged and well filed fancy an,
family grocery store, where not onl
every substantial, but also almos
every fancy and luxurious edible ca
be obtained, and next door to tina
: again, is a fancy variety and dru
: store, which for completeness of stoc
: in it's different branches, and the care
neatness, taste and cOnsummat
9 knowledge of the business displaye
9 in all its details, cannot be SURPASSED
: the State, not even in New Orleans
e except as to quantity. One OF til
: most skiltull and popular physicians
0 the town, has his Office and resident
c in the Hotel, The Court House an
Iiall the public Offices are in it, an
f lawyers are passing in and out all da
: so to wind up my perhaps already tir
J, some yarn, / may say, that one ma
b live in the Hotel, as long as he please
2 buy almost everything he wants, co
e suit doctor daily if his health or, h
f hypochondriacism prompts him to
J $50, have his prescriptions put up
!, the most unexceptional gilt edge styl
: 60 to law, see his lawyers, win or 10
t his suit, pay his fees and costs, and ;
t never 60 out of his hotel, and if tn
: is not taking ease in it, he must
:, lx,cI 10 v,looca