The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-04-15
Dashes Here and There.

SO hard up that they cannot afford even
paper collars any longer.
Still some cloudy mystery as re-
CARDS the onsting Of Snellings and Cs-
born from the Police Jury of our Par
ish-timo and Kelso's freaks must be
waited for before we can further al
noupce any definite result in the to us
important affair.
Tile Pacitics, the bold fire boys Of
orr Town, bad lheir animal election of
officers, at their Head Quarters in the
Town Hall, on th g 9th inst
The following were the selections
made: President. j. w. Osborn; Vice
President, j. j. Peterman; Secretary,
Moses Mayer; Treasurer, Moses Kosen-
thai; Foreman, w. s. Rdyc; Isl Assis-
tant, J. A. Williams; Ell Assistant,
Willie Leckie; Custodian, Paul Kaiser.
Again our friends of Cnacasia lave
walked into (le affections, without
gauptlets, and sans cerentcnie, Of our
Honorable Judge Of this, the ninth ju-
dicial District, and have pulled out the
documents on Ills honor, i'll the shape
of extracts from il Brief Of now NJ. c.,
by name Robert s Hale, the counsel of
the United States before the utixed
commission at Washington. Page S
of ,l.at nice document tale uniolds,
which must bring some sort of tinge to
almost any cheek and-bnt it is not
the Democrats funeral! .,.,.
The weather and glorious cold
Red" just at this particular time i'm
portant institutions in our midst, have
been as coquettish as a maiden of
sweet seventeen and far more stubborn.
The first has smiled on us three fall
days with snnteams slitteling and
hopeful of better behavior; then again
old plnVius, on a sholL bender, has
drenched and flooded the wilole face of
the earth just us u sl',efut drawback
on all working mankind here below.
The second, after falling Ten inches, as
We announced in our last, shot uD on a
new rise in answe, to she food, 10 The
tune of full nine inches, aud as we are
striving to record this weekly status,
it has reccded again over Is inches.
Hard to keep pace with two such rakes.
Our Caucasian friends have poked
a mild thrust under the ribs of our
Post Office here, or ratl,eras il is under
the present regime of Afric;l's sable So
Ion. Wei, We cat / take up our No. q
Fabcr in behalf of The concern, and
wlite much in lis defence, but think
some little palf ton should be thrown
in for the Government shop. It has
been ipaugurated since February l2,h /
and take it all in all viii, the material |
at hand, they have managed fairly fair;
received, opened and delivered the
mails, and given as mach forced salts
ton as we poor fellows here have a
right to expect from Uncle Sans beef
eaters. To this extent aud no further
does the Democrat say: pretty well
done for Africa!
The mail Contractors of Uncle Sam
are well paid and very important per-
sonages, and more or less are wheels
Within the wheels of the all potent ring
ofthe reigning dynasty, and should have
due justice done them. The Democrat
has all the time melted out this virtue
to the present Contractor from Red
River Landing to Shreveport, simply
because he eminently deserved it and
was all the time and on all occasions
up to time and facing the music. But
to keep Oh tue same line of justice and
fair play, the Democrat must now step
4 side from the well beaten t,ack, and
pitch in Il mild word of complaint
against tlIis sasAe web managed and
deserving concern, and still more mild
~ p,0c|u til that tiete is sou,e screw
loose, some hinge INCREASED OF late: in
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