The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-06-27

ner that captivated all present.
Their performance was not open to
criticism in any particular and was
we'll received.
We are at a loss for words suitable
to describe Miss Durittis song
"Pretty AS a Picture" She certain
ly was as pretty as any picture, and
an animated picture that sings so
pretty song was an attractive one
to look upon. She had sung this at
the other Concert, and sung it again
by request. She was encored as she
we'll deserved to be.
The next piece was one ofthe most
remarkable it has ever been our good
fortune to hear. 1t was on the pro-
gramme: instrumental Solo, "Rob-
ert, lie Diable," Miss Cleoni We'll,
and there stepped forward a little
girl Of but few years and diminutive
size, who sat down to the piano, and
without notes played that difficult
piece with the ease and grace of the
accomplished musician. She was so
small that her feet could not reach
the pedals of the instrument. 1t was
truly wonderful performance by a
musical prodigy. The closing piece
was the familiar but still beautiful,
"Good-bye," sung as chorus by all
the amateurs, with an appropriate
verse added by that gifted lady, Mrs.
Clara H. Flower, after which the
benches were moved and the remain
ing hours ofthe night devoted to the
''light fantastic" The whole affair
was grand success and reflected
great credit on the ladies who so ad-
mirably managed it's details.
WILL it be believed by the peo-
pie of Alexandria, that we can state
on competent authority that George
Kelso, who was struggled by the late
Returning Board into the Senatorial
chair for four years, is really and &C.
tually an applicant, greedy one, for
the Post Office here? This bangs all
pap creation in cheek, that this yell
low chap should want to supplant the
present Post Master, John DeLacy,
and that too in the face Of the fact
that he is totally incompetent to fill
the duties, and that DeLacy has been
a good and attentive Post Master
Some week-kneed people may think
it strange that we are for DeLacy,
he being a decided and hardened
Radical, and to put at ease all these
fastidious and fence.straddling gen.
) try, let US tell them once for all, that
the reason we prefer DeLacy, now
that we have a Radical President
cheated on to us, is the simple fact
that to the victors belong the legiti
; mate spoils, and we want always the
best of the enemy in power. DeLacy
is a fair Post Master, attentive and
accommodating, and then politically
he is not nondescript like many in
Rapides, who roam around to save
funeral expenses, and are ready to
grab any Office, and swallow and ad
vocate any political principles, and
you know where always to find him,
His black and intrepid guerdon in
political strifes can always be CLEAN
ed waving in the thickest of the
strife, and he has no claims to scrat.
ching and endorsements, and is just
the political foe we like to contend
against. Let him remain where he
is, for he is entitled to it under a Re
publican administration, for no Dem.
ocrat can consistently want his place
and by all means such played out in.
competency as George Kelso should
retire on half pay in the old Granite
Custom House in New Orleans.
Gully HADNor, of Grant Parish
who stands indicted for the killinl
of Richard Torey, some two years
} since, was arrested last week by 6
! posse of sixty armed men, near Mont
gomery, and was brought to our Jai
for safe keeping. In noticing this
local item, we cannot refrain from re
) marking that the extraordinary pro
? ceedings inaugurated all at once ii
r hitherto 'lawless Grant," strike.