The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.

q little the past week. feOplt from
the country are beginning to bring
in eggs, butter, ETC., pretty resu
larry.
We have heard some of our cit
liens wishing that our friends in the
country would bring in some spring
chickens. They appear to be affect
ed with .forl stomachs.
We have very good boating
stage of water in the river, and are
apt to have rise from the late
rains. The boats are not taking out
such large loads of cotton as they
did month ago.
On a foggy night this week, a
lot of wild geese flew over our town,
not much higher than the roofs OF
the houses. Their ranks were broken
and they appeared to be i'll great
confusion. They undoubtedly were
out of their reckoning, as they flew
in an easterly direction.
We were informed that a squab-
BILE took place among party who
were having game of "draw," Oh
the Bart Able, just before coming TO
our landing, on Monday night last.
Pistols werc drawn, but not used,
and the affair was settled amiacably.
We are having strong hopes
that our fruit crop is now safe. The
last frost was not injurious, even il
it killed half the blooms. The yield
will be large enough, and the fruit
much better than if full crop was
left on the trees. i.
We are under renewed obliga-
tons to Mr.. Hamilton, clerk of the
Bart. Able, for late New Orleans
papers. The Able olways-briDgs us
later papers than Tuesdays mail.
The weather has been very
much broken tor tho past nine or
ten days-half sunshine, half tears-
with occasional strong winds. Old
Sol. appears not to like it, as he has
q cloud over his brow half the time.
-On Sunday last, about five
o'clock in the afternoon, the house
of Mrs. Cyrus Moses, on Cane River,
was burned, while the family was
absent. Nothing was saved except
a mattrass. 1t was doubtless the
act of an incendiary. There is no
clue to the perpetrator as yet.
Our farmers, in the vicinity of
Colfax, have planted considerable
corn, and we see large number of
hogs and pigs running at large, and
they are certain to do great DIAL
Of damage to that crop. Let f,e
owners pnt them up, or the POKE
Jury will take the matter into ca
sideration at its next session.
We received the Shreveport
Southwestern Telegram, of Zebra
airy %, by last Tuesdays mail
Only twenty days on the way =
Don't this show plainly that we
ought to have reform in our postal
service. 1t takes letter from four
teen to eighteen days to come from
Minden to ColfaX, a distance of
about $50 miles.
On Monday evening last white
man came into town and asked the
postmaster how he sold postage
stamps We'd bet 4 years sub
scriptiOn to the CHRONICLE that he
never had recerrse TO Il weekly
newspaper when he was growing up.
and we are satisfied that right now
he does not know who is President
of the United States.
MIR. George Marsh, If Alexan
dria, was in our town on Tuesday
last. He came here to attend to
the shipment Of the sngar-house
machinery, purchased BY Mr.. Leii-
bere, Of West Baton Rouge, who is
taking it to his plantation in that
parish. Mr.. Marsh is a good mechan-
ic aud well worthy the patronage of
the public. The Bart. Able took
portion of the machinery on her