The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-06-06
"G00D-BYE."

letln,' aged seventeen Gays, shuileo
of it's mortal coil, and published its
own sad memoriam. AS a recorder
of passing events here, the Democrat
gives below the tribute Of the little
venture in its own words.
But, we are constrained to state
regretfully, that the young printers
running the late Bulletin, are entire
ly too modest and charitable in as
the main cause Of their death,
and whilst we in part coincide with |
them, still as one of more experience
and knowledge Of the i'll workings Of
this worlds transgressions, and more
in duty bound to stick up to our
people and their just rights and dues,
we make "no bones" in telling right
out that the Telegraph here, its man
agement, or rather its criminal mis-
management, is the cause, the main
cause of the sudden demise Of our
little venture. In starting it, the
dispatches Of the Press, with the
daily market reports, were the true
incentives and the back bone of the
enterprise, and had these been sent
and received, even one, fourth as well
as contracted for and promised, we
feel convinced the Bulletin would
have lived and prospered. The dis
patches, said to be the Press dis
patches, which were sent here, re-
celved here and paid for by the Bul
letin, were invariably over twenty.
four hours old when received, and
then always cut down fully two
thirds, and yet worse when handed
in to the printers; they had to.be
overhauled, transcribed, guessed at,
and excellent necromancers as are
printers in deciphering Chinese HE
roglyphics, it was hard and rough
old road to travel, and only half sense
then could be made Of them. In
several instances, during the seven
teen days that the defunct venture
was manacled to the so-called Tele
graph, we have read in our New Or
leans exchanges, two and three hours
ahead of the dispatches palmed of
on the Bulletin as the latest, the very
identical ones which the Bulletin,
through the fraud of that same Tele
graph, was selling around the streets
to deluded public.
These may be hard words to use.
but facts are stubborn and invaria-
bly, knock kown words and open the
eyes Of cheated and duped public,
hence there can be no use in our fur
ther keeping 8 secret outside of the
peoples interested knowledge, the
palpable mismanagement Of the Mer-
chants Union Telegraph Line
Conceived and born here by borrow
ing the money to build it from the
Corporation of Alexandria and some
of our liberal citizens, on sacred and
fair promises, it has never redeemed
a single, never tried to redeem sin
gle one, has repudiatcd these honest
advances and covered up" the whole
Line under a wyfedged sale, and
from first to last its charges have
been abomiDably extrayagant, it's
management worse than none at all,
in fact it has been a first-class nui-
sance, extorting from the very pub
lie who fostered and brought it into
life. And to cut this matter short
right here, it is the duty, the bound
en- duty of Mr.. Scheen, of Coushatta,
the present owner of the Line, who
enjoys good reputation and stand
ing as q merchant and gentlemen, to
at once take the matter in hand and
make it at least half worthy of the
confidence of the people who are ex-
pected and forced to patronize it. -
Will he do it? We close with the
Bulletins own adieu:
The purpose of our appearance this
morning is to wipe "our weeping
eyes, and 'bid farewell to a frown-
ing world" When this days issue
reaches the few kind friends who
have aided the BULLETIN in it's strug-
gle for life, it will be a dead corpus.
1t will be .functus oficio, q manly in
FAINT strangled in the early days of
its youth by an unappreciatiye pub
lie who failed to supply it with the
means of susteuance. 1t had hoped
to grow up with the country, to be a
feature of the new order of things
now opening up for Louisiana, and
in vigorous manhood to give its
best services for the good Of our par
ish and State, but such hopes have
gone glimmering, like school boy
dream" and we are face to face with
the necessity that forces US to with
draw from the unequal contest with
hard times and the other ills which
have proved "too many" for US.
We purpose as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements can be perfected
to issue a larger paper as Tri-