The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-12-01

We hope orr people will come to see
us when they come to town. We want
to hear tn" news from every neighbour
hood, and i'll here it will 81.
The Coushatta Jail has been opened
again md all the prisoners sloprd. How
much safer is it outside than inside that
Red River parish jail
"You don't get any money ont RI me-
sud lie, as the man presented his bill
I'm savings bank-that's what am
And the creditor wcnt disconcoIatcly
away.
CT PATTON, Esq.,, of thc Times, Sum
nit, Miss. visited the VINDlCATuR office
"n Monday. Wcwerc pleased to make
/ his acquaintance.
Our mails arc staggering along WONDER
fully The Mansfield E'pori'r published
within fifty miles Of us reaches our sane
tum four days after publication, and We
have daily mail with all that
the front among American luXurirs.-
Rome fell stepped in luxury Let us take
warning from her example.
Dr.. c. Stone picked up our friends
Of the Morrhou>r fiurion. He tried that
game on us but we asked the first quar-
ter in advance and Stone didn't rock.
III the ha}my summer two months ago
they could hang on the gate and talk
sweet, and hug, but now, alas; ala"k !!
these crisp evenings it's one squeeze and
a rush for the fire.
These are the times when two men
three boys and mi yyer' and eur do"
chase rabbit all over a whole country
ward for the sake of iittpHn cents worth
of pot pie.
Prof. LOomiS has written a "TreatiSc
on the origin of Storms" We know all
about ''StornS,' because we raised one
oursclf by refusing to bring our wife that
"duck OF a bonnet at Ducornra'ls.'
What's the use of head lining an ar
ticle with inch type abont Il startling
connterftit,' and have a newspaper fellow
to read down and find it to be a $50 note.
Great Moses, have you fellows no heart
for suffering humanity.
These cold nights will yet tell on the
wood piles. Those fellows who have
boarded on the cellar doors during the
summer will be ''yoing' for some wood
yard--just for a change.
Five rural journals in the State oppo-
Sr,l a Constitutional Convention; three of
them have been driven to their holes.
while the other two haven't hole to go
into
An American tourist says that a San
Domingo revolution consists of "a few
yrllS, three or four boots, some one acct
dtntally wounded, and come home, lar-
}ing-all is forgiven"
Distance has only relative Value
When man sits down on carpet tack
only quarter of an inch long, it is hard
for him to realize that the point didn't
come out at the back of his neck.
We would suggest, that sowe one of
or merchants introdnce the copper cent
with us. A pioneer in this wonll be re
y"rdcd hy the poor as a real bcncfartor.
New Orleans, thanks to the Democrat, has
fully introduced the poor mans money.
District Court for this parish begins it's
sittings on Monday next Judge David
Picrson viii preside, and the criminals
had better look out, for they will be HALL
ed up for trial
The n. O. Pacific railroad hand, are
nearly through the Chopin hill and will
we md rStand, upon the completion of
that work, resume the grading on Proven
sal Bayou, nine miles south of this city,
A good coat of arms for Louisiana
would DC citizen mortgaging his prop
erty to pay his III mills in order to keep
up the "honor of his State" Paying a
bic debt, which represents the number of
dollars the radicals stole from him.
Our young friend Jas. T. sprowl adver-
tises with rs this week as a House, Sign.
and Ornamental painter. Those who
want work well and cheaply done should
give Jimmie trial.
Onr friends Mcssrs NJ. Hertzog and l..
A. Buard from Magnolia, were dropnorS
in on the VINDICATOR Thursday last Mr..
Buard tells us that the Dawn went ont of
Cane River with good load; 800 bales
of cotton.
Next week our city will he crowded
with friends from the country on bust
ness with the District Court Let them
remember that to be a good citizen of the
parish you must not only attend Courts.
but You must also take the VIND1cAToR.
Our office is open for you all. Call and
see us.
The New Orlclns Times has cut us off
its exchange list, and we do the same
thing to the Tines. This huge daily, with
the largest circulation in the Southwest
must imagine the poor rural press would
be ruined if they did not receive the
Times. Such, however, is not the case.