The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-06-21


a large Held Of young cotton, marching
behind pillow, rs resolute as when
some Yankees bullet shut his mouth
for while at the sanguinary battle of
Franklin, where Gen. Cleburne, second
only to stonewall Jackson, and scve-
raj other confederate generals fell in
defense Of the South.
At Vienna slept two nights, and
spent a day and a-hatf with both pleas
ure and profit. The little town has
brushed up wonderfully. There is no
place there now where one can pur-
chase ginger-cakes and beer, as there
used to be, and the time has gone by
when the appearance of ssOld Rusty"
good old souD wreathed the few faces
of the little roadside village with
smiles. Vienna is
A PRETTY LITTLE TOWN,
and actually, as noticed, has a pin
to gather up its skirt. The residences,
hower-yartls, public buildings, chur-
ches and places Of business show thrift,
pride and attention. There is a tenn
perance council there with a large
membership, and two saloons very
we'll patronized. / attended prayer
meeting one night at the Methodist
church, q very pretty little house of
worship. There were present five
ladies, six gentlemen, one child, two
breaches, four noisy boys and two edi-
tors, Judge Redwine, OF the Sentinel,
and the writer. The Judge, with an
air beatific, sat in the amen corner,
s'under the drippings Of thesanctuary,"
and with voice melodious followed the
little choir successfully, even in the
most difficult passages of Con Jorlan's
Stormy Banks I Stand" His less
gifted co,.fs'ere sat silent, not being
vocalist, but deeply impressed with
the solemnity of the occasion, and-he
is not afraid to confess somewhat in
terested in the beauty and sly, tell.tale
glances, smiles and confidential whis-
perings of four little maidens who sat
near him. One of the young ladies,
during the singing, either mistaking
the volume of her voice, or thinking
she would excel her fair neighbors by a
grand vocal flourish, ascended above
them all on particular note, filing
the house with momentary discord and
covering her face with bushes. There
was dead silence on the bench for at
least ten seconds and a hasty exchange
OF glances and twitters, and then
heard again the voices OF my
FOUR FAIR NEIGHBoRs,
now suddenly become as demure
and devout as grandames. I wonder
If the mention of this little Incl
dent will recall to the matronly rea-
der's recollection similar mishaps in
her own hoydenish days when the
world was bright and fair and the sum
of girlish happiness was the conquest
of some poor awkward swain's heart
who, blind as bat with love, would
have sworn that her raging red hair
was a beautiful auburn and that Gre
clan instead Of q pug nose was the
prominent feature of her face? And I
wonder If the young lady whose en-
barrassing musical mistake furnished
me with amusement at the time, will
ever forgive me for scribbling about it
here? IT she will allow me, will
take her into my confidence and pre-
sent her with a sweetheart who is
neither critic in music, nor an epicure
In his diet, and who prefers cast-iron
buttons riveted on his shirt.
The country around Vienna is in a
prosperous condition. The farms are
generally we'll cared for, and the grow.
ing crops look
VIGOROUS AND FIOURIsHINoi.
The soil is mostly OF the red
rocky variety, we'll adapted to the
growth of corn and small grain, especi-
ally in favorable season like the pres
ent has been. It requires, however,
more rain than tho sandy lands, and
is not so easily cultivated. The parish
is financially in healthy condition,
but there Is general complaint OF
hard times and high taxation. And
not only in Lincoln is this complaint
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