The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-12-21

Slushy and cold.
Methodist Aid Society gave Sos
cable at Lacoste's Hall on Thursday
evening. Well attended, Proceeds
Our colored Methodist friends gave
their collation. on Friday aud to-
night. We hope the attendance Will
be as full as they certainl y deserve.
~ Gloves and Hosiery of all kinds
at j. A. DUCOURNAU's.
Our streets have been undergoing
ing repairs. St Deuis and Second are
now receiving the attention of the
''spaders.'
We are in receipt of the first num
Der of the Farmcrvi|le Gazette, pub
lshed in Union Parish by Rabnrn &
Roberts.
Nearly all our country contem-
poraries favor the Hon. John c. Mon.
cure for Speaker of the House. We
are willing-nay, anxious, that he
should be elected.
NJ. L. Dismukes, secretary school
board, reports thirteen schools in
this parish at the present time. Five
of which are colored and eight white.
The school funds are not as full as
they would be, could our people pay
their taxes. So we see "hard times"
effects every branch of government.
QUERY: why will men smoke COM
mon tobacco, when they can buy Mar
burg Bros. Seal OF North Carolina at
the same price ?" Feb '7S-'y.
"Did you 60 to the Methodist So
ciable 2 "Well, no ! it was so very
cold and muddy" Reader :; the next
circus that comes you'll see that plug
digging through mud knee deep to
attendant all "to please the chill
dren."
CARROLL & CoRLEY.-These ener-
getic mill men have purchased a boat,
- the Vicksburg, with which they pro-
% transport lumber and shingles
y point desired on the river.
Vicksburg will be in working
ron or about 1st January.
ar member elect to the State Leg
ture, NJ. J. Cunningham, ESQ.,,
Us to to spend Christmas with
} friends in New Orleans and will
main absent until the Legisture ad-
jurns.
We are panied to announce the death
of the wife our friend Mr.. W. A. pom.
der, which sad event occurred on
Tuesday last at her residence ten
miles west af this. This estimable
lady has suffered from lingering
disease for Ions time, and her de.
mise was not unexpected. We sym
pathize with her afflicted family in
in their loss.
He had dealt the game in Navoo, in
Calcutta and Campte. He was grey
and old in the bis but an unwashed
gum chewer drew seventeen on eight
cards and the fatal number was on
bulls.eye watch. For an hour it was
thought an undertaken would be in
demand, but he recovered. Keno.
NOISE, THE PHoTOGRAPuER.-On
of the most appropriate and at the
same time agreeable Christmas pres
ents that one can make to their friends,
is a photograph. Our fellow citizen
James c. Noise, ESQ.,, visits Natchi-
toches weekly on Saturdays and Sun
days and can always be found on
chose days at any hour at his gallery
Lacoste's Hall-Ladies and children
give him call.
If Nor A F1RE-WHAT?-For two
evenings last week the appearance of
the heavens, from 8 to 10 o'clock. in
dicated the raging of a heavy fire in
the south west in fact, the reflection
mas so brilliant that it was supposed,
% the first evening of it's appearance.
& \ fire was raging in the lower por
lon of our town. We can learn of
fires in the country, in the direc-
lon Of this phenomena, and are at
pss to account for it.
WITNESS AND JUROR CERTIFICATES.
rhe payment Of witnesses and jurors
as been delayed this term of court,
4 Or the. first time since Democratic as
tendency, by the fact that the collec.
lion of taxes has been far below what
WAS expected. The delay in the COL
|ections has been occasioued by the
ampossibility to get cotton to market
but every thing indicates that the
= 11nnary settlement will put our par.
treasurer in ample funds to meet
"a l;ah;l;tias If thu Darish. E.