The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-09-18
THINGS ABOUT HOME.

weekly to shreveport, when shouia
furnish us the dailies Of that City,
inside of 4S hours, has for many
months been in sad connecting fix,
and now that the authorities of
Shreveport and Natchitoches have
ouarantined the mails from New Or
leans and all infected points, this en-
actment has been practically con
strued to mean, that papers from
Shreveport and Natchitoches must
not be allowed to go to Alexandria.
This may seem strange but it is
nevertheless SO, and for the past five
stage arrivals, not single paper or
letter has reached US, save from Col
fax and Cotile. Why this NONSENSE
cal Interpretation of plain enact
ment is permitted to exist and vex
US thus, we leave to others the priv
ilege of bulI-dozing. We know it is
so. and must endure it till it cures
itself.
Our New Orleans mail, heretofore
regular and punctual has likewise
caught the infection, and it is hard
in Its case to arrive at safe solu-
ton. Our last mail from that point
was received here on the evening of
the 9th, and at this writing three
mails are due here. From what we
can CLEAN, for we can learn nothing
positive or half-truthful in this mail
decade, the authorities of Avoyelles,
through the independent burgh OF
Simmsport, where the stage crosses
the Atchafalaya, have Quarantined
against Red River Landing, said to
be infected, and won't let the stage
cross, hence We are shut out from
our old mos s-covered route. The P,
Master in New Orleans, or some off
cial of the P. O. D., strove to remedy
this and transferred the mail carry
ing, till further orders, to the steam
ers Fanchon and Minnie, leaving
New Orleans every Saturday and ev
cry Wednesday, for the Courtableau
going down the Atchafalaya ant
landing the mail at Simmsport
which appears not to be quarantinet
against New Orleans, but specially
so against Red River Landing
Well, when we learned this, we al
breathed freely again, and blessed
the P. o. D., but soon this blessing
was quarantined into something tina
sounded much like curses. For tn
very first stage which reached here
under the new arrangement, tw'
mails being due, drove by DeLacey'
Cremation Depot defantly, aud onl.
halted at the Post Office long enough
to throw out two empty bags, ant
then hied to the Excelsior Stables
AT this juncture the Cremation fur
mace began to cool down, and not
few of US, with this writer throw
in, began to boil over. The crow
had reached near fever heat, whe
we were informed un-officially tina
another arrangement had been mad
to help us out, and here it is: onl.
one Atchafalaya boat will now leay
a week, and would bring US one mai
a week. Three are now due US, ant
should the last arrangement come Il
taw, we will give it our extra bless
ing in P. S.
The weather, since all the inconve
niences, to use very mild term, ha
broke out in fresh rebellion, and de
clared open war against all infecte
points, and specially against carboli
disinfectauts, and right glad are W
to declare first blood for the weather
led by Jack Frost. For four day
ahead of these dots, commencing o
Thursday morning, it was plainl
felt that this weather meant bushes
and that we were to have a change
and we did have have it. Tice-lik
we give the "reckonines" Of our ow
Thermometer, as exposed on GU
front gallery fronting due East. A
5 o'clock Thursday it marked 81
Friday 46, Saturday 45, Sunday As
and on Monday 81. On the mornin
of Friday, DR.. Casson's Thermome
ter, exposed in the open air on pill
of lumber, marked Al. From severa
sources in the country, back fror
the river and on both sides of it,
slight white frost was seen on th
mornings of Friday and Saturday
tSarely no purer, no more invigors
Ting or healthier spell could hav
fallen as our dispensation, and W
dot its advent with prayers of thank:
| Business aud trade, considering
the existing blockade against then
may be called fully fair, an averas
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