The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-06-28
River Items.

Business dull.
The weather this week has been woful-
ly hot :
The river is still on the fall. The
water is dotted all along with sand bars
and navigation is very difficult.
The steamer Yazoo Valley. now the
Grand Ecore packet, Capt. George Rea
has our thanks for files of Northern and
Western papers. Capt Rea knows how
to run Il steamboat and his officers are
gentlemen whose popularity none will
ga',say. Mr.. .Bozeman runs the office
while Messrs. Tom Jefferson Dowty and
Jefferson Davis Posey are the "mud
clerks We must not forget Gen'l. John
Burgoyne, the genial steward who does
the donors Of bis position not syrupti-
cionsly but in such manner as to win
golden opinions from all. His dinners are
devoured and passengers dock to him
like hot cakes. John, thanks! May you
give an extra jirk when you signal the
bell.
We see by the New Orleans Picayune
Of Tuesday that Commodore Koun,z pro
poses to place line Of boats (steam bar
sps) in the Red river trade abont the
first Of October. Let the commodore try
it, The people are we'll pleased with the
fair and impartial treatment they have
received at the hands of the Red River
Transportation company and will stick
to it. They don't care to pstronize men
who are here to-day and gone Tomorrow,
who care nothing for the people whose
patronage they seek only for what they
can make ont Of them. Mr.. Kountz
would contribute one hundred dollars
towards improving the navigation of
Red river, whereas the Red River
Transportation company has spent thou
sands. Keep your tubs in the mountain
trade, commodore, they are not needed
in Red river.
N. o. Democrat, 18th: Mr.. Sam
Gwartney, who has heen sick for several
weeks past, was able, with the aid Of a
rrntch. to make his appea' auce on the
streets yesterday. -
Capt. George Wilkinson has returned
from his visit to Observation-Disclosures
port Times. s,1
On tho up trip Of the Danube, last
Tuesday while she was wooding at Beel's
wood yard below Montgomery the lady
passengers went ashore to take a ride on
an OK wagon. The oxen took fright and
ran away, throwing the ladies off, two
Of whom were seriously if not fatally in.
jsrsd.- Our friend Mat Joyee's daughter
is one.of those. most seriously hurt. She
with her mother went back to New o.
leans from Grand Ecore on the Yazoo
Valley in ch nge Of DR.. Jackson.
The river at Grand Ecore marks low
down while our Shreveport friend re.
ports feet y inches above the low
water mark ofls7s.
70
NO. Democrat, 21st: Tuesd,y next
the New Orleans and Red River Trans
pOrtation Company will hold their an.
nnal election for president, secretary
and five directors, to'serve for the ensn.
ing year. Organized in April. 1875, each
succeeding year finds this company
growing in favor. Similar companies.
pools or mon"polirs, call
them which yon may, do not always meet
with the support they seek, bnt this ono
has proved itself an exception organi
zri not for to-day or tomorrow or to
accomplish any particular end, their
aiu, has been to give a line of transport
tation that would prove alike beneficial
to their patrons and the community at
large, and profitable t" themselves. How
far they have succeeded in accomplish.
ing these objects Is known to every ono
having dealings With them. Under the
skilful and active u,iness management
of their clear.ht AIDED president, Capt.
JOS A. Aiken. their rami6cations hare
not been confined to tina river bank, but