The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-04-12
STATE NEWS.


The Fa,mersville Record says
Buffalo gnats are very bad % stock
in some portions Of tho parish. Hor.
ses and cattle both arc made to suffer |
greatly, and many have been killed.
The winter has been q hard one on
stock any way, and cattle that have
been running out on the range are
too weak to resist them"
An enthusiastic youth sent the
Farmersville Record . poem entitled
Mature is Full of Poetry" to which
the editor replies tl'r"ugh his column
Of Answers to Contributors, our waste
basket il full If just such st1tf."
The cholera has attacked tho swine
in Union parish.
Tie prospect for fruit 10 Morehouse
is good.
The East Feliciaua farmers have
formed Bee Keepers Association.
The fire. fiend has been at work 10
Clinton.
The Feliciana Patriot> Democrat has
a c"lnmn headed "Umi"n Literary 81.
cirty" for tho benefit Of tue Centena'
~ College young men.
The hogs are pirouting around the
Webster Tribune building and John.
me- thinks they are getting too fam
iliar.
The bnzz Of the gentle house f1y
has been heard in Welster, and ladies
are turning their thoughts to spring
hats.
The first honse in Minden was hnilt
10 1896, 80 says the Webster Tribune.
The lI"uma Courier Gays "Fisl'es
bite when business IL dull and beau.
,iful weather"
Sixteen couvicts have been for.
warded to the Baton Rouge peDiten-
tisry from St. Landry.
The Baton Rouge Herald says: "a
handsome woman pIeaaes the eye.
but gOod woman pleases the heart.
The oue is a jewel, the other treas.
ure."
The Richland Beacon has the fol-
lowing: "A sad sequel t" drunken
spree occurred he,e last Monday. A
man BY the name ofNoland had been
at work IA u railroad lab"Ter, on sec.
ton ., ever since sometime last M.
vember until q few weeks ago, when
The thirst for Intoxicating drinks
seem to have taken possession Of him,
He came to town, got drunk, pro-
cured HE time ticket next day, and
went On a regular spree. He remain
led drunk for about two weeks, eat
ing very little during the time. OF
course no constitution could STAND
such strain 90 long. His began Il
tail 10 about q week, and at tho end
IT two weeks it vas gone; his light
burned out, and he fell into .a:.drunk
ards aud a pauper's grave, q stranger
in a strange laud, with no loved on'
near to so,,lh lie troubled spirit o.
d,op tear over his grave. Yet b,
once had loved one-he ut least hat
Il mother who once loved him, and b,
may have had other fond ties-the!
may get live aud long to meet him, bu
that will never I've unless they follow
him to the eternal home of the drunk
ard f; and they may never know how
when or where he died. Yet hi
grave should bo a signal to war
others of the dangers of intempes
ance.''
RI The buffalo graf has made ito Or
pearance 10 Richland, and poeume
oix is abating, 90 says tho Beacon.
The Columbia Herald says: O
Sunday morning Iast au old neg'
man, ~ the employ Of Nj. w. S Dicl
son, mysteri"usly disappeared a"
y has MT since been heard from. We
10 insane aud Mr.. Dixon has fea
i that some i'll has befallen him. Al,
4 information respecting his whe''
abouts will be gratefully received /
, Mr.. Dixon. Address W. s. Dickso
= Columbia, La.
The Houms Progress has Suspend
10 publication.
The Aberville Neri,liosal says til
n, business in their town IL rs dull
= The back of q twO.b bits razor.
Tic water 10 Oh Low at the mon
If vi,million Bayou that catfish 10
to empl"y mud turtles to tow the
over the bar.
A hog Of tho Poland breed Y
killed q few days sgo, 4 years Of q
which weighed eleven bundled u
When hung up he measured Gig
,eet j" length, six feet girth and ri
inches around tho smallest part
tho foreleg. Pretty good.
The St. Francisvillian have orgs
ICED their base ball clubs for tho Q,
SOD.
The Feliciana Sentinel says: II
tine is rapidly approaching vi
he yonng man who goes out va
ing with tho "desire Of bic hea
Gt =. "turns pale in tho gills" On hear
IN, her sigh, 90 passing ~ leo cream
rim. aida water salOOn aud remarks
Ills. oppressive heat aud wishes sho n
r. something cOOl to take"
''0 The Carroll Conservative has b.
the recipient Of n large panther hi
measuring from tip to tail ten I;
/ s aud brother Morgan 10 happy.
law The students of tho WiUsboro
rec. .ti,ute have started 4 literary soci
ally under the name Of 1.-THE Winnsb
ate, Ius(itute Lyceum."