The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-01-29
THINGS About HOME.

In fair mood with the clerk of the
weather, and as we now have the
frst excuse to compliment him, we
do It before he may get on a big
spree. The whole Of tie week has
been a tolerably good one, bearable
and free from cold. It is true the
nights have been foggy and even
sultry, with dense fog and mist in
the early part of the day, but then
it has always cleared of and old Sol
shone on US with genial and mild
rays, and has given us a week of
temperate weather.
All vegetable nature has profitted
immensely by this change, and on
the levee, on the walks, in the COM
mons, already q green mantle glis-
tens and plainly tells us that the
early grass is shooting up, and in
the pastures the red and white clio.
YER is already up in profusion.
Our cratic and scarlet streams
antics and pranks have been, like
Theodore Tilton's sweet and charm
ing Bessie Turner, only $685." and
all we have to say on the subject is,
that it has been rece.ling very slowly
the whole Of the week.
The arrivals and departures of the
steamers have ::been numerous, and
we commence where we left of, and
note that the Packet Bart. Able left
here late Wednesday night with a
big and assorted cargo, which, if we
con find out, we will publish in q
separate paragraph. She got a pile
of truck, but had to dip her colors to
independence for the nonce, and took
freight at losing rates. The zone.
eyed" boat was here just ahead and
with her, and succeeded in touching
some pockets, and got a few hogs
heads of sugar and several lots OF
cotton, which will help pay for some
Of her sour mash, and cheap, boiled
dried apples, and then for the bal
ance of this season, no more will b
seen OF her and her "gentlemanly
captain" who came to stay, but Dicl
Sinnott and his Bart. Able will onc'
more, for the balance of the season
be dattered and cajolled as the cley
crest and most accommodating o
men. So we 60 here, we charge no
thing for this, and pass serenely t
the next Pool Liner on our pro
gramme, which CHANGED TO be tn
"blue Danube" which left New Or
ON the odd day of the week, blu
Monday, and reached here Wednes
day evening, As hours out. She ha
a good freight, some people, sent u
a couple of newspapers aud went III
to her destination, Shreveport.
| Strange to say, that blue Monda
must have been a marked one 70
luck, for President Aiken, at th
same hour gave leaving orders to tw
lof his other boats, and these order
were obeyed. They were tho W. .
Behan and our pretty night owl, sh
Bonnie Lee, both Of which reache
here early in the night, a few hour
behind the Danube. The FIRST name
was bound for Minden direct, an
the latter will be noted in our ne,
, paragraph.
She, tho Bonnie Lee, had IA
load, but altogether salt, which 81
? transferred to the Danube, an
| turned her PROV down stream fro
. the wreck Of the Texas. ST
reached here early in the day Of Fl
i. day, with . few bales Of cotton
her deck room, and had in tow
, barge load Of the Texas beeves, az
, as all the boats of the line had bee
lodging the cotton seed here, tt
Captain took a kind notion to cles
out the seed men, aud got away wit
, over 5000 sacks OF that staple SON
! time in the night Friday.
. The next arrival was an up on
d which was on hangman's day, wi,
!. the u. S. Mail, big freight, full {
8 passengers, and among them an evt
I dozen Of Jack Wharton's Uncle-Sar
1 era, fresh and saucy from the Ora
lite building, and their pockets fl
of writs and subpenas. They p
p litely gave Rapides the cold shot
: der and went mp to Grand Ecore..
The Pool-liner, which all this is abo
!, 10 named the Kate Kinney, is goo
= fast boat, has a bully crew and Ca
,, tain too, and Joe Dodd is his nam