The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-06-04
HOME MIRROR.

The gardens, crops and grasses Of
the Parish, which had been really
suffering by the long continued
drought, have at last been saved
beyond doubt, and we may now
proclaim them safe. We have hao
numerous good rains all over the
Parish, with prospects, however, o.
more than is needed, and now the
tillers of the soil, the producers, who
work so hard to benefit principally
the consumers, who are unfortunate
ly iu a big majority, will look more
serenely at the coming good prospect
The river has been on decline
going down a little over a foot, and
has topped to sudden rise and is
again on another fall. Hard to keep
up with the antics of such river
Business, trade and traffic have
simmered down to a small retail
business in the necessaries of life
and to Georgia uniforms in the dress
line, for which eggs, chickens, wood
hides, tallow, honey, dewberries,
vegetables in abundance, and now
and then the last bale of light weight
cotton, are freely and eagerly taken
in exchange, and our average mer.
chant and patient small dealer are
waiting with more than Job patience
for that fret bale of new cotton.
THE POOL LINERS,
still alone in their glory, have Jared
on the $3.50 order, since the last re-
port of this editor, and oomnse dt
coutanae, we accord the place of hon
or to the Packet, which never fails
to leave New Orleans regularly every
Saturday. She went down, abou,
sunrise, on Thursday, with very
slim trip, and having gone up through
the Styx streams, Cane and Little
Rivers, hence the reason that she
was some twelve hours behind usual
time.
The leviathan stern. wheeler, Lau'
ra Lee, with a slim trip too, passed
down very early Friday morning,
five hours ahead of usual time, with
the river mail, and tarried here few
moments to take in few stray pack
ages and some Sc head of sheep from
the Clapp estate.
Our favorite, blue Danube over
loaded herself this trip, and only
reached here, from the City, on Sat-
urday night, fully 20 hours behind
her usual time. She had to contend
against fog in the big drink and
fight against q heavy current in old
Red. But all these mishaps did not
prevent her clerks from supplying
this Office with lots of late newspa.
pers from the four corners of this
mighty Union of States.
A little after Z o'clock, Monday
morning, the Pool Liner. Joe Bryarly,
which, for some time, had been doing
upper Red River business, passed
down with full load of Texas
beeves and the river mail. She took
in here o few passengers.
Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, The
Jewel passed down, with a full loat
Of cattle and a fair crowd of passen
gers. She left Shreveport Sunday
morning, and from her clerks we re-
ceived a paper of that date fifteen
hours before we received Saturday
papers from New Orleans.
A little after midnight the Packet,
Yazoo Valley, put in an appearance,
with tolerably good trip, making
her three landings here and hurryine
of inside Of three hours. Her clerks
left rs our usual package of New
Orleans papers, and Tom. Dowty
and Ed. Hamer threw in decent
package of other papers from the
East and West. She had the mail
and may be expected down some
time to, night.
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