The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-03-12
THINGS ABOUT HOME.

stHome, sweet home, there's no
place like home," and as we dot once
more, on our native heath, our week
ly communion with our legion of
readers, we offer up thanks to the
weather clerk for week of lovely,
temperate and seasonable tempera
tare; in fact, his gentle Annie, al
ways linked with the smiles of
Spring, has vouchsafed US all that
could be desired in that line, and
these benisons we heap on gentle
Annie as a.freshs blooming leaflet on
her maiden forehead.
The past one has been great and
appropriate week for the tillers of
the soil, and surely yeoman ticks
have been struck in that line--a
great deal of corn has been planted;
the sugar planters have mostly fin
ished planting cane, and the myriads
of gardens and small patches, in
Town and country, are nearly laid
by, and soon, very soon, will we
have the second growth ofvegetables
in profusion. So mote it be!
i
The Pool-Line, though the river
here has fallen three feet, since our
last, have moved along as smoothly
and regularly as our Calendar Clock,
and here is the way we have kept
time of their arrivals and departures.
The "Bull of the Woods" as Cap
tain Bill Harrison always nicknamed
the Bart. Able, now and for this, the
fifth season, the flagship of Captain
Dick Sinnott, was the first to put in
a down appearance on our issue day,
and we note that she extended her
trip as high as Coushatta, and pass
ed down by dark, on her regular day,
with over a half load and fair lot
of people.
The same night, without stopping
and even without blowing her whis-
tie, the Jewel steamed by, all the
way from Minden, and from a
Iglimpse she allowed the egg man in
the skif it was calculated that she
had full load of the staple.
Thursday night, about i o'clock,
our pretty night owl, the Bonnie Lee,
bound for Bisteneau's pretty little
Town, passed up and just touched
1.-THE big wharf to put out one of the
Fourth Estate on his return home
from AIardi Gras, and this one re.
ported to rs that she had an excel.
lent trip. 2r
Friday morning about peep Of day
the Joe Bryarly, for above the raft,
creeped by Town and was seen by
none save early risers like this
reporter. 4
The leviathan Laura Lee, on time
from Shreveport, with the river mail,
rounded to at the upper wharf ut 6
P. M. Friday, and her head clerk,
Walter Parker, made US out this list
of her cargo: l,774 bales of cotton,
l, 100 sacks of cotton seed and oil
cake, $50 barrels of oil, rs barrels OF
"busthead" and 60 Texas bulls.
The gilt-edged Maria Louise, sell
dom an hour behind time, did not
reach here, on her up trip, before i
o'clock Saturday morning, but then
she had valid excuse for this: a
full load of freight, plenty of fog
and, as a good climax, her cabins
were full and overerowded with
passengers. il Ass a5si
| On her day, precisely at 9 A. NJ,
the Bart. Able landed at the big
wharf, with heavy up freight, and
the most precious and manly list Of
cabin passengers ever at one time on
a steamboat, the acquitted Natchito.
|ches prisoners. They we're all well,
land not the least crushed in spirits
by the fatherly protection, under the
management Of little Albert Leonard,
given them by Mr.. Hayes Govern
mont, and we know at their home, in
old Natchitoches, welcome awaits
them only deserved by the brave, the
gallant and the patriotic.
The Yazoo Valley passed down
early tue same morning, about lC
o'clock, and had about half a load
and only few people. 5aaF
j The Silver City put a finishing
stroke to our weeks boat items
she reached here late Monday eve
ning-good freight; plenty Of pas
sengers, among them some of the
Natchitoches prisoners.
The Democratic and Conserva
tive voters of our Parish shonld beal
in mind, that the nominees of tLei
, faithful and trusty party, whose