Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-24

Mind family fora l'rIy. entertainment CIV
,n hy them las, week
Meeting commenced at the Baptist
Church on Friday night and closed on
Monday night The Rev. Mr.. Niece
preached some interesting sermons.
Some Of nur sister parishes have held
their Democratic Mass Meetings and rcsolv-
ed To make nominations by primary clcc.
tioi~. Claiborne is sick Of these f"rernn-
nCrs.
Il il strange fact that the stratas of
love mud hate lie So close together that II
takes hut little to bring the latter To the
front when under the pressure of unkind-
ness OF injustice.
Read reply from the Hon, W. +. More
land to &. W. Maddox and others, found
in this issue, and see what he says about
representing the people Of Claiborne in
The next Legislature.
The state Convention If the Democratic
Conservative party convcmrs AT Baton
Rouge ON Monday the eth uf October, and
the 2lst Senatorial Convention meets at
Mndcn on Monday the 18Th Of October.
Both the Male and Female Colleges of
Homer are doing well now. No place il
better suited to the education of young
men aud ladies than is Homer The prrsi-
dent. aud professors are all doing their
duties.
X VI. Wallace Esq, Of Eldorndo, Ark,
gave ~ a call last Monday. Minor is look
ing we'll and SAYS that the practice Of law
is on the increase in tie conmon.law
state. W. would like for the wave to
roll round to our door.
Gen. H. /. Butler was nominated for
Governor 10y the Democratic Convention
Of Massachusetts nn the 18th inst liutlcr
" i'll make the race opposing Col John ID.
Long. the Republican, nominee and present
Lieutenant Governor.
Tho family of the Hon. " Jasper Black
burn lrf for Hope this morning with n
view uf making their future home in Pine
Blnn. Ark. May their trip hc pleasant
one, aud may Their new home hc cN roncd
with comfort, peace aud happiness
When we stated last week that there
was no preaching on the SUNDAY night he.
fore. it was not intended to make the i'm
preston that any of the ministers had
been dcr'lct to their dntirs. hut on thnt
occasion it was caused from ply steal disa-
hlity.
More than one hundred bales of cotton
passed through HOMER last Monday and
TUESDAY going To- Shreveport and these
were only from the Eastern and Northern
portions OF orr parish; hence We might
reasonably conclude that two hundred and
hfty bales viii 90 into shreveport this
week from Claihurmc.
We anNiou,ly looked for letter from
the EDITOR Yesterday, hut it failed to come.
We cannot tell where he is at this time.
We received letter from him written at
shire, rport "u the 10Th in which h. stated
that hc would take dying trip ont into
the Lone star state and would hc gone iui
~ period of about ten days. Since then
We have not heard from him. lie certain
~ has not forgotten the ~ ,EpI,N IN the
mil-, of his pleasures
We quote from the Vienna Sentinel Of
the 18th inst:
cool Allen Greene made speech at the
Courthouse last saturday, wherein he
stated that his only hope of being relieved
Of high taxation was through the Demo
cratic party
Now. on the 9th inst, Col. Greene made
speech in Homer in which he declared
that he was Gre-nbackcr. and looked To
the Grecnback party for relief
Now, wha, does this meant The old
gentleman must have fallen from grace al
ready, or at least must have two coats
too many for such hard times The Col
onel certainly is not 50 grcne as To think
that this doublc-iaced politics will win.
We cannot reconcile the two positions
only upon the hypothesis that we first
made, that he is simply All Allen Greene.
bdcley. just this and nothing more