The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-14
THE PARISHES.
AQIehOuse.

applied ZOE loIv0kS patent ON 1npHOVcA
mode of making brick wells. The plan
of sinking these wells, Mr.. Hackett
says, secures accuracy In direction and
size. In connection with the we'll there |
is an improved sand-box which carrie |
the brick to the ground. 7,.
Mr.. Hackett has also filed caveat |
in the patent Office for new and useful |
implement, consisting OF a
combined cotton and corn chopper. !
The patentee claims that it will enable |
the planters to cultivate their crops at
one-half the usual expense. Mr.. H.
informs as that he will have a COM |
plete working-model ON exhibition in
30 days.-CTarios.
We are in the midst of the most try |
ing weather that It has ever been our
to record; cold, disagree
able, sloppy and rain, and it is not
strange that the mortality is so Excess
sive, when we take into consideration
the many vicissitudes of the weather.
The burials In our little town have
been unprecedented in their number ;
not a week having passed since the adj
vent Of the new year without one or
more interments, until last Monday
evening it eliminated in the burial OF
three persons ON the same day-one in
the person Of the lamented and es-
teemed wife Of DIR. F. G. Manning, and
the others of two colored PERSONS,
Record.
Mr.. Thos. Norris favors US with a
sample Of homemade sugar. It is an
excellent article and compares very
favorable with sugar brought to this
market for sale. He also made about
three thousand gallons of mOIasses.
One day this week turnip made its
way into our Office which weighed
eight pounds. 1t was grown by Capt.
]. Il. Davis of our tOWn.-iSe,aLi,ael.
Natchitoches.
Since the arrest of a great number of
our felloW-townsmen our city has all
the appearances of a deserted yellow
fever town. A Radical scurp is worse
than yellow fever. We hope the head
of the nation will appoint a Commits
sion to treat this disease to relieve us,
or give us q little more uSOuthern
policy"
There is at this time a perfect rush
for labor. Our farmers are all in the
field aud the scramble is great for
hands. We understand that in some
sections the removal of colorcd laborers
has been great, while the increase in
others has been corresponlingly large.
- indicator.
On Saturday last paper was circu-
lated in our town and over one hun
dred dollars was subscribed by our
citizens for tho benefit of those who
have been, or may hereafter be arrested
and carried away from their homes by
the U. s. authorities, charged with in
timiilation during the recent election.
The cause of these men is the cause of
the whole country, and we trust that
everybody will give what they can.
The parish is badly in debt, as over
seven thousand dollars worth Of script
have been registered up to date. The
parish can not get out of debt for
several years.-Dem0crat.
Richland.
The depot agent at Delhi, in turning
the draw for a boat to pass through the
Bayou Macon bridge the other day,
slipped and fell to the ground below,
distance of about 25 feet, and was con-
siderably bruised, but had no bones
broken. This is the third fall from
this bridge within the last few days.
We learn that several houses in Delhi
nave Deen clO6eO ever since the cpl"
demic prevailed, in some of which per-
sons died of the fever. II this is true,
we would urge upon the citizens of
that place to have these houses opened
and thoroughly aired at once, as is be-
ing done in other towns that we're in
fected, if they would escape another
scourge.-Bcac0u.
CaddO.
Frank Pargoud, who was put on the
streets to work out fine he was unable
to pay, effected his escape this morning
from policeman Dick Nelson, who was
pursued to Arsenal hill, and after
much lodging and serpentine man
euvering, managed to elude the vigi-
lance of Nelson. Afterwards three
policemen started in quest Of him,
tracked him to a cabin a little this side
of Moss-side, but could not find him
for some time. Finally one of the
police punching the top of a bed with
his pistol, felt something Of a bulky
nature in the middle of same, and upon
closer investigation discovered Mr..
Pargoud -serenely sweating between
the mattresses. He was dislodged from
his place of vantage, and escorted back
to his neglected labors amid great
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