The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20
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AUTUMN!
BERN T-HARD.
MARBLES are in.


,uhlished during the dog days.
SUNDAY is the best of the week
for Col. McGinnis' Livery Stable.
You begin to notice that 'he
mornings are getting shorter now W
-Esa4fsa for the mere fun OF IT,
;sn,t conducive to good health this
hot weather.
THE "Noble IT, the modern
prometheus, though plucked by vul-
tnres. is not chained.
-Tar party who had cayenne pep
NOR blown in his eye, is down on
neeniug through key-holes. He is no
longer curious.
Observation-Disclosures is the thief OF
time" Don't put off for tomorrow
what ought to be done to day. we
mean your subscription, you Know
-Corros baskets are being gath
cred together by planters, and WILL
from now cut, be used all over our
Parish. The colored folks say they
are very useful.
= The young man who sports the
green umbrella, changes his white
tie daily, and dons his morning dus-
ter, will, ere long, be compelled to
change his apparel.
-"MoNEY makes the mare go!
It will also procure the announce
ment for Office; come gentlemen, put
up, it only costs a S. note 10 have
your name at the head of our paper,
and then the public will know who
are candidates for their favor.
ON Thursday night, colored
man by the name of Charley Thomp
son, proved himself to be wrong on
the "goose question" by stealing five
geese from Mr.. A. W. McLaurine
lie was caught in the act of bagglnF
them, and is now in duress for thu
fool act.
CLAIR Brothers are busy putting
: MP an iron barbed fence above Bayou
Rspides, and combining the public t.
the sixty feet. The Parish will hav
to hurry up and build the bridge
over the sloughs, or the bridge no'
going up over the bayou will be Q
little good to the public.
STILL ahead! "What," asked
traveller, who had halted for shol
while; "Ycs, / say it is ahead, an
It's gwine to stay right dar, you hes
me-" and the old darkey sauntere
of. more than satisfied he hat "gt
uway" with that Pinewo"dsman' VT
had stopped under the White Flo
at Uustmyre's.
-Oux City Marshal, j. B. G'hso
has made his grand rounds throue
tue Town, and has inspected all u
back Yards. Some he found In b;
condition, having the smell OF pu
old limhurger, and the greatest
number, we arc glad to say, We
found to be clean aud had 40 Off
sive smell.
SEVERAL of the young ladies
our Town are visiting friends in
country, no doubt, 'ssummering.
This is rather hard on couple
the boys who visit them frequen
and who. it seems, have had
"blues'' ever since their depart'
We suggest to the fair ones,
they write few lines of consola'
to the unhappy youths, only as a
minder, you know, that they arc
true to their plighted faith.
THERE appearato be consld
BILE alarm among the colored folk
the country and town, in regard
colored man who some time s
committed a rape on an old won
Since then he has been plunde
and otherwise abusing the peopl
his race, and Notwithstanding pal
have been on the look out for
up to this time, he is yet at IL
He is bugbear to the negroes
from their account of him, must
sess the power of ubiquity' Let
be caught and brought to justice
-WHENEyER fellow wishes
noticed, he reads aloud an artlc
the morning paper to crowd OF
ker.s dozen, which has referen
some citizen in the community
thy of notice, and says in that
style of his, SO commonly
among roustabouts, 'see, look
what those fellers have got In
about me-" and then seems sat s,I
at the laugh of the crowd. we
IT'S q poor specimen OF the G
race that won't wag his own G
appendage.
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