The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-09-10
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ONE of Alexandria's needs--a
telegraph.
AR this season the owl may be
looked for.
TIE Whang -doodles are yet in
their holes.
--PERsIMMoNs are ripe--get out
your long poles.
.--DRUMMERs are plentiful, hence
the scarcity of eggs.
Our merchants were paying 103
cents for cotton on Friday.
ONLY few loafers left in Town,
and they could be spared.
WE are informed that the flying
Dutchman is on the wing.
-THE "Noble u has left for the
country, on tour of inspection.
Soar is cheap and water is plen-
ty, and yet some people will go dirty.
"A LARGE. quantity of the ooh!
be joyful" was destroyed last week.
-THouaH swinging is healthful,
many poor devil has come to his
end by it.
Our Town boasts of seventy FIVE
manageable girls, and yet the boys
amt happy. r. d. r..
ARCADE Smoking Tobacco, Fiji
ty cents per pound, for sale at Gus
taye Gehr's.
LADIES wanting anything in the
Millinery line, will do well to call on
Mrs. C. Geiger.
BAD colds are common. A great
number of our citizens are afflicted.
Nothing serious.
-DR. T. II. Maddox has returned
home from visit to Maryland. He
is in excellent health.
LAST Sunday Capt. Jim Graham
of the Ferry-boat, did heavy days
work, at halffare rates.
The man who blew his brains
out through his nose, is yet walking
aimlessly about the country.
IT is strange how some people
will abuse the ice in the winter, and
how they will bless it in the summer.
Mankind is hard to please.
The "deyip' in this office was
swindled out of four cents last week
Ivy somebody. He had an one-ceni
piece palmed of on him for q genu-
inc nickel.
We are credibly informed that
Moses Mayer is not the Moses found
in the buil rushes Of old Nilus. He
is native Of Alsace, and wiLhal q
good Democrat.
ON Wednesday evening party
of young men got entangled with Gin
de Kent,tck, and in the heat of dis.
cussion pistol was accidentally fired
NJ serious results.
Our Job Office is complete, and
with the pains taking printers whom
we keep in our employ, we can turn
out as neat work as any country Of
fee in the State. Give us a trial.
Our Town Marshall, j. B. Glib
son, we are told, has been presented
a hostof admirers, with q couple Of
medals, for extraordinary services
in keeping the peace and dignity o.
the Town.
--"THE world is governed toe
much" as a general thing we admit
but a little more government of boys
so as to keep them out of the streets
at night, would do no harm. W.
speak by the card.
"A NIGHT key is not good thing
for a young man to work his way in
to good society with. That young
friend Of ours who stays out unit
eleven o'clock three nights in the
week ought to take warning.
The bridge at the Mouth of the
Bayou is up; the floor is laid but
not spiked, and the railing will be
put up in few days. All will be in
readiness then for crossing but the
embankment at the upper end.
THERE has been a joke going the
rounds of the press, about the dis,
appointment of a boy who crawled
under camp meeting tent thinking
it was a circus. Well bet a mule
that no Alexandria boy would have
made such mistake. ''t
--PoLITIcIANs are getting polite;
they will take fellow by both hands
now and ask after the health of him
self and family, when a short time
back, the same persons were not even
noticed by nod. Weller says, "Be
ware of the Vidders," and we say
beware of the politicians. 4